January 2, 2009 8:53 PM PST
EMC is more than a provider of storage solutions. Over the years, EMC has assembled a very large software business with billions of dollars in revenue. If I recall correctly, measured by software revenue, EMC is in the top 10 software company.
Apart from using sourcelabs to improve their self support systems (which would be very welcome by their customers!), no idea what they may want to do with it
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 3:06 PM/EST
By the way, if the rumors and predictions buzzing around the Web are true, Apple has got a crop full of worms ready for delivery. There is global economic crisis, which means it's time for Apple to—using the company's 1990's grammatically incorrect marketing phrase—"Think Different."
Whoops, it's mixed metaphor time. If
stays the course, the storm will buffet and quite possibly
the ship. The Read the rest of this entry »

for an undisclosed fee. The unanswered question in
's report is why EMC would buy SourceLabs, a provider of support tools for Linux and other open-source software.
It's not that SourceLabs isn't a good company. I have followed SourceLabs since its inception, meeting with founder and CEO Byron Sebastian back at OSCON (in 2003) before the company was founded in 2004, and spent some time in the SourceLabs office in 2004 getting a demo of its technology. Read the rest of this entry »

Rather than make predictions about what Microsoft might do next year, we take the bolder approach of giving unsolicited advice, whether or not it's wanted. The list of recommendations is in order of importance, from least to most, from 10 to 1. For those people wanting even more, there is a
To get Windows Vista Enterprise, businesses must subscribe to Software Assurance. But there are increasing indications that the requirement deters enterprises Read the rest of this entry »

I recently carried out a personal quest for a netbook computer.
Relying on a bit of insider snobbery since I write about computer
technology almost daily, I was not expecting a big problem in making a
selection.
It's not that I really needed another computer. My home office is well
stocked with two desktops running Windows
. My
Pavilion laptop with
Windows XP and its very large wide-screen display serves me well as a
desktop replacement Read the rest of this entry »

Here's a preview of what to watch for from Microsoft at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. Look here for full coverage starting at 6:30 pm Wednesday, when I will post on the news set to be announced during Ballmer's keynote.
At a dinner in Santa Clara, Calif., in early September, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer boasted of Windows Mobile's standing in the smart phone market: Over the past year, he said, smart phones with Windows Read the rest of this entry »

Here's a preview of what to watch for from Microsoft at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. Look here for full coverage starting at 6:30 pm Wednesday, when I will post on the news set to be announced during Ballmer's keynote.
At a dinner in Santa Clara, Calif., in early September, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer boasted of Windows Mobile's standing in the smart phone market: Over the past year, he said, smart phones with Windows Read the rest of this entry »

Channel Insider readers had a lot to say about our opinion column "Ode to Broken Windows (Vista)." Check out their comments on the pros and cons of the beleaguered operating system.
In the two years since Windows became generally available, Windows Vista has been a target of critics and users alike. Microsoft has repeatedly tried bolstering its beleaguered operating system, it has failed to captured the glory of previous releases.
Channel Insider Read the rest of this entry »

I don't know what you are talking about.
That's all I ever need. Sometimes I put a 'f' in there.
You moan about all these 1000 different ways. What you seem to forget is that every single user only needs his very one single way for his distro.
Talking about 1000 different ways, that's exactly the problem of Windows software installation and upgrading. Every piece of software you find somewhere else, you have to run through a semi-conherent installer Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft is losing ground in wireless phones to Apple and Google. To keep up, it needs touch displays, mobile cloud computing, and its own app store
In September, Microsoft Chief Executive
spent a week traipsing across Europe and parts of the U.S. schmoozing 17 of the world's largest handset makers and wireless carriers. It was Ballmer's longest trip ever aimed at drumming up support for Windows Mobile, the company's software for cell phones. Read the rest of this entry »