Mid-sized and larger corporations have their own Exchange servers, so why would they lease Outlook as a service?
Small companies might go for this just to rid themselves of having to run their own Exchange.
I still think home users would be susceptible to this if MS includes Outlook with the OS and does some kind of creative micropayment embedded in Windows. Who knows...should be interesting to watch.
And that plan is to move the average Joe who uses Outlook at home to a subscription plan as the *only* way to use Outlook.
Ballmer and co. have stated many a time that software-as-a-service is their ultimate objective. Tiny steps in that direction eventually will get them there.
Hopefully, everyone will be using Mac minis by then and Outlook will be a thing of the past. And I can drive my flying car to Venus for the weekend! w00t!
My guess is that the hero of the story will be DRM of some kind and that the evil entities will be hacker/cracker programs trying to steal away the DRM's friendly, fur-covered friends (i.e., Disney content) and sell them on the sex slave black market.
Or maybe it will just have fancy lightcycles again.
Not only does it present now a *third* truly viable competitor for phones and mobile devices, it has significant momentum on a global scale.
I really believe PalmSource can pull this off. If they do, they'll have really one-upped both Symbian and Microsoft. Done right, they could be the largest phone OS producer within 5 years. Done wrong...well, they won't be around that long.
No, but it probably means that it's the BEST AVAILABLE information we have at the time.
Sometimes a dissenting voice speaks more factually, but that is often not the case when information flows freely in an environment where discourse is open and valued. It's only when we hinder discussion that we get ourselves in trouble -- did we not learn that back in the days of Newton and Copernicus?
Journalists have to start understanding the difference between making their reporting "unbiased" and simply trying to include as many different opinions as possible. The latter does not beget the former.
Truth is often indeed subjective, but the mere existence of a differing opinion doesn't automatically make that opinion valuable or credible.
Shoutcast is one of the THE best streaming utilities out there. I, for one, would be quite unhappy to see it fester and rot due to neglect.
Any good alternatives to Shoutcast for Windoze-powered servers (that isn't a Windows Media service)?
I doubt it will be more meaningful than photos
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The reason text blogging became so big is that it's easily searched and, thus, easily found via search engines.
Photos are becoming better catalogued, but anyone who has used Google's image search will tell you, we're still a long way off from something akin to "good."
Video will pose even bigger problems for search engines, meaning that most video clips that are posted will be ignored. Only those with something really valuable (political scandal, hot chicks, etc.) *AND* easily found will see any significant distribution and/or audience.
Rotating something a fixed speed is pretty efficient. Shaking something, where you're constantly changing its velocity, isn't so much. What'll this do to power consumption?
Can't we just get someone to finish dev on those little plastic cards they used on Star Trek? Those things held shitobits of data...holograms too!
Doesn't work with encrypted QAM feeds? What's the point, then, since most anything worth watching is either (A) on unencrypted, non-digital (NTSC?) cable or (B) encrypted QAM.
HD feeds are all encrypted, so what we really need is a CableCard adapter for our HTPCs. That would rock. It would rock so much that I don't expect one to come out for at least a couple of years (at least not if the cable co's and MPAA can help it). feh.
This whole "digital content" mess is headed for a meltdown, mark my words. And unfortunately, I don't think we (consumers) are going to come out winners. Media owners have more dollars than we have votes, as sad as that is.
"long-term solution" hee hee ha ha *snort* [coke comes out nose] riiiight.
Rightly or not, that Homeland Defense notice got some peeps in senior management a little spooked and asked our IT department to start making Firefox the default browser on all new systems they set up for employees.
As a long-time Mozilla and Firefox user, I couldn't be happier. Whether it's the right reason or not, I couldn't care -- at least there's a hint at the IE domination trend slowing down a bit, and that is good for consumers.
Unlike WMC, which *is* basically just a box and software, TiVo has a whole community and culture behind it.
As an example, "News You Can Use From TiVo" is the only company newsletter I actually read. It's funny, fun, and has some cool statistics in it once in a while.
When WMC starts developing a community, or when TiVo runs out of funding, that's when WMC will get on my radar (my guess is that it'll be the latter:-\.
Yeah, but amazingly enough prices have a way of coming down.
Ah, but this applies to both flash and tiny hard drives, and hard drive capacities seem to go up, and prices seem to go down, much faster than does flash.
Lawsuits against Cornice notwithstanding, my bet is that hard drives will prevail. I'd really, really LOVE to think that someday an option for notebook will be to have them entirely flash-based (see previous/. story for quippy comments), but I think those days are unlikely to happen for a variety of reasons.
LOL...have you checked the prices of 1 GB SD cards lately? They're almost as much as the iPod by themselves!
A lot of the iPod's price is brand inflation. A 1.5 GB HD-based player can be had for under $125. Regarding sharing your media cards in your camera and your MP3 player, why is that a good thing? Does your camera record MP3s? Chances are that you're going to find yourself never sharing the same media that much because when you need it for photos, it's filled with music, and vice versa.
