I recently wrote a blog in which I suggested that Microsoft® may be listening to their customers and I suggested that full-disclosure should become a more prominent component of their strategy. The day I wrote that blog, we learned that [...]
Cloud Pricing Trends
Sep 2015Many people have been watching the market and trying to predict the future of cloud service provider leadership and how it may impact their operations and budgets. Some believe that as enterprise, smaller organizations and consumers realize that the cloud [...]
Is Microsoft® Really Listening?
Sep 2015People who have been affiliated with Microsoft® for many years would have never envisioned some of the changes the company has implemented during recent months, particularly since the departure of former CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft is no longer a “Windows® [...]
Now that Windows® 10 has been released Microsoft® is releasing updates to applications and other products to match the new OS. Next month we may see Office 2016. The German website winfuture.de, was among the first to report a September [...]
SharePoint® 2016 Preview
Sep 2015Microsoft® has released the first IT preview of SharePoint® 2016. SharePoint is Microsoft’s team collaboration software, enabling content and document management, storage and synchronization across multiple devices via the cloud, and web content management, among other services. The formal [...]
Microsoft® has released the third technical preview of Windows® Server 2016 and as promised, it includes the highly anticipated Windows Server Containers. We have been hearing a lot about containers lately, and for good reason. As the name suggests, containers [...]
There is no disputing that PC sales have been in a freefall during the past couple of years, and there have been some who have suggested that Windows® 10 may offer an impetus to slow the decline a bit, although [...]
Oracle® has often been criticized for their licensing practices and for many of their customers they are a supplier customers are forced to tolerate if only because there are very few alternatives. I was recently asked about the language in [...]
Windows® 10 – First Impressions
Aug 2015I must admit that during my tenure at Microsoft® I had many opportunities to “eat my own dog food”. As a result, I rarely install software before it’s released and I often wait until it has been out for a [...]
Where is My Update to Windows® 10?
Aug 2015Now that the highly anticipated July 29th Windows® 10 release date has come and gone, what do you think about your Windows 10 experience? For many (most?), they still haven’t seen it and according to Microsoft®, it may take a [...]
