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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....

Tags: Killer Application, Parallel Processing, Computing, Craig Mundie, Larry Dignan

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...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Craig Mundie, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley

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...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Microsoft Corp., Trustworthy Computing, Craig Mundie, Internet, Security, Viruses And Worms, Larry Dignan

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...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., Craig Mundie, software

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,...

Tags: Research, Healthcare, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Windows client, Web 2.0

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...

Tags: General, Security, Microsoft, OpenID, Craig Mundie

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...

Tags: Frank

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...

Tags: Nicholas Negroponte

Blog posts 2006-01-30

Additional Resources

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...

Tags: Linux, Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft development tools, U.S. Department of Justice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

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...

Tags: Environment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Business World, Mundie, Game Players, Microsoft Project, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

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...

Tags: Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide, MSFT, Harry Fuller

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...

Tags: Facebook, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Service, Vine, Mary Jo Foley

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...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Barack Obama, Hedge Fund, Advisor, William Press, David E. Shaw, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan

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...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Windows Kernel, Craig, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, parallel-processing tweak, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Win32, tweak, operating system

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...

Tags: Receptionist, User Interface, Microsoft Corp., Robots, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Mary Jo Foley

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...

Tags: Bill Gates, cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., secret cloud

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...

Tags: Mobile, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Smart Phones, Healthcare, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

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...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Poole, Ayala, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

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...

Tags: Software, Programming Model, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Computing, Programming, Mundie, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Larry Dignan

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.

Tags: Security

Videos 2008-04-09