Book Of Jim

Microsoft is readying a new low-cost version of Windows Server to give customers a server OS similar to client OSes that run on low-cost PCs.

Microsoft plans to release "something akin to" a netbook version of Windows, but for servers, not PCs, over the next month or two, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on a call with members of the financial community on Tuesday.

He said that although there is not high demand at the moment for netbook-like server hardware, declining prices in the server market make a low-cost OS an attractive option for customers.

"We don't exactly have a netbook phenomenon, but if somebody can buy a [US]$500 server, they're a little loathe to spend $500 for the server operating system that goes with it," Ballmer said.

He described the software as a "low-cost, low-price, low-functionality Windows Server SKU" called "Foundation Edition," but did not offer more details.

Or you can by IBM/LOTUS "Foundations" server thats a "low-cost, low-price, HIGH-functionality non-Windows server" for less.

sheesh

So it seems, that on the possible eve of Nathan 2.0 I have this small sliver of news to deliver..Apparently Microsoft Excel has again failed, only this time for Microsoft itself, as well as its recently ex - employees. Apparently "mis calculations" of overpayments for benefits for recently laid off people now need to be paid back. Stimulus, or not.
BWAHAHAHAHHAAAA
link to copy of MS letter -> http://www.scribd.com/doc/12722387/msletter
have a nice day. OH AND COUNT THE FONT TYPE> even with a dollar sign and two decimal places and a point...they aint't small numbers :)
Bet it shows up on their 1099's next year also thanks to great plains.

Since last spring, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has been investigating reports that an estimated 5 million email messages from 473 days between 2003 and 2005 allegedly vanished from e-mail servers housed within the president's office.
White House has said it has since reduced the number of days' worth of missing e-mails from 473 to 202 after discovering that those messages had been filed "in the wrong digital drawer" as part of a switch from the Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange e-mail system in 2002. White House Chief Information Officer Theresa Payton assured the committee that her office is working actively on a multi-step restoration process.
When pressed by Davis, Payton also said she felt "very comfortable" that they would be able to reconstruct any remaining lost documents from "disaster recovery backup tapes," although she said that process would be time-consuming and could cost at least $15 million.

$15 Million? WTF? guess who pays for this? When are we going to put a stop to the madness!
JB

The problems for the Bush administration apparently started soon after the White House decided to shift its e-mail system from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange in 2002. It also replaced the automated records storage system devised by the Clinton administration with a system that one of its own experts described as "primitive".

Like we didn't see this coming