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January 2009
December 2008
Lee Pender
Vista SP2 Due in April?
The real question is: Do you care?
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Worm Winding Way into Un-Patched Windows
Microsoft warns admins to patch early, patch often.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft-Yahoo Story Doesn't Add Up
Insiders are quick to deny $20 billion offer rumor.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
The View and VMware
VMware releases a key component of its virtual desktop infrastructure plans.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Officials Dizzy from OneCare Spin
Just because it's getting replaced, doesn't mean OneCare was a failure, Microsoft says.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Interactive Intelligence Plans To Make UC Work
And, make UC make sense.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft To Add Datacenters
One more way Redmond is preparing for the cloud.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Ingram Offers Microsoft SPLA
Subscription-based program designed for SMBs, company says.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Vista SP2 Beta Available
And Server 2008 tags along.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Vista's Days Numbered as Windows 7 Beta Nears
Microsoft seems ready to let the beleaguered OS go.
by Lee Pender

Ken Thoreson
Name This Blog!
Ken Thoreson is looking to start a conversation.
by Ken Thoreson

Ken Thoreson
Working Through Tough Economic Times
Main motto: Take action -- stay positive
by Ken Thoreson

Lee Pender
Microsoft, Fashion House
Redmond puts on its FIERCE face.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Salesforce.com and Google Expand Cloud Partnership
There's a "Star Wars" joke in here somewhere.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft, RSA in Security Pact
Just try to get the acronyms straight.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
What You Want from Windows 7
We asked, readers answered.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Another UC Software Package, But At Least It's Free
And if it's free, it doesn't have to make sense.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Google Seeks To Bridge App Gap with NaCl
Cloud apps are still chasing the desktop in terms of performance, but they might soon catch up.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
The Press and the Global Economic Freak-Out
We may have, uh, freaked out a little too eagerly.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Patch Tuesday Falls a Patch or Two Short
IE 7 flaw discovered soon after patch rollout.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
HP To Offer Linux Desktop
SLED -- just in time for Christmas.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft To Offer Office Online for Free, Apparently
Redmond steps further into hosted app space.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft, HP Invite VARs To Host
Partners have a little less reason to worry.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Launches iPhone App
The Seadragon GUI is now in CTP.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
IE Getting Hammered by Attacks
Newsflash!
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Your Top 10...for 2009
Anyone can look back; RCPU wants you to look ahead.
by Lee Pender

Ken Thoreson
Get'r Done
A few thoughts for thriving in this economy from Ken's most recent radio interview
by Ken Thoreson

Lee Pender
America's Newest Addiction: The Internet?
We can quit any time we want!
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft To Open Office To Other Doc Formats
Also to try to get interop watchdogs off its back.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Users Prepare To Scale Kilimanjaro
DBAs wanted for the CTP.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Reader Responses: Dynamics and TAS
Why all the Dynamics problems? It might have to do with Tangled Acronym Syndrome.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
IE Gets Special Patch
Microsoft rushes out-of-cycle fix.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Macworld Expo Loses Apple
Existential crisis to ensue?
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Holiday Greetings from RCPU
Warning: It gets a little mushy in here.
by Lee Pender

November 2008
Lee Pender
Microsoft Updates Identity and Security Apps
Identity Lifecycle Manager 2 is out as a release candidate, and Intelligent Application Gateway gets SP2.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Hacked, Cracked and Striking Back
Andrew McLennan finally got tired of being ripped off, so he started a security company.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
New Windows Server Component in CTP
Product connects Active Directory users to services in the cloud.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Eats Itself with ActiveX
...awkward.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Salesforce.com's Benioff Laughs in the Face of Danger
Not foolishly, we hope.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Cisco Sees Tough Times Ahead
Company reports slowest sales growth in three years.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Windows 7 Not Looking Too Bad, Some Say
And by "some," we mean "at least one."
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Wants To Make BizSpark Fly
New program tries to jumpstart startups with no upfront costs.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Developers Wonder About Windows Mobile 7
6.5 is set for 2009, though.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Light Patch Tuesday on Tap
IT gets a break.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Documents Vista SP1 Failures
Printers drew an 11 percent failure rate.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Aussie Hosting Deal Rankles Resellers
SaaS: Australian for "fear."
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
A Product-News Potpourri
What might have slipped past your radar.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Cisco To Power New Yankee Stadium
New ballpark to be "the most wired" of its kind.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Gates Applying for Patents on the Side
Famous Microsofties moonlight as inventors.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
VMware's Virtual World Goes Mobile
Company targets telecom industry with Mobile Virtualization Platform.
by Lee Pender

Scott Bekker
Watson Sends Partners a Letter on the Economy and Azure
Microsoft's channel chief offers tips for partners.
by Scott Bekker

Lee Pender
Ingram, Open-E Announce Distribution Deal
Ingram to be "distributor of choice" for Open-E products.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
IT Spending More or Less OK for 2009, Firm Says
Cuts expected in travel, new hires and training.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Launches Servers for SMBs
But the timing could've been better.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Reader Response: Attack of the Aussies
The Microsoft-Telstra deal isn't exactly feeling the love.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Chin Up, Partners: Microsoft Works To Encourage Channel in Tough Times
Microsoft pep talk manages to sound encouraging and ominous at the same time.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Virtualization News and Views
HP and Microsoft expand their partnership, while CA pushes management.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Office (Still) Under Attack
On two fronts, yet.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
More Dirt from the Vista Capable Case
AKA, the gift that keeps on giving.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Online Services: SaaS-y, Sort Of
Exchange and SharePoint both have cloud counterparts, but the features aren't all there.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
An RCPU Mea Culpa
The "encouraging" Depression-era billboard that wasn't.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
HP Earnings Will Beat the Street
Company is understandably "optimistic."
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Yahoo's Yang Out, Microsoft Back In?
Redmond might renew its buyout efforts, but not any time soon.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Online Store Opens in U.S.
Partners are keeping a close eye on this one.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Releases Dynamics NAV 2009 as Recession Hits
Sure, the timing could be better, but Microsoft isn't worried.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
IBM Boosts Virtualization Portfolio with Purchase
Transitive offerings let apps run on disparate platforms.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Not So Into Yahoo
Ballmer leaves open the possibility of a "narrower" deal, though.
by Lee Pender

Lee Pender
Microsoft Sets Security Applications Free
But security vendors like Symantec are likely to just shrug it off.
by Lee Pender

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