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- Microsoft and open source: Frost sightings in hell
- (This is a guest post by Stephen Walli, a software consultant specializing in open-source, and a former Microsoft program manager for the Shared Source implementation of the ECMA Common Language Infrastructure.)Bill Hilf, Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy, announced two things last week at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in...
- Tags: Shared Source, Linux, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Could Windows Home Server be Microsoft's iPhone?
- Run down the check list: Relatively quiet development period, followed by short and seemingly successful beta. Check A product that users actually want and understand. Check Potentially cool form factors. CheckMicrosoft just might have a hit on its hands with Windows Home Server when the first Home Server models debut this fall.Is it...
- Tags: Windows Home Server, System builders, OEMs, Corporate strategy, Channel, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Ad-funded Microsoft Works pilot starting soon
- On the afternoon of August 1, Microsoft finally decided to talk officially about its plans for an ad-funded version of Microsoft Works.Courtesy of a Microsoft spokeswoman, via e-mail:"Microsoft is initiating a pilot program featuring an ad-funded version of Microsoft Works – Microsoft Works SE 9.""Since its release in 1986,...
- Tags: Web 2.0, System builders, Office, OEMs, Google, Corporate strategy, Channel, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Works 9.0 to come in both free and paid flavors
- Here's a nice find by the folks over at Clubic.com: The Web-order form for Works 9.0.Microsoft is still planning to offer a paid version of the next version of its consumer/home-office productivity suite. It will cost $39.95 at retail -- about $10 per copy less than Works 8.0.There's still no...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Office, Google, Corporate strategy, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- What's next on Microsoft's search agenda?
- It's been three months since Satya Nadella took over as Corporate Vice President in charge of Microsoft's Search & Advertising Platform Group. What's he been up to?"I've been focusing on learning," said Nadella, with whom I had chance to chat on July 27 at his office on the Redmond campus....
- Tags: Web 2.0, Search, Google, Corporate strategy, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- SoftGrid app-virtualization: Another way to offer software as a service
- MDOP, the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, is the fastest-selling-ever Volume Licensing product from Microsoft, according to the company. Since Microsoft introduced MDOP six months ago, customers have bought 2 million licenses for MDOP.MDOP consists of a number of different tools and technologies, all of which are developed by Microsoft's System...
- Tags: Virtualization, System Center, Office 2007, Office, Google, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Ozzie: Innovation coming from consumer, not corporate, market
- Until fairly recently, many Microsoft watchers -- including Softies themselves -- would likely say that the Redmond software maker was far more focused on business users than consumers. But there's a noticeable shift happening in where Microsoft sees innovation taking place.Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie summed things up rather succinctly...
- Tags: Zune, Xbox Live, Xbox, Windows Mobile, Corporate strategy, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- What will next-generation multicore apps look like?
- The move to multicore processing is well underway. But the creation of software that takes advantage of multicore capabilities is still little more than a twinkle in the eyes of developers -- including Microsoft's developers.Microsoft has started thinking through what apps might look like in five-plus years. And Craig Mundie,...
- Tags: Research, Healthcare, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Windows client, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Here's the list of fixes in those new Vista fix packs
- I linked to an AeroXP post this morning listing hot fixes for Windows Vista provided in two new Knowledge Base postings. The AeroXP post is gone now. Poof!So if you wanted the list of what's in there, here it is. I grabbed it from NVNews.Net. I am posting the Vista...
- Tags: Windows client, Service Pack, Vista, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Microsoft Works to become a free, ad-funded product
- Microsoft's next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded.Microsoft Works 9.0 -- which will be the new product's name, if Microsoft opts to stick with its current nomenclature -- might also debut at some point as Microsoft-hosted low-end productivity service, as many have been...
- Tags: Systems integrators, Office Live, Office, OEMs, Google, Corporate strategy, Channel, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- New Vista fix packs provide updates promised for SP1
- Microsoft has rolled out to select testers two new Windows Vista fix packs that deliver many of the same updates expected to be provided by Vista Service Pack SP 1.The fix packs (detailed in Knowledge Base articles 938194 and 938979) were made available to Windows Server 2008 testers on July...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Windows client, Vista, Service Pack
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Ozzie spells out the Live platform layers
- Microsoft is -- almost -- ready to explain what Windows Live "the platform" looks like.Last year at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie provided a very high-level (and tough-to-follow) outline of what Microsoft's Live platform was going to look like. This year, Ozzie abandoned the...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Web 2.0, Office Live, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Windows Vista hits the 60-million-copies-sold milestone
- I predicted Microsoft would hit the 60-million-copies-sold mark with Windows Vista around July 1. On July 26, at its annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM, Microsoft officials acknowledged the company has hit that milestone.At the end of the fist 100 days of sales, at the start of May, Microsoft said it...
- Tags: Windows client, Vista, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Another new Window Live buzzword is born
- There's a new Windows Live buzzword in town: Windows Live Cloud Infrastructure.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned publicly the elusive Windows Live Cloud Infrastructure during his remarks at Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting FAM on July 26 in Redmond.Microsoft has been bucketing and rebucketing its collection of Live services for months, in...
- Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, Search, Office Live, Development tools, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Microsoft: Expect Windows installed base to hit 1 billion by mid-2008
- The Windows installed base will hit the 1 billion mark by the end of Microsoft's fiscal 2008 (which ends on June 30), according to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO."There will be more PCs running Windows than automobiles at that point," Ballmer told attendees of the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM...
- Tags: Windows client, Research, Corporate strategy, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Drawing more Microsoft roadmaps
- Now that Microsoft has provided an official ship target for Windows 7, the next major version of Windows client, it's time for some educated guess work.Windows 7 is the only piece of the Windows client roadmap for which Microsoft is willing to provide a date right now. Here's what I'd...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Windows Midmarket Server, Windows client, Windows 7, SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Fiji, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Windows Seven: Think 2010
- Windows Seven now has an official ship target -- 2010.At Microsoft's Global Exchange MGX annual sales conference in Orlando this week, Microsoft shared a bit more -- albeit at a high level -- on Windows Seven, according to a copy of a slide deck I saw that was distributed...
- Tags: Windows Live, Windows client, Windows 7, Vista, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- 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
- New hires, datacenter investments evident in Microsoft earnings
- Most of the reports of Microsoft's fiscal Q4 2007 and full year results are focusing on how the $1 billion one-time charge Microsoft took to offset Xbox hardware failures affected the company's bottom line.But there were lots of other meaty bits buried in the Microsoft balance sheets -- including the...
- Tags: Xbox, Windows Live, Windows client, Web 2.0, Vista, Office 2007, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Wanted: New information on XP SP3
- If Microsoft officials don't want you to know about Vista Service Pack SP 1, you can be darn well sure they really don't want to talk about Windows XP Service Pack SP 3. But customers definitely want to discuss it.XP users who still aren't crazy about the idea of moving...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Vista, Service Pack, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
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