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Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the past?

Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the past?BillG is still BillG, so is MSFTi don't think billG has been involved any less than before. maybe a little less in details. but other people's decision only matter if it is not going different way with his.RE: Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the...

Tags: MSR, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft ThinkWeek, Billg

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

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News to know: Pre; NetApp; Bartz; Windows 7; Netbooks

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: From Starter to Ultimate: What's really in each Windows 7 Edition? Matthew Miller: Palm Pre reviews appear; can it beat the...

Tags: NetApp Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Microsoft to launch ThinkWeek 2.0

Microsoft to launch ThinkWeek 2.0The word is Loverock Davidson and Mike Cox will be thereNow wouldn't that be a hoot ........ Balmer, Gates, Davidson and Cox all in the same room. It would be standing room only :-)

Tags: ThinkWeek 2.0, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Microsoft to launch ThinkWeek 2.0

Microsoft came close to killing off its "ThinkWeek" process, via which employee-submitted ideas can find their way into the hands of upper management for consideration. But it sounds like Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie & Co. have decided not to do away with this idea generation/evaluation pipeline. by Mary Jo...

Tags: Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Leaving Microsoft

I'm not the sort of person who believes all good things must come to an end. Microsoft has been an incredibly good company at which to work. I have, however, a chance to do something that is extremely meaningful, all the while pursuing interesting technology into which I have a...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Professional Development, Channel Management, Blogging, Strategy, Development Tools, Career, Marketing, Internet, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Microsoft adding 10,000 new datacenter servers a month

Today's trivia question: How big is Microsoft's back-end services infrastructure? Microsoft officials won't say how many servers total Microsoft has churning in its various datacenters. But Microsoft's corporate vice president of Global Foundation Services Debra Chrapaty is on record saying Microsoft is adding 10,000 new servers a...

Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Monetizing+free+software+is+important%2C+but...

Monetizing+free+software+is+important%2C+but...Microsoft has MSN...... which already shows a commitment to content. Yahoo! may not be a very successful software company, but under Mr. Semel it did do content well.If Microsoft moves its content assets to its Yahoo subsidiary and provides software in return, then the company has gained.Search, content, and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., software, open source, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Volta: Browser capabilities on steroids

I ran across Mary Jo Foley's recent post in a series on Microsoft code names where she discussed Volta. As I tend, as a developer, to look at these things from a different angle, I thought I'd add my own explanation of the technology.I first saw Volta mentioned in a...

Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, Web Browser, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-08-09

Microsoft Works to become a free, ad-funded product

Microsoft's next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded.Microsoft Works 9.0 -- which will be the new product's name, if Microsoft opts to stick with its current nomenclature -- might also debut at some point as Microsoft-hosted low-end productivity service, as many have been...

Tags: Systems integrators, Office Live, Office, OEMs, Google, Corporate strategy, Channel, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-07-30

Just how closely is Microsoft studying the open-source play book?

Just how closely is Microsoft studying the open-source play book?Microsoft are commited to stamping out Open SourceVista's DRM requirements are securely built on a Microsoft desire to control "Approval" for hardwre drivers - specifically excluding Open Source drivers. Just as "Open" XMS XML demands that implementors of the "Open" standard...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, open source, Microsoft DRM, Amir

Discussion threads 2007-02-15

Why Microsoft should open-source SQL Server and SharePoint

Why Microsoft should open-source SQL Server and SharePointAnd that makes MS money how???Hmmm, lets see, sell it for several thousand dollars including cals or give it away in the hopes of MS abandoning being a software company and morphing into some sort of service company? (Like that has worked...

Tags: Enterprise software, Databases, SQL Server 2005 Express, server, Microsoft Corp., open source, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2007-01-18

The ads are coming, the ads are coming

A lot of people reacted to the suggestion that Microsoft may offer free or low cost versions of its software supported by ad revenue as if Microsoft had offered to sell software that shoots daggers into your eyes (Aaaaargh...goddamn you, Clippy!!!). Yes, ads can suck. However, as anyone who has...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Blog posts 2005-11-15

Ad-supported Windows and desktop apps?

News.com's Ina Fried has the scoop some internal documents from Microsoft ruminating on ad-supported software that leverages its new adCenter platform, beyond Office Live and Windows Live. The document Microsoft Money lists factors that would favor the ad-supported model, such as online usage, data exposed for targeting ads, ad-supported competitors....

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2005-11-14