Charles Robinson says he didn’t choose Vista. His boss bought a Gateway DX4710 with the idea of installing Windows Server 2003 on it. However, there weren’t any drivers for Win2k3 and he was stuck with Vista Home Premium. Check out his experience.

The Lotus Connections R2 Reviewer’s Guide provides an introduction to version 2 of IBM’s social software, Lotus Connections. Learn about the five components of Lotus Connections: Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Dogear, and Communities. This guide covers integration with other applications, such as Lotus Sametime, Lotus Notes and Lotus Quickr.

The Notes Design Team has started their own blog – and they’re asking for your input on tweaking the login dialog.

Eric Mack wants to know why you aren’t using ActiveWords. To help you understand his excitement, he provides a link to today’s interview with Buzz Bruggeman.

Not even Google can prevent the cops from ticketing the Street View cars.

Microsoft is looking to persuade five million Lotus Notes customers to make the switch to Microsoft’s collaboration tools – SharePoint, Exchange and Office – next year.

Longtime FoZ (Friend of ZATZ) Jason Perlow has an interesting take on virtualized computing, circa 2016. His scenario is one of the better ones, because it feels quite authentic and mirrors a lot of what we’ve been thinking about here in semi-virtualized ZATZland.

After the recent spate of Florida fires and the beginning of hurricane season, we’re working as fast as we can to put as much of our day-to-day critical desktop work into the cloud, so if we have to hit the road fast, it’ll all be there. Of course, the network operations and ZATZ sites are already in the cloud at our co-lo provider, but it’s time to think about the same things for the desktop.

This page on the Lotus website lists some of the new features to expect in Notes and Domino 8.5. It also includes a link so you can download the public, Beta 1 packages.

Mitch Cohen has been working with Tivoli monitoring for Domino and Tivoli Storage Manager TDP. Lotus support refers to a Tivoli application as a "third party application". But is it really?

Three new plugins for Sametime available

Activities Sametime Feature 2.0: To save chats to activities

Profiles Business Card Sametime Feature 2.0: To find out more about the people in your Sametime Contact list.

Communities Sametime Feature 2.0: To save individual or group chats into Discussion forums.