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Microsoft, Novell Have Much to Prove
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-02-26
Microsoft and Novell have been making a big deal of their big deal to work together to soothe customers' cross-platform pain points. But it remains to be seen whether and how far the deal will end up extending beyond the realm of press releases and presentation slide decks. In fact,
What Ray Ozzie needs to say about Microsoft Live versus Google
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2007-02-26
Ray Ozzie was hailed as the oracle of the web when he was named Chief Software Architect last June , a title that had been held by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. A favorite of
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Making Video Conversion Simple
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-02-16
Probably like a lot of people nowadays my digital camera has become more than just a tool for still photos. I've found that the quality of the video that my camera takes is actually now pretty good, certainly good enough for active videos from vacations, parties and other social events.
Ready to Pitch My (Other) iPhone out the Window
By Andrew Garcia | Posted: 2007-02-16
Cisco and Apple will battle it out in court over the use of product name iPhone, but given the experience I've had the last few days with Cisco's Linksys WIP330 iPhone, I want Cisco to relinquish the name and go stand in the corner to think about what they've done.
Vista: Permission Granted
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-02-12
Among early adopters of Microsoft's freshly minted Windows Vista operating system, the strongest reactions so far seem not to revolve around the system's fancy new looks or its handy search facilities, but rather
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What Do You Mean "New" Evil Empire?
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-02-09
While cruising through Slashdot this afternoon, I came upon an item in which Rolling Stone blogger Charles Coxe asks whether Apple may become Is the New Evil Empire. Once but the student (see their classic 1984 ad, their PC vs. Mac ads and oh, everything else that's ever come out
The Vista WOW is Lost On Me (and my misconfigured system)
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-02-09
After reading my colleage Joe Wilcox's ebullient ode to the new Windows Vista commercial that appeared during Lost, I had to see it for myself. Here's what I got: A click on the image brought me to Adobe's site, where I was informed that I'd need to upgrade my
Pick Your Poison
By Andrew Garcia | Posted: 2007-02-08
As an IT or security officer, which would you choose: a debilitating worm or a data theft?
I've Met the Enemy and Apparently, the Enemy Is a USB Stick
By Andrew Garcia | Posted: 2007-02-07
At RSA 2007, there's a lot of action around protecting against data loss via USB thumb drives and other types of portable storage.
RSA Day 2:::Compliance dominates security
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2007-02-06
Regulatory compliance completely dominates the tradeshow floor at the RSA Conference 2007. In the recent past compliance products and services were talked about but not implemented. 2007 is clearly the
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Giving Up On Linux?
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-02-01
This morning I came across a Linux-supporting sysadmin's tale of woe entitled: Ten years of pushing for Linux adoption in the workplace (and why I gave up.) To sum it up, the writer of the piece, Jim Sampson, has been trying to get Linux working with Microsoft Exchange since the
links for 2007-01-30
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-01-30
Michael Geist - Vista's Fine Print Raises Red Flags Microsoft responded to Guttman's paper earlier this month, maintaining that content owners demanded the premium content restrictions. According to Microsoft, "if the
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links for 2007-01-26
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-01-26
UbuntuAttack "In just 5 days, Vista will be upon us. It will be flooding through the doors of retail, and Microsoft will win again. We can do something to stop it." Relax, guys, Vista's not going to explode so fast... (tags: vista ubuntu linux) SourceForge.net: sux0r
Lotus Does Web 2.0
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-01-23
Most of these highly touted new technologies are basically just updated Web 2.0-ified versions of the collaboration features that Lotus has always offered.
links for 2007-01-19
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-01-19
Robert Hensing's Blog : Random Vista Security Factoid Du Jur (tags: vista security) DJ Drama Arrested - Report - New York Times Your tax dollars at work. (tags: billable) Docvert [current 3.0] (tags: openoffice microsoft) Microsoft Watch - Security - The Anti-Virus
