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Productivity Hazards of Windows Updates
Written on Mon, 11/30/09 - 10:22am
Patch Tuesday. Windows updates. Microsoft Office updates. It's a necessary evil, making sure your Windows computers are up to date with the latest vulnerability patches. Patch "whatever day" for Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and others are now simply part of our normal IT process. Next to anti-malware and...
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Oracle's Sun Is Blinding In Microsoft's Eyes
Written on Tue, 04/21/09 - 8:55am
I couldn't just stand back idly by and not comment on the Sun / Oracle deal. The industry always accused Sun of not knowing what it wanted to be when it grows up and now we know, Oracle. Oracle has just gone from sideline participants in the race to build the cloud software layer and cloud generation...
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Fed CIO Vivek Kundra: Google Apps or Office Live?
Written on Tue, 03/10/09 - 3:37am
The nation finally has a CIO, Vivek Kundra, former CTO for the District of Columbia. Most of what I’ve learned of his background has been his work as the D.C. CTO, of which one of his major initiatives was to promote D.C. moving to Google Apps. From this interview on the O’Reilly Radar blog, it...
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Yang Reaches End Of Yahoo's Rope
Written on Tue, 11/18/08 - 2:33am
Microsoft's $33 per share offer for Yahoo! is looking pretty darn good after their close today at $10.63 today. And while Microsoft's stock price has taken a beating right along with everyone else, they've tracked pretty close to the Dow's fall, where the same can't be said for Yahoo....
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EMC Puts Microsoft Exec In VMware CEO Seat
Written on Tue, 07/08/08 - 7:47pm
News from Microsoft WPC, Houston, TX: What happens when your over inflated stock price of $120 per share dips down to 1/3rd its value (and still might be over inflated)?
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Red Hat Takes Hypervisor Control Back From Citrix
Written on Fri, 06/20/08 - 10:12am
Red Hat announced two important moves this week; open sourcing of Red Hat Network Satellite, and its own virtualization hypervisor oVirt. Open sourcing RHN Satellite is fundamentally about showing the industry Red Hat is still the keeper of the open source flame but the real strategic move is the...
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Microsoft Yahoo Deal Gonna Happen
Written on Thu, 02/21/08 - 3:37am
Reports from redOrbit are that Microsoft is under pressure NOT to sweeten the offer for Yahoo, for fears it will hurt Microsoft financial performance through 2011. Large investors who hold both Microsoft and Yahoo shares are most concerned, and there's some evidence this could happen by looking...
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Sun Brilliant For MySQL Purchase
Written on Wed, 01/16/08 - 4:04pm
Sun Microsystems has made with I think is arguably the smartest strategic move in their recent corporate history; purchasing open source vendor MySQL. The price, a whopping $1 billion of which $800 million is in cash and $200 million in stock. If Sun plays it right, MySQL is worth that and a lot more....
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Microsoft FAST Acquisition Suffers From Brain Drain
Written on Wed, 01/09/08 - 2:11am
The big news Tuesday was Microsoft's acquisition of Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), makers of intelligent search technology which already integrates with Microsoft's server technologies. Surprised?
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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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