Yes, ladies and gentleman, it's hard to believe, but Microsoft has just announced that Windows 7, the $20 billion a year operating system that runs on hundreds of millions of PCs around the world will be way better than your...wait for it...wait a little... Read More...

When we started the development of OnTime 2008 immediately after the release of V7 in February of this year, we were targetting a Dec '07 to Feb '08 release window. In the past couple of months it became apparent that we could easily come in on the earlier... Read More...

Today we are announcing the immediate availability of OnTime 2008 Beta! That's V8.0 for those of you keeping track making this the 8th generation of the OnTime software suite. We have added more than 60 new improvements and some of them, such as the new... Read More...

This week, we attended the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference. As a Bronze sponsor of the event, we had a 10x20 booth in the Expo hall. Our booth was buzzing with people the entire time, but what was really cool is the shear number of Axosoft customers... Read More...

As software developers and technologists, we often get wrapped up in the day-to-day heads down "feature" development of our products. Sometimes, this is great as the features we add are often the result of customer feedback and truly improve our offerings.... Read More...

As many of you know, we setup a geek marketing contest a while ago where anyone could submit an idea, a video, image or anything that might have some kind of viral effect to help Axosoft get some unusual marketing exposure. We had more than 60 submissions... Read More...

Wow, I can't believe how many people have totally missed the significance of Apple's announcement about Safari for Windows. I've seen a dozen blogs and major web publications describe Apple's Safari for Windows as either "igniting another browser war"... Read More...

Fear The Bug As you may have heard, we've running a Geek Marketing Contest and putting up $5,000 for the best viral marketing idea we can find. While we were waiting for submissions to the Geek Marketing Contest, we decided to move forward with the creation... Read More...

After yesterday's tech lunch, Tim Heuer , the local MS evangelist, came to our offices along with Scott Cate. We were chatting about some of the new technologies on the net including Amazon's S3 service. If you don't already know about Amazon's S3 , it's... Read More...

I have to say it. I've been pretty disappointed with our Geek Marketing Contest results so far. A little more than 30 marketing ideas have been submitted and nothing so far that has been worthy of a $5,000 prize. There is still plenty of time, but if... Read More...

Since we announced our Geek Marketing Contest a couple of days ago, my geek radar is much more sensitive now. Angelo pointed to a number of articles that revolve around geek marketing, but lately, everything seems to be geek oriented. Just now, I saw... Read More...

A little known secret: with the release of OnTime 2007, we introduced a specially priced 3-User version of OnTime for just $197 (a product that's worth about $600 - $199 per user x 3 Users). But here's the really cool part - we decided that for each of... Read More...

Every now and then, I read a blog post that's more than just interesting. I thought I'd share a few with you. In the past couple of weeks, these posts have stood out for me: In the "Ship Software OnTime" department... Andrés Taylor writes about Top ten... Read More...

Yesterday, we launched the Axosoft Community Site . With over 50,000 users worldwide and rapidly growing, the OnTime user community is a sophisticated group of individuals who are some of the best software developers, testers and project managers in the... Read More...

Yesterday, I had a second chance to build a first impression of Microsoft's Vista. You might recall I installed Vista on my Dell laptop a couple of months ago and have been using it since. So far, my experience with Vista has been less than stellar. I've... Read More...

There have been a number of people asking about the lack of a 10-User Starter Pack in our new OnTime 2007 pricing . We've done this for several reasons. Currently, the OnTime Small Team Edition has a 10-user restriction, meaning if you want to go beyond... Read More...

Working with different software development teams over the years, it always amazed me to see the number of teams that use the same bug tracking tool to track requirements or customer feature requests and sometimes even support incidents . I don't mean... Read More...

About a year and half ago, Dan and I had a crazy idea to see if we can build a complete, fully functioning web site to send large files of up to 1GB to someone (files that email programs typically reject) in just a weekend. After just 20 hours of development,... Read More...