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Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art

Microsoft has been quietly building a platform to help its own product teams -- and ultimately, those from other companies -- turn product planning more of a science and less of a black art. Microsoft calls the test bed the Microsoft Experimentation Platform ExP. Here is how...

Tags: Software, Team, Experiment, Platform, Experimentation, Microsoft Corp., ExP, EXP Team, MJF, Human Intuition, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-16

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Yahoo's search strategy: We're not fighting "the megawatt war"

At Yahoo's press event yesterday, there was some grilling about the new features in search and how much of that had to do with the long-anticipated search deal the company cut with Microsoft last month. If you'll recall, the 10-year pact between the two companies involved Microsoft...

Tags: Strategy, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Internet, Corporate Communications, Search, Channel Management, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?

Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?Agreed. Tried it out.It can answer "some" questions faster then Google but still suffers the problem of you want to do further research even then to be assured Wolfram got it right. As I suspected, its much like Wikipedia; just a smaller...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., search engine, Wolfram/Alpha

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

CES 2009: Liveblogging Palm's press conference [day 3]

Scroll down for newest info -- wireless is spotty! PALM IS ALIVE AND WELL Here's the whole press conference, from start to finish: 1:36PM EST: I'm sitting in the second row of Palm's very crowded press conference in a large ballroom...

Tags: Card, Facebook, Phone, Palm Inc., Ed Colligan, Sheryl Sandberg, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Improving Windows Vista's reliability

Improving Windows Vista's reliabilityThank you AKH...... for telling the Vista bashing universer what the rest of us already knew. The naysayers bleat loud and long about how much Vista "suxors" but the rest of us just keep on using it, crash free and stable.Yep, it does "just work."One flaw...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Improving Windows Vista, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art

Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than artlol...And this comes from the king of delayed releases and features axed....just see vista's history.OSS does not need this kind of lame tools, because we always deliver all the features on time and....for free!Gives the impression that future software from themmight...

Tags: Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, OPEN SOURCE, MICROSOFT LOOKS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-16

My rich Internet application predictions for 2007. How did I do?

My rich Internet application predictions for 2007. How did I do?With a record like that...you should go to work for Gartner. You would be their top analyst.:-)Here's one for 2008Despite WPF having been in the wings for so long (AKA .NET 3.0), MS have been distracted from creating a...

Tags: LINQ, rich Internet application prediction, rich Internet application, Silverlight 2.0

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

LAX IT failure: leaps of faith don't work

LAX IT failure: leaps of faith don't workHow could then not tellA router is down. How do they not notice that? The security guys should have caught that right away. Assuming they have no security the network guys should have caught too.The only way to miss this is to have...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, router, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

Microsoft to push fix for patch trouble

Microsoft to push fix for patch troubleMicrosoft to push fix for patch troubleSo Microsoft had to fix other people's broken software? That's a pretty generous thing for them to do.Here we go again!Patch the patch to patch the patch that patches the patch which didn't patch the patch which...

Tags: Patches, SECURITY, patch, patch management, HHCTRL.OCX, Realtek, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-09