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- Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.
- The computer proletariat is rising up - and computing will never be the same. Tiny, sub-$500 "netbooks" like the Asus Eee are the hottest thing going in notebooks today. And some surprising things are happening. Like housewives on Linux. Asus is forecasting worldwide shipments of 10 million...
- Tags: ASUS, Computing, Microsoft Research, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Microsoft Windows, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-06
- Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratch
- Microsoft Research has developed a non-Windows OS for academic types to play with. The subliminal message from Microsoft: Folks, we'd love to start from scratch with an OS, but we just can't go there. That connection between Microsoft's research and actual company desires may be a bit...
- Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research, Singularity Effort, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Microsoft Research's PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?
- Microsoft Research's PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?Interesting, butThe technology discussed in the article sounds pretty nice. I however think MS should focus a lot on the multi-touch screen technology I discussed [url=http://tinyurl.com/2kfd7y]here[/url] – for which a taste of its multi-touch aspect is shown in [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h_OO4Gz28c]this video[/url].Surface...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, computer, Microsoft Research, Mary Jo, PlayAnywhere, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- Microsoft Research's PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?
- PlayTable finally saw the light of day in the form of Microsoft's Surface multi-touch table. But there's a related technology that's been under development by Microsoft Research -- "PlayAnywhere" -- which still has yet to go commercial.At this week's Faculty Research Summit, Microsoft researchers showed off, yet again, PlayAnywhere. Here's...
- Tags: Research, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- What will many cores mean to future Windows releases?
- Windows and existing Microsoft programming languages work just fine with one- to four-processor PCs. But when 8- 16 and 64-core client machines become the norm -- in the not-so-distant future -- will Windows, C#, Visual Basic and other Microsoft applications be able to keep up?Seemingly, the answer is no. Microsoft...
- Tags: .Net Framework, App Compatibility, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Research, Virtualization, Visual Studio Orcas, Windows 7, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Your entire life in a hard drive
- Would you want a digital archive of your life? Every memory, every encounter, every click, every breath and damn near everything? Two researchers at Microsoft Research think so. In the March issue...
- Tags: General, Science, Microsoft, Storage, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Microsoft Research goes to school
- Microsoft Research goes to schoolMIT should be embarassed about taking this money, It is like churchestaking money from drug dealers.European Model?Why is it that education is one of the few areas that cultural snobs don't want to compare the U.S. model to the European model?If you want to improve education...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Corporate law, education, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research
- Discussion threads 2006-12-12
- Microsoft on Click Fraud: pay per percentage ads 'highly robust to fraud'
- Microsoft Research is studying advertising methods that are “highly robust to fraud” and ways to eliminate “the incentives for click fraud in a system that sells clicks.”In “Pay-Per Percentage of Impressions: An Advertising Method that is Highly Robust to Fraud,” Microsoft research says:A simple method for selling advertising, pay-per-percentage of...
- Tags: click fraud, advertisement, Microsoft Research
- Blog posts 2006-07-01
- SNARF from Microsoft Research (msi)
- Microsoft Research's Community Technology presents SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder. SNARF was built around the notion that social network information that is already available to the computer system can be usefully reflected to the user a message from a manager might be seen differently than a message from...
- Tags: Message, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research, SNARF, SNARF UI, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Software downloads 2005-12-29
- Counterfeit-Resistant Optical Fiber
- Providers of sensitive digital content use digital signatures to faithfully identify themselves as the providers of that content to consumers. However, digital signatures currently work only for content created on a computer and consumed on a computer. They cannot work on content contained on some form of physical media, such...
- Tags: Digital Signature, Media, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research, Digital Signatures, Advertising & Promotion, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security, Marketing
- White papers 2005-11-12
- Microsoft Research lifts the curtain on its latest wares
- Microsoft Research lifts the curtain on its latest waresGreat.. the MS bear pulls a Chucky..Yea, I might want a infection prone company running a automaton..!Friends to the end.... this IS the end..!An inexplicable error has caused me to go "Bleemp".I hope Microsoft can control their syntax more fluently if they're...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research
- Discussion threads 2005-03-04
- Microsoft Research lifts the curtain on its latest wares
- Microsoft Watch reports on Microsoft's in-house TechFest showcase this week, open mostly to the company's employees and some journalists. The mini-expo gave Microsoft researchers from around the world a chance to show off projects they have been working on, such as a plush prototype teddy bear that runs on Microsoft Windows...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-03-04
- Microsoft: Antispam tools assist HIV research
- Microsoft: Antispam tools assist HIV researchInnovation?Could this be innovation? Microsoft didn't buy this Anti-Spam algorithm? They designed it?I'm so confused I'm not sure what to do.A Q&A linkThe work is discussed at the following :http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/feb05/02-23HIVResearch.aspNot much detail for now, but well done MS - helping those performing basic research is...
- Tags: Leadership, Spam, Strategy, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, anti-spam, True Innovation, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research
- Discussion threads 2005-02-23
- Microsoft Research goes to Bangalore
- Microsoft Research goes to BangaloreToo little, too lateThe emerging 3rd world is going for Linux and OSS. M$ COULD have stemmed the tide if they had done this a few years ago, but its too late now. Just like Commodore before it, M$ ignored their "slide" in places other than...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-01-12
Additional Resources
- Report: Data-mining for terrorists doesn't work
- After years of the federal government grabbing all the data it could find, building huge collections through which to data-mine for connections that would yield leads to terrorism suspects, a 352-page study released on Tuesday by a committee of the National Research Council warned that such goals "will be...
- Tags: Terrorist, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Data Mining, Federal Government, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?
- My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...
- Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Researchers publish details on London travel card hack
- First there was Boston's Charlie card. Now, Dutch researchers have exposed the inherent weakness in the RFID chip used in London's Oyster travel smartcard, ZDNet UK says. Researchers released details at the Esorics security conference in Malaga on Monday and an academic paper PDF...
- Tags: Card, Researcher, London, Chip, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?
- I'm reading more and more about Windows 7 lately as PDC approaches and Microsoft begins revealing more snippets of information about its most secretive product ever. In most of that coverage, I've noticed an assumption that Windows 7 is going to be the final name of the product. I've been...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat
- [ UPDATE: The details are out. Lots of unresolved clickjacking issues] A security researcher in Israel has released a demo of a "clickjacking" attack, using an JavaScript game to turn every browser into a surveillance zombie. The release of the demo follows last month's...
- Tags: Webcam, Click, Web Browser, Twitter, Raff, Games, Web Browsers, Security, Personal Technology, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Microsoft Live Search now embedded in Facebook
- When Microsoft announced it had struck a deal with Facebook to integrate its Live Search technology into the Facebook platform, the Redmondians were reluctant to share details. But as of today, October 7, Live Search is now part of Facebook. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Redmond Pie Site, Business Structures, Internet, Blogging, Search, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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