Microsoft is planning a major effort to sell new security features in Windows Vista to enterprise customers. It will emphasize improvements to the Windows networking stack and secure networking techniques, such as server and domain isolation, as the unique selling point (USP) of the operating system and its server, known as Longhorn.
Mike Schutz, Group […]
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MSN Spaces now has 27m Blogs
Microsoft backing India with $1bn investment
AOL deal drains away from Microsoft
From: Office 12 Watch
New Office 12 blogger wanted
SuperToolTips in Office 12
Microsoft corrects font pic for Segoe UI
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Don Park, of whom Dave Winer has said “He knows what he’s talking about”, believes Microsoft should scrap IE7. Reason? It has a long list of legacy problems.
His solution :
1. Let it just rot and, instead, build a new browser that taps .NET 2.0’s full potential.
2. ActiveX? Leave it behind.
3.Netscape Plugins compatibilty? AJAX? Out with […]
An article in Wired.com suggests that the Windows operating system may not fully deserve the buggy reputation it has developed over the years. It seems that many of the software crashes users stoically put up with are caused by bugs in device drivers deep in the system, and not by Windows itself.
Now Microsoft is doing […]
The winners of the Start Something Amazing Awards 2005 have just been announced by Microsoft. The awards go to people who have achieved “something amazing” using Microsoft Windows and related technology.
Among the “amazing things” started this year are, a tool for tracking drag car racing performance. A nonprofit to tackle the problem of food […]
Charles Wolf, the Needham analyst, believes up to a million Windows users may have switched to Apple Macs this year because of the iPod “halo effect”. Users may also be exasperated with Windows security problems. “The momentum generated by these products has translated into financial results that have easily beat most estimates. Most importantly, Windows […]
Industry analysts are speculating furiously that Windows Vista, which will be two years late shipping, may have missed the boat (ship?).
The best evidence suggests that the annual increase in PC sales may be down to single figures by the end of 2006 when the operating system is due for release.
eWeek reports, “The two main levers […]
Officially, Windows Live is based on one simple idea : “that your online world gets better when everything works simply and effortlessly together. So all the things you care about online - your friends, the latest information, your emails, searching the Net ~ all come together in one place. Windows Live [it says] is a […]
My, they do like gamers at Redmond, Wash. What with Xbox 360, Media Player 11, and Media Center PC all aiming for world domination, there’s more than a whiff of gamer hogwash around.
Microsoft Game Advisor is a new tool, part of the Vista generation of products, which will act as a gaming dashboard and portal.
According […]
Screenshot via PC World
Take a look at the screenshot, purportedly taken of IE7 in Windows Vista Build 5231 (also known as Community Technical Preview 2). Notice how “Web Feeds” seems to have been replaced by … yes, “RSS”.
Some people will be very pleased with that, Dave Winer for one. But does this represent a […]
Windows Vista will incorporate a reader for XPS, an XML Paper Specification, codenamed “Metro”, Microsoft’s proprietary rival to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format).
Office 12 applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Visio, OneNote, and InfoPath, will include a “Save As XPS” option, said Jeff Bell, a program manager on the Office Development Team.
“This Office feature provides […]
MSN’s revenue growth was less than one percent in the third quarter (Q1 in Microsoft’s fiscal year). Clearly the company is not making as much money on advertising as Google.
According to The Register : “Wall St analysts, clearly wowed by Google’s ballooning business model, quizzed Microsoft over why MSN’s revenue is projected to be flat […]
Scott Braden has written a detailed article in Redmond Mag on that troubled topic of Windows Software Assurance licenses with particular regard for the upcoming Vista upgrade.
When you buy a PC from a store, it comes with a license. That license dies with the PC and is non-tranferable. The same is true with a shrink-wrapped, […]
If you want to get from DVD to the new video iPod on a Windows platform, all you need according to Engadget is :
1. a dvd to avi ripper program (we used the free DVDx 2.3 from sourceforge)
2. an avi to mov (quicktime) program (we used the trial version of Xilisoft Video Converter)
3. the new […]
A snippet of Windows news (speculation?) over at Matt Goyer’s blog yesterday :
“… I was having drinks with Joe Belfiore and Dave Mendlen tonight celebrating the release of Rollup 2 and someone let drop that a Hotmail Media Center app was going to be available next week. Vicious rumor at the Soho 323 club? Or […]
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