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- Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?
- Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?Bring it onThe HailStor... I mean Live-Mesh was a good idea back in 2001, but I seriously believe it might have been a bit ahead of it's time. I'm normally an Apple person, but I love the idea of having all these services co-ordinated and...
- Tags: RSS, Microsoft Corp., Hailstorm
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Windows Live Calendar, Presence coming soon to a dev platform near you
- Windows Live Calendar, Presence coming soon to a dev platform near youHey GoogleMove over, you're getting your doors blown off.read the fine print[i][b]Microsoft is not promising that every API[/b] at the heart of its infrastructure, foundation and application services in the Windows Live platform will be made broadly available[/i]It's always...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hailstorm, Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live Calendar, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- Google needs to read the 'Hailstorm' history books
- Google needs to read the 'Hailstorm' history booksOff-site storage needs to be "Advertised" better...Nobody has a real feel for how good and safe it really is. Take some of that excess cash and "evangelize" it to the public AND businesses on TV and YouTube and more.Most geeks know it's...
- Tags: SMB/SME, E-mail providers, selling point, Internet, Microsoft Corp., accounting, Google Inc., Hailstorm, history book, Google Needs
- Discussion threads 2007-02-22
- Google needs to read the 'Hailstorm' history books
- Youd think with so many former Softies on the payroll, Google would know a thing or two about avoiding mistakes Microsoft already made. (I know at least one Google employee who is quite well-versed in Hailstorm and could remind his current employer of the follies of his previous one,...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Google, Windows Live
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Windows Live rooted in MSN's past
- Windows Live rooted in MSN's pastIf at first you don't suceed . . .. . . try again with more features.Gadgets like Widgets?Hrm... Wonder where Microsoft got the idea for that?Yeah. Copy, Cut, and Paste; that's the Microsoft way.Hailstorm...The part the article doesn't specify is that Hailstorm was not...
- Tags: INTERNET, Desktops, Operating systems, MSN, Microsoft Corp., Gadgets like Widget, desktop, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, Hailstorm, Microsoft Windows Live
- Discussion threads 2005-11-03
- Beep beep
- Remember Wily Coyote? He's the Roadrunner's nemesis, chasing him out off the cliff's edge. Then there's that exquisite moment where he stands on thin air, about to realize he's got nothing. That's Microsoft, folks. IMing with Dan Farber, who's up in Redmond for the SMBusiness Summit,...
- Tags: Hailstorm
- Blog posts 2005-09-06
- New technology may increase identity theft
- New technology may increase identity theftOught to bring back Hailstorm...Hailstorm was the answer to this. Hailstorm, which became known as .NET My Services from Microsoft was going to revolutionize identity in the digital world. But Linux zealots spread FUD and my rep told me that Microsoft decided the world was...
- Tags: UNIX, Hailstorm, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2005-09-05
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- Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?
- "What is this Windows Live Mesh? It's a way to synchronize files." Joel Spolsky -- in classic Joel Spolsky style -- takes on Microsoft (but Google is also on his "radar") to task for fueling a round of hype around the whole notion of Cloud Computing....
- Tags: Hype, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
- OOXML expert: ODF standard is brokenI guess this guy is digging a deeper hole for himself...He's already been debunked (See http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/05/odf-validation-for-dummies.html), and he may be in trouble in the UK for being one of the key figured in switching the UK vote on OOXML.Fair enoughPropose amendments to fix the flaws...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world
- About 10 years ago, we used to ask Jim Barksdale, then head of Netscape, a stock question during news conferences. Did you bag any "default browser" deals lately? Inevitably Jim would demur and say they were still trying. Those were the days when the light was swiftly...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Channel Management, Internet, Web Browsers, Authentication/Encryption, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Google's OpenSocial: Strategy, money and the art of war, err APIs
- Google's OpenSocial: Strategy, money and the art of war, err APIsI still haven't drank the OpenSocial kool-aid...but your last sentence does put everything into perspective, doesn't it?For reasons too long to mention here, I will say I'm getting sick and tired of Google's ways of doing things, like the internet...
- Tags: strategy, Facebook, Google Inc., API, Google OpenSocial
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- Gillmor's Internet plate tectonics
- Steve Gillmor riffs on my post about Yahoo's lack of a social networking hub, where I state: "Yahoo is about making connections, but right now its more of loose federation of Web applications and services–many spokes without a strong hub to hold together a social Web. Yahoo 360 has been...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, SaaS, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, MySpace, Microsoft, iPhone, IBM, Google, Facebook, Apple, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- If reputation is money in the bank, who owns the PIN?
- As evidenced by the many lawsuits against Google concerning PageRank or other search result read reputational slippage, the notion that you own your digital reputation — even if it is at bottom a collaborative work that begins with your actions, but thereafter depends on the reactions of others — has...
- Tags: Attention, Copyright, Defamation, Lawsuits, Patent, Privacy, Trademark, Trust
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Your data: safe in your hands?
- I have to take issue with two of my fellow ZDNet bloggers, both of whom I greatly respect, but who let the side down yesterday by recycling the tired old mantra about hosted applications being untrustworthy. First of all the excellent Mary Jo Foley compared Google Apps to Hailstorm, Microsofts...
- Tags: Security, Google
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Goodbye, 'Vienna.' Hello 'Windows 7'
- Its February 1: The first "official" day of the Steven Sinofsky Windows era. Yes, I know Senior Vice President of Windows and Windows Live Engineering Sinofsky has been working on Windows Vista and Windows Live for the past several months. His re-org stamp is already visible on a...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Windows Live, Corporate strategy, Code names, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Tesco USA to get 'world's biggest' solar roof
- Tesco USA to get 'world's biggest' solar roofTesco USA to get 'world's biggest' solar roofIf only solar panels were cheaper for the ROI.Solar power: Clean yes. But durable?Solar power may be one of the cleanest forms of energy we have after manufacturing the equipment first of course.But what happens if...
- Tags: tagging, solar panel, pollution, Tesco USA, solar roof, Tesco, powerline
- Discussion threads 2007-01-19
- Former Windows bigwig working on Ajax Search API at Google
- When Marc Lucovsky, one of Microsofts top Windows architects, jumped ship and joined Google a couple of years ago, nobody including Lucovsky was willing to say what his new role would be inside Redmonds search rival. (Lucovsky is known for his work on Windows NT, as well as...
- Tags: AJAX, Microsoft Windows, Marc Lucovsky, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- The identity silo paradox
- My recent post on Google's identity silo was part of a hailstorm pun intended of comments that occurred on the email list over at the Identity Gang. All of those fast-flying emails unveiled what I'm now calling the "identity silo paradox." Put simply the identity silo paradox is this:...
- Tags: identity silo, paradox
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Google eats its own dogfood with GData
- Google's GData was released a few months ago and at the time I asked: Why is Google extending RSS? O'Reilly's Nat Torkington went to lunch with Google's Chris DiBona and Mark Lukovsky and got to the bottom of that question. Over spicy noodles or whatever was on the menu they...
- Tags: GData
- Blog posts 2006-07-16
- Apple's Boot Camp Lollapalooza
- For years Steve Jobs has been dancing around an ultra portable computer: flirting with buying Palm; haunted by the failed ambitions of the Newton; criticized for not developing a gaming platform; watching in the wings as Microsoft tried handhelds, tablets, Origami, pen computers, you name it. Apple’s laptops were...
- Tags: laptop computer, Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
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