Cisco benefits as Microsoft keeps moving the goalposts
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| Forced between choosing between unified comms vendors, many users
| are reluctantly opting to use an alternative to Microsoft. Others,
| it seems, are a lot less disappointed.
|
| [...]
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| The Microsoft partner confessed that Cisco is the preferred option. "Cisco
| has a better track record of consistency on upgrades. Whereas Microsoft?s
| new products can be a completely different kettle of fish from the last,"
| he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38259
Unable to sustain profitability in proprietary software, Microsoft explores
hardware, games, and music players. More people 'join the social' and
reluctantly become part of the experiment.
Related:
Microsoft using early Vista users as guinea pigs?
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| Interesting to read in the International Herald Tribune this week
| about Microsoft hitting a 'crisis of confidence' with its new Vista
| operating system.
|
| [...]
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| Sounds familiar? Your bet - it's almost an exact re-run of the
| security issues that affected Windows XP in its earliest days.
|
| Microsoft wouldn't be using its Vista users - as it did with XP -
| as guinea pigs, now would it?...
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http://securityblog.itproportal.com/?p=646
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