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spaceyLots of conflicting signals. Lots of various elevations. Looks like somebody got religion and it's taking a while for them to clear out their liquor closet... didn't know it was a walk-in.
If all the hoorah and bubbly crap in Mister Softee's intestines is not for "technical" reasons and is for "technology" reasons, we can assume everything Mister Softee has been complaining about with the twisted bowels will be skraightened out ... just like it did with Apple. Just like it did with Yahoo... Maybe they all ate out of the same beefaroni bowl.
BAG!!
Bwup... ugh ugh... kack. Thanks. I feel much better now.
Perhaps the VCSY bus is rolling up in to the Happy Home for Convalescent Wayward Yoots. The kids will be happy.
Microsoft’s party line for the past few months has been that it wasn’t going to get Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 out the door until some time in the first half of 2008.
But this week, Microsoft hinted that XP SP3 might actually ship this year.
It could be a simple typo in a press release. But then, again, maybe it’s not and it’s part of the Windows client team’s mission to under-promise and over-deliver. While the element of surprise is nice, corporate customers tell me having a real timetable for planning purposes would be much nicer.
The folks over at the Microsoft Forum Software Network (MSFN.org) site were the ones with the eagle eyes. They caught the XP SP3 reference in a Microsoft Interop press release from May 21. Here’s the mention:
“The Juniper Networks Infranet Controller, the policy management server at the heart of the Juniper UAC solution, will be able to leverage the built-in security assessment capabilities and the SOH protocol provided by the NAP agent built into the Windows Vista® and Microsoft Windows XP operating systems. Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS) brings a rich ecosystem of NAP health agents and will be able to interoperate with the Juniper Networks UAC solution in heterogeneous network environments. Microsoft NPS can either act as a policy server or be leveraged by the Juniper Infranet Controller for rich endpoint information. Microsoft is announcing that Windows Vista supports this protocol today and Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will support it as well later this year. The Juniper Networks UAC solution is expected to support the new TNC standard in the first half of 2008.”
Windows Vista SP 1, a build of which was spotted in the wild at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) last week, also is expected later this year, around the same time that Windows Server 2008 is released to manufacturing.
If XP SP3 does, indeed, ship by the end of 2007, there will be a lot of pleasantly surprised XP users out there. And Microsoft would disprove the rampant theory that the company is intentionally holding back XP SP3 to try to get more customers to upgrade to Windows Vista. Microsoft released XP SP2 three years ago, in 2004.
I’ve asked Microsoft if they’ve updated their XP SP3 timetable. I’ll include the official response once I get it.
I'm gonna go get... uhhhh... cleaned up a bit and I'll meet all you little sweeties out on the patio.
How 'bout I leave the radidio on for y'all?
Unfaithful servant, I hear you leavin' soon in the mornin'.
What did you do to the lady, that she's gonna have to send you away?
Unfaithful servant, you don't have to say you're sorry,
if you done it just for the spite, or did ya do it just for the glory?
Like a stranger you turned your back,
left your keys and gone to pack.
Bear in mind who's to blame, and all the shame;
she really cared, the time she spared and the home you shared.
Unfaithful servant, I can hear the whistle blowin',
yes, that train is a-comin' and soon you'll be a-goin'.
Let us not bow our heads for we won't be complainin';
Life has been good to us all
even when that sky is rainin'.
To take it like a grain of salt
is all I can do. Its no one's fault,
Makes no diff'rence if we fade away.
It's just as it was, it's much to cold for me to stay.
Goodbye to that country home,
so long to a lady I have known,
Farewell to my other side,
I'd best just take it in stride.
Unfaithful servant, you'll learn to find your place;
I can see it in your smile,
and, yes, I can see it in your face.
The mem'ries will linger on,
the good old days, they're all gone,
Oh! lonesome servant, can't you see,
that were still one and the same, just you and me.
Unfaithful Servant
The Band/Robbie Robertson
hug meI know this is going to be a bit disturbing to some of you but didn't you learn to read in school? It's really not all that much if you just look at every other word.
Ohhhh... you're disturbed about the trickery and shady dealings! Well, heck, why didn't you say so? I could have left out that part.
This a precautionary tale for those who pooh-pooh conspiracies and giants squashing bugs. And, by the way... the real world called. They want your phone number.
To wit: A sad tale of a little bitty elf and the evil giant.
