GLG News by Microsoft Vista OS Experts

1. Vista Service Pack 1 could increase Microsoft Revenues 2. IT organizations may still be reluctant

Motorola is struggling in the handset business, while at the same time Nokia is going from strength to strength.  Motorola’s new CEO, Greg Brown, has very limited time to rescue the handset business.  Motorola needs to be able to make a profit on low-cost cell phones.  Barring that, they...

Google’s Android mobile platform has the potential of revolutionizing the mobile computer market.  It could become a standard platform for tens of millions of devices.  A lot of work remains, however, to translate potential into reality.

1.  Providing services to a customer is the way to grow revenue.  2.  The IT industry continues to consolidate.

Microsoft may never be able to catch up with VMWare’s lead in technology, but if they can produce the “Office” of virtualization they may not have to win the technology war to win the business war.  Providing an all-encompassing suite of virtualization tools at low prices will make a compelling...

So if even a MySpace has bugs that exposes private data of their users to anyone on the web, then what about all the other web sites where we enter our private data? How do we know that the banking web site or the credit card web site doesn't have the same kinds of "bugs"? Consumers are trusting more...

Sun is buying MySQL for almost a billion dollars. This looks like a big gamble. Why are they doing this? Is MySQL worth that much?

Requiring existing customers to completely re-write all existing Oracle applications customizations is a massive barrier to adoption. “Exponential” database growth and reduced performance will be just the icing on the cake, not to mention the inevitable bugs in a totally new software release. ...

The “success” of Vista seems largely tied to the fact it is the default OS on new PCs, particularly for consumers.  Enterprise users have not generally adopted Vista and at this point one must question whether Vista will ever be adopted by enterprises.  Unless Microsoft provides an enterprise-friendly...

New gadgets provide an opportunity for CIOs to show leadership, or not.  While executive toys may seem a trivial distraction to CIOs focused on enterprise-altering projects, they can be critical to the perception of IT within the executive ranks.  Working together with an executive to test...