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Revision Support in Windows Vista

by alec on July 31, 2006

Ken Fisher, on Ars Technica, has written about the new “Previous Versions” feature in Windows Vista.  This feature allows you to roll back to a previous version of a file. 

Huzzah!

My advice?  Ignore Ken’s “Security Concerns”, and embrace this concept.  Available on VAX/VMS in the late 1970′s, this is one of the most useful enhancements to the file system you will ever experience. It’s taken Microsoft 25 years to get around to doing it, but thank goodness it’s here.

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Windows Vista: Not Genuine Microsoft

by alec on July 6, 2006

Well, there you have it.  Windows Vista is apparently not Genuine Microsoft Software, according to the Genuine Microsoft Advantage program.  I just tried to check out the new Microsoft Private Folder 1.0 application to see what it was about.  Couldn’t even visit the page.  Here’s the screen I saw instead.  

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Versature and iotum set the bar higher

June 27, 2006

We’ve been keeping this one under the hat for a little while, but I am very pleased to announce that iotum and Versature have concluded an agreement for iotum services to be offered to Versature customers.  This is significant for two reasons: Versature is our first fully integrated communications customer.  Their offering is a hosted, [...]

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Selling Papers (the Power of a Catchy Headline)

June 20, 2006

Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie knows the power of a good headline.  In Microsoft’s Forgotten Monopoly, he writes about the need for the web community to embrace fonts beyond the “Core Fonts for the Web” donated by Microsoft to the Internet community in 1996.  He’s right!  Firstly, those fonts are, frankly, stale, and secondly, Microsoft [...]

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Gates to Step Down

June 15, 2006

I think there’s spring fever in the air.  As one wag noted, “First Scoble, and now Gates!”.   At 4:30 this afternoon, one of the 20th century’s giants of industry, Bill Gates, anounced he was retiring. In June 2008, Bill will become Chairman and Advisor to Microsoft, and continue in a part time role, as needed.  [...]

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Office 2007: A Great Upgrade

June 9, 2006

Office 2007 is the other half of Microsoft’s (MSFT) blockbuster release slated for Q1 of next year.  Like Windows Vista, there’s a lot of new user interface here, and it’s generally well thought out, and an improvement over prior versions of Office. Throughout Office, there are “look and feel” differences everywhere — layout, color schemes, [...]

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OneCare Live: Thumbs Up!

December 11, 2005

I downloaded the Windows OneCare Live beta last week.  This is Microsoft’s new managed service for PC maintenance.  It includes backup, antivirus, firewall management, and "tune up" — at this moment, simply disk defragmentation. And, it provides it all in a simple, easy-to-understand and easy-to-use, package. The install experience was very easy.  It beefed up [...]

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Google vs Microsoft: The Numbers Speak

November 28, 2005

Here is an interesting thought experiment.  Google is positioning itself as the platform for the web, which is the reason that Microsoft has launched their Microsoft Live initiative.  How real is the threat to Microsoft from Google?  I ran the numbers from publicly available financial information, and extrapolated them forward.  At current growth rates, in [...]

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Microsoft Doesn’t Budge on Stock Options

August 12, 2002

Microsoft stands pat on options.  Gates has said that the company won’t change the way it accounts for stock options unless the entire industry is forced to.  Microsoft accounts for options in the notes to financial statements, but does not expense them.  In my opinion, this is the intelligent way to provide the transparency the [...]

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