May 27, 2011
Microsoft Set to Show Off Windows for Tablets Next Week
PCWorld
Ed Oswald reports that Microsoft will debut its tablet operating system soon, but maybe not soon enough.
“If it does not capitalize soon, it could find itself in a similar situation to its experiences in digital music. There, the Zune just came too late to have a meaningful impact. That mistake is arguably the reason why to this day Apple still dominates digital music.”
VCE Company launches partner program with new distributors
The VAR Guy
The VAR Guy reports on the company’s “holistic” approach.
“The key strategy of the VCE these days is to really make virtualization deployment easy. Hence, the new partner program. With it in place, the VCE has created a single registration and ordering portal, allowing for a partner to easily queue up an entire Vblock infrastructure solution for sale or deployment. VCE is also allowing ‘stackable’ Cisco and EMC channel program incentives to encourage partners to work with VCE. Volume-based incentives exist, too.”
Google Chrome OS: Too secure to need security?
The Register
John Leyden writes that industry researchers are warning Google not to repeat Appe’s security mistakes.
“Ferguson praises Google for its engineering work but questions its apparent suggestion that switching OSes is a ‘silver bullet’ capable of killing off the modern myriad of security woes. He draws a comparison between Google’s claim that Chrome needs no anti-virus and similar claims in the past by Apple.”
