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What did the ISO and the IEC say to the anti-OOXML crowd? “Go away, losers.” In four different languages, no less. Open XML is here to stay, yum-yums*. Get over it! Now, can we all just get along? *How must those troglodytes Sutor, Updegrove, and Jones...
Sometimes it is a wonder how the obvious manages to escape the eyes of the supposedly knowledgeable. Case in point is Microsoft's decision to add ODF and PDF read/write functionality directly into the next service pack of Microsoft Office 2007, this...
Last week, the news came down that the OLPC had decided to use Microsoft's Windows XP as one of the operating systems shipping with the system. What a letdown for those folks looking to colonize the next generation of 3 rd World inhabitants to satisfy...
Today, the US INCITS voted to approve the Open Office XML document format specification for fast-track approval to the ISO. Hopefully, this is a necessary first step in the dominos falling the way of approval of this very important document specification...
Take your daily dose of sensational headlines in the IT press with a grain of salt! In the last couple of weeks, the blogosphere has been abuzz with news that (Microsoft's) BitLocker drive partition encryption process was penetrated, and indeed, easily...
When Microsoft and Cisco announced an agreement last year to co-ompete, people wondered if it was real or fluff. I lauded the agreement as two giants letting their constituencies know what the planks in their relative platforms were. (Hey, it's the...
Now, this is the kind of stuff I expect from Microsoft: pragmatic design wins. As applauded a few weeks ago with the announcement of a series of Windows Mobile cell phones from Sony Ericcson, Microsoft’s platform teams are doing the right thing. This...
Wintelgate? One of the most amazing things you see on a daily basis is good intentions waylaid by poor execution. What is this lawsuit about: people buying bottom-of-the-heap systems and expecting it to perform as well as the HP Blackbird 002. Or, like...
Sometimes, the truth is stranger than fiction! Take the case of Google getting into the health records business. ¿Que? ¿Google? I know, Google. Isn’t the amount of junk ads we get enough? Isn’t it? Now, imagine the incredibly detailed and granular level...
Windows Vista™, build 6.0.6001.18000, was released to manufacturing three weeks ago. After over a month working with the RTM bits – which I received prior to RTM, and greatly expanding our test to select customer sites, we have seen better driver coverage...
Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly.... ...and we all know how that ended. The same seems to be about to play out in the Redmond vs. Sunnyvale drama, with Microsoft being the spider, and Yahoo! taking up the role of the fly. In my SmallBizVista...
Really? A better title should be: A lost sheep’s ongoing struggle to stay relevant in this internet age In a post last week, on St. Valentine’s Day no less, Pirillo states his 50 reasons to switch from Windows (any version?) to OS X. After getting past...
Last year, Microsoft lost an antitrust case brought by some medical emergency vehicle pursuers in Iowa to the reported tune of $180 million. This past weekend the AP reported that the Iowa House voted a package of concessions aimed at bringing Microsoft...
I have been testing Microsoft Windows Vista™ SP1 for the past several months. Windows Vista SP1 is a worthy compatibility and optimization pack to Windows Vista. It is NOT a replacement for Windows Vista. Contrary to the either uninformed writings of...
A few days ago, St. Steve of Jobs revealed the latest from the minds of the loops at 1, Infinite Loop, the Macbook Air. “The World’s Thinnest”, he declared. What he also forgot to tell his adoring cattle was that it would probably be the world’s slowest...
16. Set a credible baseline hardware requirement for functional UE scenarios. Remember that OEMs right now can create the most basic, and basically, useless configurations, and offload buyer angst at Microsoft. I seem to remember somewhere that the Windows...
This is my wishlist from Microsoft for 2008. Apart from #1, they are in no particular order. 1. Tell your own story ! For the past several years, probably since the advent of the spate of antitrust lawsuits against it, Microsoft has let others tell spin...
Sunday, January 6, 2008 Microsoft Partner Pavilion, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada In what is fast becoming a Pre-CES Sunday tradition, members of the Microsoft Windows Featured Communities were given an advance (totally NDA’d) tour of...
I am the recipient, through friends at Microsoft, of a new Zune 8, in a beautiful red color. With the inscription, ' www.smallbizvista.com' engraved on it through Zune Originals. I will be bringing you my thoughts and reviews of the product as...
In the short Windows Vista™ timeframe so far, one of the ways Microsoft has helped ease the appraisal and architecting processes for migration to the new operating system was the creation of the Solutions Accelerators program, of which I have blogged...
…I hope! In an announcement, Verizon Wireless is opening up its wireless network to all comers and devices if they meet minimum specifications. Wow! A mega-Telco doing this? Has the world gone mad? Actually, this is a very welcome departure from the norm...
In the free report, Happy Holidays?, released today by Endpoint Technologies Associates, longtime industry analyst and luminary, Roger L. Kay, reports on the potential resurgence of the venerable PC, especially in the consumer space. He dissects the reasons...
I have been at the Windows Experience Space event in New York City for the past few days, hence the dearth of posts on this blog. Over this weekend, I shall be posting about the event and the epiphany I had about a much-maligned Microsoft property. Stay...
Man, that thing has legs! When I read about $172 million USD on Day I, I figured, maybe $200-$250 million at most by the end of the first month. $300 million USD in one week? Haters, where are you? Mad, mad props to Microsoft (& Bungie Studios) for...
Ultimate me! Contrary to the erroneous insinuations of the uninformed about Windows Vista™ Ultimate Extras, the (Windows Vista Ultimate) team was working to deliver those extras to us. In a post today, Barry Goffe, Director of Marketing for Windows Vista...
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