December 5, 2001 Ballmer takes charge of Microsoft Phone biz
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/12/05/ballmer_takes_charge_of_ms/
July 8, 2002 Bugs delay flagship Microsoft phone
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/07/08/bugs_delay_flagship_ms_phone/
July 11, 2002 Microsoft: our phone software might not be good enough
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/07/11/ms_our_phone_software_might/
July 22, 2002 Microsoft's Canary phone - the first pics
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/07/22/microsofts_canary_phone_the_first/
October 7, 2002 Orange to launch Microsoft Smartphone in UK
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/07/orange_to_launch_ms_smartphone/
September 10, 2002 Sendo ships self-destructing Stinker phone SDK
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/10/sendo_ships_selfdestructing_stinker_phone/
January 6, 2003 Microsoft's masterplan to screw phone partner - full details
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/06/microsofts_masterplan_to_screw_phone/
(Sendo's 27-page filing in a Texas court - disclosed here for the first time)
January 7, 2003 Sendo sues Microsoft over 'secret plan'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/07/sendo_sues_microsoft_over_secret/
February 27, 2003 Microsoft goes on attack in Sendo case
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/27/ms_goes_on_attack/
February 27, 2003 Whatever didn't happen to Microsoft's Marc Brown?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/27/whatever_didnt_happen_to_microsofts/
June 5, 2003 Sendo sues Orange over Microsoft SPV smartphone IP
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/06/05/sendo_sues_orange_over_ms/
August 31, 2003 Microsoft's Sendo case: has it Burst wide open?
http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/938
(Microsoft's case against Sendo is brutally damaged - 'missing' emails)
September 13, 2004 Microsoft settles Sendo tech theft lawsuit
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/13/sendo_ms_settle/
March 23, 2005 Sendo reports Ericsson to EC, Ericcson sues Sendo
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/23/sendo_ericsson_spat/
(accusing Ericsson of "seeking to license its patents to third parties on an unfair, anti-competitive, abusive and discriminatory basis")
June 29, 2005 Motorola buys Sendo team, patents
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/29/motorola_sendo/
So, you see, boys and girls, Mister Frickaseed isn't typing all this just to entertain you. He's trying to keep your boogered eyes open and your softball brain alert. Why? So you can keep what you bought and the brain will get taught...
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UPDATE May 26, 2007
Looks like Microsoft is "competing" against smaller companies again. Check out http://vcsy.blogspot.com/2007/05/you-gonna-eat-that-uhhh-thats-my-arm.html
Nasty nasty nasty.
vegas luckyIf I were a telephone company and I were trying to figure out what Verizon is up to, would I be scared?
http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/113741/orange-launches-business-together-with-microsoft-service.html
Posted by Maggie Holland at 11:16AM, Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Microsoft and Orange beef up their relationship to help accelerate the use of unified communications solutions in businesses.
As part of the new offering, Orange will assess, design, implement and manage a bespoke solution, based on individual customer needs, created from a blend of current Microsoft solutions such as Office Communications Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.
Users will then be able to access their e-mails, voicemails, contacts and calendar information as well as making calls, all from a single Windows Outlook interface using a web browser. Real-time communication is also possible using instant messaging or audio, video or web conferencing facilities in the solution.
More at URL
Windows Outlook, huh? Hmmm... Sounds pretty minimalist if not downright risky. What will the Union say if you can't let everybody play nice? Really.
"...The first companies to benefit from 'Business Together with Microsoft' will be large multinational companies ...”What if those companies don't want to use Microsoft stuff? Do they have any choice with Orange? Really?
And will this one-off bespoke amalgamation consist of any third-party or other software? Really?
Not if you don't have IP protection.
And how fast will it go? Really?
Not if you don't have IP protection.
Color me Ripe
And how do you expect to automate all this? Really?
cool 
Ahhh, yes, Grasshopper with dirty mind. Power of Pickle. Very useful tool in moulding consequences... much like Rodin do thinker. Hammer and chisel. Hammer and chisel. Hammer strike chisel which in turn strike rock. Hammer make shape and chisel do work. Make very interesting form from anything not as hard as chisel. Hammer can be wood, bone, stone. But, chisel get bent if too soft. Get broken if too hard. Very bad place to be, chisel. Get beat at both ends and only cut into one... and do Master's work when doing that.
But, Master. How shall I know if I am the hammer or the chisel?
