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ZDNet Author Biography: 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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What's next for Windows Server: With Microsoft having just released to manufacturing SQL Server 2008 -- the last unshipped piece of its updated application platform -- it's time to look ahead as to what's next for Windows Server. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: microsoft windows 7, microsoft windows server, microsoft corp., microsoft windows, servers, operating systems, software, hardware, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-08-06
Microsoft finalizes SQL Server 2008: Microsoft officials announced at TechEd South Africa on August 6 that SQL Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-08-06
Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'?: After a brief blip of news following the mid-July release to manufacturing of Microsoft "Fiji," it's back to radio silence again. But the quiet shouldn't be interpreted as all is well. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: microsoft windows 7, microsoft corp., tester, fiji, microsoft windows, media center pcs, operating systems, software, personal technology, home entertainment, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-08-05
I say crapware; you say 'performance enhancer': Do you consider Microsoft products like Windows Defender antispyware tool and Windows Live OneCare security/management service to be crapware that you don't want preloaded on your PC, or performance-enhancement tools? by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: performance, pc, microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., microsoft windows live onecare, microsoft windows, operating systems, desktops, software, hardware, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-08-01
Poll: How would you rebrand Live Search?: Will Microsoft ultimately rebrand Live Search with a new, more user-friendly name? I recently received a tip from someone in the know about a few of the possible names for Live Search that the Redmondians allegedly have considered during the past year. The tipster said Microsoft's Search...; Tags: microsoft live search, microsoft corp., hook.com, branding, marketing, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-08-01

Microsoft's road to the cloud is paved with parallelism: A new whitepaper that Microsoft researchers are set to present at a conference next month sheds more light on Microsoft's back-end cloud infrastructure. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: microsoft corp., cosmos, helland, team management, programming languages, cloud computing, databases, management, software development, software/web development, enterprise software, software, data management, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-31
Microsoft solicits more IE 8 beta testers: Microsoft has put out a call for more Internet Explorer IE 8 beta testers via the IE Blog this week. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: microsoft internet explorer, microsoft corp., web browsers, internet, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-31
Microsoft launches new search home page; refreshes Live Mesh preview: On July 30, Microsoft began rolling out a new home page for Live Search and is making available another update to the test version of its Live Mesh collaboration/synchronization service. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: microsoft live search, microsoft corp., home page, live search homepage, desktops, hardware, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-30
More tech details emerge on Microsoft's 'Midori': SD Times has seen some new Microsoft documentation that provides more specifics on Midori, the Singularity-microkernel-based operating system that is being developed by a team under Eric Rudder, the one-time heir-apparent to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: sd card, operating system, microsoft corp., midori, sd times, memory, flash memory, operating systems, semiconductors, hardware, components, software, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-29
What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'?: In watching the many negative blog posts and comments about Microsoft's "Mojave Experiment" -- designed to try to distinguish perception from reality around Vista -- I can't help but wonder how different the take would be if it were Apple doing the same kind of marketing campaign. by Mary Jo...; Tags: mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-29
Microsoft brings Live Search to cars: On July 28, Microsoft announced availability of what it's calling "Microsoft Live Search for Devices," which it is billing the first of "many new services" for cars. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: car, microsoft live search, microsoft corp., microsoft windows, operating systems, software, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-29
More details emerge on the Microsoft Sphere: On July 29 at its Faculty Research Summit, Microsoft is expected to allow attendees some hands-on time with the Microsoft Sphere. Thanks to one of Microsoft's partners, here's a little more information on what is behind the globe-like, multi-touch device. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: multi-touch, microsoft corp., mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-28
Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs: Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the user interface of the future will look like is more complex than that. Instead of allowing users...; Tags: receptionist, user interface, microsoft corp., robots, microsoft windows, operating systems, emerging technologies, software, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-28
How will Microsoft spend its multicore millions?: In March, Microsoft's External Research Team put out a request for proposal RFP for three-year research projects in multicore computing. On July 28, the opening day of its annual Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft announced how and where it will be spending its grant money. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: rfp, performance, microsoft corp., multi-core, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-28
Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops: Microsoft has internally released to manufacturing the version of Windows XP that it has tweaked to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: microsoft windows xp, microsoft corp., laptop computer, one laptop per child project, microsoft windows, operating systems, software, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud: Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie foreshadowed a couple of still-to-be-released Microsoft's cloud-developer services -- "Zurich" and "Red Dog" -- during his speech at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM on July 24. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: zurich, ray ozzie, amazon.com inc., microsoft corp., ozzie, sql server data services, data centers, retail, financial accounting, channel management, storage, hardware, data management, finance, marketing, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUs: While more and more users are choosing "premium" versions of Windows, the opposite is happening with Office, Microsoft's other cash cow. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: microsoft corp., microsoft office, office suites, software, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?: The same day that Forrester Research is touting yet another of a growing number of studies claiming Vista is failing to gain traction in the enterprise, Microsoft is claiming just the opposite. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: microsoft windows vista, microsoft corp., forrester research inc., microsoft windows vista (longhorn), operating systems, microsoft windows, software, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year: Microsoft Senior Vice President of Online Services and Windows, Bill Veghte, just told attendees that Microsoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer IE 8 to the Web "later this year." by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: microsoft internet explorer, microsoft corp., web browsers, internet, mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week: During Microsoft's annual Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, the company will finally show off semi-publicly the spherical Surface computer that has been rumored for the past few months. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: multi-touch, microsoft corp., mary jo foley; Blog posts 2008-07-24