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Terrapin Networks - Moving IT Forward Archives: February 2008

29 February 2008

Vista News: Microsoft knew about the problems and confusion…

Microsoft is being sued for all the “Vista Capable” PCs out there that don’t really run Vista, certainly not like they are supposed to.
Lance Ulanoff of PC Magazine has a nice piece on this, along with a link where you can read for yourself all the lame emails between Microsoft executives.
These guys are really lame [...]

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13 February 2008

The BlackBerry Meltdown Monday Was…an Upgrade!

For anyone who has ever heard “that’s not a bug, that’s a feature!” when a piece of software burps, here is what can happen with a not-well-planned upgrade. BlackBerry going dark Monday was entirely self-inflicted.
See the story here and here.
Analysts are saying this could start to have along term effect (you think?). Here and Here
I [...]

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13 February 2008

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft’s Bid

Sometimes even $44B isn’t enough…
Yahoo is rejecting Microsoft’s bid (at least for now). Yahoo also says they might be going after something else, such as AOL (who would want to buy AOL?). Anyhow, read it here.
And the pink slips follow.
The saga continues…

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2 February 2008

New BlackBerry Software Upgrades Look Great

Lots of upgrades due for most any flavor of BlackBerry. By the look of things, us “crackberry” types will love then all.
My favorites of the upcoming upgrades: HTML emails and MS Office editing with DocumentsToGo.
PC Magazine has a breakdown of what flavor of BlackBerry gets what upgrade here

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2 February 2008

Rumor Turns to Reality: Microsoft to buy Yahoo

Or at least, their going to have a real go at it.
The latest in the “Microsoft Hates Google and Will Battle Them to the Death” soap opera has Microsoft buying Yahoo and merging the two companies to better battle the advertising $$ that Google hogs.
This will continue to be a developing story, and we’ll try [...]

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