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How To Run Windows 7 Virtualized on Mac OS X
Written on Tue, 12/08/09 - 2:12pm
Windows 7 is my primary desktop but lately the amount of iPhone work I've been doing has prompted me to swap hardware so I could have my Mac Xcode development environment with me when I'm mobile. Thus, came the need to figure out: 1) what would it take to set up a MacBook Pro with Windows as a virtualized...
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Microsoft Is Perfect Example Why Executive Pay Is Broken
Written on Fri, 11/06/09 - 8:34am
Text message this morning from CNN: Unemployment hit 10.2% in October. Microsoft announced earlier this week another 800 employee layoffs to the 5,000 previously announced employee layoffs. If you look at Microsoft's financials you see why, a 14% revenue and 18% net income drop for the last reported...
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Microsoft... Coming to a New Store Near You
Written on Tue, 07/28/09 - 3:36am
Apple and Radio Shack are probably the two most successful electronics brands to have retail stores dedicated to selling their own products direct to the customer. Radio Shack of course is a much different business model, more of a commercialization of the hobby electronics store, where as Apple stores...
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Is Free SharePoint In Your Future? Surprise! It's Already Here
Written on Tue, 06/02/09 - 3:35pm
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Citrix Takes Microsoft Apps Mobile With New iPhone App
Written on Thu, 05/14/09 - 3:35am
You knew it was going to happen sooner or later. Citrix is taking Microsoft apps mobile but it’s not just on Windows Mobile, it’s Microsoft Windows apps on the iPhone too. Citrix launched the Citrix Receiver iPhone app, available now free for download from the iPhone App Store. I had a chance to...
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Google Task Lists -- The economy must be bad
Written on Wed, 12/10/08 - 3:02am
Things are getting bad when Google's adding a Task List feature to Gmail is big news. My in-box is littered with Google Alerts about blogs and articles discussing Google's new task functionality. Is it the economy? Do we need a change of subject from all the layoff news? What is it? Maybe it's...
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iPhone 3G Plays Catch Up
Written on Tue, 06/10/08 - 1:59am
It was the big Apple iPhone 3G/2.0 announcement on Monday, with everyone hanging by their bare fingernails waiting for Steve Jobs to proclaim the next iPhone goodies from Apple. Rumors ranged from colored iPhone models to video chat. The biggest news was a price reduction, offering the current iPhone...
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Apple Amazingly Silent About SaaS
Written on Tue, 05/06/08 - 2:35am
Apple is AWOL from the world of software-as-a-service, on demand software, cloud computing and storage, and virtualization. So just what are Apple's plans to thrive, or maybe just survive, in the quickly emerging ecosystems of SaaS and utility services? Does Apple have a plan, or are iPods and...
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Xobni Rumored As Next Microsoft Acquisition
Written on Mon, 04/21/08 - 1:12am
TechCrunch is reporting that Outlook email plug-in company Xobni and Microsoft have a letter of intent to acquire Xobni. That would make sense why Xobni hasn't exited beta status, offering a release version of the plug-in. If you aren't familiar with Xobni, I blogged about Xobni when I first...
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This Spreadsheet Brought To You By Crest
Written on Mon, 04/21/08 - 12:59am
The Washington Post / PC World has an article about subscription based Microsoft Office offering by the end of 2008. What? No more $199, $299 or $399 to get the latest bundle of Office applications? That could be what we are looking at, but rather than software license fees, the software would be...
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Live Mesh and Windows 7 Revealed
Written on Thu, 04/17/08 - 3:53am
The steady drumbeat about Live Mesh (what I called Microsoft Mesh until Microsoft named its mesh strategy) and Windows 7 are rapidly becoming the topics to speculate about in the online media. I've seen a big up tick in blog posts and articles about Live Mesh in the last week after it was revealed...
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XLS/DOC/PPT Get Open Spec Promise
Written on Tue, 02/19/08 - 2:30am
Microsoft placed the Office binary document formats under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise . OPS is basically Microsoft's own pledge that they will abide by the terms to keep any of their assigned technology open per their OSP. The OPS allows you to use and develop technology using the...
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Progress Update: Vista Updates Crater Word
Written on Thu, 01/10/08 - 2:57am
As you know from my last post , Microsoft Word suffered collateral damage from Tuesday's Microsoft patch updates. It took me the better part of the morning but I was functional again by noon, after uninstalling Microsoft Office, backing out the Vista operating system updates and security fixes,...
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Vista Update Craters Microsoft Word
Written on Wed, 01/09/08 - 2:31pm
I came downstairs this morning to find my Vista computer applying fixes and then rebooting. Yesterday six new updates were installed automatically by Windows Update. Since that update, Microsoft Word no longer functions properly. Clicking a .doc document results in Word starting but not opening the...
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Speak Out: What's Your Motivation for Moving to Google Apps
Written on Tue, 01/08/08 - 1:45am
This is your chance to speak out -- Why are you replacing, or are you planning to replace, Microsoft Office with Google Apps?
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How Come Google spell checks better than Microsoft Office?
Written on Thu, 12/20/07 - 12:54am
Spelling (and editing) have never been my strengths. I'm smart enough to be a good speller but my mind races well past the speed at which I'm able to type and get thoughts down. So I rely very heavily on spell checkers in email and word processing software, and just go back and edit the words...
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Cutting The Microsoft Apron Strings
Written on Thu, 12/13/07 - 2:32am
Several co-workers of mine over the past year have taken the plunge and become Mac Book Pro users. Most are heavy Linux users who begrudgingly used Microsoft technologies because they wanted to fully integrated into Outlook and Office applications with others in the company. (See the bit of a hornets...
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About Converging on Microsoft
Mitchell Ashley has a diverse background in software development, network engineering, information security, mobility, collaborative technologies, and IT management and operations. An early adopter of social media in business, he began blogging about security and information technologies in 2006 at theconvergingnetwork.com. Mitchell is VP of Information Technology at CableLabs in Louisville, CO, and previously held positions as CIO, CTO and VP Engineering at prior companies.
 

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