Category Archives: Microsoft

Is your next PC ready for Vista?

Posted: 11:38 pm
April 2, 2006
Microsoft, OS
4 Comments

Kind of, sort of, maybe? You're not the only one unsure about it, as a matter of fact it is one of the most puzzling conversations on the Internet as of late – what kind of hardware will Vista demand … Continue reading →

Vista Beta & Meaning of Beta

Posted: 1:04 pm
March 31, 2006
Microsoft, OS
2 Comments

Good news for the folks that are willing to spend the weekend testing a new Vista build. Get to it before everyone else brings connect.microsoft.com to a crawl. Dear Longhorn / Windows Vista Beta Tester, We are pleased to announce … Continue reading →

Windows Live Mail fights obsolescene

Posted: 11:32 am
March 30, 2006
IT Culture, Microsoft
2 Comments

As much progress as places like Gmail have made there is simply no substitute for an offline mail storage that web based solutions simply do not offer. Looks like the Live folks actually got that message and are rebranding the … Continue reading →

Developer worlds collide: Atlas & CentOS

Posted: 10:14 pm
March 21, 2006
Microsoft, Programming, System Admin
2 Comments

While the two are not similar in any perceptive way I feel these announcements mark a day on which two closet technologies really matured. First Microsoft releases Atlas, an IDE for AJAX web based applications and CentOS releases a stable … Continue reading →

The more things Vista, the more they Longhorn the same

Posted: 7:27 pm
March 21, 2006
IT Culture, Microsoft, OS
6 Comments

So the name changed but not the products cronic delays: Vista Launch Delayed I'm happy to see this and I'm sure everyone who has alpha/beta tested Vista so far will agree it needed a lot more time to be the … Continue reading →

Bad Employee Treatment at Microsoft

Posted: 8:33 pm
March 16, 2006
IT Business, Microsoft
2 Comments

This one is for all my friends at Microsoft that haven't killed me (yet): The bitchslap of the week award goes to Bill Gates commenting on the $100 computer: ""If you are going to go have people share the computer, … Continue reading →

Microsoft Small Business Summit a Failure?

Posted: 9:02 am
March 16, 2006
Events, Microsoft, SMB
9 Comments

There is a lot of public bashing about Microsoft Small Business Summit being a failure. From webcasts crashing to the poor application design all the way to the following line mentioned in the newsgroups: "This has got to be the … Continue reading →

Why become a Microsoft partner?

Posted: 10:20 pm
March 15, 2006
IT Business, Microsoft
Comments Off on Why become a Microsoft partner?

I was playing an interesting game with a friend called "who is the real Microsoft partner" among registered Microsoft partners. But what, oh what, could these guys find in the Microsoft Partner Program if their primary (or secondary or tertiary) … Continue reading →

Best Buy now Gold Certified Partner

Posted: 9:37 am
March 14, 2006
IT Business, Microsoft
8 Comments

Best Buy is now a Gold Certified Partner in addition to being trained by Harry Brelsfords books. There has been relatively little interest in this by IT consultants but having dealt with Microsoft Partners for over a decade I can … Continue reading →

Ewic Wigman Hunting Piwates

Posted: 7:44 pm
March 13, 2006
IT Business, Microsoft
8 Comments

Just a quick update on all the piracy talk we had on Vladville a little earlier last month. It seems that a number of meetings that Eric was in have taken some fruit and there is at least some stronger … Continue reading →