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Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSD

Jon DeVaan -- the "mystery man" behind Windows 7 -- is the Senior Vice President in charge of Microsoft's Core Operating System Division COSD. I had a chance to ask DeVaan some questions last week about how COSD works and about one of COSD's better-known if still largely misunderstood initiatives:...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Team, Microsoft Windows 7, Core Operating System Division, MinWin, MJF, Team Management, Management

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Veteran Windows architect resigns from Microsoft

On the heels of a week of news of a number of Microsoft executive departures and reshufflings, another has come to light. Rob Short, Corporate Vice President for Windows Core, has resigned from the company. While Short's departure won't make anywhere near the headlines that Microsoft President...

Tags: Team, I/O, Microsoft Corp., Core Operating System Division, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Additional Resources

The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards

On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Open Standard, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-25

IBM and Sun: Is it about the hardware or the software?

The Wall Street Journal reports IBM is in acquisition talks with Sun Microsystems. At this point, the companies are refusing to comment on the rumor. If it comes to pass, the acquisition would give IBM a larger share of the high-end server and storage markets and enhanced access to certain...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, IBM Corp., Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ian Finley

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Freescale to use Android, ARM for $100 Netbook

Freescale to use Android, ARM for $100 NetbookAnd, Microsoft will be left scrambling yet again. Have they already startedthe port of real Windows to Arm, or will they try to use Windows CE here.Fake business plan - Consumer snow job1) Save on license fees? Everyone seems to agree any MS...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, ARM, Freescale

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Microsoft: UAC security setting not changing (for now)

Via a hefty but uncharacteristically responsive and timely post to the Engineering Windows 7 blog, Microsoft officials said that they believe the default User Account Control UAC security setting in Windows 7 is fine as it is. (At least I think that is what the author of...

Tags: User Account Control, Security, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., DeVaan, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-02-05

Jon DeVaan: The mystery man behind Windows 7

The public face of the Windows development-chief duo is Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky, who runs Windows and Windows Live Engineering. The private face is Jon DeVaan, the head of Microsoft's Core Operating System Division COSD. I had a chance to interview DeVaan by phone this week on his role...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Team, Idea, Microsoft Corp., Jon DeVaan, MJF, JD, Engineering Excellence, Microsoft Office, Office Suites

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Harnessing a multicore future

Harnessing a multicore futureThe Java Response?It is certainly going to be interesting to see how the Java community responds to the need to abstract away the complexities of parallel processing from programmers. If the community doesn't do it right, developers will be jumping ship like crazy to .Net.The desktopYour 10th...

Tags: Processors, Games, CPU, multi-core, desktop, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" 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 â€" 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

Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7

The incredibly tight veil of secrecy around Windows 7 is about to lift, at least a little. After months of information lockdown, Microsoft is ready to begin talking about the next version of Windows. The first bits of information come from the very top, with a new blog written by...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, PDC, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-08-14

The Microsoft middle ground

The Microsoft middle groundYes, but the current perceived credit crunchshould get rid of a lot of the "me-too" fat from the system.Only the genuine knowledgeable IT lovers will be left ....Price vs TCOYour piece fails to mention the well-documented costs of owning MS-based desktops and servers. The delta in...

Tags: Printers, Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, lock-in, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

Free the XBOX 360!!!

Free the XBOX 360!!!"Microsoft-approved"Why shouldn't Microsoft be concerned with the performance of software on XBox?Quoting:Microsoft makes both the hardware and software, and the environment is tightly controlled - only Microsoft-approved software need apply. [End quote]Vista shows that a product's reputation can be affected by the uninterest or mistakes of third...

Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., game, console

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

A world ruled by Apple

Tributes to Bill Gates littered the blogosphere on Friday for obvious reason, as it was Bill Gates' last day as a full-time employee at the company he co-founded. This, predictably, rubbed certain people the wrong way, as the success of Bill Gates represents to some the "failure" of their preferred...

Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Bill Gates, Hardware, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Thoughts on Bill Gates

When I think of Bill Gates, I can't help but think back to that famous photo taken of his team shortly before they moved up to Washington State from Albuquerque.  This rag-tag band somehow served as the base for a company that now employs 75,000+ people (including myself, until recently)...

Tags: Software, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Tools & Techniques, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Why I didn't like "Microhoo"

Why I didn't like "Microhoo"Two essays jostling.Microsoft has made an investment in MSN, and that investment has not been paying well. Search is a related source of income, and that component of the business could also be improved on the balance sheet.The purchase of Yahoo would add the #2...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, Development tools, Microsoft Corp., content company, advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

Need Vista SP1 help? Call Redmond toll-free

Microsoft is providing free phone support for Windows Vista Service Pack SP 1 users -- whether they get their SP1 from Microsoft or via a PC maker or other retailer -- through March 2009. There's got to be a catch, right? Surprisingly, the caveats...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-24

DST arrives this weekend: Are your Microsoft systems ready?

Daylight Saving Time DST starts a couple of weeks earlier this year than usual -- on Sunday March 9 for U.S. and Canada. Microsoft users and administrators should know the drill by now: Double-check to make sure your Microsoft-based systems are ready. M3 Sweatt, the Chief of...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Daylight Saving Time, DST, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-07

What+Microsoft+does+well

What+Microsoft+does+wellMice, fast food, and jet enginesSo how does a Microsoft keyboard fit into your theory?Or, looking at it from a company twice Microsoft's size at least financially: what is the "core identity" of General Electric?NOTHIINGWindows is garbage.NET is garbageSilverlight is a nonstarterXbox finally made mooney and is getting killed by...

Tags: Keyboards, PRODUCTIVITY, Game players, Strategy, developer, Microsoft Corp., keyboard, computer, new user, killer app

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Steve Ballmer then and now?

Steve Ballmer then and now?Steve Ballmer - Monkey CEOI can't think of a time when I could take Steve seriously as the CEO of Microsoft. He would rattle some rant about how .net was a platform and Java was a language. He would also rattle on about how...

Tags: Corporate communications, video, Steve Ballmer, second video, Bill Gates, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-28

Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retail

Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retailHard to believeI'm sorry, but this alleged 100 million number for RETAIL sales of an operating system (doesn't matter who makes it) sounds more like a big corporate lie than the truth.Here are some simple facts that make the alleged count unbelievable:-...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales strategy, HERE ARE, Microsoft Corp., Average Joe, Microsoft Windows Vista, sales, Vista sale

Discussion threads 2008-01-06