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1. Consumers Driving Windows Vista Adoption? Wishful Thinking

   [ Blog ] Topic: Windows Vista | Author: KenHardin | Date Published: 10/26/2006

   In all the recent coverage of the impending Windows Vista launch, we were most struck by a prediction by Kevin Kettler, the CTO at Dell, which obviously has a lot of skin in this Vista game. Kettler told silicon.com that he expects Vista to catch hold in the enterprise, not because of the...

2. Windows 7: Apple and Microsoft’s Gift to Windows Users

   [ Blog ] Topic: Windows 7 | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 10/21/2009

   This is Windows 7 launch week and I just finished going over much of the marketing creative that’ll you’ll see in a few days.  This is some of the best work I’ve seen, and the fact that it is coming from Microsoft is largely because of Apple.  I think there are some lessons here, the first being...

3. Should You Delay Switching to Windows 7?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Windows 7 | Author: Paul Mah | Date Published: 11/02/2009

   Rescuecom.com, a New York-based computer support company is asking users to delay their upgrade to the just-released Windows 7 operating system.  President Josh Kaplan cited a litany of reasons to Computerworld on why users should hold off the upgrade, which ranges from a potential risk of...

4. Windows Vista and the Power to Choose

   [ Blog ] Topic: Windows Vista | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 12/04/2006

   Windows Vista has finally arrived and the universe has not collapsed in upon itself. That, of course, is a good thing. Still troubling, though, is the collective industry shrug to what, in many respects, is a decent, if not mind-blowing, upgrade to the various Windows operating systems currently...

5. From Windows to Mac -- Is It Time?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Windows Vista | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 12/21/2006

   Awhile back, we covered an issue regarding Vista migration, and it's come up again. Computerworld just posted an article outlining why it makes a lot of sense to upgrade to Mac OS in the coming year rather than Vista .    In a nutshell, the article argues that if you're going to put up with...

6. It's a Great View from the Mighty Microsoft Mountain

   [ Blog ] Topic: Microsoft | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 02/22/2007

   Perhaps the best thing about being Microsoft is the knowledge that no matter what people think of your product, they're eventually going to buy it anyway. How else to explain the results of a recent survey by CRN that showed Microsoft expects to make billions off of Vista in the next few years...

7. Windows Vista and the WAN

   [ Blog ] Topic: WAN | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 03/28/2007

   Here's some useful information from The Burton Group regarding Vista and WAN optimization. The gist is that optimization appliances pay for themselves so quickly that it makes sense to deploy them now, even though both Vista and Longhorn provide some of the same functions. After all, it will...

8. Windows Vista Early Uptake 'Little Bit Better' Than Expected

   [ Blog ] Topic: Windows Vista | Author: KachinaShaw | Date Published: 03/26/2007

   Perhaps remembering that underpromising and overdelivering is a sure route to satisfying your audience, about a month ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer advised that, due to pricing and piracy challenges, Windows Vista sales for 2007 would be lower than originally predicted . $1.30 copies of...

9. Why Longhorn Matters, Even Outside the Enterprise

   [ Blog ] Topic: Windows Server Platforms | Author: KachinaShaw | Date Published: 04/26/2007

   Now that the beta 3 version of Windows Server, aka Longhorn (for now), is available, look for things to get even more interesting through the rest of the year -- the end of which should see at least Longhorn's release to manufacturing, if not to customers. Yes, the big trend is the ...

10. Vista SP1 Brings More Bad News

    [ Blog ] Topic: Windows Vista | Author: KachinaShaw | Date Published: 03/19/2008

    During the last few weeks leading up to the release of Windows Vista SP1, said to be the hurdle many SMBs and enterprises wanted Microsoft to pass before they would consider rolling out the OS, calls have been made for Microsoft to absorb what it's been told by users of Vista and bag it. Just bag...

11. FSF: Windows Vista Is Stealing Your Rights!

    [ Blog ] Topic: Windows Vista | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 12/21/2006

    We should know better than to be surprised by goings on at the Free Software Foundation, but the organization's latest anti-Microsoft campaign caught us a bit off guard. Days after the software juggernaut launched its newest operating system, the FSF unveiled BadVista.org . The campaign's...

12. Watch out for Dragonfly BSD

    [ Blog ] Topic: Open Source Enterprise Software | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 06/26/2007

    When FreeBSD developer Matt Dillon forked the 4.x codebase to begin DragonFly BSD nearly four years ago , did he know in what direction the development would turn? The project's goal, according to DragonFlyBSD.org: is to provide generic clustering support natively in the kernel. This...