When I first used Vista I was, well, beyond frustrated. Not being a technical person myself the only person more frustrated then me was my IT guy. “Steve, it’s doing the thing again!” “Steve I lost the file I was just working on!” “Steve why can’t I find anything?” You get the idea. The big question: Will VARs give Microsoft and Windows 7 a fresh look on August 16? Here’s the scoop.
Time for The VAR Guy to eat a little more crow. He vastly underestimated Microsoft’s ability to ship Windows 7 in 2009. Numerous reports now state that the first Windows 7 release candidate will reach selected testers in the next few weeks.
Microsoft appears to be doing a lot of things right with Windows 7 — the forthcoming successor to Windows Vista. But The VAR Guy is still scratching his head of Microsoft’s decision to offer six versions of Windows 7.
Initially, The VAR Guy was upbeat about Google Android. But the more he hears about the mobile open source environment, the more he worries that Google is starting to resemble Microsoft. Here’s why.
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