ZDNet Resources
- Social network colonization continues at torrid pace
- The October 2007 Nielsen Online numbers for October reflect substantial year over year growth for Facebook in the U.S. compared to MySpace, which is no surprise. LinkedIn had significant growth as did Club Penguin and Buzznet.com from their smaller bases. At this point, even with the unique...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Spaces, Network, Social Network Colonization, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Windows Live Spaces Users Get New Events, Feeds Services
- Microsoft has rolled out a new addition to its Windows Live stable: Windows Live Events. Live Events is a complement to Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft's Facebook alternative. Here are some screen shots of how the new Events service, due to be rolled out over the next few days, will look...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, screenshots, Windows Live services Microsoft
- Image galleries 2007-10-24
- Windows Live Spaces users get new Facebook-like features
- Windows Live Spaces users get new Facebook-like featuresPah hah hah, always to little...to late. Take your wagon and go home Microsh*t! >:-PFrom all I see, Microsoft just does NOT "get it" with socialsites or why people like them. They just can't let go of the idea that everything they...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2007-10-13
- Windows Live Spaces users get new Facebook-like features
- Microsoft is adding a new Windows Live Events service to its line-up. At the same time, it it is providing a general update to Windows Live Spaces that makes the platform look and feel more like Facebook by showing users a feed of what their contacts are doing. ...
- Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Service, Windows Live Events, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Odd bedfellows: Facebook and Windows Live Spaces
- Odd bedfellows: Facebook and Windows Live SpacesMicrosoft is clueless on "social" anything.If they can't sell it to corporate customers they do not place value on it.Please GOD NOOOOOOOO!!!"Spaces" Is *SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW* eNuff AlREADY!!!:-(You're wrongAT least with the 'corporate customers' comment. Microsoft still has a long way to go on social apps.,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft Corp., Facebook, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
- Odd bedfellows: Facebook and Windows Live Spaces
- In all the coverage of Microsoft allegedly pushing for a five percent stake in Facebook, there has been next-to-no mentions of Microsoft's own social-networking platform, Windows Live Spaces. Live Spaces, when it launched as a new and improved version of MSN Spaces, already had 112 million monthly...
- Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Live Spaces, Sponsored Spaces, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- MSN Spaces struggles on launch
- MSN Spaces struggles on launchHey at least they delivered somethingSo what if it doesn't work at least the delivered something. The best team in MS;-)Yeah, so?Not that I am a big fan of anything Microsoft, it is unfair to blame MSN Spaces for poor performance. Anybody who has ever used...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Windows Live Spaces Launch, Microsoft Corp., MSN Spaces, Microsoft Windows Live, MSN, Microsoft Windows Live Spaces
- Discussion threads 2006-08-03
- Windows Live Spaces
- If you already chat with Windows Live Messenger and faithfully check your Hotmail or Windows Live Mail Inbox, then Windows Live Spaces can handily integrate your contacts, letting you share your blog, pictures, and fun Gadgets with them. Plus, Spaces shares links and tie-ins with other Windows Live tools, such...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Live, MSN Spaces, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live Spaces
- Product reviews 2006-08-02
Additional Resources
- ReactOS no threat to Windows
- ReactOS is an implementation of Windows Server 2003, still in alpha stage, and very interesting. But it is no threat to Windows. None at all. Especially compared with Linux. Here's why. Sponsors. Linux has big corporate sponsors behind it, starting with...
- Tags: Desktop, ReactOS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft to raise Windows Small Business Server price 80 percent
- When Microsoft starts shipping its Windows Small Business Server 2008 product later this year, its price will be substantially higher -- as much as 80 percent -- than the current version of Small Business Server. Surprisingly, some testers and at least one market researcher don't seem fazed...
- Tags: U.S., Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Product, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, CAL, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- EDS internal memo on the HP purchase
- HP acquired EDS in a deal valued roughly at $12.8 billion. The move was outlined Tuesday morning amid a healthy dose of skepticism. Here's a memo from EDS CEO Ron Rittenmeyer, who will now report to HP CEO Mark Hurd. To the EDS Worldwide Team: Today...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Branding, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft's IBM?
- With the completion of its deal to buy EDS for $13.9 billion, Hewlett-Packard is about to become just as key to Microsoft's fate as IBM is to the fate of open source. How will Microsoft react? While Sun, Red Hat and a host of...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Olympus E-520 dSLR debuts
- Cue "The Price is Right" music -- Olympus E-520 dSLR, come on down! In today's news, Olympus announced their E-520 this morning, the replacement for the E-510. Notable improvements in the new body include sensor-shift stabilization (including an updated system with a mode that...
- Tags: Body, Olympus Corp., ISO, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Pricing, Quality, Business Operations, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7
- Improved collaboration and connectivity between Windows PCs and cell phones is going to get a major shot in the arm with Windows 7, according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. During a speech for members of the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium in Tokyo last week, Gates referred...
- Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile, PC, Cell Phone, Bill Gates, Gate, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- VMware debuts premium Recovery, Stage Manager services
- VMware has released two new virtualization management services and bundles to advance its technical lead in the market. To that end, the Palo Alto, Calif. announced Tuesday plans to deliver the VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware Stage Manager and a number of bundles combining those with existing products...
- Tags: Recovery, VMware Inc., Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Management, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft delivers Office for Mac SP1; Will bring back VBA
- Microsoft on Tuesday said that it is releasing Service Pack 1 for Office for Mac and outlined a future roadmap that brings back Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The software giant outlined the changes in a statement touting that Office 2008 for Mac is "selling faster than...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops
- Details of Microsoft's recently announced plan to extend the life of Windows XP for ultra low-cost PCs are trickling out. IDG News got its hands on what it says are Microsoft documents outlining the program for PC manufacturers. Until now, the big question was: What exactly defines...
- Tags: Linux, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Still ranting about interfaces
- My argument, yesterday, that how an application is to be used is more determinative of the right toolset for building it than what the application does, embeds the assumption that the people we sell our software or development ideas to, either are end users or make decisions on the basis...
- Tags: Corel WordPerfect, Standards, Word Processors, Quality, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Software, Business Operations, Office Suites, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- News to know: HP's to buy EDS; AMD; XP SP3; iPhone; Spam attacks
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services. Dennis Howlett: HP to take out EDS: does it make sense? AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Nokia Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Attack, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Podcasts, Data Centers, Homeland Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Live Webcast: Unified Communications Beyond IP Telephony
- No one can doubt the value of Unified Communications. From small and medium businesses to even the largest commercial enterprises, organizations of all sizes are now migrating to IP telephony solutions in record numbers. Some might even call it a communications revolution. But beyond simple voice and...
- Tags: Telephony, Webcast, Unified Communications, IP Telephony, IP, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-05-13
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