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Today, Microsoft’s Nick White took the wraps off Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista at the Vista team blog. In a nutshell, it is what you would expect from a service pack and a beta release will be available in a few weeks with final release tentatively scheduled in the first quarter of 2008. That release is aligned with Windows Server 2008 RTM which today was announced as slipping out of 2007 into 1Q2008. In more detail:
It’s no secret that while Microsoft has some incredibly lucrative businesses, the bounty has not been passed on to the shareholders due to an overlarge management’s insistence on dabbling in a variety of expensive projects that they aren’t managing to a payoff. The cure for that is obvious, but the mechanics of effecting such a change are less so. Today at ZDNet UK, Rupert Goodwins assesses the possibilities for an leveraged buyout (LBO) or a shareholder revolt:
Chalk up another one for Google as they announce a multi-year exclusive advertising deal with CNN.
As promised in April, Microsoft announced on Monday that the successor to the venerable Systems Management Server (SMS) called System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 has been released to manufacturing.
Just what you need on a hot summer weekend - Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) online copy protection system goes on the blink and now your Windows XP or Vista machine thinks it is running an ripped off copy of the operating system.
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