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Reaction to news of Microsoft CEO’s forthcoming retirement unsurprisingly noisy, contentious. The Internet reacted to the news that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer plans to retire within 12 months as might have been expected – with a flurry of jeers, opprobrium and the occasional heartfelt farewell. “Retirement! Retirement, retirement, retirement!” japed […]
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He has been in hot water over a variety of issues, including Microsoft’s position in the tablet market An accumulation of perceived missteps under Steve Ballmer’s leadership may have hit a tipping point this year, leading to Friday’s groundshaking announcement that Bill Gates’ former right hand and heir, as well […]
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After a 30-year run, once dominant server OS gets 86ed by x86es Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and […]
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Who Are the Real Winners in the Microsoft-Oracle Deal? Microsoft and Oracle announced a wide-ranging partnership deal in late June. At first glance, the logic behind it was fairly baffling. The agreement lets Oracle customers run its software-including Java, Oracle Database and WebLogic Server-on Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, in its Azure […]
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Riverbed executive outlines how the company has put together a parcel of tools focused on improving IT resource performance. In an IT organization you’ll often end up with four silos, each of which has their own tools that do a great job of proving problems are not their fault. This […]
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Cloud computing proving to be a piggy-back industry Google Wednesday rolled out load balancing features to its public cloud service, allowing customers to automatically scale up and down virtual machines to accommodate unexpected spikes in demand. The rollout comes just a few months after Microsoft improved its Azure cloud service […]
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61% of employees will work during vacation — some willingly and some (20%) because they’re asked to by a boss, client or colleague ‘Time off’ means different things to different people. For many employees, it means working during vacation. In a survey of 2,000 American adults, 61% said they plan […]
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While she was looking online to buy a pressure cook her husband was researching backpacks. Armed men knock on their door. Hilarity ensues … So, there you are, at home, trying to decide which pressure cooker to buy while your spouse researches backpacks. A day or so later your doorbell […]
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The applications, which may contain just a link to a website, can be hard to assess using automated analysis A steady stream of questionable applications is flowing daily into Google’s Play store for Android devices, according to security vendor Symantec. Over the last seven months, Symantec found more than 1,200 […]