Microsoft & Nokia Match made in heaven?

Well guess I spoke too soon. Now Microsoft can really learn some things from Nokia but I am beginning to wonder is this all worth it?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12554499

Maybe this wedding is heading for a annulment on the grounds of incompetence!!!

Nokia why not let the users decide which OS they want to install on the phone maybe this will be the winner USP!!!

Nokia and Microsoft a match made in heaven???

Hello all...

As you have all heard Microsoft and Nokia decided to take the plunge earlier this month in what looks like a shot gun wedding!!!

However this is now reached a position that the Bride (Nokia) has suddenly realised that maybe it wasn't such a good idea but can't admit it to its friends and foes alike without suffering a major cardiac arrest and maybe not surviving.

Whoa hold on a second this is starting to sound familiar!!! Anyone remember when Microsoft stepped in to save Apple in the 90's?

Look at how that relationship turned out....

Well it looks like Microsoft and Nokia are hoping for something similar whether they get it is a whole different matter altogether.

The problem for Nokia is while it makes great Hardware for its mobile devices it's software has been buggy as hell...

For Microsoft it has had a version of Windows Ce/Mobile/Phone in some form but really hasn't been able to break through.

So perhaps both companies see this as a strategy of combining their strengths to build a better platform!

I for one believe this may happen as long as the following happens....

Windows Phone 7 delivers all the things Symbian Offers as well as what Android and Apple do in terms of features.

Secondly there has to be a easy way for the developer to create any application their mind thinks of with great ease. In this Microsoft may have an advantage in that everyone is familiar with Windows.

I know a lot of the Linux and Mac crowd will say things are easy but have you tried developing an application for windows and developing an application for Linux.

If Microsoft figure out which I hope they do that if they create tools for the novice developer out there they may just capture the app market if they provide easy to use tools and create a loose barrier for developing applications and releasing.

Yes there will be viruses and miscreants out there but this is what helped make windows popular. The ability to create and distribute freely.

So for this marriage to work the offspring must be easy and free for everyone to use otherwise it may just go the way of other device makers such as siemens, sagem etc who withdrew from the phone market as they couldn't compete!

Who needs help with the Haddock! #3

Ok another post about the AD2LDAP tool. I had a few complaints that things were not working properly especially with the command line tool.

Well I have had the chance to see what was wrong and have now rectified it.

So feel free download the list of tools from here.

Both the GUI and Command Line Versions have been included. You must get the .NET Framework V4 download to for these tools to work as well as running it on a machine that is attached to a domain.

Links Below:
.NET Framework V4 Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a391abd-25c1-4fc0-919f-b21f31ab88b7&displaylang=en

AD2LDAP Tools
https://sites.google.com/site/roarukblog/AD2LDAP.zip

Enjoy People.

Who needs help with the Haddock! #2

Last March I wrote about a tool you would find handy for getting the full LDAP string.
Well here is a compiled version for your use! Hope this helps you in the administration of your site.

https://sites.google.com/site/roarukblog/AD2LDAP.zip

How do I find out everything about a computer....

See I told you all I hadn't disappeared. Well here I am back for 2011. Hopefully I will be posting more often than in the last few years...Well that is the wish.

So coming back to things have you ever been in a position where you have wanted to find a serial number of the machine where it can't be reached or is no longer there.

Or how about the elusive serial number for a monitor that just happens to be buried under desk graffiti?

Or maybe you need to audit the machines to find out what you have got.

Well let me introduce you to a tool called WinAudit made by a company called Parmavex Services based up in Oldbury in the Midlands of England.

A superb tool that gets you not just a single serial number for a system with multiple monitors like you would get with a VBScript but the entire list of serial numbers for multiple screens.

This and its ability to be run remotely using tools such as psexec mean that it can make the system administrator's job easy!

Give it a try and see what you think.
http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm

I haven't disappeared....

No really I haven't! So watch this space! More to follow...

Just wait and watch this space.