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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 »
ZDNet Resources
- All things Microsoft: Windows 7, Bing, and 'pink phone'
- ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley and Sumi Das talk about Microsoft's latest announcements around its new OS, search, and mobile. Foley says Bing and Windows 7 are getting most of the press as of late, but it's really Windows Mobile 7 that could cause the biggest stir when it launches next Spring.
- Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Foley, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mobile Applications, Mary-Jo Foley, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5
- Videos 2009-06-03
- The public Windows 7 RC build is here
- The public Windows 7 RC build is hereooo**runs and downloads from "favorite content hub"**M$ is at fault here but some blame stupid users for spreading confickerThey (M$) release this stuff as a <sarcasm>Leak</sarcasm>, malware publishers pick it up and BANG: they have a new channel to distribute their Warez. Heckuva...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Mary-Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., malware, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-04-24
- Intel announces parallel coding tools
- Intel announced a suite of parallel coding tools, designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. Parallelism isn't new - but, according to Intel, the time has come for parallelism to move forward. From an FAQ on Intel's Parallelism site: Until recently, parallelism wasn’t commonplace. Parallelism is the ability to...
- Tags: Tool, Intel Corp., Parallelism, Mary-Jo Foley, Intel Software Development Product, Productivity, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Yahoo says it won't sell its search biz to Microsoft
- Yahoo has decided not to sell its search business to Microsoft. by Mary-Jo Foley
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Search, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Mary-Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Microsoft warns Web site owners to prep for IE 8
- Although Beta 2 of Internet Explorer IE 8 isn't due out until some time in August, Microsoft is cautioning Web site owners now that they need to be prepping now for possible problems the new, more standards-compliant browser may cause. by Mary-Jo Foley
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, EmulateIE7, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary-Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
Additional Resources
- Friday Rant: Let XP die!
- Friday Rant: Let XP die!I don't see any need to upgrade or downgradeThere's nothing wrong with XP, and there's nothing wrong with Vista. If XP is working for you on the hardware you have, then there's no real need to upgrade to Vista. If you need new hardware or simply...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Let XP, Friday Rant
- Discussion threads 2008-04-04
- This is why I'll always remain a Microsoft skeptic
- This is why I'll always remain a Microsoft skepticAnd cue NMB'ers ....Personally, I see straight through their horsesh*t.Because they've lied so many times in the past, there is a remote possibility that at some time, once, they said something and I was wrongly over-skeptical, but I doubt it.RE: This is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Microsoft Corp., skeptic
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Ushering in a multicore future
- A blog by Mary Foley pointed me towards Microsoft's parallel computing initiatives, as well as revealed in a side panel that she has written a book about my favorite company (I'm definitely going to buy it). Parallel computing will become critically important as we bump up against the limits of Moore's law,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Framework, Worker, Productivity, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- On the trail of the $1000 Vista PC
- On the trail of the $1000 Vista PCYou made a funny.You used Dell and well-built in the same column. I'm still laughing. You should consider stand-up.The cheap dual core laptops are smoking once you upgrade videoYou can customize those cheap sub-$700 Core Duo laptops with a nice 128 MB on...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PC, Aero Glass, dual-core laptop, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-08-31
- The dumbest gripe with Windows Vista to date
- Recently, Mary Foley at Microsoft Watch has been going off on Windows Vista formerly Longhorn along with some of her colleagues on one common theme. Their latest beef with Windows Vista is that (GASP!) it isn't written in Microsoft .NET. I suppose if someone knew absolutely nothing about...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET
- Blog posts 2005-07-28
- Mystery patch blots Microsoft's fix-free month
- Mystery patch blots Microsoft's fix-free monthMr. Magoo does it again!My glasses just have to be around here somewhere...Question for you?If one is running XP Pro, and there is no web server nor Front Page on the system, then should we care? It would be nice to see a little more...
- Tags: Patches, Obviously IT, comedy, Microsoft Corp., patch management, security
- Discussion threads 2003-12-10
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