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Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 20 years for a variety ofpublications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabson Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. In thelate 1990s, she penned the award-winning "At The Evil Empire" column for ZDNet,and more...- more about Mary Jo Foley »
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- Microsoft 'Geneva' identity wares approach the finish line
- Microsoft is making available for download the near-final Release Candidate RC test build of its "Geneva" framework, the technology officially known as Windows Identity Foundation. Meanwhile, a new test build of the Microsoft Oslo modeling platform is waiting in the wings. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Geneva, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Microsoft Windows, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Microsoft to show off new visualization language at PDC
- Microsoft is planning to show off a new visualization language, codenamed "Vedea" at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in mid-November. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Microsoft puts more Azure cloud plumbing in place
- Microsoft is continuing to lay the groundwork for the commercial version of its Azure cloud environement, rolling out a new content delivery network CDN capability, as well as the November update to its Azure developer services. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Billing system testing behind Microsoft's SQL Azure outage this week
- Testers of Microsoft's SQL Azure service experienced a three-plus hour unplanned outage this week -- just a couple of weeks before Microsoft is set to remove the beta tag from its Azure cloud service. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Billing, SQL, Billing System, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Manufacturing, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Microsoft to add SharePoint access to Live@edu
- Paving the way for its Office Web Apps rollout, Microsoft is adding SharePoint Online to the services it offers students and academics as part of its Live@edu offering. The SharePoint Online service should be available to Live@edu subscribers for no additional cost some time next year. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal
- The deadline for official comment on Microsoft's latest rendition of the browser-ballot -- the screen the company has proposed to download to PC users in order to appease antitrust regulators handling the Opera vs. Microsoft antitrust case -- is next week. Google, Mozilla and Opera are preparing to weigh in...
- Tags: Antitrust, Opera Software ASA, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Microsoft does a 180 on Exchange 2007 support (in a good way)
- After notifying customers and partners that Exchange Server 2007 wouldn't be able to run on Windows Server 2008 R2, the latest version of WIndows Server, the Exchange team has reversed its decision. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Free Microsoft open-source content management app to get its debut next week
- Microsoft is working on a set of free open-source content-management application and set of reusable components for it that is codenamed "Orchard." The company is slated to share details about its plans for Orchard at TechEd Europe next week. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, Content Management, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?
- When Microsoft announced in January that the company was cutting 5,000 jobs, it wasn't clear how many waves it would take to realize that count. It looks like the cuts aren't done yet, based on an initial report of November 4 layoffs by TechFlash and a follow-up, claiming 800 jobs...
- Tags: Job, Layoff, Microsoft Corp., Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- The long and winding road to MSN's reinvention as a social hub
- It took a couple of years, but Microsoft is finally making good on some of the ideas officials had for making the company's MSN home page more viable. On November 4, Microsoft launched a preview of the fruit of its efforts: A radically redesigned MSN.com with Facebook and Twitter integration....
- Tags: MSN, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Microsoft to show Office Mobile 2010 at TechEd Europe
- Microsoft officials have shared details about two of the three different versions of Office 2010 that are in development: The Office 2010 client and the Office Web Apps. Next week, at the TechEd Europe conference in Berlin, they finally are slated to show and tell more about the third: Office...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Microsoft to raise prices, add more high-end editions with SQL Server 2008 R2
- With the new version of its database due out by mid-2010, Microsoft is increasing its retail prices. It also is adding two new high-end editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 to its line-up. Other news from the opening day of Microsoft's SQL PASS conference: Microsoft is planning to make the...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Microsoft seeks to lure Salesforce, Oracle users with six months free of CRM Online
- On the heels of yesterday's price cut for a number of Microsoft-hosted enterprise cloud service offerings, the company is introducing a "free for six months" deal, in the hopes of attracting Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM On Demand users. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., CRM, Sales Force Management, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Microsoft Live Labs shutters ThumbTack bookmarking project
- Microsoft's Live Labs -- its MSN-Microsoft Research "mash-up" -- is closing another of its incubation projects. The latest to go is ThumbTack, a bookmarking service project. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Microsoft chops prices of its hosted enterprise cloud offerings
- Microsoft is cutting prices of its Microsoft-hosted Exchange, as well as its suite of business services (known as the Business Productivity Online Suite, or BPOS), and is refunding the difference to existing hosting customers. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Strategic Planning, Collaboration, Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...
- Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Microsoft refreshes Bing for touch phone users
- Microsoft made available on October 30 an update to its Bing search engine for mobile browsers that includes support for high-resolution touch devices. The new update is available at m.bing.com. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Phone, Update, Microsoft Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Pre-Halloween scare-off: Bing middle school jingle vs. VS 2010 bug killer
- Which is more frightening -- Microsoft convincing a bunch of middle school students to sing the Bing jingle or the antics of sleep-depraved developers trying to stomp the remaining bugs out of Visual Studio 2010? by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services
- Starting November 16, Microsoft is ending distribution and sales of its Microsoft Office Accounting product. Company officials began notifying customers of the decision on October 30. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Microsoft Office, Finance, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
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