Technology

Last week brought the return of a dedicated event for SharePoint and the rest of the Office 365 family (Teams, OneDrive, and Yammer) — the SharePoint Conference — and some long-awaited capabilities for modern sites in Office 365.

I was especially excited about all the love for metadata — bringing visibility of document metadata to Microsoft Teams (finally) — and my absolute favorite announcement: the ability to add metadata to pages in &edit& mode!

Though most of my time is spent on cloud-based solutions these days, SharePoint on prem got a lot of love, too, with the announcement that some of the best features on the cloud are coming to SharePoint 2019, including Communications Sites, Team News, and modern Team Sites to include Lists and Libraries. Read more in Bill Baerblog post.

This pilot fish does tech support for a security appliance vendor, whose customers tend to get really concerned when the security black box isn't doing its thing.

"One of the configurations we sold and supported was a pair of appliances in high-reliability mode, so that if one failed the other would take over," says fish

"One customer kept complaining that the pair of appliances could not talk to each other and, of course, failed to fail-over under test circumstances. Since they were fairly close, my manager and I went to pay them a visit in person.

"First the customer demonstrated that, while one unit seemed to work properly, the backup unit could never be seen on the network.

HarrisX says consumers would support the merger of T-Mobile US and Sprint if it does three things. If it results in lower pricing. If it boosts wireless coverage in underserved and rural areas. And if it results in economic growth. Lettake a closer look at these three areas and see what we can expect.

Regarding wireless pricing. Unfortunately, based on other mergers, what I see is higher prices, not lower. Now this merger could be different. However, based on what we have seen in the past, I think prices will rise. They will stay lower than Verizon Wireless and AT-T Mobility, but they will likely be higher than today.

Wireless price will likely rise with T-Mobile, Sprint merger

The reason is simple. Today, both T-Mobile and Sprint need to capture the imagination of the marketplace. They need something to win market share. If they had the biggest or best network, they wouldn&t have to focus on price. However, to win market share they must give the customer something else. So, they focus on price.