IT in 2006: Google, Linux, Digg, Web-based Apps
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| While their size and market share will bail them out, in terms of
| getting work done, Microsoft has been the single biggest stumbling
| block. Note that I'm not talking about the Mac Business Unit and any
| delays in Office 12 for Mac OS X. That's not even close to an issue
| for 2006.
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| I'm talking about how my Microsoft servers still require far too
| much personal attention, and a permanent (for the foreseeable
| future), rotating weekend server reboot day, just to deal with
| patch applications. Also, I'm not fond of the continual,
| meaningless "interop" announcements with Sun and now Novell that
| always work out to mean "They'll do all the work so we can claim
| interoperability." That's not a partnership by any definition
| I'd use.
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| The last straw for me this year was finding out that we can't
| upgrade to Exchange 2007 anytime soon because Microsoft made the
| very odd decision to not support Public Folder access in Outlook
| Web Access. So instead of upgrading to current server software,
| we're upgrading to what will soon be a 4-year old groupware
| server. I'll close out this by saying that no one is happy that
| there are six different versions of Vista.
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