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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

Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform

Microsoft is gearing up to go big with its plans for its own version of its hosted development platform later this month. But Amazon.com isn't sitting idly by, waiting for Microsoft to rain on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Red Dog, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Servers, Operating Systems, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Piecing together Microsoft's cloud-computing vision

A new white paper, sponsored by Microsoft and written by the always entertaining consultant David Chappell, provides more clues about what the Softies are planning to unveil at this October's Professional Developers Conference. For anyone looking to understand how and where Red Dog, Zurich, BizTalk Services and SQL Server Data...

Tags: Zurich, Operating System, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Service, David Chappell, Red Dog, SQL Server Data Services, Application Service, EC2, EC2 Customer, Windows Live ID, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktop Virtualization, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Additional Resources

Talking with Likewise on GPLv3 and community management

I've been watching Palamida's tracking of GPLv3 (and LGPLv3) adoption over the last year with interest. It looks like adoption is moving at a reasonable, if not super-speedy, pace. However, not everyone is moving from version 2 to version 3. One company, Likewise, actually decided to move backwards from GPLv3...

Tags: Community, Likewise Software, GPLv3, Q, Open, Fall Edition, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-11-26

I want an iPhoneStormDroid

Wind River's Multicore Software Hypervisor solution permits multiple embedded OSes to run on a single device. Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to actually choose between an iPhone, a BlackBerry, or a Google Android? What if all those device operating...

Tags: Device, Operating System, RIM BlackBerry, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-25

News to know: Ubuntu; New Macbook; BlackBerry Storm; Google layoffs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu? Netbooks + Ubuntu: OS solid but... Robin...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Layoff, Apple MacBook, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Microsoft 'Red Dog': A pink poodle in disguise?

I think the Wired December cover story on Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie captured well Ozzie's challenges in winning over the "old guard" inside Microsoft, while pushing ahead with his new agenda. But the part which most intrigued this Microsoft codename watcher was the bit about from where the...

Tags: Wired Inc., Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Wired Magazine, E-mail Providers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Sun reseller contacts

I recently asked readers to contact their local Sun resellers, ask about Sun Rays and Coolthreads products for their own use, and then tell me how the resellers reacted. I got some red hot email out of this - but of course this kind of thing self selects for negativity,...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, CDW Corp., Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Lines out door, around corner for BlackBerry Storm

The day has come, the time is near, and RIM's BlackBerry Storm has arrived in a store near you. So what kind of reception are we looking at here -- a mile-long frenzy like that for the Apple iPhone 3G, or the collective sigh for the T-Mobile G1? ...

Tags: Page, RIM BlackBerry, St., Ave, Storm, Handhelds, 3G, Hardware, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-21

ISV Quotes for the Intel® Xeon® Processor 7400 Series

Read testimonials touting the benefits of Inte's Xeon Processor 7400 Series froms some of today's leading technology companies. Including quotes from: Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Parallels, Red Hat, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Transitive, Virtual Iron, and VMware.

Tags: Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2008-11-21

Windows 7, undigested red meat, and a delicate sensibility

Sometimes actually rather too often for comfort I read something and I just don't know what to make of it - so a "compare and contrast" on two opposing blogs by other people about the miracle, or otherwise, of adding a not-a-lock lock to Windows and the reality that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Internet, Paul Murphy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Russinovich

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Apple's tea leaves: iPhone sales off a bit; MacBooks selling well

Piper Jaffray Gene Munster unveiled his latest read on Apple demand Monday and reckons that the company will see iPhone December quarter sales to fall about 5 percent to 15 percent from the September quarter. Meanwhile, demand is "healthy" for the latest MacBooks. How Apple fares during...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Munster, Sales Strategy, Notebooks, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Live migration across different platforms demonstrated

A while back I received a note from Red Hat's PR company that exclaimed that Red Hat and AMD had successfully migrated a running virtual machine from a dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteronâ„¢ processor, utilizing...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Microprocessor, Migration, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Semiconductors, Processors, Open Source, Hardware, Components, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-14

All About Microsoft: CodeTracker

Revised -- November, 2008 Can't keep Midori straight from MinSafe? Unsure how Red Dog, Cosmos and Zurich fit in Microsoft's cloud OS picture? Tracking Microsoft's myriad codenames is an almost full-time occupation. And Mary Jo Foley knows that better than anyone, as she spends...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2008-11-14

More XP OLPCs?

Ars Technica is reporting that Columbia will be distributing OLPC XO netbooks to students in the towns of Quetame and Chia. This is a pilot program and, although it is unclear how many will be distributed and how they will be used programatically, we can deduce that these were...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Twitterank Creator Speaks

After my post yesterday afternoon about Twitterank, its creator Ryo Chijiiwa contacted me by email to ask if I'd like to hear his side of the story: I offered him a guest post. Over to Ryo: I blame the Family Guy. There I was in my...

Tags: Password, Twitter, Twitterank, Security, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Review: Why Android is for me and the G1 isn't

For me, when it comes to cell phones, it's a marriage of convenience. I value the basic function of a cell phone to connect me to the rest of the world from almost anywhere, but beyond that, I couldn't care less about the "features." Despite my power...

Tags: T-Mobile G1, Phone, Smart Phone, T-Mobile, Cell Phone, E-mail, HTC-made G1, Telecom & Utilities, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Are visits to massage parlors and bars impacting your credit?

Tech blogs are quick to point out when things appear to be a bit too big-brotherish for our comfort levels - cookies, deep packet inspection, Gmail ads. Now, it appears that the one to watch out for is the credit card companies. Money Magazine, in its December...

Tags: Credit Card, Credit Card Company, American Express Co., Magazine, Tech Blog, Sales Channel, ATM, Financial Services, Sales, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-12

News to know: Windows 7; Google; iPhone; Storm; iLife patch

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 - The "Blue Badge" experience. Gallery right Michael Krigsman: Sixteen IT failures to remember Garett Rogers: Google makes the blogosphere...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Apple iLife, Jason O'Grady, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-11

iPhone tops RAZR in sales; twice as reliable as Blackberry

Market research firm NPD has announced that the iPhone 3G was the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the U.S. during the third quarter of 2008. The move strips the top dog title away from the previously top-ranked Motorola RAZR and puts an end to the RAZR's three-year run...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Motorola Razr, Handset, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, RIM BlackBerry, Sales, 3G, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-10