Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’
Everybody is still talking about the Cloud, Cloud this, Cloud that…Cloud everything. The trouble is only the vendors, or Cloud sellers, seem to be making full use of the Cloud. In the recent film ‘Creed’ legendary fictional boxer , Rocky Balboa, seemed about as confused by the Cloud as many of our customers once were,…
Read more...Software License Audits are a nightmare, any of you reading this and who have had the misfortune of going through one will agree. Once the vendors get a sniff that you might have software compliance issues they will swarm in and look for whatever money they can extract from you (oh and do rest assured…
Read more...Spoilers, suddenly everybody seems awfully worried about spoilers. I open up twitter and I am besieged by “don’t spoil Endgame” tweets…I turn on the TV this morning and am greeted by a lengthy warning that precedes a ‘spoiler free’ discussion of Game of Thrones. The lesson was that whatever you do at the moment just…
Read more...The message behind Microsoft’s recent price rises would appear to be telling customers (for the umpteenth time) that the answer to lower costs can be found in the cloud. Apparently, the cloud is the answer to financial freedom from the burden of ever extortionate software licensing but, is that actually true? Who does the cloud…
Read more...This week the world lost a true original, a Trail Blazer, a philanthropist, a pop culture connoisseur and a person who played a pivotal role in the software that has become a part of our everyday lives. Paul Allen 1953 – 2018.
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