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- Office Dead
- As Mike Vizard calls it at the end of today's AttentionTech with Barb Darrow, whether it's Office Live or Office Dead is for the jury, I mean the audience, to decide. That's because the reboot here is about the users being in charge. For me, the interesting things about yesterday's...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Office Dead
- Blog posts 2005-11-02
- Attention Bunny
- When Robert Scoble reported on our late night conversation after the Berkeley meat-up Monday night, I briefly panicked when I realized he had really gotten what I've been talking about with regards to attention. Then I calmed down, figuring he'd forget it all after a good night's sleep.Wrong. Tonight, the...
- Tags: Rojo
- Blog posts 2005-10-29
- Beep beep
- Remember Wily Coyote? He's the Roadrunner's nemesis, chasing him out off the cliff's edge. Then there's that exquisite moment where he stands on thin air, about to realize he's got nothing. That's Microsoft, folks. IMing with Dan Farber, who's up in Redmond for the SMBusiness Summit,...
- Tags: Hailstorm
- Blog posts 2005-09-06
- Remix this
- First, a joke I heard about Google and Microsoft. The Google guy says they've been hiring people away from Microsoft. Then the Microsoft guy says they've been hiring people away from Google. Then he says, "Guess who's getting the better deal."Microsoft the white hat. You bet, folks. Microsoft not only...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Winer
- Blog posts 2005-06-29
- Tag the Dog
- Rob Enderle wraps a Microsoft love kiss around some action I'd love to get a piece of: the notion that unless something dramatically changes, by 2015 we'll be largely wondering what all the fuss surrounding Linux was really about. Even Steve Ballmer might find Enderle's blissful analysis of the similarities...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, RSS, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Rob Enderle, Microsoft Longhorn, Netscape Communications Corp., Linux
- Blog posts 2005-04-22
- The MetaDating Game
- Marc Canter bought me dinner last night. Does that mean I'm pimping Marqui now? Guess it does.Marc then sprinted back to the hotel for an 8:30 Birds of a Feather session where Dick Hardt finally had enough time and a persistent questioner to explain both the mechanics and the business...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., attention.XML
- Blog posts 2005-03-16
- Dan Farber: Invitation to a party
- Dan Farber questions whether Microsoft is able to cross its chasm in this Sunday morning post. He points at Gates' musings on how to avoid the scrap heap of history--by innovating its way out of the Xerox Parc deadend user interface. In suggesting an open source project to redefine the...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Dan Farber, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-02-20
- The 43rd of March
- Eric Rudder's talk at VSLive! San Francisco 2005 last week was noteworthy for the crisp performance of the former assistant to Bill Gates. Rudder has often been wooden and detached in his appearances, but this year's model was engaged, funny, and specific--with good reason. Microsoft is coming to market with...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Eric Rudder
- Blog posts 2005-02-16
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- Seinfeld becomes McCain
- You can see the first Seinfeld ad for Microsoft here. It aired last night. This is going to sound political, but it looked to me a lot like John McCain's speech from later in the same evening. That is, it was selling a myth. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Advertisement, Bill Gates, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Red Hat buys Qumranet, adds gasoline to the spreading VDI bonfire
- VDI, somewhat ironically, may also work well for market mover Microsoft as it seeks to slow the momentum to outright web-based and OSS/LAMP-supported applications and services for large businesses. Microsoft must realize that enterprises have had it with the high cost of maintaining and managing the traditional Windows OS in...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Server, SolidICE VDI, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims
- Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Liam Tung ZDNet Australia, rootkit, hypervisor, Joanna Rutkowska, security
- News items 2008-09-05
- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight
- Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, Chrome, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Suzanne Tindal ZDNet Australia, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Flash, Google
- News items 2008-09-05
- Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?
- The day after it launched the first ad in its $300 consumer-focused make-over campaign, Microsoft is going public with some of the other planned Windows-branding fixes it has in the pipeline. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Brand, PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Video: Google Apps adoption rates up
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun's OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Video, Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Seinfeld & Gates: Was this ad supposed to be funny?
- The long-awaited $300 million ad campaign that Microsoft launched to counter Apple's successful "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" campaign aired during the Thursday night kickoff to the NFL season. Did you see it? I missed it on TV but caught it on YouTube. I don't get...
- Tags: Advertisement, Mall, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Jerry Seinfeld, Apple Mac OS X, Productivity, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Google Chrome already beating Opera
- Maybe Google really does have something here -- in just two days, they have leapfrogged Opera in market share, and have their eyes set on bigger fish. I would have thought that Google's foray into the browser market would have taken a bit more time to develop, but it...
- Tags: Google Inc., Opera Software, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Microsoft Student Technology Day UK
- Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies will be in London for the Microsoft Student Technology Day. It's a day about and for students,...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?
- During the NFL season opener on September 4, Microsoft aired the first of the ads that it paid agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky $300 million-plus to create to help make over the company's image. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
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