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A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Tolesto: I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...; Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), Development tools, Code names, .Net Framework; Blog posts 2007-08-03
A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Confucius: I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...; Tags: Windows Mobile, Windows Live, Code names; Blog posts 2007-08-02
Can Microsoft create a reality-distortion field?: The past couple of weeks of twists and turns along the road to obtaining info about Vista Service Pack 1 has gotten me thinking about RDFs -- reality distortion fields.Given that RDF may be less familiar to Windows users than Apple ones, here's a quick recap: "Reality distortion field RDF...; Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Windows 7, Linux, Google, Corporate strategy, Code names, Apple; Blog posts 2007-07-20
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
Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the house: On July 1, Microsoft's new fiscal year started with a new slate of Live executives -- or at least a bunch of existing execs with new titles and responsibilities.Brian Arbogast, who had been running Microsoft's Windows Live Developer & Communications Platform for the past few years, is now the Corporate...; Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Office Live, Database, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Code names; Blog posts 2007-07-06

Google complains (again): That didn't take long.A week after Microsoft announced it would amend Windows Vista so that its integrated Instant Search functionality won't hamper the performance of third-party desktop-search programs, Google has complained to the government again.In a new, seven-page amicus brief -- a copy of which Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Todd Bishop...; Tags: Windows Live, Vista, Service Pack, Search, Legal, Google, Corporate strategy, Code names; Blog posts 2007-06-25
Microsoft grows its Office Live family: It's been a while since the Office Live team has made any public announcements. But behind the scenes, the unit is expanding its stable of offerings to include a number of Microsoft managed services that curretly aren't thought of as "Office Live."Here's a quick Office Live refresher: Office Live, in...; Tags: Web conferencing, Web 2.0, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Office 2007, Office, Google, Corporate strategy, Code names; Blog posts 2007-06-20
Microsoft readies new 'Centro' mid-market server test build: Microsoft will release within the next few weeks a new Community Technology Preview CTP build of its mid-market server product, code-named "Centro," according to an e-mail sent to selected testers.According to information posted on the Techlog site, the upcoming Centro CTP will incorporate "many new Windows Server 2008 Beta 3...; Tags: Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Windows Midmarket Server, Code names; Blog posts 2007-06-20
Windows Fiji: Now second half of 2008?: Because Microsoft won't comment officially on "Fiji," the expected, standalone update to Windows Media Center, it's tough to confirm a date slip.But Chris Lanier, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional MVP in the digital media arena, is predicting that Fiji won't debut in 2007, as Microsoft and other interested parties had...; Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Fiji, Vista, Windows client; Blog posts 2007-06-18
Microsoft's next developer platform frontier: Unified communications: Microsoft got its start by appealing to developers. Since its early days, the company has added more and more developer platforms to its line-up. And now it's building out another: An official developer platform for unified communications.Unified communications, in Microsoft parlance, refers primarily to Exchange Server and Office Communictions Server...; Tags: Web conferencing, VOIP, Telecommunications, Speech, Exchange Server, Corporate strategy, Code names; Blog posts 2007-06-13
Microsoft provides first public demo of the Surface tabletop: On Saturday, June 9, at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, Microsoft let the public see, touch and test-drive the Surface interactive tabletop system that the company unveiled at the end of May.Surface -- the product formerly codenamed "PlayTable," and later "Milan" -- is a hardware-software bundle that Microsoft...; Tags: Vista, Research, Corporate strategy, Code names; Blog posts 2007-06-09
Was Ohana the Microsoft kitchen client?: Seattle Times Reporter Brier Dudley has an interesting follow-up to my blog post yesterday on the forthcoming Microsoft kitchen client.(And just for the record, from what I can tell, the kitchen client isn't a special version of Vista. It's more of a software layer that will "extend" Windows. Think of...; Tags: Windows Live, Windows client, Vista, Corporate strategy, Code names; Blog posts 2007-06-07
Microsoft delivers test build of new tool for building line-of-biz apps: At TechEd 2007, Microsoft released a first Community Technology Preview CTP build of "Acropolis," a set of components and tools for building line-of-business, portal-style .Net applications.Acropolis is "part of the '.NET Client Futures' wave of releases, our preview of upcoming technologies for Windows client development," Microsoft officials explained on the...; Tags: Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), TechEd 2007, Development tools, Code names, .Net Framework; Blog posts 2007-06-06
Microsoft's cool naming trend is over: It was a short but good run: Silverlight, Popfly, Surface. But it's over.At TechEd 2007, Microsoft officials announced the final names of "Katmai," the next version of its SQL Server database, and "Orcas," the forthcoming Visual Studio release.Katmai will be known as "Microsoft SQL Server 2008." And Orcas is "Microsoft...; Tags: Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), TechEd 2007, SQL Server, Silverlight (wpf/e), Development tools, Database, Corporate strategy, Code names; Blog posts 2007-06-04
Microsoft delivers a trio of new Windows Live betas: New beta builds of Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger (8.5) and Windows Live Writer (a blog-authoring service/tool) are available to testers for download as of May 30, according to Microsoft.The next version of Windows Live Mail went to testers in nine markets today. The new version will integrate "features...; Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Web 2.0, Windows Live; Blog posts 2007-05-30
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
Enough with the 3D maps! What about Windows Live storage?: Another day, another glitzy Live Search map. (Or is it a Live Map, Live Local Map or a Virtual Earth Map? Who can keep up?)What I really want to hear about isn't who has better 3D buildings, Microsoft or Google. I want more details on Microsoft's storage services. Luckily, the...; Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Windows Home Server, Windows Live; Blog posts 2007-05-29
Will Microsoft pit 'Milan' multi-touch against Apple's iPhone?: It's show time for Microsoft's "Milan" multi-touch and gestural interface technology. And I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft decides to make this week's Wall Street Journal tech conference the debutante ball.Milan, the technology previously known as "PlayTable," and, later, "Table," has been in incubation for the past few years...; Tags: Apple, Code names, Corporate strategy, Research, Zune; Blog posts 2007-05-29
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
Enthusiasts progress with plans to resurrect Windows 'Longhorn': Seven months after announcing plans to take up where Microsoft left off with its Windows Longhorn client development, a group of members of the Joejoe.org site have built a working protype of what they're calling "Longhorn Reloaded."Earlier this week, the Longhorn Reloaded developers and testers posted for download Milestone 1...; Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Vista, Windows client; Blog posts 2007-05-24