With the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) only days away, much excitement is being generated by Microsoft around its wave of Longhorn products due to begin launching next year. A company spokesperson said that the PDC will focus on the “Longhorn/Vista and Office 12 user experience”.
InformationWeek reports : “[Microsoft] will debut a new software development kit […]
There’s a 16 minute video interview with Bill Gates available on Channel 9. The interviewer is a slightly awestruck Robert Scoble. The download is a crunching 260MB, so check your bandwidth tab before piping it in.
Bill ranges engagingly over the projects currently underway at Microsoft, including the Tablet PC, the new X Box, and Windows […]
Following our reports on APC magazine’s interview with Nigel Page, a strategist with Microsoft Australia, Robert Scoble has criticized Page’s conclusions on the hardware requirements for Windows Vista.
I quote Scoble’s post almost in full, because it’s an interesting one and crucial to Vista’s credibility in the marketplace :
” … the hardware requirements that Windows […]
Update on July 22, 2007 on Windows Vista DDR3 RAM compatability: Microsoft Windows Vista Rocks with 8GB of RAM for ReadyBoost
With the news that Windows Vista will need fast DDR3 RAM memory for optimum performance, we’ve been looking around at what people are blogging about the product, especially the timelines.
BitTech believes that : “DDR3 will […]
Slashdot is reporting a story running on a number of sites that claimants applying to FEMA in respect of Hurricane Katrina are getting error messages unless they’re using IE6 or higher.
The report quotes : “To file a claim online at FEMA’s Individual Assistance Center, where citizens can apply for government help, the browser must be […]
Microsoft has finalized the second version of Windows Beta, Build 5219, says Iain McDonald, Managing Director of Windows Server Group.
Presenting the new version of Windows Vista at the TechEd conference, Iain said that the Beta 2 will be distributed at the PDC (Professional Developer’s Conference), September 13-16 in Los Angeles.
He focused on […]
Dan Warne has kindly pointed me to the full text of Nigel Page’s exposition of the hardware requirements for Windows Vista. Nigel is a strategist for Microsoft Australia. He has admitted that Vista would work best on a video card with more than 256MB RAM, 2GB of DDR3 memory and a S-ATA 2 hard drive. […]
Following the news that Vista will require SATA-2 hard drives, DDR3 fast RAM, and a dual-core processor to give of its best, WinSupersite’s Paul Thurrott, who is always in the know on Windows matters, has given details of Vista rollout at the PDC and beyond :
“The Windows Vista code tree was recently forked between the […]
Can you contain your excitement about the upcoming Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles between September 13 and 16? Scoble can’t.
Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble can barely sit still it seems in anticipation of this great event. “Can’t wait!” he tells us again and again. What can the attraction possibly be?
Old pal Dave […]
In an article called “Future of IE7″ XPSource reports on Friday’s chat session for Internet Explorer beta testers. “It was a chaotic scene. In a matter of fifteen (15) minutes the chat room was filled with more than 400 beta testers, MVPs (Most Valuable Professional), Microsoft experts and Microsoft moderators! ”
The question uppermost on their […]
This is how the UI in IE7 Beta 1 looks. The technical overview describes it thus :
“In Internet Explorer 7, the frame is being reorganized to make it noticeably simpler, more streamlined and less cluttered by unnecessary items. The goal is to maximize the screen real estate devoted to the Web pages that users want […]
Christopher Vaughan over at IE blog reminisces on ten years of IE development : “The first Microsoft product I ever shipped, Windows 95, launched 10 years ago today. Around the same time we also launched Internet Explorer 1.0 (though with considerably less fanfare), which quickly gave way to IE 2.0 (which shipped with the Plus! […]
According to a press release from Redmond, Microsoft is releasing its much talked about phishing filter for Windows IE7 as a beta add-in for the MSN toolbar :
“REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 30, 2005 — MSN today unveiled two new MSN® Search Toolbar Add-ins, enabling people to customize their toolbar to their specific interests and providing […]
In an interview with Managing Director of Federal Government Affairs, Jack Krumholtz, Microsoft PressPass asked about the difficulty of filling technology jobs at Microsoft.
PressPass: Bill Gates also discussed the challenge Microsoft faces in filling jobs in specialized areas due to a shortage of highly trained U.S. professionals. Are there any legislative efforts that Microsoft supports […]
Now here’s a question deserving an answer. What exactly will Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista, due for release late 2006, do for Probloggers?
Q: Should I pay the reported high price for the hardware ~ extra RAM and graphics capability?
A: According to a review in eweek, “We expect that Vista will run well with […]
According to Sal Cangeloso over at XYZ Computing, Linux should try to capitalize on the problems the Windows Vista team is having getting the operating system up to full original spec without breaking the memory bank : “the changes are constantly being scaled back from what was originally promised. Whether it’s the lack of a […]
Download Squad’s Victor Agreda, Jr puts up a rather hair-raising review of soft32’s offering of IE7 Beta 1. The download is featured here in the post below, but read Agreda’s piece before trying it. Here’s a sample :
“At first I was a little worried. After a simple install my machine rebooted and the C […]
A lot of talk around that IE7 Beta 1 is available for download. This source may well be cut off later. As a matter of public record Windows Vista Weblog notes that this download is available here.
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Phishing for bank account and other financial information on unsuspecting users’ computers is a common phenomenon of the web these days. The new phishing filter in IE7 uses an online service, which is updated several times an hour, to nail the growing number of websites that practise phishing. The screenshot shows how this mechanism alerts […]
Tabbed browsing is the most-requested browser navigation feature for Internet Explorer. It enables users to manage multiple windows of multiple websites within one browsing window, instead of using the current multiple-window method of browsing. One of the great attractions of Firefox has been its rollout of this feature. An excerpt from the IE7 Technical Overview […]
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