I've pored through hundreds of emails in the Vista "junk PC" lawsuit, and it still doesn't all add up. There are five nagging questions that ar...

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Here's one of the more intriguing tidbits in the hundreds of pages of emails released as part of the Vista "junk PC" lawsuit: A Microsoft ex...

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The real mover behind the ill-fated "Vista Capable PC" scheme may be Intel, not Microsoft, recent emails in the Vista "junk PC" lawsuit reveal. A ...

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New behind-the-scenes emails just released in the Vista 'junk PC' lawsuit shows that top Microsoft execs were not just upset and derisive ab...

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The thing is… anyone can be a dork - whether they are an enterprise sysadmin, a developer, a vendor or whoever. Dorkery doesn’t k...

Continue Reading The Age Of Indiscretion: BarCampESM, a camp for sysops dorks

What Isabel said. Seriously- Microsoft needs to own the service level and take advantage of web scale out architectures if its going to compe...

Continue Reading Why Microsoft Cloud Will Fail With Hosting Partners

Just wondering. If the target audience is developers, rather than people that manage the people that manage developers, the majority have littl...

Continue Reading Does IBM need a new software brand for the grassroots? And Big Blue’s Source code backlash

I wrote recently about IBM dominating the SOA market. But that’s SOA as defined through a largely top-down lens. Many of the analysts here at TechEd have fostered the frame. So I found it interesting...

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Microsoft had a couple of customers come and present to the analysts. The event really took off at this point. SQLServer was at the heart of...

Continue Reading TechEd 2007: Customer Panel/SQLServer depth

I was surprised by one thing at the Bob Muglia keynote this morning: where was the audience enthusiasm? The content was pretty solid, but th...

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