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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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Microsoft CFO Liddell to leave by year-end: Microsoft Chief Financial Officer CFO Chris Liddell is leaving Microsoft after four years to pursue other interests, company officials announced via a November 24 press release issued quietly just before the start of the Thanksgiving holiday. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Corp., CFO, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-24
Microsoft isn't the only one developing a hardware-accelerated browser: Microsoft, with IE 9, isn't the only browser provider planning to harness hardware acceleration. Mozilla is planning to do the same with Firefox. Firefox developers have posted a prototype demonstrating the ability to take advantage of Direct2D and DirectWrite. Google is interested in the possibilities of hardware-accelerating Chrome, as well,...; Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Hardware, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-24
Can (and will) Microsoft keep Silverlight compatible across platforms?: Microsoft is adding more and more WPF features to Silverlight and vice versa. But there is a downside to this strategy: By adding technologies like COM support to Silverlight, Microsoft is doing damage to its story that Silverlight is a cross-platform browser plug-in that supports Windows, Mac -- and, thanks...; Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Linux, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Open Source, .Net, Operating Systems, Development Tools, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-24
Office Starter 2010: The fine print on Microsoft's Works replacement: More information is coming in from various testers regarding the Office Starter 2010 build that Microsoft released to a group of selected testers late last week -- including details on macro and file type support. Do any of these make Office Starter a non-starter, in your book? by Mary Jo...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Works, Tester, Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-23
Office Starter 2010 private beta, with 'Office to GO,' goes to testers: Microsoft released a bunch of public betas of various Office 2010 products this week. But it also released another one under non-disclosure to a select group of testers: Office Starter 2010. Microsoft made the code for Office Starter 2010 available to select testers via its Connect Web site late this...; Tags: Beta, Tester, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-20

Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?: I'm not one of those ready to write Windows an RIP certificate now that Google has finally taken some of the wraps off its Chrome OS. In fact, after reading through industry watchers' questions and Google's answers about it, I'm thinking that Chrome OS may not look quite so appealing...; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-20
Microsoft still working on an Adobe Lightroom competitor, but with a social twist: It's been almost two years since I first got tips about Microsoft "SmartFlow," a product which allegedly was going to be a competitor with Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom post-production software for professional photographers. I had thought that incubation project may have been quietly eliminated somewhere along the way. But it's still...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Lightroom, Twist, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-19
Pivot: Microsoft's experiment to 'view the Web as a web': Microsoft's Live Labs -- its Research and MSN mash-up -- fielded a new test project on November 18 known as "Pivot." Pivot (not to be confused with Microsoft's recently renamed PowerPivot) is meant to combine search, browsing and recommendations to create a more unified Web experience, according...; Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-18
Microsoft shares a few tidbits on IE9 and (lots) more on Silverlight 4: Microsoft shared some information about what's coming in Internet Explorer 9 and Silverlight 4 during its November 18 Professional Developers Conference PDC keynotes. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-18
Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download: Microsoft released on November 18 the public beta of Office 2010. It can be downloaded by anyone for free, as of 1 pm ET today, as can new public betas of SharePoint Server 2010 and Office Web Apps. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Public Beta, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-18
So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?: One noticeable no-show at this week's Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is Live Mesh. Live Mesh, Microsoft's synchronization service that is the pet project of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, was one of the main attractions at previous Microsoft developers' conferences. I asked Ozzie for an update on it this...; Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Conference, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-18
Microsoft PDC Live Blog Day Two: IE, Silverlight 4.0 and more: The second day of keynotes at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is about to begin, and expectations are running high that MIcrosoft might share some details on what's coming with Internet Explorer 9, Silverlight 4 and Office 2010 Beta 2 today. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-18
What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?: In the past year, customers and developers testing Windows Azure have been running primarily brand-new (and largely Web 2.0 style) apps on Microsoft's cloud operating system. But when will Azure be tuned to handle host legacy enterprise apps? And when and how will users be able to take advantage of...; Tags: Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-17
Three new codenames and how they fit into Microsoft's cloud vision: Any Microsoft Professional Developers Conference PDC wouldn't be complete without a few new codenames. On November 17, Microsoft introduced three new ones that all are related to Microsoft's evolving cloud-computing vision and infrastructure. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Codename, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-17
Microsoft to share some details on IE 9 at PDC show this week: Microsoft is on tap to share some information about its Internet Explorer IE 9 browser at its Professional Developers Conference this week, but isn't yet ready to deliver any bits. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-17
Microsoft PDC: Live blogging the Day One keynotes: It's that time again: Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 Day One kicks off today. Join in our live blog with a bunch of us Microsoft bloggers will be live blogging this morning's keynote, which will feature Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and Server and Tools President Bob Muglia, among other...; Tags: Keynote, Microsoft Corp., Blogging, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-17
Microsoft search share continues its slow upward crawl: The October comScore numbers are in and Microsoft has inched upward for another month with its Bing search engine. Bing's growth came at Yahoo's -- not Google's -- expense, however. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., October comScore Number, Search; Blog posts 2009-11-16
Microsoft opens Windows Marketplace to Windows Mobile 6.0, 6.1 phone users: When Microsoft first announced officially its plans for Windows Marketplace for Mobile, company officials said they'd eventually open the phone app store to users with phones running Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1. On November 16, the company made good on that commitment, making the announcement on the Windows Phone Team...; Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-16
Office 2010 Beta downloadable by MSDN, Technet subscribers today: On November 16, Microsoft made the Office 2010 Beta code available to subscribers to its MSDN and TechNet services. Microsoft is expected to open up the beta, so that anyone who'd like to try it can download it -- possibly this week (though Microsoft officials refused to confirm that when...; Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-16
Microsoft makes available new high performance Windows Server test build: Microsoft made available on November 16 a code-complete beta of Windows HPC High Performance Computing Server 2008 R2 to selected testers. The company made the announcement at the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portland, Oreg. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2009-11-16