Love him or hate him, Bill Gates was, and still is, the face of Microsoft. What Microsoft doesn’t want you to know though is that Gates has almost nothing to do with the company anymore.
That’s what comes across loud and clear in the recent Fortune overview of the world’s richest man. Instead of plotting out how to knock Apple back into the dirt or how to put Google in its place, Gates spends his days on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, stopping by the laboratories of Intellectual Ventures to talk blue-sky ideas every few weeks with Nathan Myhrvold, and dropping off or picking up his three kids from school.
Read more at IT World
Uncategorized June 23rd 2010
The VAR Guy saw this coming. On June 10, The VAR Guy was first to report Dell considered Ubuntu Linux safer than Windows. But now, Dell has apparently updated its web site to remove/alter that statement. Linux conspiracy theorists think Microsoft pressured Dell to make the change. Is that really the case?
Frankly, The VAR Guy doesn’t know for sure. Our resident blogger has requests for comment out to Dell, Microsoft and Canonical — promoter of Ubuntu Linux.
Read more at The VAR Guy
Uncategorized June 18th 2010
Microsoft has announced its online Office web applications but are they really going to give Google a run for its money?
Microsoft recently announced its Office Web Apps, a collection of browser-based applications that provide some, if not all, of the features of its popular Office suite. The web-based applications are available at this point to US- and UK-based users and require that the user has a Windows Live account.
Microsoft’s web-based Office strategy has hardly been a secret but it has been a long time in the coming. Competing online applications such as GoogleDocs and Zoho Office have been available for close on four years now (GoogleDocs launched in October 2006) and in that time have been gaining ground.
Read more at MyBroadband
Uncategorized June 18th 2010
