The Hyper-V Blue Screen Video Drama

Act 1.  The Posting
VMware employee posts a video of a bluescreen in a Hyper-V VM which takes down the whole physical box.
It was available here.
Act 2.  The Revolt
The VM community rises up and demand facts.  Read comments here.
Microsoft gives some facts.
Video largely discredited as FUD without much detail.
Scott Drummunds apologizes.
Microsoft piles on: here, here [...]

Read Full Post »

Former Microsoft Exec Tod Nielson Joins VMware

When you build a business or a group, you tend to reach out to people you trust/respect and try to hire them.
In this case, VMware CEO Paul Maritz is reaching out to a person that has run a publically traded company in the past (Borland).  Tod Nielson will be brought on the the Chief Operating [...]

Read Full Post »

Microsoft Promotes Bob Muglia to President

Just in case you didn’t see this interesting take on the Muglia promotion from Steve Gillmor, writing for TechCrunchIT.
Muglia now commands a Microsoft unit with some 22% of the company’s $60 billion in revenue…
Steve Ballmer’s decision to solidify Muglia’s status after moving Muglia from a report headcount of 3,000 to 1 in 2001 also provides [...]

Read Full Post »

Tips for Dealing with Your Storage Admin

It happens everyday.  Yet another SQL admin falls victim to the technical prejudice of those who provide their storage.  It’s a sad story which is seen everyday throughout the currently developed world; at least those working in relatively well-funded companies.  UNIX guys make fun of Windows people. Mainframe guys refuse to believe Windows is even [...]

Read Full Post »