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- It's Vista time
- "Its time," blogs Microsoft Windows chief Jim Allchin. Vista is ready to be released to manufacturing RTM.
- Tags: Vista
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Vista RTM marks the end of an era
- Vista RTM marks the end of an eraJim Allchin Should Pick up the GuitarWOW Allchin actually talked to Mary Joe? Hell really has frozen over. Allchin is the most likely patsy for Microsoft's ongoing antitrust problems which are likely to fire up again in the US owing to yesterday's elections....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating systems, Web browsers, Linux, operating system, Service Pack 2, Jim Allchin, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista RTM
- Discussion threads 2006-11-08
- Vista RTM marks the end of an era
- The expected announcement on November 8 of the release to manufacturing RTM of Windows Vista is a milestone on many fronts. For one, it’s the end of the Jim Allchin era and the start of the Steven Sinofsky one, in terms of Windows leadership at Microsoft. On October 18,...
- Tags: Vista, Windows Server Longhorn, Windows client, Windows server, Windows Live, Corporate strategy, Windows XP, Windows Mobile
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- What did Microsoft learn from Vista?
- After Bill Gates, the man whose name is most closely associated with Windows is Jim Allchin. Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft’s platforms and services business, is in his final months at Microsoft. As previously announced, the 16-year Microsoft veteran plans to leave the company in January, following the retail launch...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, dependency, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- Jim Allchin's a'bloggin, pee on Microsoft's Vista bus, and three migration tools. The Vista full-court press begins
- Jim Allchin's a'bloggin, pee on Microsoft's Vista bus, and three migration tools. The Vista full-court press beginsHaha![i]One very interesting point to me is how the site is based on Adobe's Flash. So far Microsoft has no answer to Adobe's Flash. As the Internet's bandwidth improves and with Flash playing host...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Demitri, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Jim Allchin
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
- Jim Allchin's a'bloggin, pee on Microsoft's Vista bus, and three migration tools. The Vista full-court press begins
- I've heard this sound before. It's the sound of Microsoft revving up its engines as it prepares to launch an all out marketing blitz for a new operating system. Here are three new items that crossed the transom in the last 24 hours.It appears as though Microsoft has launched a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Jim Allchin
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- Is Vista ready? Microsoft testers weigh in
- Microsoft officials obviously believe Windows Vista is ready, given that it is set to release it to manufacturing within weeks, if not days. But what do some of its toughest testers think? With millions kicking Windows Vista’s tires, just about anyone and everyone is a Vista tester these days. But...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- Allchin: Vista won't RTM next week
- The Microsoft countdown clock was wrong. (Yeah, maybe it's running Windows Vista and blue screened. Teehee.) Vista is not on track to be released to manufacturing on October 25, according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's platforms and services division. "We won't RTM release to manufacturing in a week," Allchin...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Jim Allchin
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- Foretelling Microsoft's future ...
- Foretelling Microsoft's future ...How this is going to happenYet another post on ZDNET spelling the story of doom and gloom for a company with more pennies in the bank than there are sub-atomic particles in the universe. What we need to realize is that this post is nothing more...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-06-01
- Consumers won't get Vista until 2007
- From news.com's Ina Fried: Microsoft said Tuesday that Windows Vista won't show up on new PCs until January 2007, though Microsoft will make it available to business customers in November.Windows chief Jim Allchin said that the company will finish the code this year, but will push out the full launch...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Jim Allchin
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- A vista of Vista
- Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's platform, products andJim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's platform, products and services division, speaks with CNETCNET News.com's Ina Fried asks Microsoft's Allchin questions from readers. One wanted to know which computers would be able to run Vista.
- Tags: Jim Allchin
- Videos 2006-01-27
- Allchin touts the Vista virtues
- Jim Allchin has started his farewell and Vista promotional tour, and we have videos. Allchin, Microsoft co-president of the platform, products and services division, is planning to retire at the end of this year when Vista ships after 16 years in the Redmond trenches. News.com readers came up with the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Jim Allchin
- Blog posts 2006-01-27
Additional Resources
- Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome
- Google demos speed benchmarks for ChromeGoogle Chrome - resource hog .....I know some one who has trialed "Chrome", and was taken initially by the speed, but in less than one day was back to using FireFox as Chrome became a resource hog! Once you have more than a few browser...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidence
- According to Bloomberg, in a ruling that has important implications for Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO and the company itself, district judge Susan Illston found that Ellison: ...deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him......
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Susan Illston, Larry Ellison, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Linux laptop goes to school
- The Linux laptop goes to schoolOn the Mouse Buttons ...[i]Robin’s biggest complaint was the slow response of the mouse buttons. But it’s something you can get used to, she said.[/i]Don't use the mouse buttons they're too slow, instead use the tap, double tap and side scroll features on the touchpad....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Mice, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, mouse, Linux laptop, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope
- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as PopeThat's what I thoughtThe ad was about nothing except of course Bill. It is unclear why this ad was made.Who in the world is this "journalist"?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Ratcliffe"I see you baby ...... shakin that ass -shakin that ass."http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/digital/article/548871/publicis-dialog-puns-ass-shaking-new-renault-viral/RE: Microsoft builds $300M...
- Tags: Wiki, Blogging, ass, Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, Bill Gates, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope
- I'm just having a little fun.... I don't get the Seinfeld commercial. They are selling Bill, not Windows. What's with that? Bill retired in July. This just in from Adweek's commercials critic, Barbara Lippert: The Future. Delicious" is the sign-off, but I am...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Ass, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Branding, Web Browsers, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Internet, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft lab
- Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft labLabs are a great concept but hard to move into the business...Innovation is important for long term competitiveness and the "labs" concept is a good one for providing a dedicated R&D capability. However, I've seen far too many companies including Microsoft have...
- Tags: Microsoft Ozzie, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog that Windows is "already...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
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