There’s something that Microsoft is doing much better than Apple, says Giles Turnbull at O’Reilly MacDevCenter.
“Microsoft is opening up like no other company I have ever seen. Just take a look at all the detailed information about … Windows Vista that is coming out on weblogs written by the coders and managers working on […]
Much discussion around about Web 2.0, particularly in view of Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference next week.
The big question for Microsoft is how potent can Windows Vista remain as a desktop platform if the whole web becomes an alternative? The company has countered this threat by beefing up MSN, its web portal, moving into VoIP, […]
In a classic case of poachers turned gamekeepers, hackers (or, the “security research community”) have been helping Microsoft sort out IE7 at the Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur.
Of course, we’ve know this sort of conversation has been going on for a while : remember the Black Hat drinks party at the […]
Microsoft is playing safe with Windows Vista, hedging its bets by serving both PC and web-focused directions, says CNET News.com.
Evolving plans for Vista envisage more web-based technologies and services, while simultaneously “introduces OS level technologies that take the web out of the browser.”
With Windows Vista, for example, it seems that Microsoft is focusing on the […]
Remember the unseemly spat a couple of months ago when The Register claimed that IE7 Beta1 didn’t seem to support Google or Yahoo toolbars? It ended with accusations of doctored emails and a right old blogging punchup.
Microsoft seems to have listened and learned the lessons. The Internet Explorer team has announced that IE7 will support […]
There’s been a raft of speculation about a new blog network recently. So much has leaked out, as it does, that there’s no point in being coy. The new network is called b5media and is run by a galaxy of blog superstars. Well, three of them anyway :
Jeremy Wright, well known blogger, author, and […]
It must be hard being a “Digerati” and a “Connector” but not to get invited to the main feast. It seems that Dave Winer is not getting asked to big do’s anymore. Here’s his take on the PDC (Professional Developers Conference), just concluded in Los Angeles :
Now that the PDC is over, I also […]
A feature of Vista that’s almost passed unnoticed is the fast on-off “promise”, which is described in a Microsoft fact sheet thus :
Fast On-Off : A Windows Vista-based PC will turn on and off as quickly and reliably as a TV set — typically within 2–3 seconds. A simple one-click button will initiate the […]
Speaking at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, Jim Allchin, Group Vice President of Platforms at Microsoft, said that, “most of the work that is going to be applicable to the IT professional community will be in terms of our improvements of the basics ~ just engineering excellence and attempting to save money […]
Microsoft announced on Thursday that, “Windows Vista Enterprise is available exclusively as a benefit of Software Assurance and is designed to help midsize and larger organizations significantly lower IT costs and improve IT efficiency.”
Software Assurance was introduced five years ago to encourage users to pay an annual fee for Microsoft software and upgrades instead of […]
Web 2.0 “thin client” computing is being deftly smothered by Microsoft’s use of RSS 2.0 as a paradigmic connection technology across all its platforms, including Windows Vista.
Dana Gardner at ZDNet writes :
Microsoft is using RSS 2.0 as a major conduit of myriad content ~ including business-to-business applications interactions ~ inside, across, and for wide area […]
Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble points us to six new videos on aspects of Windows Vista at Channel 9.
Says Scoble :
Including a look at the new Networking stack, the new Audio stack, in Windows Vista and lots more. Very cool videos, hope you enjoy! … there’s some feature discussions there that haven’t been discussed anywhere yet.
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The story so far : Back at the TechEd conference, Nigel Page, a Microsoft strategist in Australia, made some remarks about the hardware requirements for Windows Vista. He allegedly stated that Vista would work best on a video card with more than 256MB RAM, 2GB of DDR3 fast memory and a S-ATA 2 hard drive.
Following […]
Opening Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles yesterday, Bill Gates introduced the first public demonstrations of Windows Vista and Office 12. For him, these products are the fruit of five years’ development work to put XML into the core of its architecture.
The Register reports : “Windows Vista introduces a set of ‘Gadgets’ that […]
The following media release from Microsoft highlights a joint venture between the company and Canon in the development of a new colour management system for Windows Vista :
REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 13, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. and Canon Inc. today announced another major milestone resulting from the companies’ strategic alliance: a new color management system […]
More revelations from the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) which opened today in Los Angeles. Slashdot points us to a page of screenshots from the upcoming Office 12 suite of applications.
Look for the metallic grey design, reminiscent of the Aqua style of the Mac operating system, but impressive nonetheless.
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Microsoft is getting round the massive hardware resources needed to fully implement the Windows Vista vision by reducing the features in the more basic of its seven projected “editions”.
According to Softpedia, the Starter and Home Basic editions won’t have the much-lauded Aero Glass graphics feature. They will present a “Classic” GUI similar to XP. “Other […]
Matt Hester, a TechNet presenter blogging from the PDC, points us to a podcast on IE7 by Joe Stagner.
Matt enthuses : “Do you want to learn more about IE7, well Joe Stagner is at it again!!! I just stumbled on a podcast that Joe did, he was able to get Dave Massy, who is […]
Paul Thurrott reports that he has received insider information about the product editions (SKUs) of Windows Vista, which Microsoft will announce at PDC this week. There will be two general categories, reflecting the two “editions” of XP : Home and Professional, with specialist subeditions in each category. The full list comprises :
In Windows Vista, the […]
This screenshot shows how IE7 will warn you of a possible phishing operation at a particular website.
Tariq Sharif has written a detailed account of this service over at Microsoft’s IE blog.
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Written by Milo Riano for b5media.
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