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- Microsoft Research shows off what's next for search
- New Microsoft Research MSR search techniques and technologies under development were a hot topic at the March 6 kick-off of Microsofts TechFest 2007 research showcase. (TechFest is open to press and analysts on Tuesday and to Microsoft employees on Wednesday and Thursday. Microsoft broadcast the opening TechFest address via...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Search, Web 2.0, Windows Live
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- MS-Google face-off: This time in distributed computing
- At this week’s open house for press and analysts, Microsoft Research MSR will be showing off a multitude of projects, including a so far little-publicized distributed-computing platform under development that is code-named “Dryad.” Dryad is one of a number of large-scale-computing efforts in which Microsoft researchers are engaged....
- Tags: Dryad team, Dryad, Dryad Web site
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Microsoft hones its research-to-commercial-product pipeline
- In any Microsoft Research MSR discussion, Microsoft officials emphasize that MSR does both basic and applied research with no pressure applied to researchers to productize the results. Accordingly, there is no guarantee that any given MSR technology will be commercialized at some specific date, in some specific way. That caveat...
- Tags: MSR
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
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- The opportunities in search
- The opportunities in searchEr, Murph, we already talked about this.MSR Lincoln is [i]"Lincoln is a Microsoft Research prototype which allows you to search for information about an object by just taking a photo of it.Your photo is matched against a set of images tagged with relevant web pages and comments...
- Tags: Google Inc., advertisement, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Working online from home in your pyjamas
- A good proportion of a working day in the average office, is indeed working outside of the office. It seems nowadays though, the opportunity has arisen to let those who can't get a job - students for example - to utilise their skills for the online market. Working from home...
- Tags: Poster, Task, Web Browsers, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research efforts
- In what has become a not-so-secret secret, Microsoft and Intel are set to unveil on March 18 their joint funding of more parallel-processing research work, according to various industry reports. EETimes says the Wintel couple will announce it is helping fund the new Parallel Computing Lab at...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Intel Corp., EETimes, Microsoft Research Folk, Dryad, Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratch
- Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratchNow that makes sense.Which means it probably won't happen.Makes too much senseWindows is now an unmanagable mess. This solution makes complete sense! They talk about backward compadiblity, but if they are so concerned about backward compadiblity,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, operating system, new OS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- Bill Gates seeks patent for ad-rebate program
- I don't write a lot about Microsoft patent applications, as they're often so vague that guessing their true intent is an effort in futility. But when it's Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' name on the application, things get a little more interesting.Gates and a Microsoft researcher applied for a patent in...
- Tags: Advertisement, Patent, Search Engine, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Patent Application, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Magic Safer (exe)
- Magic Safer is removable personal security software. Important data included removable device, you can encrypt and mount on Explorer to reuse. By Magic Safer you can do the following. You can hide your important files or folders which secured image fileMSR made by Magic Safer on Windows Explorer. Also you...
- Tags: Folder, Magic Safer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Security, Software
- Software downloads 2007-05-01
- Extended PSS ACPI Method Specification
- The Extended PSS XPSS method is an ACPI method that allows platform firmware to generically describe a Model Specific Register MSR-based interface for processor performance state controls. This enables the use of the generic processor driver included with Windows, without requiring a specific Windows processor driver developed by Microsoft and...
- Tags: Specification, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2007-04-02
- Microsoft Research shows off what's next for search
- Microsoft Research shows off what's next for searchsearch futuresany clues on a WinFS successor?I'll be intrested to see how this pans out...While Microsoft as a company takes heat for copying others and not being innovative, there have been some really neat things to come form MSR.A lot of the work...
- Tags: Tablets, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Notebooks, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., WinFS, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- RW - Read & Write (zip)
- This utility access almost all the computer hardware, including PCI PCI Express, PCI Index/Data, Memory, Memory Index/Data, I/O Space, I/O Index/Data, Super I/O, Clock Generator, DIMM SPD, SMBus Device, CPU MSR Registers, ATA/ATAPI Identify Data, ACPI Tables Dump include AML decode, Embedded Controller, USB Information, SMBIOS Structures, and LPT Remote...
- Tags: I/O, PCI, Storage, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-01-17
- Microsoft: Steve Ballmer sells to retail in NYC
- Steve Ballmer is Microsoft’s top salesperson. This morning, in New York City, he sold Microsoft Retail Solutions to the retail industry, big time.Ballmer, Microsoft Corp. CEO, addressed the National Retail Federation NRF Annual Convention, delivering the keynote of “Retail’s Big Show 2007” to an audience offering “the highest concentration of...
- Tags: Business Models, Microsoft, Enterprise, Brands, ecommerce, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft&rsquo, s
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- A (Microsoft) code name a day: Edinburgh
- Even though more and more teams at Microsoft seem to be shying away from christening their fledgling products with good, old-fashioned code names – favoring the ever-so-boring “V.Next” designation instead -- there are still some who are doing so. Microsoft code names always have piqued my interest....
- Tags: codename, Microsoft Corp., Code names, Research, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Wallop: Seeding a social network
- “Get into Wallop, make it yours!” is the tag line and exhortation of the Wallop social networking site, launched in beta in September. It is not necessarily easy to “get into Wallop,” however, and that is by design.Wallop proudly touts that it is “the exclusive social experience” that attracts “select...
- Tags: Wallop, Social Media, Social Networking, Facebook, Amateur Content, Social Web, MySpace, User-Generated Content, Culture, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- HWDirect (exe)
- HWDirect is an advanced low-level hardware register access software utility for Windows. It allows user to read and modify PC system hardware registers. With current latest version, HWDirect encapsulates nine separate tools. They are OSInfo, CPUID Info, PCI Read/Write Support PCI Express Enhanced Configuration registers, I/O Read/Write, MSR Read/Write, CMOS...
- Tags: HWDirect, PCI, Storage, Hardware
- Software downloads 2006-06-15
- Management of Hardware Resources in the Datacenter Using Embedded Web Services
- This paper discusses emerging trends in system hardware architectures and the challenges in managing the hardware resources. The strategy of using web services protocol for managing heterogeneous environment is analyzed in the context of hardware management. The adoption of the WS-Management protocol by the hardware vendors is a critical element...
- Tags: Web, Data Center, Web Service, Microsoft Corp., Hardware
- White papers 2006-05-17
- LiveSoft: Spin-off Windows Live with an IPO?
- John Battelle provocatively ponders whether Microsoft should split off its Windows Live products as a new company. He thinks that search and web innovation in general is where the Redmond company is getting judged - not on its core products Windows and Office. And he says in this regard Microsoft's...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-17
- Microsoft announces Live Labs - and a call to action
- I'm at the Microsoft Search Champs in Redmond and Gary William Flake, ex Chief Scientist at Overture and now a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, has announced a new initiative called Live Labs. The Internet is now a mirror of the physical world His...
- Tags: Gary William Flake, Live Labs
- Blog posts 2006-01-26
- Rambus, AMD in licensing deal
- Rambus, AMD in licensing dealHmmm....I'm at a loss for words.Fact: Rambus rules the future of computer.For more information about how Rambus is an under valued company compare this articles' company wo's with their website. Then find anything you can get you browser around about the Compaq "ipaq" Handheld PC by...
- Tags: Handhelds, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Rambus Inc., licensing deal
- Discussion threads 2006-01-03
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