opinions and other important stuff
NEWS:
I added the availability RSS feeds of Microsoft online services (BPOS standard) and Google Apps Dashboard to the blog. You can see the feeds in the right-hand column.
The web page for the Google Apps Dashboard can be found here. I did not find a similar page for Microsoft Online Services, but if you know it, put it in the comments please.
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Learn:
Using PowerShell with Microsoft Online Services
Date: January 28, 2010
Event Start Time: 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (UTC – 8 hours)
Duration: 1 hour
Quote:
“Join Jenna Lyday on Thursday, 1/28/2010 for the third webinar in our migration series. In this webinar, Jenna will demonstrate how to use PowerShell commands to:
- Provision and Activate users
- Perform a simple migration from Hosted Exchange to Exchange Online
- Grant a user Full Mailbox Access permissions on another user’s mailbox”
News:
Yesterday Long Zheng posted a news item on the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 2010).
Apparently he is invited by Microsoft Australia to visit this conference:
“During Microsoft’s PDC09 developer event in November last year, it was revealed (to the disappointment of many) that Windows Mobile 7 would only be discussed half-a-year-later at Microsoft MIX10 in March.
However as of today it’s pretty much certain we’ll get to see this make-or-break mobile OS first, a month-ahead of MIX10, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona during February 15-18.”
Opinion:
It is clear to everybody that Microsoft is losing ground very rapidly in the mobile space to Apple, Nokia and Google – Windows Mobile 6.5 is nowhere near the appeal that the competition is bringing to the table – something must be done. One could argue that Microsoft is too late to make up for the lost market share – but it would not be the first time that the company is able to show they have the capability to create/conquer a market that seems to be lost to them.
see the full story here….
(not so) Funny:
In China you can buy a ‘signature’ version of Windows 7 on a USB Stick. The signature is that of Steve Ballmer. WinFuture.de has the story. [More…]
News:
Azure goes live on January 2010.
LOS ANGELES — Nov. 17, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of the Windows Azure platform at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). In his opening keynote address, Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, described Windows Azure and SQL Azure as core elements of the company’s cloud services strategy. The company also announced a set of new Windows Azure features, Windows Server capabilities, and marketplace offerings that will make it easier for developers to build profitable businesses from their Microsoft-based solutions. [more…]
(Picture taken from Long Zeng Flickr Photos)
(Picture taken from Long Zeng Flickr Photos)
Opinion:
At last Azure is now announced to be live (no pun intended) in January 2010. There are a couple of things noteworthy:
Azure is providing the internet with some very powerful stuff, but enterprise class processing and database scalability, security and data compliancy will remain risky areas that any customer or partner needs to be aware of.
BTW before you start up your calculator: running a ‘X Large’ – server 24/7 for a year will cost you $ 8,409.60. January seems to be free of charge.