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The Enterprise, The iPhone, and the Role of Silverlight

With its recent announcement to support ActiveSync on the iPhone , Apple is clearly going after the enterprise user. The problem, as Colin puts it, is that the decisions that consumers make decisions on a radically different set of criteria than organizations . Lack of Exchange support was surely holding...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-27-2008
Was DRM-free music an Apple innovation?

Some people have tried to paint the recent announcement by Apple as example of Apple innovating and Microsoft following . Headlines like " Microsoft changes tune on selling DRM-free songs " are simply misleading - none of the technology companies truly wanted DRM, but they were a necessary evil in selling...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-09-2007
The UAC security flaw in Vista

User Account Control (UAC) is one of the key security mechanisms introduced in Vista. In the past, the default account as an administrator. Following the principle of least privilege , the default Vista account runs with limited access, and Vista detects when something requires "administrator prompts...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-03-2007
Windows Home Server

One of the more exciting announcements that many may have been missed in the iPhone haze last week was Windows Home Server . It's a headless Windows 2003 appliance that 1) backs up data from all computers on a network, 2) streams media, and 3) provides remote access to documents over the Internet. Alex...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-14-2007
A look at Apple and Microsoft strategies

I've been thinking about some of the interesting strategic decisions that Microsoft has made lately. I already discussed their curious IP licensing strategy , and their choices with Zune and Windows Media Player have me similarly baffled. In many ways, these moves have been something I expect more from...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-01-2007
dopisp adds iPod support in WMP 11

Like most people, I would prefer to use a single media player to manage my library. I like Windows Media Player 11 more than iTunes 7 , and this is especially true since I've subscribed to the Urge subscription service . (I really wish Apple would provide a subscription-based service for the iPod). The...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-28-2006
iTunes 7 vs. Windows Media Player 11

One of the main reasons I prefer Windows Media Player to iTunes is that WMP monitors folders and automatically updates your library. In other words, if you add or remove folders on your hard drive, the changes are reflected in your library - automatically. For some inexplicable reason, iTunes doesn't...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-22-2006
This Apple advertisement doesn't make any sense. Touche!

I love the new Get A Mac campaign . Very clever, and great casting. I'm willing to overlook some of the factual inaccuracies because, hey, this is advertising, right? One of the most recent ads ( mov ) doesn't make a lot of sense to me though. The ad in question is touting Boot Camp, OS X's ability to...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-19-2006
Another Apple tablet sighting... on Apple's site?

Ok, I jumped the gun - maybe Digg isn't entirely useless . I just found this link to an Apple promotional picture . So, tell me - what is that guy writing in the front writing on? Sure looks like a Tablet to me, and I can't imagine Apple would feature a Windows device... And we know Apple needs a tablet...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-21-2006
Is there more to the Apple Tablet rumor than we know?

Marc mentions Rob's post about the Apple Tablet rumors. According to Rob's source: I have no less than 5 sources saying an Apple Tablet announcement is due soon. Or something, as some of these press people (Apple diehards at that), who normally cared not about Tablets, and thought it was all just Microsoft...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-14-2005

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