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Don’t Hate Us Because We are a Microsoft Partner

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

It feels like 20 years ago all over again when I used to read about Microsoft antitrust hearings in the newspaper. The recent news is that Microsoft is the most despised software company. This is according to research from Amplicate, a company that tracks what people say online. We were skeptical so we Binged the company and it seems legit. Then to be fair I used Google and got similar results. ;)

Amplicate gives Microsoft a “70 percent hate score,” meaning that the large majority of people that have posted on its Web site have bad things to say about the cost and stability of Microsoft Software and tools. Microsoft also received more comments (good and bad) than any other software vendor on Amplicate’s list.
We have an explanation: First, Microsoft is not perfect and does not produce the perfectly bug free products. We fight its software all too often being a Microsoft Gold Partner ourselves. Microsoft is both a target for hackers (because it is so ubiquitous) and a punching bag for millions of customers that depend on Windows, Office, etc.

By the way, Oracle claimed a 78 percent level of hate. Ouch Larry, you aren’t any better.

 

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Google Kills Gmail App for BlackBerry in attempt to crush mobile phone competition. Let Mobile War begin!

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Google in a brief blog post on Tuesday said that it is pulling support for the native Gmail app for the BlackBerry effective Nov. 22, a move not likely to be popular among users of that Blackberry smartphone. Does that mean Google is walking away from providing connectivity to BlackBerry for enterprises users.

Google said the users can still run the existing app but it will no longer be supported. Google also said BlackBerry users can still access their Gmail through the mobile Web app via the device’s Web browser.

Even with a declining share of the overall smartphone market, the BlackBerry still has a sizeable chunk of business users that plan on sticking with the device. For users of Google Apps for Business, the company continues to offer support for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, through a connector that provides synchronization. It would behoove Google to continue support for that connector if it wants to see more enterprise wins.

Adobe Flash with it’s falling userbase and Mobile OEM support may be canned

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Steve Jobs and Apple rejected Flash for the iPad and iPhone, preferring open source HTML5 instead. In this case, Apple has made Flash disappear, well sort of. At least made HTML5 adoption quicker and made Adobe this week finally reveal that it is effectively killing Flash for mobile devices, moving instead to contributing to the open source HTML5. Recent purchase PhoneGap also supports their intension. Flash had become clunky for mobile developers, anyway, so it wasn’t just Apple that saw mobile Flash off to an early grave other OEM did the same. Microsoft anyone?

Will Facebook Reshape the Datacenter Through Open Compute Project (OCP)?

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Open Compute Project (OCP) was formed by Facebook in April 2011 as an effort to shape the hardware design for its datacenter in Prineville, Oregon. The social networking giant said its datacenter improved efficiency by 38 percent and lowered costs by 24 percent. Facebook also said it achieved a power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio of 1.07, compared with 1.5 for its other datacenters. Kudos Facebook!