Thursday, November 18, 2010

Android vs win7

I think it is really interesting that we are finally starting to have some movement on the up and coming win7 mobile and android front. Now as a BlackBerry fan-boy, I will always tell you that a BlackBerry does not fit directly against those two devices as the BlackBerry fits a different role that is out of context of this post. But basically, a BlackBerry to me, is and always will be a enterprise device. Until one of those devices comes out with a enterprise server model that sits inside my corporate firewall, I am not interested. ( and no, the APNS bullshit does not count, apple does not get how corporate America works when it comes to IT and compliance )

I think corporate wise, MS has a huge lead in understanding the thinking of the IT environment. Let me explain, traditionally two things really defined what your company's IT department was going to look like. Cost and efficiency. Everything was a by product of this. When you think about this logically, it is going to be really hard to sell people like me on an android open source initiative. Microsoft is the defacto standard when it comes to enterprise platform. Now what does this have to do with the mobile platform? Well...Everything

Microsoft has proven that they are able to take an enterprise product (exchange, SQL, share point, Windows Server, Windows client etc etc:) and make it a standard. So when companies are going to try to make a mobile platform secure and standard, they are going to look to companies with a track record of success, and it is going to be hard to look back Microsoft dominance in this field. We'll see how it plays out though.

On a side note, RIM thank you for sticking up for the Enterprise and basically telling UAE to go fuck themselves if they wanted access to the RIM NOC. I mean, what did they expect to do with the information anyway? I mean honestly, its not like you actually hold any encryption keys.

Seriously

New Cloud Based Policy Management Service

Really good stuff. We have needed the group targeting for some time now. I also noticed they addeed a bunch of new groups to the Azure AD ...