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Two more Microsoft execs fly the coop

A couple more execs from Microsoft's list of who's who at the company have moved to allegedly greener pastures. Joanne Bradford, corporate vice president and chief media officer of MSN, is leaving Microsoft to join Internet-based ad agency Spot Runner Inc, as initially reported by Todd Bishop...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Joanne Bradford, Majidimehr, Hd Dvd, Advertising & Promotion, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-13

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Microsoft woos hobbyist developers

Microsoft woos hobbyist developersThis infomercial is inconsistent with existing informationPerhaps one of the resident Microsoft fan boys can explain the shift to "Wooing hobbyists" on the back of this -http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30/msft-our-drm-licensi.htmlA Microsoft spokesman has described their DRM licensing scheme as a system for reducing the number of device vendors to a...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

Read this before buying an Xbox 360 Elite

A number of new details relating to Microsofts Xbox 360 Elite have been clarified on the AVS Forum by Amir Majidimehr, corporate vice president, Mobile and Embedded Devices Division at Microsoft. There are a number of issues that potential buyers need to be aware of before buying.The Xbox 360 Elite...

Tags: Microsoft, Gaming

Blog posts 2007-04-04

Just how closely is Microsoft studying the open-source play book?

Just how closely is Microsoft studying the open-source play book?Microsoft are commited to stamping out Open SourceVista's DRM requirements are securely built on a Microsoft desire to control "Approval" for hardwre drivers - specifically excluding Open Source drivers. Just as "Open" XMS XML demands that implementors of the "Open" standard...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, open source, Microsoft DRM, Amir

Discussion threads 2007-02-15

Windows Home Server: What's inside?

Windows Home Server: What's inside?What's inside? "We have no clue..."But here's what someone else thinks is inside...Geez Mary Jo, couldn't you have thought of something yourself? I don't think home servers will ever take of in a big way, they are just too complex. Most PC users have...

Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Desktops, Sony Corp., Microsoft Windows Home Server, server, Home Server, Microsoft Windows, PC

Discussion threads 2007-01-08

HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray, round 2

The Friday before last, the day before my vacation on Lake Michigan had officially begun, I chatted over the phone with Andy Parsons, senior vice president of Pioneer Electronics USA and a clear proponent of the Blu-Ray standard. He had read my previous post on the...

Tags: Blu-ray disc

Blog posts 2006-08-02

DRM, copyright and the DMCA

DRM, copyright and the DMCADisney used copyright extensions...and I would argue that Congress needs to drawing a firmer line around that kind of activity. But then again, I also think Congress needs to be less swayed by money politics, and I have no idea how to manage that.In other...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, DMCA, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-02-02

Boneheaded Microsoft DRM statement

Microsoft's Amir Majidimehr said something stupid at an Informa Telecoms & Media Digital Rights Management conference today: Microsoft doesn't want to support an ecosystem of hobbyists. Ian Brown provides an excellent summary of the whole day, but here's the dumb thing: Amir Majidimehr,...

Tags: digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-01-31