Practical Technology

In the business textbooks of 2025, Microsoft’s slow collapse will be attributed to many things. The failure of Windows Vista to hold the desktop market; Microsoft’s inability to successfully move from a PC product based company to an Internet service based enterprise; and Ballmer’s inability to pull off the Yahoo buyout.
Now, buying Yahoo wasn’t going [...]

Thanks to the European Union’s courts, Microsoft was forced to open up its APIs and protocols for its MCPP (Microsoft Communications Protocol Program) and WSPP (Workgroup Server Protocol Program). According to Keith Hageman, an MSDN moderator, “The MCPP package content details Windows Clients to Windows Server protocols for all features. The WSPP package content details [...]

Well, it took Microsoft long enough, but Windows XP SP3 has finally been RTMed (released to manufacturing).
Users, however, can’t update yet. According to a Microsoft TechNet forum posting by Chris Keroack, the release manager, for Windows XP Service Pack 3, XP SP3 for XP Pro users will be made available “on April 29th, via [...]

They really are. Are you listening?
First it was Bill Gates , now it’s Steve Ballmer. In the latest example, Todd Bishop of SeattlePI reported from last week’s Microsoft MVP Summit that at the meeting’s keynote address that Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer called Vista “a work in progress.”
Vista? A work in progress? After more than five-years [...]

Last week, while I was at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at the University of Texas Super Computing Center in Austin Texas, I was surprised to find that if I had wanted to cover the week’s most surprising Linux-related news, I should at been at the Gartner Conference in Las Vegas where two Gartner analysts [...]