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- Google Apps adoption rates up
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun’s OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...
- Videos 2008-09-04
- Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoid
- Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoidGo on Google, kill them off once and for alllet's rid the world of these sloppy fat liars and have technology once again !!!!RE: Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoidThe browser came about because IE 8 really scared the...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn
- Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the...
- News items 2008-09-03
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?It is an apt comparison>Your Ubunutu/Vista comparison doesn't pass the common sense test. Think about what you can get with Ubuntu-- Compiz Fusion for eye candy, drive encryption, MythTV DVR app, OpenOffice.org, ect. You have to get Ultimate Windows to get all...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- How do we address the have-nots?
- I attended a leadership summit on Monday (it was actually pretty good stuff, with concrete plans, goals, and generally more than you get out of your average bit of professional development) and, not surprisingly, a serious focus was on technology. I think people are finally realizing that, while technology...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Benubird Pro (exe)
- Benubird Pro is designed specifically for the SOHO market who wish to take control of their documents. It is very, very powerful--and easy to use. An intuitive user interface combined with comprehensive filters, browsing, and search technology mean that your documents are only ever a few simple clicks away. Benubird...
- Software downloads 2008-08-26
- Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000
- Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000termsThe second part of the terms are likely because some universities give their students lifetime access to their .edu email address. As long as they have graduated.Microsoft is going to find it very hard to keep Office Suite prices northof 50 bucks. Enterprises are not...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000
- Seriously! A copy of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for just over $16 quadrillion Zimbabwe dollars. Bargain! I know I sometimes bitch on about Microsoft as being as evil as an al-Qaeda suggestion box, but this time they've excelled themselves. I got a press-release through a couple of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Get MS Office Ultimate for $59.95
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Get MS Office Ultimate for $59.95No thanksI wouldn't take a free copy of Office...not with that godawful ribbon bar. You know you've screwed up the user interface of a product when a predominant question on websites seems to be "How do I print?". If you...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- Â This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days
- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these daysOn the outside looking inIt's more like MS is on the outside looking in.Hyper-V is a proprietary lock-in solution. Xen, Citrix XenSource, SUN xVM, VMware all let IT run bare-metal Windows on Linux.It's a whole new ballgame."I am merely...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days
- Novell took a lot of heat from open source backers for executing an interoperability pact with Microsoft in late 2006 but the partnership -- strengthened with a new $100 million investment from Microsoft today -- is probably looking sweeter to mixed IT shops these days. Why? Because of recent...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Office 14: Alpha testing to begin before year-end
- Office 14: Alpha testing to begin before year-endSlowly but surely going 64-bitI heard about the nominations for TAP and I was interested in joining but after reading about the requirements I think I will skip and hold out until the private technical beta. Its good to see Microsoft is moving...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?So now removing your own product is anti-competitive???[i]limiting consumer choice by restricting the availability of Windows XP on new PCs[/i]What? Seriously... what? Was Chevrolet being anti-competitive when they stopped making the Camaro?Besides, if you believe all the anti-Vista FUD, I...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Got Debian running, too
- It's not surprising that I managed to get Debian Linux running on the orange iMac I blogged about the other day. Since *buntu is based on Debian, this would seem to be a no-brainer. However, what is of note is the easy text-based install (very similar to Ubuntu's...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Got any old iMacs laying around?
- You know the ones I'm talking about. The candy-colored ones that live forever, even as you're hoping they'll die so you can replace them with something that will run OS X? A few can be upgraded, but OS X is really made for something a bit, well, snappier....
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- When equivalence is the wrong question
- When equivalence is the wrong questionSo, replace one tool with many?Since Microsoft Word can be used for a varity of tasks, and Writer can not, therefore one must use writer and a varity of other tools to do the work of one program.And here you claim that open source is...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- News to know: Mozilla; Windows Server; LinuxWorld; Apple
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window Snyder Mary Jo Foley: What's next for Windows Server Microsoft finalizes SQL Server 2008 TechRepublic: 10 questions and answers about Microsoft Live Mesh Dancho Danchev: Today's...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open SourceA little simple reasoning... is enough to reveal what's going on. Let's try.Quote: "Anything you can do with Microsoft servers, clients, Office, and dot.net technologies I can do better [i.e. at some combination of greater functionality, lower risk, and lower cost] using the standard LAMP/SAMP...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source
- In a previous discussion of OpenOffice versus Microsoft Office most respondents addressing the development issue seemed to prefer the Microsoft development tools over the comparable open source ones. I believe this is probably correct from the individual developer perspective, but wrong from the corporate perspective. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
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