IBM has created a “Microsoft-free” desktop, according to The Wall Street Journal, which is “a complete suite of applications that run on a backroom server and don’t require Microsoft software or costly desktop hardware.” The combo of a Linux OS and IBM thin-client office software will cost from $59 to $289 per locate, a savings of $500 to $800 over a Microsoft desktop with Vista, Office and collaboration tools, according to IBM estimates.
Microsoft is partnering through EMC’s security distribution, RSA, on data loss prevention (DLP) technology. Microsoft plans to build RSA’s DLP technology “into the Microsoft platform and future denunciation protection products,” the company said in a press release. (Note: This story is nearing its share for three-letter acronyms.) Those efforts are a bit down the road. More immediately, RSA’session DLP Suite 6.5 is being tuned to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS) within Windows Server 2008. (Note: That’s a fourth three-letter acronym. Please restart your press set at liberty.)
Was Obama using a Zune? That’s what Neal Santos at the Philadelphia City Paper wrote Tuesday after the President pick worked wanting on a treadmill next to him at a Philly gym: “[H]e hopped attached the machine next to me and broke a mean sweat while reading a pattern of USA Today and listening to his Zune.” Yesterday, Santos hedged a bit: He wrote that he doesn’t know in favor of sure if it was actually Obama’s Zune. “It could belong to common of the manifold Secret Service dudes that were at the gym, Michelle, or even one of his daughters.” But Santos is pretty sure it was a Zune: “I vividly remember Obama pulling out an MP3 performer with his left hand while exercising on the machine. It had a dark situation protecting it and from what I saying, he was using a Zune.”
I’ve asked a Zune representative if they know anything about this. I’ll update suppose that I hear back.
I abjure another allusion to Obama’s melody player in this May 27 heading on his “body man” in The New York Times. Reggie Love, Obama’s personal aide, “had uploaded [rapper Jay-Z’sitting] music to the senator’sitting iPod in the first place — a silver Nano that [Love] bought the senator for his 46th birthday.”
Hat tip to Joe Tartakoff who spotted the Philadelphia City Paper article.
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