Ahhh, Grasshopper. Surprise you not think of rock. Have round figures in your head. Not good to be hammer. Swing up and down and hit head on chisel all day. Very good to be rock. Get shaped by Master's hand. Make Master proud.
Would Master like to play hide rock game again? Student feel lucky.
Ahhh, Grasshopper feel like he can kick old man's ass. Rock not here. Rock on shelf. Already hidden. Now, about Grasshopper mind...
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...Microsoft is in quite a pickle, Mister Diller. They want to but they can't. I mean, they can, but they don't want to. I mean, they are able just that they may not. Does THAT make it more clear?
You idiot. What are you talking about?
I'm talking about this dammit...
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...jealousy and envy are the sins that drive us off the deep end, friends. One will make you pee your pants. The other will make you pee somebody else's pants. Do you know what I mean, brethren? Can you hear what I'm ah talking about ah? I think you need a little bit of...
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God. There's nothing on tv. Hmmm.... wonder what's in the mail?
Welcome to our "Sue me first, Microsoft" invitation page
Back to Main Page
More at URL
Open source or patent, Microsoft has to decide which side they will choose.
energeticNuff said. I wonder what remedy they've chosen. Starve the herd?
The tech company that really seems to be enjoying Microsoft's new operating system is Apple.
The Cupertino, Calif., computer maker has used Microsoft's Vista, introduced in November for businesses and January for consumers, as an opportunity to make hay over the self-proclaimed superiority of the operating system in its own Macs. Microsoft doesn't agree with that message, noting it has shipped 40 million copies of Vista for consumers. Still, Apple has the hotter hand. Mac sales were up 35% in the first quarter versus a year earlier. PC sales were up by 9%, according to research firm Gartner...
More at URL
don't askI Call BULL$#!@
This makes me want to just puke. Duplicitous, half-baked, know-nothings and sycophants trying to "frame the discussion" when everybody else finished that topic months and years ago.
Absolutely nauseating.
IT companies must work together to develop interoperable systems in the face of convergence and security burdens, according to innovation leaders at Microsoft.
Speaking at a press conference at the company's US campus in Redmond, representatives said that enterprise needs IT firms to collaborate to ensure interoperability (Why? Because interoperability isn't something Microsoft does with the outside world even though they DID tell you their file systems were all "interoperable". Don't you remember that?) trends convergence, heterogeneous IT systems, virtualisation, public sector projects and security needs have all made interoperability and collaboration necessary to survive ("...now. It wasn't quite like this last year when we had control.").
"It wasn't that long ago that 'interoperability' and 'heterogeneous' were words you'd never hear from someone at Microsoft (excuse me ladies and gentlemen but how long have I, your host with the most, been telling you that...? Congratulations. Microsoft has finally seen fit to tell you numbskulls the dirty truth.)," said group product manager Margaret Dawson. "It's the reality for enterprise now."
("Reality"? No $#!@? Is that right? Interoperability is a "reality" that they haven't been working on at Microsoft? Haven't been considering the impact in IT providers partnered with Microsoft? What happened to the vaunted 'interoperability is in the file' strategy? Didn't work, did it? What a transparent bunch of hoots MSFT are now. Laugh out loud foolish and your clients will have to pick up the tab to enable you to do it, is that right? Let's all share the burden. LOL Beans and weinies in a bubbling pot.)
The need for interoperability has pushed (THERE's the magic words. Nobody pushed them to do anything about it before. "Why do you make me screw up like this? It's not fair... waaahhhh.") Microsoft to partner with companies they also compete with - something Dawson termed "co-opatition". (Some of us call it copulation but it all depends on who's definition you use.)
Recently, the software giant announced it was working with competitor OpenOffice, to develop tools to increase interoperability between the two document formats. (Hmmm. Finally getting the message I see.)
The increasing convergence of software, hardware and telecommunication systems means applications, devices and processes must be compatible. "You can't have that [convergence] unless different companies work together (or Microsoft agrees to work with other companies)," said Tom Robertson, the general manager for standards at Microsoft.
In addition, enterprises are shifting to heterogeneous IT systems, where they pick and mix solutions from a variety of vendors (arbitrary) to find the right price or tool for their own specific needs. In turn, vendors need to ensure their products work with their partners and competitors alike, or risk being frozen out of enterprise contracts.
