Monday, March 4, 2013

Software : Microsoft confirms 'other' storage issue with Windows Phone 8

Software : Microsoft confirms 'other' storage issue with Windows Phone 8

Microsoft confirms 'other' storage issue with Windows Phone 8

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Microsoft confirms 'other' storage issue with Windows Phone 8

If you're a Windows Phone 8 user who has noticed a chunk of your storage capacity consumed by the mysterious "other" category, Microsoft is finally speaking out on the problem.

PhoneArena reported Saturday that an inquisitive Windows Phone 8 user went straight to the source in an effort to find out why their device storage was slowly being consumed by unknown content from the mysterious "Other" category.

The affected user reached out via Twitter to Microsoft's Corporate Vice President for Windows Phone Program Management and Design Joe Belfiore, the man responsible for the look and feel of the company's mobile operating system.

Belfiore replied with his own tweet suggesting a temporary fix for the issue: Turning off the auto-upload feature of SkyDrive, which automatically pushes new photos up to the cloud as they're taken.

Shrinking storage

"On 'Other' storage: some improvements coming in future updates, it will get better," Belfiore tweeted in reply to user @Shounencritiic, confirming that some kind of software update will be necessary to fully address the issue.

In addition to Twitter, afflicted users are making their way to various Windows Phone-related websites and message boards in search of a solution.

Judging from user comments, a free Windows Phone Store app called Shrink Storage can help reclaim 1GB or more from the "Other" category until Microsoft comes to the rescue with a true fix.

Windows Phone 8 users can check what's consuming internal storage space from Settings, although it's unclear exactly what "Other" might include, given that the operating system already has its own category.

Version One becomes V1

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Version One becomes V1

Document management company Version One has rechristened itself V1.

It says the global rebrand is part of an effort to make itself the world leader in business automation software.

V1 will be used as the company's name in the UK and US markets.

Greg Ford, Managing Director of V1, said the move was designed to simplify the company's marketing message.

V1 was established as Version One in 1989 and provides businesses with document management and imaging solutions for finance, human resource and payroll. It claims more than 2,000 business customers worldwide.

VMware working on public cloud service

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VMware working on public cloud service

Sources told CRN on Friday that VMware is developing a public cloud solution to compete with Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's EC2 services.

At VMware's Partner Exchange Conference in Las Vegas just last week, "sources familiar with the plans" let slip some information about the cloud service to CRN.

The public cloud solution is, reportedly, referred to internally as "VMware Public Cloud" and currently in beta.

CRN reported in August of last year that VMware was working on a similar-sounding hosted solutions service, but wrote that this latest leak refers to a separate project.

Heating up

VMware leadership had some choice words for the crowd at the Partner Exchange Conference that seem to be in line with a new, competitive public cloud service.

"We all lose if [consumers] end up in these commodity public clouds," warned VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger in reference to EC2 and Azure.

"We want to extend our franchise from the private cloud into the public cloud and uniquely enable our customers with the benefits of both. Own the corporate workload now and forever."

VMware COO Carl Eschenbach followed by saying, "I find it really hard to believe that we cannot collectively beat a company that sells books,"
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