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- Yes folks, the cloud and parallel processing need killer apps
- Microsoft's research chief Craig Mundie outlined his view of where computing is headed over the next decade or so and here is a big takeaway: The cloud and multiprocessor computing could use a few good killer applications. Mundie was speaking at the Technology Review Emerging Technology conference....
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- What comes after S+S? A truly unified client-cloud platform
- Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie's current priority No. 1 is to help the Softies, customers and partners understand the changes necessary to program and use computing resources in the form of a composite platform -- i.e., the cloud and the client as a single unit. by Mary...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- RSA: Microsoft launches trusted Internet initiative; Aims for security dialogue
- Microsoft said Tuesday at the RSA security conference that it is launching a trustworthy Internet initiative much like its Trustworthy Computing plan launched in 2002. And like Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative it all started with a whitepaper. That fact is what makes Microsoft's strategy and research chief's...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Microsoft says some way to go on software piracy
- Microsoft says some way to go on software piracyCraig Mundie should not be speaking on thisCraig Mundie is the old boy Microsoft management whoes name has not come up a lot in the US antitrust cases. But he was a central figure in the permatemp problems which came prior to...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- 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,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- RSA 2007: Microsoft marries CardSpace and OpenID 2.0
- With the Vista launch behind him, Bill Gates and Craig Mundie, Microsofts chief research and strategy officer and security patron, were on stage the 16th annual RSA Conference in San Francisco before a crowd of about 15,000 security geeks and professionals. They were preceded by a Broadway-style dance number with...
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Ray in Charge
- With my family visiting the in-laws in Charleston, I'm alone here with dog, 3 cats, and 3 (I hope that's the right number) fish. On Friday I got up late and went down to Podshow for the Fubar Friday company get-together. Sitting with Adam Curry in his cubicle, he asked...
- Blog posts 2006-06-18
- Gates 'secretely bitter' about $100 laptop
- Nicholas Negroponte's proposed $100 laptop has won him the enmity of Bill Gates, according to John Markoff's article in the New York Times. The founder of MIT's Media Lab has been working full-bore on the idea of a laptop cheap enough to be distributed free to the developing world's...
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
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- DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC approval
- Yeah but...Sure wish they'd fire McNealy & Schwartz, then it would make it all worthwhile.Michael Murdock, CEOWell I never liked Oracle anyway......good way for Oracle to shoot itself in the foot. :)Did you know that large snakes can misjudge prey and try to eat something too big? Then they literally...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Microsoft's Project Natal for business: In your dreams
- Natural user interfaces will be big. Anyone that sees Microsoft's Project Natal demo comes away impressed. Once Microsoft execs try to extend that to the business world you can't help but snicker. That clunky transition from the Xbox to the business world was in plain view at...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Renewable energy is only a patch--MSFT research head
- Stop the release of CO2 says Craig Mundie. Any way and every way. Doesn't Craig understand that it's always about making a profit and you do that by selling more energy, even renewable...not by cutting down on CO2. That's generally a costly public service like clean water...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Microsoft to begin public test of Twitter-like notification service
- Microsoft is taking reservations starting April 28 for a limited beta of a new public-information service called Vine. The service, slated to go to testers in May, uses alerts, reports and a personal dashboard to allow users to stay in touch, particularly during crisis situations. The Vine service...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Obama counts Mundie, Schmidt, hedge fund founder Shaw as tech advisors
- President Obama named Microsoft research chief Craig Mundie and Google CEO Eric Schmidt to his panel of science and technology advisors along with a few other notable characters. The full name of this panel is the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology PCAST and the goal is...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaks
- Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaksWindows 7It seems that Microsoft is playing it safe with Windows 7 by having minimum changes.Is WinFS still alive or do we have to consider it as a dead duck?Thanks RodIt's mostly the applications anywaysFrankly, it's mostly the applications that need to take advantage of...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs
- Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the user interface of the future will look like is more complex than that. Instead of allowing users...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Is Bill Gates a secret cloud convert?
- Is Bill Gates a secret cloud convert?He doesn't say use it in the cloudHe doesn't say use it in the cloud, he said it is with the Windows Live download which includes lots and lots of non-cloud based programs, windows live writer for instance.Originally the "Internet" was going to be...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Is Microsoft the answer to Africa's health woes?
- In my story earlier today I pointed out how African researchers see mobile data networks as the key to improving health outcomes on the world's poorest continent. The French group formerly known as Fone+, now combined under Craig Mundie into Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Group, is pushing precisely...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Another Windows veteran to leave Microsoft
- Will Poole, a Microsoft Windows veteran -- and most recently, Corporate Vice President in charge of the company's Unlimited Potential group -- is retiring, according to sources who asked not to be named. Poole, who has been at Microsoft 12 years, previously was the Senior Vice President...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Microsoft's Mundie: New programming models needed
- Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, said Wednesday that the software industry needs to catch up with advances in computing power. The gist: Computing power is growing exponentially via multiple cores and parallel processing. The rub: Software doesn't have the tools or programming heft to...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- RSA 2008: Microsoft outlines Internet security strategy
- At the RSA 2008 conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie describes a new plan for Internet security that includes the creation of a trusted stack. Each element can be authenticated, from the operating system to applications, people, and data.
- Videos 2008-04-09
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