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Bhold what Microsoft bought

Bob — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:04:57 +0000

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/

bv-Admin EOL – RIP

Bob — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:07:54 +0000

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 to have taken their toll. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH131120

Microsoft helping VMWare!

Bob — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:52:55 +0000

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 move to Windows 7. Aparently the thought of an expense in this ecomy is causing people to more closly consider VDI as an alterantive to a hardware refresh. Check out Shane’s article here.

Microsoft Word to be banned in 60 days?

Bob — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:23:42 +0000

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

Got AD questions, ActiveDir.org has the answers

Bob — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:40:40 +0000

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 sucess with ActiveDir.org. The original intention behind the site was to provide an open platform (using a mailing list server) for discussion about Microsoft’s Active Directory and Group Policy. Today, the primary focus of the site remains the discussion forum, which has grown to a membership of around 2000 and includes a number of Microsoft employees as well as MVPs. The mailing list is very active and generates an average of around 25 posts per day. It is rare for a question to go unanswered. The site also provides subscribers with the ability to generate their own community content through Wiki-style functionality. Kevin Sullivan a friend and former Aelita associate once pointed out to me that a community cannot be made; only the infrastructure can be created and later the members make the community. ActiveDir.org

Safari 4 gets a SPEEDY makeover

Bob — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:36:01 +0000

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

Surface Device from Microsoft

Bob — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:47:00 +0000

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 on the table and it automatically displays the pictures on the table’s surface. The only draw back I can see is that having a display built into a table is pretty diffcult to work with.

BMC Drops Microsoft ILM Pitch

Bob — Wed, 30 May 2007 05:35:00 +0000

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 part of the Microsoft memo. (Full disclosure: I am employeed by Quest software a competitor to NetPro).

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/052407-bmc-identity-management-microsoft.html