Micrsosoft announced the aquistion of Bhold to enhance the FIM family of products. http://www.microsoft.com/pathways/bhold/ http://blogs.gartner.com/ian-glazer/2011/09/23/bhold-wins-the-microsoft-iag-lottery/
Some of you may not have heard that Symantec’s bv-Admin was officially end-of-lifed and is no longer supported as of early in 2011. Originally a Windows NT management tool, later it was retrofitted to manage AD. While bv-Admin had several ground breaking features for its time, the acquisition of Bindview, development challenges and competitive pressures appear [...]
Shane Schick of Computer World spoke with Raj Mallempti of VMWare and was told that VMWare expects Windows 7 to bring a windfall of new support to VDI inititives. His reasoning is that XP is nearing end of life, most companies have not deployed Vista and are now faced with potentially expensive hardware upgrades to [...]
Microsoft is appealing to a higher court hoping to overule the Judge who on Tuesday (Aug 12th) found the giant had “unlawfully infringed” on a patent and ruled that sales of Microsoft Word should stop and Microsoft should pay a $240M fine to the Toronto based patent holder. http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219200383
ActiveDir.org was started by Tony Murray in January 2001 and is now run by Tony together with Matty Holland (who is responsible for the development of the website). I have had the excellent fortune to work with Tony on several ocasions and it was easy to see why he was able to create such a [...]
Apple released a version 4.0 beta of the Safari browser. One difference to Microsoft’s browser is that it appears to be blazing fast… “Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3″ http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49301219,00.htm
The Surface device announced by Microsoft is based on infered sensors built into a impact resistant plactic surface. When objects such as a digital device or your finger is placed on the surface a special version of Microsoft Vista recognizes the object via. the scanners and interacts with the device. i.e. place a digital camera [...]
Wow, I didn’t expect this. BMC once considered a strategic partner in Microsoft’s Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) vision/product has dropped their support for Microsoft citing “overlap” between their products. What amazes me is that Netpro has virtually nothing to do with Identity Managment yet they are mentioned as having a solution – apparently they were [...]
