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List of Microsoft virtualization experts to follow
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009At the previous VMWorld conference, Microsoft organized a prize game, even for those who are not attending the conference. All those who wanted to participate only needed to follow any of their virtualization experts on Twitter, and every day Microsoft randomly chose lucky winner of ZuneHD. I am very pleasantly surprised to see Microsoft employees [...]
Official announcement of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Microsoft has published video showing the most important moments of announcing Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM at MGX conference in Atlanta. I am very surprised by the size of the audience at MGX and their reaction after Steven Sinofsky announced news that we have been waiting for so long. As Marin noticed, [...]
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Microsoft has RTM’d Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Customers will get their copies on these dates: Technet subscribers: August 6 in English, October 1 remaining languages MSDN subscribes: August 6 in English, October 1 remaining languages Software Assurance (SA) customers: August 7, remaining languages a couple of weeks later Microsoft Partner Network (MPN): August [...]
Apple sales are going down
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009By the records of the company NPD, number of sales of Apple computers dropped in February 2009 by 16% comparing to February 2008. In the same time, number of sold Windows computers increased by 36%. Is it because customers are not “buying” Apple’s story about “so cool” OS, or is it because customers do not [...]
IT, Microsoft and global recession
Sunday, February 1st, 2009As you probably already know, few days ago Microsoft announced it will make the first mass layoffs in its 34-year history, cutting 5000 jobs. Reason? Company didn’t earned as much money as they predicted/wanted, and they think it is time to cut down number of employees and expenses. Actually, they gonna fire 5000 employees in [...]





