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FEATURES COLUMNS 37 Can Microsoft 6 Barney’s Rubble: Salvage Doug Barney Its Mobile Old Salt Remembers 1985 Strategy? Microsoft is working hard to turn around its fl agging mobile business, but success is far from guaranteed for Windows Phone 7. 42 Decision Maker: Don Jones REVIEWS At the Forefront of Identity Management Technology Preview 46 Windows Insider: 13 The Dawn of a New Greg Shields Day for SBS Virtualization and the Second With a focus on the Death of the ‘White Box’ super-small business market, 48 Foley on Microsoft: Aurora offers a cross-premises Mary Jo Foley Active Directory solution The Many Faces of Windows that’s easy to manage. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 4 Redmondmag.com | 8 [email protected] | 47 Ad and Editorial Indexes COVER PHOTO BY DEBORAH FEINGOLD/CORBIS Redmondmag.com OCTOBER 2010 ADTmag.com Questions with ... 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Untitled-1 1 9/13/10 11:12 AM Barney’sRubble by Doug Barney Redmond THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF THE MICROSOFT IT COMMUNITY REDMONDMAG.COM OCTOBER 2010 ■ VOL. 16 ■ NO. 10 Editorial Staff Editor in Chief Doug Barney Old Salt Remembers 1985 Executive Editor, Features Lee Pender Editor at Large Jeff rey Schwartz Managing Editor Wendy Gonchar Associate Managing Editor Katrina Carrasco une 4, 1984, was my fi rst day as a computer journalist, Contributing Editors Mary Jo Foley Don Jones just a year out of college. It got me out of selling hot Greg Shields Art Staff dogs and chili from a big green truck to late-night Art Director Brad Zerbel J Senior Graphic Designer Alan Tao drunks for a living. Online/Digital Media Online News Editor Kurt Mackie Executive Editor, New Media Michael Domingo Back then most machines were Gates came to the lobby with an Director, Online Media Becky Nagel character mode except for the $10,000 ill-fi tting suit, disheveled hair and too Associate Web Editor Chris Paoli Apple Lisa and the then 4-month-old much cologne, far from the polished Site Administrator Shane Lee Designer Rodrigo Muñoz Macintosh. Microsoft saw the GUI philanthropist we see today. Turns out light and started beating the Windows we had over a week of rain, and the drum two years before its November streets were literally fl ooded. Gates 1985 release. wanted to walk to the restaurant anyway. President Henry Allain That was around the time I started Over dinner we sipped Chateau St. Vice President, Publishing Matt Morollo covering and visiting Microsoft. It had Michelle from Washington State, and Vice President, Editorial Director Doug Barney Director, Marketing Michele Imgrund only two buildings, one for apps and with four reporters in attendance we Online Marketing Director Tracy Cook one for OSes—with a cafeteria in peppered Gates with questions. He between (no wonder never missed an acronym Redmond developers or a date. Truly amazing. President & Neal Vitale had such an edge).