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- You've got Windows 7 questions, I've got answers
- You've got Windows 7 questions, I've got answersNo images in the article.IMAGE is in place of the photos.DPI scaling of gadgetsI'm amazed Microsoft seems to be ignoring the fact that desktop gadgets do not scale with DPI. This is going to become a major problem as screens get larger....
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Live blogging PDC Keynote Day 2: Windows 7, Live Mesh and more
- Yesterday was so much fun, our cabal of bloggers from across a variety of pubs and sites is back again live blogging the Professional Developers Conference PDC Day Two keynotes. The first keynote is going to be the coming out party for Windows 7, with demos of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething — and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Would you pay $1,499 for the Microsoft 'Oahu' Surface table?
- Microsoft has been dangling the possibility of a smaller, more consumer-centric version of its Surface multi-touch tabletop computer for the past few months. Now that form factor has a codename: Oahu. Long Zheng of istartedsomething.com has more details on Oahu, which he has gleaned from a Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Survey, Oahu, Marketing Research, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Web archiving enterprises: keep trying
- Through my keen observations, deep procrastination and occasional drunken ramblings, there are three things which annoy me about a service or product before I even use them. These three things, from a consumer's point of view, are the following: having a product with a...
- Tags: Web, Page, Archiving, CSS, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Productivity, Business Intelligence, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-24
- Windows 7: What will Microsoft reveal this week? Touch
- Is this week the week that Microsoft finally will shed a bit more light on what's coming in Windows 7? Istartedsomething.com blogger Long Zheng recently reported that Microsoft is planning to show off Windows 7 at the D6 conference in Southern California this week. But given the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- The 31 Days of the Dragon contest starts today, win an HP laptop valued at over $5,000
- While the giveaway I am going to talk about doesn't relate to a mobile device, my fellow MobileTechRoundup podcast co-hosts are a part of the contest and I think it is such a MAJOR contest that my readers here would enjoy entering for a chance to win. Today is the...
- Tags: Contest, Hewlett-Packard Co., Corel Corp., Laptop Computer, RSS, Serial ATA, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Management, Marketing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Getting a glimpse of the spherical Microsoft Surface
- The rumored spherical Microsoft Surface has made a quick guest appearance in a Microsoft Research promotional video. It's only a two-second shot (minutes 3:57 to 3:59) in the video, but there it is: A spherical Surface. (Microsoft showed this video at its early March...
- Tags: Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- Ballmer: It's all about Web developers
- Plain old developers are so passe. Now it's all about "Web developers, Web developers, Web developers!" Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, at the prodding of an audience member of Mix '08, updated his famous "developers, developers, developers" chant. (Istartedsomething's Long Zheng is hosting a clip...
- Tags: Web Developer, Web, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Guy Kawasaki, Plain Old Developer, Channel Management, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- One year later: Where are the killer Vista apps?
- One year later: Where are the killer Vista apps?They're not difficult to write...No Mary, it's because there will be no killer application."Next killer app" is a hackneyed holdover from the late 80's after the Macintosh took some of the world by storm on account of Pagemaker, i.e. desktop publishing. Since...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- One year later: Where are the killer Vista apps?
- At the Consumer Electronics Show last January, Microsoft and Yahoo made a big deal out of a Vista-optimized version of Yahoo Messenger that was supposedly one of many compelling Windows Presentation Foundation WPF apps in the pipeline. On December 6, one year later, Yahoo announced a pre-beta...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Client Platform Technical Evangelist Tim Sneath, Sneath, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Microsoft readyng a Flickr killer? Maybe more of an iLife competitor
- On his istartedsomething.com blog, Long Zheng points to a November 9 job posting from Microsoft. Web pontificators, including Zheng, are reading the ad as saying Microsoft is interested in building a head-to-head competitor with Flickr. But read the first couple of lines of that Microsoft job posting...
- Tags: Apple iLife, Microsoft Windows Live, Flickr, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, E-mail Providers, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
- Windows Home Server won't launch on August 27
- From the too-good-to-be-true files: Windows Home Server WHS is not going to launch on August 27.It sounds like the launch of the product is still on schedule for late September-early October.Long Zheng of istartedsomething.com discovered WHS as listed as "generally available" as of August 27 (according to Microsoft's lifecycle...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Windows, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Vista Ultimate users want their value-add
- Those pesky Windows Vista users are a demanding lot.They are clamoring for information on Vista Service Pack SP 1. At the same time, they have the audacity to want to know what's up with "Fiji," the Media Center update to Vista. And now? Those who purchased the high-end Vista Ultimate...
- Tags: Fiji, Service Pack, Vista, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Do you want a Surface Computer?
- Microsoft went public at 12:01 a.m. on May 30 with the name of its "Milan"/PlayTable technology. The combined hardware/software device is now known as the Surface Computer and is due to debut in November.In one of many press releases on Milan and surface computing on Microsoft's PressPass site this morning,...
- Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Windows Mobile, Xbox, Zune
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Scouting for Microsoft's Office 2007 'Scout' add-in
- Microsoft isnt talking publicly yet about "Scout," an Office 2007 search add-in that Istartedsomething blogger Long Zheng mentions and posts a screen shot of in a post today. But the Redmondians should be showing off this interesting-looking search appendage -- especially if the company wants to silence critics...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2007, Code names, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Live from the Windows Vista Lab in Las Vegas
- Is there any Windows Vista stone left uncovered? Microsoft seems to think there still is. (And were not even talking about the "Q," aka Windows Home Server.) The company has invited about 60 bloggers, Most Valuable Professionals MVPs and/or Microsoft Featured Community site members to the Microsoft-sponsored Windows Vista...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Larry Richman, Ryan Hoffman, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2007-01-06
- Microsoft sends mixed messages with its new design tools
- Microsoft is sending out mixed messages, in terms of its Web-design-tool strategy. First, theres the positioning. Redmonds "we plan to complement, not compete with Adobe" rhetoric -- which Im doubtful anyone who knows Microsoft will buy for a second. And then theres the partitioning. Microsofts decision...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., WPF/e, Expression Studio, Development tools
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
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