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- News to know: Congress; Newser; Apple; VMware; High-speed rail
- Harry Fuller: Confronting Congressional hypocrisy The U.S. is losing it Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Newser Versus The New York Times, Revisited: Who's Copying Whom? Andrew Nusca: Apple director: 'no change' in Jobs' plans Sam Diaz: No Twitter blasts...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, U.S. Congress, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Strategy, Hardware, Internet, Management
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Red Dog: Five questions with Microsoft mystery man Dave Cutler
- Dave Cutler, the father of the NT and VMS operating systems, is a key member of Microsoft's Red Dog cloud OS team. I had a chance to ask Cutler about what he's working on now. Here's our exchange. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Team, Hypervisor, Operating System, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Corp., Red Dog, Fabric Controller, MJF, Opposite, Virtualization, Team Management, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Management, Storage, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- How the Red Dog dream team built a cloud OS from scratch
- How the Red Dog dream team built a cloud OS from scratchKeeping it simple is good.Thanks for your attention to my post requesting a definition of Red Dog yesterday.I was hoping it might be in the introduction. But I did encounter more later:Calling Red Dog an ?operating system? is...
- Tags: Team management, Balmer, Keeping it Simple, Red Dog, operating system, team, Azure
- Discussion threads 2009-02-24
- 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
- So what can Sun do?
- So what can Sun do?I have a couple of suggestions.Now doubt you wont like them, Murph, but here they are anyway:- Work with Microsoft to get Windows Server running on SPARC. Why? There are a lot of small businesses on Windows servers for whom the migration to Sun hardware is...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., Murph
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureA correction(?)[i]and a new proprietory OS called VMS - that eventually became the basis for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0[/i]The first version of Windows NT was 3.5, not 4.0.Also, I think its not correct to say VMS formed the basis of NT. It is true...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Digital Equipment Corp., VMS, data-processing
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
-  A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...
- Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Old DEC code open sourced by HP
- Old DEC code open sourced by HPMove on... why botherWow, and if IBM open sources OS/2, we'd have two museum pieces to admire. AdvFS was DOA five years ago, the last thing we need is another retrieval from the grave.DEC started search enginesFew people remember that DEC started search engines....
- Tags: INTERNET, Operating systems, Desktops, Olsen, Hewlett-Packard Co., Digital Equipment Corp., AdvFS, VAX, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratch
- Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratchNow that makes sense.Which means it probably won't happen.Makes too much senseWindows is now an unmanagable mess. This solution makes complete sense! They talk about backward compadiblity, but if they are so concerned about backward compadiblity,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, operating system, new OS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- 64-bit PCs: Drivers wanted
- 64-bit PCs: Drivers wantedI need to build a custom pc in orderto run Vista 64bits? No Thanks!Drivers Sometimes Difficult to FindI build my own PC and went with a 64 bit AMD and an MSI motherboard. I also purchased Windows XP Professional x64 as the OS. Thus far...
- Tags: Network technology, Apple Mac OS X, PC, 64-bit
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- Is Microsoft's Cloud OS actually a Cloud DB?
- Microsoft officials have used "Cloud OS" as shorthand to refer to the Windows Live Core, or the platform that will power Microsofts current and forthcoming datacenter-based family of services. But what, exactly, is Microsofts Cloud OS? Is it an operating system OS at all? Microsoft officials have used...
- Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, SQL Server, Google, Database, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Microsoft assembles its All Star team to tackle its Cloud OS
- The Windows-Live watchers over on LiveSide.Net started drawing up the roster of whos on the Windows Live Core team. It looks like Microsoft is putting a lot of its All Stars on the Live Core team. On the Microsoft org chart, development and engineering for both Windows and...
- Tags: Operating systems, Windows Live Core, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, team, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- AT&T uses open source to assure dominance
- AT&T uses open source to assure dominanceAT&T exploits open source to assure anti-neutrality dominance.In case anyone forgot, [url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1151]AT&T is part of king Duh'bya's revocation-of-privacy program[/url] in cooperation with the FBI-NSA domestic spying conspiracy. In addition, AT&T have been fighting net neutrality to allow themselves, and the FBI-NSA gestapo, the ability...
- Tags: Great Programmer, open source, AT&T Corp., programmer
- Discussion threads 2006-11-10
- Microsoft makes Linux pact with Novell
- Microsoft makes Linux pact with NovellOh my!!!!! Trouble for everyone besides Novell"In addition, the software makers have struck a deal on patents designed to give customers peace of mind about using Novell's open-source products, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Novell CEO Ronald Hovsepian said at an event here."Hmmm, so Novell...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Linux, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-02
- Why Google hired Vint Cerf
- Why Google hired Vint CerfWhy Google hired Vint Cerf[i]said databases filled with geographically indexed material will soon help people easily retrieve lists of local hospitals, ATMs or cafes on mobile devices.[/i]They hired him just for that?? My cell phone had an application I could download that did the very...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Storage, Google Inc., Vint Cerf, Linux
- Discussion threads 2005-09-09
- Microsoft loses pair of engineers
- Microsoft loses pair of engineersNew low in ZDNET reportingSince when is losing two software engineers out of the thousands Microsoft employs news worthy? People change companies every day for a variety of reasons.no future in a career with Micro$oftThe smart professsionals are realizing that Microsoft's technical and business model...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, professsional, Microsoft Corp., Cutler
- Discussion threads 2005-03-09
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