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Scoble leaving Microsoft was 8th most-read story at the open source blog

Scoble leaving Microsoft was 8th most-read story at the open source blogForgotten but not goneI think the time since Scoble stopped drawing a Microsoft paycheck has shown that although he's no longer on the payroll, his heart is still in Redmond.If anything, he's more energetically partisan than ever.Hah!> I suspect...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source, Scoble, Microsoft WAS

Discussion threads 2006-12-13

Patches: Once a month is not enough

Patches: Once a month is not enoughI called for an out-of-band patch"Sorry, I have to agree with Vic and disagree with George. Microsoft management made the same argument in favor of releasing an out-of-band patch for the WMF exploit in January."What's the difference, I'm essentially calling for the same thing...

Tags: Patches, virtualization, patch management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft WAS, patch, strategy, exploit

Discussion threads 2006-03-24

Microsoft, Flextronics partner on cell platform

Microsoft, Flextronics partner on cell platformI have been waiting for this...|have been waiting on new cell phone technology. My rep had been telling me seretly Microsoft was working on top-secret cell phone designs but could not elaborate. Now he has come clean and shown me a roadmap for cell technology...

Tags: Business structures, Firewalls, Cellular phones, Microsoft Corp., Flextronics partner, cell platform, Flextronics International Ltd., cell phone, Microsoft WAS, partnership

Discussion threads 2005-02-14

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Microsoft targets programming newbies with new Vedea visualization language

In mid-November, Microsoft researchers dropped a few hints about a new visualization language, codenamed Vedea, that was coming from Microsoft. On December 3, via a blog post, Microsoft officials provided more specifics about it. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-12-03

Microsoft: No Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 until SP3

Last month, Microsoft's Exchange team announced-- to the relief of many customers and partners -- that it planned to reverse course and allow Exchange Server 2007 to run on top of the latest version of Windows Server, a k a Windows Server 2008 R2. This week, the team admitted that...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Windows Server, SP3, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, E-mail Servers, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-12-02

Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloud

RE: Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloudI still don't understand what in Azure is different for the better or worst than Amazon's or Rackspace's or other instant-server-on-demand cloud offerings.Interesting. Let's see if fellow ZDNet bloggers will acknowledge this..The more offerings, the better, as...

Tags: Blogging, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, dev, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Rackspace, Azure, open source, Google Inc., Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

(Inside Microsoft's retail store (photos))

If it works, try to copy itContrast these images with the Apple store opening in Paris. That one had long lines of people anxious to get into the store. These have large numbers of employees loitering.I see that they even tried to copy the genius bar. How...

Tags: Retail, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Store, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

"Black Screen of Death" problems seem to be little more than scattered cases

As is typical with most Windows "issues".[i]It seems we can all stop panicking now. In fact, there was little to panic about in the first place.[/i]They're completely blown out of proportion.RE: Black Screen of Death" problems seem to be little more than scatteredThe only reason it was blown out of...

Tags: black screen, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

Microsoft investigating 'black screen of death'

RE: Microsoft investigating 'black screen of death'Here we go...it's Vista all over again.It could...I don't know if this has happened in safe mode, it would be hard to test. But I don't believe there is anythign you can turn off or change to fix it either. From what I've seen,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Win 7, black screen, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

XP's usage share down, Win 7, Firefox & IE8 up

Now, if only ....the original Amazon.com $50 price comes back CRITICAL MASS will be achieved (IE: more than 4%).Way to goCongrats Win 7, and Firefox!Hopefully we can put XP to rest for good now and move on with our lives.DOWN WITH XP DOWN WITH XPHopefully XP will see its death...

Tags: Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Vista STILL, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Windows 8, Microsoft Corp., Win 7

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

Microsoft investigating 'black screen of death'

Microsoft said that it is looking into reports that its latest security updates are causing some serious problems for certain users. Microsoft said on Monday that it is looking into reports that its latest security updates are causing some serious problems for certain users. The problem...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Security Update, Black Screen, Patches, Security Administration, Microsoft, security, Ina Fried CNET News

News items 2009-12-01

Why Microsoft pulled the plug on the Win 7/Family Guy promo - Because it was lame

I was VERY surprised when I learned that MS would be using Family Guy in their commercials. I never watched the show, but I was always amazed, when flipping channels, at how the guy's chin looked like testicles. I guess MS never looked at it that way. ;-) When...

Tags: Family Guy, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-30

Why Microsoft pulled the plug on the Win 7/Family Guy promo - Because it was lame

I can see why Microsoft pulled the plug on the Windows 7/Family Guy promo - because the whole thing was lame. Check it out: Note: If the lameness of these clips causes your PC to commit suicide, I'm not taking the blame ...   ...

Tags: Plug, Microsoft Corp., Clip, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-11-30

Reinvigorating Microsoft's mobile strategy

MS should give up and go homeNobody wants Windows Mobile. It's declining share and the increasing share of competitors makes it also-ran.Many are not wanting Windows at all as evidenced by its declining market share.There is no reason for Windows on the mobile device given reliability and performance are...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, strategy, Microsoft Corp., phone, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-11-30

Microsoft: To spam or not to spam

I'm rather suspiciousLook at the date. December 2008?Show me the headersI would never bother reading the body without checking them first.False dichotomyAnd oh, by the way: just because it's genuine doesn't mean it's not spam.TrashntHumm . . .Humm . . . We really need to start adopting digital signatures.It usually...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, header, Microsoft Corp., e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-11-27

Microsoft CFO Liddell to leave by year-end

dump MSFT shares next yearafter the last bump in stock price you'll get from Win7. It's all downhill from there.Why are the shareholders so greedy?Currently MSFT has around 18-19 PE which is very reasonable. It's pretty high seeing that we are in the great global recession. I know that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Investment, Financial accounting, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., stock

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Law firm interested in hearing from banned Xbox Live gamers

Maybe "law" can become a GDP driverNow that America has seen virtually every domestic industry go down the toilet, maybe it can provide law services to the rest of the world.If this self-righteous lawsuit is any indication, the is no need to fear the loss of American innovation and savvy;...

Tags: Microsoft Xbox Live, EULA, Microsoft Corp., cheater, contractual obligation, terms of service, law firm, Microsoft Xbox

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Can (and will) Microsoft keep Silverlight compatible across platforms?

The better question is WHEN will it be better for Microsoft to keep it compatible across platforms, and WHEN or under what conditions might it not be better for MS to NOT keep it compatible across platforms.In other works, it is NOT a question of IF, but, at WHAT TIMES...

Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Operating systems, .NET, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral

Well, the great thing is all the competition. I like to see Acer squeezing them both from below, and of course competing with each other. Of course also great to see all the pressure on MS to innovate and lower prices.Google Chrome_OS will be hard to beatWell, with Google_Chrome_OS it...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Windows 8, Microsoft Windows, XPS, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Numbers of new Core i7 iMacs are turning up DOA

I guess it goes to show that......even the almighty apple is not immune to issues. We have some iMacs (about 100 - 120) in my organization compared to about 2500 Windows Desktops and out of the 90 we ordered a few years ago (17" iMacs) we had one come...

Tags: Desktops, DOA, Core i7 iMac, Core i7, Apple Inc., Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-11-24