Monthly Archives: July 2006
Is Indias Edge Fading?
For indian outsourcers its the problem that just wont go away: wage inflation.Widely acknowledged by the outsourcers themselves and until now kept at bay...
PC Makers Duke It Out with Low Prices
PC makers are wheeling and dealing to avoid being hit hard by a slowdown in unit shipment growth that will come in 2006 and...
Tap the Potential of ISVs
For far too many years, solution providers and ISVs have been like ships passing in the night. They occasionally fire off a salute to...
Getting a Lock on Endpoints
Does the damage that could be caused by a random roaming laptop coming onto your customers networks keep you awake at night? It should,...
IIS Continues Security Push
This year has seen more than its share of high-profile Microsoft beta releases, including Office 2007, Internet Explorer 7 and, of course, Vista. A...
Windows 98 Is Dead
Less than a year ago, I wrote a column extolling the virtues of Windows 98 (see "Win 98: Always on My Mind" at eweek.com),...
Do Your Homework
In June, as much of the world took a breather to watch World Cup matches, another sport was getting a lot of attention in...
First Impressions are Critical
There has never been a better time to be a solution provider. All the major hardware vendors are putting tremendous research and development dollars...
Microsoft Forges Smart Partnerships
Microsoft made a great move July 18 when it acquired Winternals Software, a purveyor of Windows diagnostic software, including the Sysinternals line of freeware...
Symantec: Vista Code Has Holes
A new report from Symantec security researchers contends that Microsofts much-awaited Vista operating system could harbor a range of vulnerabilities that will make it...