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- Is Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop?
- Let’s just get this out of the way right at the start: Steve Jobs is a genius and rarely makes stupid decisions. If you accept that statement as gospel, then you have to assume that Jobs has a brilliant master plan behind yesterday’s announcement that Apple’s Safari browser would be...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Microsoft's licensing mess
- If you've been selling a product for more than 10 years and you've shipped hundreds of millions of units, you'd think your customers would know what they're buying. For Microsoft, that's not the case.The culprit is the hopelessly confusing, practically Byzantine Windows licensing structure, which consists of a maze of...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Are ATI and Nvidia doing enough with their Vista drivers?
- I spent the weekend setting up some new hardware. One change was to add a PCI Express graphics card to a system that had been using onboard graphics primarily so I could use two monitors with it.After completing the upgrade, I noticed that this ATI X1300 card was still using...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Microsoft attempts to rally more hardware vendors around Rally
- One of Microsofts biggest pushes at this years Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC is around Rally, a connectivity platform that Microsoft debuted at last years WinHEC. Rally is a set of networking protocols and licenses that are designed to simplify consumersabilities to connect peripherals to Windows Vista and to...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- On the road with Windows Vista
- I’m away on vacation this week, nearly 7,000 miles from home. But I’m not out of touch. Judy and I have been coming to Italy for the past five years, and it’s instructive to see with each visit just how much the experience of leisure travel has changed for use...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- News to know: Browser data leaks; Tweetr; SOA sabotage
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Do you know what’s leaking out of your browser? Symantec vulnerability research founder joins Microsoft.Ryan Stewart: Is Tweetr the first mainstream Apollo application?Dion Hinchcliffe: Mashups: The next major new software development model?Robin Harris: Apple’s Spotlight: keywords are so ’90s.David Berlind: Mobile RIAs: Java, Apollo, and Silverlight’s deathmatch?...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- GPLv3 the impetus for Microsoft's latest Linux attack campaign
- With one stroke, Microsoft has ended any illusion that it planned to try to build bridges with the open-source community. And it appears the primary reason for Microsofts decision to go back on the public attack against Linux and other open-source software is the looming Version 3 of the Free...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Legal, Linux, Novell
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Microsoft's Virtual Machine Software - Take 2
- About a month ago, in the post What Does it Really Mean if Microsoft’s Virtual Machine Software is Delayed?, I analyzed what would happen if Microsoft delayed the release of its Virtual Machine Software for its new server operating environment. Now, its become clear that Microsoft has chosen to reduce...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., virtual machine, software, industry
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- Vista Home Basic on 512MB? Hey, it works!
- Everyone knows Windows Vista is a resource hog. Everyone says it doesn’t even get out of first gear without a gigabyte of RAM, and it takes 2 GB before it stops stuttering and stammering with each mouse click. Everyone says Vista Home Basic is the black sheep of the family,...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Racing Towards the Future, Stuck in the Past: Microsoft BI Moves… Not Far Enough
- Attending Microsoft’s first Business Intelligence Conference has been an illuminating experience, mostly for how Microsoft’s major strengths in BI are becoming its major weaknesses. The issue is one that I’ve ranted about in the past, and it’s an industry-wide problem, not just Microsoft’s. After a day sitting through the pre-conference...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Google beware: Does Microsoft lust for Yahoo?
- Microsoft and Yahoo sitting in a tree, KISSING!So it would seem, given the “inspired” meet-up of Microsoft top brass with the Yahoo CEO, at Microsoft’s downtown Seattle Strategic Account Summit next week.Joanne Bradford, Corporate Vice President, Chief Media Officer, MSN, has honors at the event, taking to the stage with...
- Tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- They saw the Silverlight, and saw that it was good
- Robert Scoble is trying to build a reinvention myth around Microsofts introduction of Silverlight, its new smart client platform. Not so fast, Scoble! Its not the Web thats rebooting, its Microsoft. Silverlight is significant as the catalyst that finally allows Microsoft to recreate itself as a vendor for the Web...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Development
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- MIX076: The remix from day one
- In the aftermath of MIX07 day one, with the announcements around Silverlight (see yesterdays ZDNet coverage from Mary Jo Foley, Ryan Stewart and myself), the blogosphere is weighing in with more coverage and analysis. Steve Gillmor has emerged from his cave to comment on the calculus of Microsofts latest moves...
- Tags: General, Microsoft, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- News to know: Mix07; Google responds to Viacom; Credit card passwords
- Notable headlines: Google denies Viacom copyright charges. Full response PDF. Donna Bogatin: Google accuses Viacom of Unclean Hands: Demands day in court.Ryan Naraine: Verisign putting disposable passwords on credit cards.Supreme Court sides with Microsoft in patent spat.Ed Bott: How to get sued by Microsoft.George Ou: 2.5 *terabyte* hot-swap storage...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- OLPC founder finally faces a 'grim reality'
- OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain’t so! was the headline and so far reader reaction is mixed. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft’s continued dominance. From the beginning, the One Laptop per Child foundation, the brainchild of MITs Nicholas Negroponte, has...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, K-12, Microsoft, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- News to know: Q&A with Macbook hacker; Virgin IT; iPhone; Microsoft's Volta; Google Apps
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Virgin Americas CIO gets IT greenfield. Gallery: Windows Home Server - April 2007 CTP Release.Ryan Naraine: 10 questions for MacBook hacker Dino Dai Zovi. QuickTime bug brought down MacBook. Russinovich: Malware will thrive, even with Vistas UAC.Mary Jo Foley: Volta: Microsofts dev platform in the Cloud?Infoworld: AT&T...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Windows XP will be around a lot longer than you think
- Over at CNET News, the bold headline reads: No more Windows XP as of 2008. And the opening line continues the theme: “Starting next year you won't be able to buy a new PC loaded with Windows XP…” A PC World story echoed that report, noting Microsoft’s plans to “discontinue...
- Tags: Windows XP, Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- The final word on Vista startup times
- As I’ve pointed out in the previous two installments of this series, a properly configured, well-maintained Windows Vista installation should start up in a reasonable amount of time, in most cases taking roughly 10–15 seconds more than it takes to start Windows XP on the same hardware, and in some...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Yahoo to Google: WE rule in display advertising!
- Google hurts Yahoo with DoubleClick deal I underscored upon Google’s announced $3.1 billion DoubleClick commitment to dominate display advertising online, as it does search advertising. Yahoo CEO Terry Semel did not reveal any wounds today, however, in declaring to investors in his Q1 2007 earnings report that Yahoo rules...
- Tags: Yahoo, Google, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Google DoubleClick merger: Who wins, who loses
- What does it take to “make the Internet more efficient for end users, advertisers, and publishers,” all in one fell swoop? A single Google check for $3.1 billion made out to DoubleClick!Google’s world wide mastery of SPIN continues, big time, in its determined takeover of the World Wide Web:...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Advertising, Yahoo, Microsoft, Metrics, Google Ads, Google Software Applications, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-14
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In this Super Techies interview, larger-than-life techie Marc Canter talks with ZDNet's Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a multimedia pioneer.
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