(Poor BABIES! You mean all you software developers didn't know the sandbags MSFT was putting up around the moat were not to keep folks out but to keep you IN? Say it ain't so!)
Virtualisation, another top IT trend, will also bring challenges (as soon as we can catch up). As programs from different vendors are being used on the same hardware, companies must ensure interoperability, Robertson said.
Governments and the public sector bring another twist (you mean like a Texas Titty-Twister?) to interoperability, as IT systems increasingly feature in policy. For example, Robertson said that as healthcare records in Europe are digitised, they must be accessible in any country, regardless of the operation system or application being used. IT Solutions will need to be able to translate and read data from competing systems (or employ a system that provides for virtualization and arbitration).
Speaking about improvements to security in Microsoft products, principle security program manager Michael Howard said that tightening controls and defences in operating systems will have repercussions for externally developed applications.
"All these defences we have in place are going to affect other applications, so we need to work together," Howard said.
Kum buy ya my Lord Kum buy ya. Somebody's getting their butt kicked, Lord. Kum buy ya...
If you nitwits could come up with a way of virtualizing all your applications and arbitrating the differences between them... and that's with ALL... not just Microsoft applications, you might actually gain some respect from your industry.
As it is, your management has lead you to the point where you will have to work three times as hard as anybody else to come up with something half as useful.
Hoooey. That's the most polite term I can come up with for this bunch of past time nose rubbers. And for those of you who don't read big words very often like "interoperablility" why don't you try this one for starters:
duplicitous adj. Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
brightThis will be a frontal assault on what makes IT happen so IT can be done for less with fewer.
The first public indication of IBM's Power6 muscle has arrived courtesy of Oracle.
The Register has spotted four 4.7GHz - yep, you read that right - Power6 chips cranking on Oracle 11i. The speedy chips confirm IBM's boasting that Power6 would arrive near 5GHz. They also show that IBM's customers have a lot to look forward to in terms of raw performance.
With 4.7GHz chips (4MB of L2 and 32MB of L3 cache), an IBM p570 server showed an average response time of .625 seconds when handling requests from 2,100 users. That compares to a p570 with 2.2GHz Power5+ chips that had a response time of .983 seconds for 2,000 users.
You can catch all the benchmarks here until Oracle notices this story (Update: Oracle has removed the results). We've also taken the liberty of copying a PDF report on the results for you here.
The benchmarks arrive just ahead of IBM's Power6 server launch. The rumor mill says IBM will unveil its Power6 gear, starting with midrange systems such as the p570, on Tuesday.
Thus far, IBM has been reluctant to discuss the Power6-based systems' performance. But, with chips running at 4.7GHz, IBM should clean up on a wide variety of benchmarks even if customers don't recompile their software as is needed for absolute best results with Power6.
A number of skeptics have told us that IBM will struggle in the near-term to produce 4GHz+ chips in volume. IBM, however, has been telling customers that it will have plenty of speedy chips to go around. (It looks like IBM will offer systems with 3.5GHz, 4.2GHz and 4.7GHz versions of Power6 from what we hear.)
IBM had once planned to ship Power6-based servers in 2006. It could use some new gear to go up against Sun and HP's high-end gear, which have been selling well in recent months. ®
Anyone want to bet the hardware industry feels threatened by IBM's green Power strategy?
accident proneHere comes the avalanche. Are all you Microsofties in your snowfort? Did you remember to bring your lumps of coal, a carrot and a top hat so we can recognize you after the slide? You boys and girls had better be getting some new goo or your future will be pasty poo.
(uhhh ya think?)
By teaming up, Google and Salesforce.com could be better equipped to contend with Microsoft, a mutual rival. Google has long competed with Microsoft in areas such as search and email. More recently, Google began offering online word-processing, spreadsheet and calendar services for consumers and businesses -- Web-based applications known as Google Apps -- that offer an alternative to Microsoft's productivity software.I say, why stop there? Google should acquire Salesforce.com outright. That would put Google's best-in-class scalable infrastructure underneath Salesforce.com's best-in-class software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. It would catapult Salesforce.com's position as a provider of enterprise applications to small and mid-size businesses, leapfrogging Microsoft's nascent attempts in this area.
Salesforce.com also competes with Microsoft's customer-relationship management software. Microsoft plans to offer a Web-based version of that software that could compete more directly with Salesforce.com.
