opinions and other important stuff
Somebody pointed out http://gs.statcounter.com to me today. Maybe it is all old news to you, but this website shows the relative market share of :
All this with the possibility to look at specific regions and/or specific time intervals.
Pretty interesting stuff.
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Peter de Haas from Microsoft has recently published a presentation on SlideShare.com that shows all resources related to Microsoft Online Services. Now they just have to make it profitable (see the businessinsider.com article).
(source: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai)
Microsoft executives have confirmed that the project around the development of a touch and/or stylus based 2-screen tablet “Courier” has been stopped.
Microsoft Corporate VP of communications, Mr. Frank Shaw:
“At any given time, we’re looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It’s in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user interfaces to foster productivity and creativity. The Courier project is an example of this type of effort. It will be evaluated for use in future offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time.”
I feel disappointed. Courier bundled a lot of new and innovative ideas and the available information on the device showed great potential for a mobile workforce.
I blogged several times about it and promised myself to be an early adopter as soon as the device would be launched.
Maybe something secret is still lurking within Microsoft, but an iPad (without the current shortcomings) looks to be the most innovative device at the moment and worth a second look (maybe….).
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News:
A couple of days ago, Microsoft announced a new beta for their Linux integration services. This new version 1.2 includes:
This is good news for system integrators that want to run both Windows virtual machines and Linux virtual machines side-by-side on a ‘cloud’ platform. Hopefully all of these new capabilities will find their way into the new distributions soon.
The beta can be obtained from connect.microsoft.com. and is valid for Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 / 5.3 / 5.4.
About two years ago I started working on building a relationship with Microsoft and their BPOS offering. Last week we have been informed on the roadmap for the next 2 years. Because it is now published on the Mary-Jo Foley weblog, I can share it also with you.
Note that BPOS is available in a ‘dedicated’ and ‘standard’ way of delivery. In ‘dedicated’ the customer gets its own set of hardware in the Microsoft datacenter. In ‘standard’, the service is run from a shared hardware platform in a Microsoft datacenter. Both versions are available through a reseller or directly from Microsoft, however Microsoft will not integrated BPOS with your existing application platform. This is the responsibility of your own IT department or system integrator. Selected SI’s will be able to provide BPOS in a reseller construction, allowing for the SI to deliver and invoice BPOS through a single vendor construction.