Tag: Microsoft

  • Robert Scoble: Life After Microsoft

    Robert Scoble: Life After Microsoft

    Edward Cone

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    Robert Scoble has earned a place in the history of corporate communications. Starting at Microsoft Corp. in 2003, he became the first high-profile blogger within a large business, ushering in a new era of interaction among companies, customers, critics and the general public. Using his blog, called Scobleizer, and now-familiar tools such as podcasts, RSS… Read more

  • Microsoft’s Open Move a Good First Step

    Microsoft’s Open Move a Good First Step

    Channel Insider Staff

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  • Study: Microsoft Anti-Phishing Uses Best Bait

    Study: Microsoft Anti-Phishing Uses Best Bait

    Matt Hines

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    Microsoft’s maiden entry into the anti-phishing space outperforms similar technologies offered by more established security applications providers, according to a new report commissioned by the software company and conducted by researchers 3Sharp. Based on a comparative study sponsored by Microsoft that tested anti-phishing applications from eight different software vendors and online specialists, the malicious Web… Read more

  • Microsoft Enlists Intel in Quest to Sanction Open XML Supply Chain Standards

    Microsoft Enlists Intel in Quest to Sanction Open XML Supply Chain Standards

    Chris Preimesberger

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    SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Microsoft announced Sept. 28 that Intel has joined it in an initiative to get its proposed Office Open XML format standard approved by an international standards body. The Office Open XML format standard for documents—a more than 4,000-page, 6.7MB Microsoft Word document—is less of a standard and more of a detailed description of… Read more

  • Is ROI a ‘Bogus’ Indicator of IT Value?

    Is ROI a ‘Bogus’ Indicator of IT Value?

    Peter Galli

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    PHOENIX—The focus on return on investment as an indicator of IT value is actually bogus and is increasingly not being seen as the best way to measure technology decisions, Stephen Walli, a former employee of Microsoft and Optaros, said at the Gartner Open Source Summit here September 28. In an address entitled “Enterprise Open Source:… Read more

  • Ingram Bundles a POS Solution for Resellers

    Ingram Bundles a POS Solution for Resellers

    John Hazard

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    Distributor Ingram Micro introduced on Sept. 27 a bundle of Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft wares packaged as a one-stop retail point-of-sale solution, which is part of the value-add distributors are now bringing to the channel as a base, and not an extra. Resellers may hand their customers preconfigured bundles of HP’s Point of Sale rp5000 all-in-one… Read more