- Apple seeking engineers with the right touch
- A sign that multi-touch input could be moving across Apple's product lines are its many job postings for touch engineers and managers. From my search of Apple's Job Opportunities site, I could see a growing team to handle the company's touch technology. There were postings for hardware...
- Tags: Job, Team, Apple Inc., Hardware, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Microsoft set to roll out 2.0 'Origami' pack for ultra-mobile PCs
- At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) last year, Microsoft officials shared their vision for what users might expect from hardware vendors via their next-generation ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs). At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft showed its planned advances for some of its own...
- Tags: PC, Ultramobile PC, Microsoft Corp., Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Only Microsoft stands between me and 64-bit bliss
- Only Microsoft stands between me and 64-bit blissHey ... Shadey ...Why should it even be NEWS ... AT [b]ALL[/b]??Like Mikey Cox, every time I talk to MY Microsoft Rep, he is pushing 64-bit, 64-bit, 64-bit. Then we discover that the right hand at MS doesn't know what the left...
- Tags: Network technology, 64-bit, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Surprise! There will be a PDC 2008 after all
- Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) -- which was "postponed" this year -- is on for 2008, according to the company. PDC 2008 is slated for October 27 to 30 in Los Angeles. (I wonder if it will be right before/after/during the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, also slated...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., PDC 2008, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- What will Microsoft share about Windows futures in 2008?
- Microsoft's 2008 conference dance card is starting to fill in. It's looking like a very busy February and March for the conference-going set. And, as usual with Microsoft, mid-summer will be full of Microsoft industry and insider events. The biggest questions going into 2008 is how, when...
- Tags: Partnership, Microsoft Corp., Conference, WinHEC, Microsoft Windows, Business Structures, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3)
- This is the final installment in my series debunking Peter Gutmann's widely read and undeservedly cited paper on Vista content protection. (If you missed Part 1 and Part 2, go read them before you dive into this conclusion.) Today, I want to deal head-on with one of the most...
- Tags: Paper, HDMI, PC, Digital-rights Management, Output, NVidia Corp., Codec, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, 1080p, Peter Gutmann, HD, Laptop Magazine, DVI, D-CINEMA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Kidaro customer gains streamlined IT control
- I had the opportunity to interview Rob Baker, Smartronix's Director, Strategic Enterprise Initiatives. He's the first user of Kidaro's desktop virtualization technology I've had the good fortune to meet.What was being done that required this technology?Smartronix is a global, professional solutions provider supporting Department of Defense (DoD), Federal Agency,...
- Tags: Channel management, Strategy, IT Services, Dan Kusnetzky, information technology, Smartronix, Kidaro
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- Drawing more Microsoft roadmaps
- Now that Microsoft has provided an official ship target for Windows 7, the next major version of Windows client, it's time for some educated guess work.Windows 7 is the only piece of the Windows client roadmap for which Microsoft is willing to provide a date right now. Here's what I'd...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Windows Midmarket Server, Windows client, Windows 7, SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Fiji, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Microsoft ponies up cell-phone, green-computing research funding
- Microsoft outlined the specific projects to which it's looking to universities for research contributions on July 16, the opening day of its 2007 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.(The Research Faculty Summit has been an annual event. Starting next year, it will become an every-two-year event, with a new Microsoft graduate-student-focused research...
- Tags: Research, Healthcare, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Microsoft's Iain McDonald: It's the end of a (Longhorn) era
- Iain McDonald, a guy with the humble title of Director of Project Management for Windows Server, has had a long and deep impact on Microsoft's Windows organization.The 15-year Microsoft veteran has served on a variety of teams, from Product Support Services, to Exchange Server, to Windows Server. He was a...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Vista, Windows client, Windows server, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows XP, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- More Windows Vista SP1 sightings (and frustrations)
- The more Microsoft tries to keep a lid on Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 information, the more testers and customers are going out of their way to find leaks.There was much ado at last month's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) over a Vista SP1 sighting during a presentation.On June...
- Tags: Windows client, Windows 7, Vista, Fiji, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Microsoft to take the wraps off 'PlayTable'
- After at least three years of sneak peeks, Microsoft is finally set to take the official wraps off its PlayTable technology.PlayTable -- which also has gone by the codenames "Table" and, most recently, "Project Milan" -- is a a multi-touch, gestural- and object-recognition interface technology on which Microsoft has been...
- Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Research
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Might XP SP3 ship in 2007, after all?
- Microsoft's party line for the past few months has been that it wasn't going to get Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 out the door until some time in the first half of 2008.But this week, Microsoft hinted that XP SP3 might actually ship this year.It could be a simple...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Vista, Windows client, Windows XP
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Microsoft Pika: Media center remoting comes to devices
- During Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) keynote last week, there was a demo of Media Center content being streamed to a TV. Gates referred to the technology behind that demo as "Pika," but didn't offer up much else in the way of explaining what WinHEC attendees...
- Tags: WinHEC, Windows client, System builders, OEMs, Fiji, Corporate strategy, Code names, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Microsoft offers guidelines for next-gen UMPCs
- Microsoft still thinks there's a bright future for Windows-based ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs), the small-form factor PCs that haven't exactly taken the world by storm.At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft officials outlined some of the "possibilities" the company sees for next-generation UMPCs that will...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Windows Mobile, Windows XP, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Vista Service Pack 1: It lives
- With all the Microsoft-created confusion out there around when -- and even whether -- the company plans to deliver the first service pack (SP) for Windows Vista, it's nice to see some concrete proof that Vista SP1 does exist.The WinFuture.de folks managed to grab a quick snapshot of a machine...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Vista, Windows client, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Microsoft to launch new Vista-subscription trials in early 2008
- Microsoft is readying a new Windows-Vista based version of its FlexGo hardware-software-services bundle aimed at emerging markets. As part of FlexGo 'Next,' Microsoft plans to shift its emphasis from pay-as-you-go to subscription-based pilots, company officials said at the Windows Hardware Engineering (WinHEC) conference in Los Angeles this week.Microsoft rolled out...
- Tags: Linux, Vista, Windows client, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Windows Server team: No detours from the roadmap
- The Windows client team may have decided that it's done talking futures. But the Windows Server team isn't afraid to show off its planned roadmap.At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) on May 16, Microsoft officials talked about the company's next few planned releases. As previously indicated, Microsoft is readying...
- Tags: Fiji, Corporate strategy, Code names, Vista, Windows 7, Windows client, Windows Midmarket Server, Windows server, Windows Server Longhorn, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Microsoft attempts to rally more hardware vendors around Rally
- One of Microsofts biggest pushes at this years Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) is around Rally, a connectivity platform that Microsoft debuted at last years WinHEC. Rally is a set of networking protocols and licenses that are designed to simplify consumersabilities to connect peripherals to Windows Vista and to...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- What you won't hear Microsoft talk about at WinHEC 2007
- What you won't hear Microsoft talk about at WinHEC 2007UtopiaMJ, you don't get it. Microsoft has now invented^Winnovated everything worth doing and we have reached the End of Computing History.Maybe it's because there's nothing of interest to hardware manufacturers...in SP1 or Fiji? It's a hardware engineering conference, where...
- Tags: hardware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
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