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Office for Mac 2008 delayed until next year

The next version of Microsoft Office for Mac won't hit in the latter half of 2007, as originally expected, according to Microsoft. The new ship target for Office for Mac 2008 is January 2008.Microsoft officials are attributing the delay to insufficient quality of current test versions of the product. ArsTechnica...

Tags: Office for Mac, Office, Apple, App Compatibility

Blog posts 2007-08-02

Warning for 64-bit Windows users: No iPhone support for you

As Engadget reported over the weekend, the iPhone is incompatible with the 64-bit flavors of Windows XP and Windows Vista.Apple's iPhone specs page doesn't mention the incompatibility; it says that the iPhone will work with Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate Edition; or Windows XP Home or Professional...

Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Vista, Telecommunications, Apple, App Compatibility

Blog posts 2007-07-02

When will Apple go public about ActiveSync and the iPhone?

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal have confirmed that the iPhone will work with Exchange Server. But The Times' David Pogue notes, at least for now, Apple is relying on IMAP, not Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol, to provide iPhones with Exchange push-email functionality.My sources are still standing by claims...

Tags: App Compatibility, Apple, Corporate strategy, Exchange Server

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Leopard looks like ... Vista

I just sat through my second Steve Jobs keynote ever. (My first was MacWorld in New York in 2002.)What struck me at the June 11 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC event wasn't the glitzy demos, the rockstar-like worship of Apple CEO Steve Jobs or the "I'm Steve Jobs" parody video...

Tags: Windows client, Vista, Apple, App Compatibility

Blog posts 2007-06-11

How will Windows Server 2008 fare on the compatibility front?

Windows Server 2008, a k a Longhorn Server, isn't expected to be released to manufacturing till the end of this year. But that doesn't mean it's too early to start thinking about compatibility issues that might arise.Microsoft, for its part, already is thinking about it -- and has been doing...

Tags: Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Windows client, Vista, Corporate strategy, App Compatibility

Blog posts 2007-06-08

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

Is Microsoft's ODF vote supposed to make amends for its patent attack?

Microsoft issued a press release on May 18 trumpeting its vote "to support the addition of OpenDocument Format ODF 1.0 to the nonexclusive American National Standards list."Further down in the press release, Microsoft casually mentions that Open XML also is on the list to get the standards nod from the...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Apple, App Compatibility, Legal, Linux, Novell, Office, Office 2007, Office for Mac

Blog posts 2007-05-17

Microsoft's state of Vista: The first 100 days

Microsoft is making a concerted effort to counter the perception by many in the industry that Windows Vista is floundering, 100 days after launch. On May 8, company officials shared via a phone call new data on the Vista "ecosystem" to prove the companys contention that...

Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Vista, Corporate strategy, App Compatibility

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Intel and Dell not yet ready for Vista, but AMD is

Intel is reported to be waiting for Windows Vista Service Pack SP 1 before rolling out Windows Vista on a broad scale inside the company. And it sounds like Dell also is planning on waiting for SP1 before doing an internal deployment. (Microsoft brass foolishly continue to hedge about...

Tags: Windows client, Vista, App Compatibility

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Vista users' frustrations with Nvidia come to a head

Windows Vista users ongoing frustrations with graphics-card maker Nvidia have boiled over. A new Web site, NvidiaClassAction.info, created by IT consultant Dan Goldman, is gauging whether there is sufficient user interest to launch a class-action suit against Nvidia over the vendors allegedly spotty Windows Vista support. ...

Tags: App Compatibility, Vista, Windows client

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Beware false Daylight Saving Time resets on April 1

Users who didnt already update their PCs and devices for the earlier-than-usual Daylight Saving Time DST change-over could encounter time glitches on April 1, the "normally scheduled" DST start date. As USA Today notes: "There may be more DST glitches on Sunday night. Its likely that some consumers...

Tags: Windows Mobile, Windows client, Windows CE, Office, Corporate strategy, App Compatibility

Blog posts 2007-03-30

Microsoft quietly patches Windows Live OneCare to fix Outlook problems

Microsoft is not going to patch the latest version of its Windows Live OneCare service on March 13 to remedy Outlook compatibility issues, as a number of news and blog sites are reporting. The reason? Microsoft already issued the required OneCare patch with no fanfare on March 11. ...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, patch management, OneCare, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live OneCare, OneCare-Outlook, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2007-03-12

Updates from the Microsoft Daylight Saving patch trenches

Its going to be a busy weekend for IT administrators still struggling to get their systems patched to handle the change to Daylight Saving Time DST on March 11. On Friday afternoon, Microsofts DST online chat room, which was set to be staffed for 15 hours, had on average...

Tags: Office, Support, Exchange Server, App Compatibility

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches

Thousands of Microsoft customers are running into problems understanding and applying the myriad Microsoft Daylight Saving Time DST patches required in order to keep their Windows, Exchange Server and other systems up-to-date when DST takes effect on March 11. Microsofts online DST chat room -- which Microsoft is currently...

Tags: Windows Mobile, App Compatibility, Exchange Server, Support, Windows server, Windows client

Blog posts 2007-03-08

Vista-compatible Visual Studio refresh ships

The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack SP 1 update for Windows Vista is out, as of March 6. (As of 5:30 p.m. EST, I dont yet see it on the Microsoft download site. But sounds like it will be soon.) The SP refresh is an update to...

Tags: App Compatibility, Development tools, Vista, Windows client

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Microsoft responds to DOT ban on Vista, Office 2007

The Department of Transportation has put an indefinite ban on upgrades to Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007, as first reported by Information Week. Heres the DOT memo outlining the Vista "moratorium," dated January 19. "Based on our initial analysis (from internal recommendations and analysis...

Tags: App Compatibility, Internet Explorer, Office 2007, Windows client, Corporate strategy, Vista

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Novell makes ODF-OOXML translator available

Novell has released for download an Open XML translator that allows users to open and save Microsoft Office Open XML-formatted word-processing documents in OpenOffice. On the morning of March 5, the Novell download site was down. But the translator download was working over the weekend. Novell officials...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Legal, Office, Office 2007, App Compatibility, Novell

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Microsoft releases Daylight Saving patches for Dynamics CRM 3.0

Microsoft is continuing to roll out updates needed for a number of its products as a result of the early switch to Daylight Saving Time DST on March 11. The latest product to get the DST treatment is Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. Microsoft made the DST CRM patch...

Tags: App Compatibility, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Microsoft: Why the ODF vs. OOXML battle matters

Hardly a week goes by without some new story on OpenDoc Format ODF vs. Office Open XML OOXML file-format wars grabbing headlines. This week, its California is threatning to go the way of Massachusetts in decreeing that state agencies make ODF their document standard. I havent been one to...

Tags: App Compatibility, Corporate strategy, Legal, Office, Office 2007, Office for Mac

Blog posts 2007-02-28

Microsoft to charge for Daylight Saving hotfixes for older products

March 11, the new date on which Daylight Saving Time DST will take effect in the U.S. and a growing number of other countries, is fast approaching. And Microsoft is working overtime to get the message out that users need to patch a bunch of their Microsoft products, from Exchange...

Tags: App Compatibility, Office, Exchange Server, Windows server, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-02-28