Nah, I don't buy it. As the volume of, say, 4 GB hard drives increases, its price drops dramatically. If most people were given a choice between an $80 512MB flash-based player and an $80 4GB HDD-based player, they'd choose the latter. And no, my iPod Mini has never skipped on me...ever, yet my flash-based MP3 player hiccups on even the slightest imperfection in the MP3 file. All in all, the flash-unit stays in the drawer a lot more often these days (and I don't even have the iPod filled up).
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Whether or not MS is really concerned with FF is debatable. My personal hope is that they're ignoring it, but I doubt that's the case.
It's just a testimony to the power of open development and a reminder that we're all better off when there are at least two horses in every race.
I do not need every baddie to be imbued with Big Blue-like intelligence, because then games would be just like reality and, well, that's far too hard.
Small companies might go for this just to rid themselves of having to run their own Exchange.
I still think home users would be susceptible to this if MS includes Outlook with the OS and does some kind of creative micropayment embedded in Windows. Who knows...should be interesting to watch.
Ballmer and co. have stated many a time that software-as-a-service is their ultimate objective. Tiny steps in that direction eventually will get them there.
Hopefully, everyone will be using Mac minis by then and Outlook will be a thing of the past. And I can drive my flying car to Venus for the weekend! w00t!
We use the "wireless" all the time here -- that Jack Benny is a hoot!
Or maybe it will just have fancy lightcycles again.
...everybody knows that comets have chewy caramel centers.
Looks like Virgin Galactic Moving & Storage is a great investment opportunity!
I really believe PalmSource can pull this off. If they do, they'll have really one-upped both Symbian and Microsoft. Done right, they could be the largest phone OS producer within 5 years. Done wrong...well, they won't be around that long.
...I was kidding.
Wasn't that supposed to be part of HTML 2.0? When's that coming out again?
Sometimes a dissenting voice speaks more factually, but that is often not the case when information flows freely in an environment where discourse is open and valued. It's only when we hinder discussion that we get ourselves in trouble -- did we not learn that back in the days of Newton and Copernicus?
Truth is often indeed subjective, but the mere existence of a differing opinion doesn't automatically make that opinion valuable or credible.
Any good alternatives to Shoutcast for Windoze-powered servers (that isn't a Windows Media service)?
Photos are becoming better catalogued, but anyone who has used Google's image search will tell you, we're still a long way off from something akin to "good."
Video will pose even bigger problems for search engines, meaning that most video clips that are posted will be ignored. Only those with something really valuable (political scandal, hot chicks, etc.) *AND* easily found will see any significant distribution and/or audience.
Just my prediction...prolly wrong.
Oh, wait, did you mean without taking your clothes off? Never mind.
Can't we just get someone to finish dev on those little plastic cards they used on Star Trek? Those things held shitobits of data...holograms too!
Kick-ass post...made me laugh even though it's so saddeningly true. :-) :-(
I think we're in 100% agreement.
HD feeds are all encrypted, so what we really need is a CableCard adapter for our HTPCs. That would rock. It would rock so much that I don't expect one to come out for at least a couple of years (at least not if the cable co's and MPAA can help it). feh.
This whole "digital content" mess is headed for a meltdown, mark my words. And unfortunately, I don't think we (consumers) are going to come out winners. Media owners have more dollars than we have votes, as sad as that is.
Rightly or not, that Homeland Defense notice got some peeps in senior management a little spooked and asked our IT department to start making Firefox the default browser on all new systems they set up for employees.
As a long-time Mozilla and Firefox user, I couldn't be happier. Whether it's the right reason or not, I couldn't care -- at least there's a hint at the IE domination trend slowing down a bit, and that is good for consumers.
As an example, "News You Can Use From TiVo" is the only company newsletter I actually read. It's funny, fun, and has some cool statistics in it once in a while.
When WMC starts developing a community, or when TiVo runs out of funding, that's when WMC will get on my radar (my guess is that it'll be the latter :-\.
Ah, but this applies to both flash and tiny hard drives, and hard drive capacities seem to go up, and prices seem to go down, much faster than does flash.
Lawsuits against Cornice notwithstanding, my bet is that hard drives will prevail. I'd really, really LOVE to think that someday an option for notebook will be to have them entirely flash-based (see previous /. story for quippy comments), but I think those days are unlikely to happen for a variety of reasons.
A lot of the iPod's price is brand inflation. A 1.5 GB HD-based player can be had for under $125. Regarding sharing your media cards in your camera and your MP3 player, why is that a good thing? Does your camera record MP3s? Chances are that you're going to find yourself never sharing the same media that much because when you need it for photos, it's filled with music, and vice versa.
Nah, I don't buy it. As the volume of, say, 4 GB hard drives increases, its price drops dramatically. If most people were given a choice between an $80 512MB flash-based player and an $80 4GB HDD-based player, they'd choose the latter. And no, my iPod Mini has never skipped on me...ever, yet my flash-based MP3 player hiccups on even the slightest imperfection in the MP3 file. All in all, the flash-unit stays in the drawer a lot more often these days (and I don't even have the iPod filled up).