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Poll: Is Windows 7's ship date immaterial to you?

When I saw a Microsoft Windows exec quoted this week as saying that Microsoft still is unwilling to go on record saying Win 7 will be ready in time for holiday 2009, I was more than a little incredulous. Hasn't the "we're protecting you for your own good" campaign gone...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Business User, Mike Nash, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-01-08

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Yes, based on Mac history, Windows 7.5 will suck less

Ummmm..."Windows 1: Shipped in 1985 and nobody cared.Windows 2: Shipped in 1987 and few cared.Windows 3: Came out in 1990 and PC users cared, especially with Windows 3.1 in 1992 (And I include here the introduction of Windows NT, which I believe was given a 3.x number.)Windows 4: Windows 95....

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7.5, Mac history, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-11-01

China demands new PCs carry spyware

China demands new PCs carry spywareI don't think that anyone thinks that China's government has changed its position on freedom of speech.RE: China demands new PCs carry spywareWait for something like this to come our way in the US. Except under the guise of protection against software piracy.RE: China demands...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, COMPANIES, spyware, government

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

And the new name is ... Windows 7

Last week I wondered whether the product currently code-named Windows 7 would get a new name for its release. The answer, made official a few minutes ago, is no. In a post at the official Windows Vista Team Blog, Microsoft VP Mike Nash announced that Windows 7 will in fact...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?

Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?Theoretically, Murph should be rightLinux should be the cheaper. That is simply based on product cost. It's hard to compete with free. Google exemplifies the best use of Linux."Theoretically", if all OSs had equal pools of equally smart and well...

Tags: Linux, Branding, Operating systems, Strategy, Giffen, operating system, brand, Wintel

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

How can Microsoft overcome Vista's lingering image problem?

Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management, has a tough problem on his hands. Microsoft and its hardware/software partners have done a lot in the past 16 months to make Windows Vista a better operating system. With Service Pack SP 1, Microsoft has addressed some...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Nash & Co., Windows Team, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Monkeys throwing bananas...and other great lines from the Troll culture

Monkeys throwing bananas...and other great lines from the Troll cultureLike Beethoven at the keyboard .Microsoft .Coxisms[url=http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=45152&messageID=834512&start=-9961]Typical Coxism[/url]Gets me through the day with a 'chuckle'.What do you call ...... a MAC portable user?An AIRhead.Didn't amuse the MAC community ... and I'm not ananymous so I guess you'll have to disqualify it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, No_Axe_to_Grind, Vista Capable, Aero, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Microsoft COO downplays Vista update problems

Microsoft COO downplays Vista update problems4.0 ... Sorry...... not up to the usual standard.What?No beating the lackeys, or brandy and cigars? And all you got was a T-shirt! What's up with that?Dear Mr. Cox...Though we like the, Heros Happen Here shirt and pen, this is not up to your usual...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, VISTA UPDATE PROBLEM, SP1

Discussion threads 2008-03-04

Windows Vista (In)capable

What went wrong? I'll tell you what went wrong: Microsoft execs - starting with Steve Ballmer - don't care enough about their customers. Which is too bad for the thousands of smart, hard working 'softies who do. I went through the Vista Capable lawsuit Exhibit A emails....

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, News, Intel Corp., Development Team, Features, Allchin, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-03-02

Microsoft employee caught out by Windows Vista Capable logo

Think that Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" logo was too confusing?  You're not alone.  It seems that the program also caught out at least one Microsoft employee. Note: For background on the logo programs see this post.  Far background to the case see this post.  For thoughts I had at...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-02-12

No Vista SP1 bits for users until mid-March

Customers who've been waiting for Microsoft to release the final Vista Service Pack SP 1 bits are going to have to wait another month or two to actually get their hands on them -- at least through legal channels. In a posting to the Windows Vista team...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Update, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Nash, SP1, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-04

Vista mistakes Microsoft won't repeat with Windows 7

Microsoft learned some hard lessons with Windows Vista that it already is applying to Windows 7. First and foremost: Keep Windows architectural changes to a minimum. And secondly, be more predictable and believable when it comes to delivery targets. That's according to Mike Nash,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Accounted for: The five mystery Vista updates to be added to SP1

Accounted for: The five mystery Vista updates to be added to SP1It almost seems like...They are trying to show that you can get "as-worthy" updates via Windows Updates on an incremental basis, almost as if they didn't have plans or want to have plans to ever develop Service Packs any...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SP1, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Update, Vista Update, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-10-03

Microsoft attempts to rally more hardware vendors around Rally

One of Microsofts biggest pushes at this years Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC is around Rally, a connectivity platform that Microsoft debuted at last years WinHEC. Rally is a set of networking protocols and licenses that are designed to simplify consumersabilities to connect peripherals to Windows Vista and to...

Tags: Vista, Windows client, WinHEC

Blog posts 2007-05-15

What you won't hear Microsoft talk about at WinHEC 2007

Usually, at the annual Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conferences WinHECs, Microsoft provides its system partners with some information about whats coming next on the operating systems front. Even if not a full-fledged roadmap, usually there are a few hints, a handful of futures slides, a couple of thinly-veiled references...

Tags: Fiji, Corporate strategy, Code names, Vista, Windows 7, Windows client, WinHEC

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Post Vista, Microsoft reorgs the Windows group

As typical, following a major product release, Microsoft is reorging. This time, following Windows Vistas launch, its Windows client business unit doing the shuffle, according to sources close to the company. Heres whats happening. Kevin Johnson, head of Microsofts uber Platforms and Services unit, has created a new business...

Tags: Anti-piracy, Corporate strategy, Windows client, Vista

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Microsoft security chief looks beyond Vista

Microsoft security chief looks beyond VistaThe M$ secuirty chief is just another Sea Story.Gee.. Maybe if you RTFS...you wouldn't make lame comments...[b]MS has a "security" chief? When did they hire him? A couple days ago? [/b]If you read the top part of the article, you would have noted he's replacing...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), FTC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., security, Silicon Graphics Inc., chief look, Fathi

Discussion threads 2006-06-13

Microsoft's 'Eolas patch' to hobble IE this week. Advantage: Firefox

A ZDNet reader that goes only by the name of John e-mailed me yesterday to remind me that today -- April 11 2006 -- is Internet Explorer's official Eolas day of reckoning. Going out in today's superpatch Tuesday batch of patches is an update to Internet Explorer that will...

Tags: Eolas Technologies Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox

Blog posts 2006-04-11

Patches: Once a month is not enough

Microsoft needs to rethink its policy of stockpiling security bulletins and patches and releasing them all on the second Tuesday of each month. It doesn’t solve a problem for any customer, and it exposes an unknown number of innocent Windows users to unnecessary risk.The whole concept of Patch Tuesday started...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Critical Update, security

Blog posts 2006-03-24

Microsoft gives Sinofsky reins to Windows

Microsoft gives Sinofsky reins to Windowspatching the sinking shipNobody can save M$ or windoze anylonger.The momentum behind Linux is unstopable!It's not Microsoft that sinkingI'd hardly say Microsoft is sinking. It isn't Microsoft that is existing with less than 5% of itself out of the water.Calling all MBA's!Here we read:"Microsoft has...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Rep, Sinofsky, Microsoft Corp., rep, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-03-23