[TechRepublic] Has Microsoft lost its evil corporation status?

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Poll: Has Microsoft lost its evil corporation status to Google and Apple? In the past, Microsoft has often been dubbed an evil corporation, but has Microsoft lost its evil corporation status to Google and Apple? Read more Resource of the day Gain Control of your Infrastructure Discover how today's infrastructure management software packages integrate with virtualization platforms, enterprise management systems, and even building management systems for holistic management of the entire data center ecosystem. More from TechRepublic   Facebook and Twitter: Treat them like your kids Just as parents need to treat their various kids differently, but fairly, so do professionals need to deal with Twitter and Facebook using a separate but equal approach. Here are some suggestions. Read more TR Community scoreboard for April 29, 2011 - The 3D gimmick In this weekly recap post, you'll get a quick look at the top discussions and members on the TechRepublic forums. Read more News from ZDNet   Amazon Web Services apologizes, promises better communication, transparency Amazon Web Services provided its post-mortem on its outage that stretched on for more than a day. While the apology and recap of events is notable, the biggest takeaway is that Amazon promises to... Read more RIM talks itself into a BlackBerry corner, leaves no room for error Listening to Research in Motion's earnings warning conference call made me wonder if co-CEO Jim Balsillie was talking himself out of a job. Read more Apple more profitable than Microsoft Throughout my life I always saw Microsoft as the ominous overlord of personal computers. Windows was entrenched in every company and by association most users used it as home as well. Apple was... Read more Google has failed the Honeycomb tablet You'd think Google would be doing everything it could to get tablets going powered by Honeycomb, but in my view it is failing in a very significant way. Read more iPhone U.S. sales jump from 19% to 28% in Q1 2011 The NPD Group notes that iPhone sales jumped from 19 percent in Q4 2010 to 28 percent in Q1 2011. A big part of Apple's 9 point jump is attributed to sales of the Verizon iPhone. Read more Microsoft tool aims to help developers migrate iPhone applications to Windows Phone Microsoft released a developer tool on April 29 that is aimed at helping iPhone developers port their applications more easily to Windows Phones. Read more Attachmate reveals Novell, SUSE, & Linux Plans In an interview, Attachmate CEO Jeff Hawn discusses his plans for Novell, SUSE and Linux. Read more Component shortage to hit tablet makers The expected flood of tablets to compete with the iPad will be impacted by a major component shortage that will impede the ability to produce the devices. Read more Featured multimedia   How Google secures its data centers (photos) Google has opened the doors to one of its data centers to show how it protects customer data View on site NASA launches space shuttle Endeavour's final flight (photos) A look back at NASA history as Endeavour prepares for its final flight. View on site Today's recommended downloads Stop Wasting Electricity in the Data Center (American Power Conversion (APC)) Gain Control of your Infrastructure (American Power Conversion (APC)) Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones (LogMeIn) Improving Airflow in a Raised-Floor Data Center (American Power Conversion (APC)) Get Access to the Resources, Tools, and Community You Need (IBM)   About this newsletter The Tech Sanity Check newsletter is my daily update on the world of technology. You'll get my opinions, reviews, user polls, and hand-picked stories of the day. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief My Twitter feed: @jasonhiner IT resume: List accomplishments, not responsibilities You can list your job responsibilities on your resume but that doesn't speak to whether you did them well. TechRepublic newsletters   Get IT advice and techniques, mobile news, Mac tips, and product reviews in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Five Tips 10 Things Smartphones Macs in Business Product Spotlight Five of the best Android smartphones HTC ThunderBolt Motorola Atrix Samsung Galaxy S 4G HTC Inspire Google Nexus S Leaderboard 2011: The 10 best Android smartphones

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