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Microsoft's Project Natal for business: In your dreams

Natural user interfaces will be big. Anyone that sees Microsoft's Project Natal demo comes away impressed. Once Microsoft execs try to extend that to the business world you can't help but snicker. That clunky transition from the Xbox to the business world was in plain view at...

Tags: Environment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Business World, Mundie, Game Players, Microsoft Project, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Obama counts Mundie, Schmidt, hedge fund founder Shaw as tech advisors

Obama counts Mundie, Schmidt, hedge fund founder Shaw as tech advisorsCountry going down in flamesOboma is out living like a dictator shuttingdown Detroit, using tax dollars for abortionsand thinking he is some messiah.Does that mean MS and Google now working for US gov?ntRE: Obama counts Mundie, Schmidt, hedge fund founder...

Tags: Investment, tech advisor, Mundie, Shaw, hedge fund, Obama, Oboma

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Microsoft's Mundie: New programming models needed

Microsoft's Mundie: New programming models neededI don't get it[i]Once an application is written in an existing language, you've taken away the parallelism. [/i]Haven't M$ heard of threading support yet?I'm wondering if it's a typo or it is for real.RE: Microsoft's Mundie: New programming models neededMigrating a programmer from Visual Basic...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, .NET, Programming languages, Erlang, Microsoft Corp., New programming model, Mundie, programming model

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Microsoft's Mundie: New programming models needed

Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, said Wednesday that the software industry needs to catch up with advances in computing power. The gist: Computing power is growing exponentially via multiple cores and parallel processing. The rub: Software doesn't have the tools or programming heft to...

Tags: Software, Programming Model, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Computing, Programming, Mundie, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Microsoft's Mundie: Lots of Yahoo, Microsoft redundancies

Microsoft's Mundie: Lots of Yahoo, Microsoft redundanciesPicasa is Google, not YahooPicasa is Google, not YahooI think you mean Flickr, not PicasaYahoo! owns Flickr. You know, that very popular photo-sharing site that's just one of the only few properties that Yahoo! really has the goods on? Not Picasa, the program that...

Tags: Redundancies, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Mundie, YAHMic, Google Picasa

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Microsoft's Mundie: A bottom-up approach to tech

Microsoft's Mundie: A bottom-up approach to techMessage has been deleted.

Tags: Mundie, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-16

Ozzie, Mundie pick up tech mantle at Microsoft

Ozzie, Mundie pick up tech mantle at MicrosoftI am going to get my Groove on...Ray Ozzie is a pure genius. When my rep and I last saw him, he was demonstrating SharePoint 2007 at TechEd. I was clapping my hands so hard that I needed to ice them down after...

Tags: Strategy, Groupware, rep, MSFT, Mundie, Ozzie, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-06-16

Additional Resources

DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC approval

Yeah but...Sure wish they'd fire McNealy & Schwartz, then it would make it all worthwhile.Michael Murdock, CEOWell I never liked Oracle anyway......good way for Oracle to shoot itself in the foot. :)Did you know that large snakes can misjudge prey and try to eat something too big? Then they literally...

Tags: Linux, Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft development tools, U.S. Department of Justice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Renewable energy is only a patch--MSFT research head

Stop the release of CO2 says Craig Mundie. Any way and every way. Doesn't Craig understand that it's always about making a profit and you do that by selling more energy, even renewable...not by cutting down on CO2. That's generally a costly public service like clean water...

Tags: Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide, MSFT, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-24

News to know: Swine flu; Microsoft; Windows 7; iPhone and Verizon

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Swine Flu: Where to find virus, track outbreak, learn symptoms, more Harry Fuller: Swine flu and the enviornment? Mary Jo...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Microsoft to begin public test of Twitter-like notification service

Microsoft is taking reservations starting April 28 for a limited beta of a new public-information service called Vine. The service, slated to go to testers in May, uses alerts, reports and a personal dashboard to allow users to stay in touch, particularly during crisis situations. The Vine service...

Tags: Facebook, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Service, Vine, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Obama counts Mundie, Schmidt, hedge fund founder Shaw as tech advisors

President Obama named Microsoft research chief Craig Mundie and Google CEO Eric Schmidt to his panel of science and technology advisors along with a few other notable characters. The full name of this panel is the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology PCAST and the goal is...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Barack Obama, Hedge Fund, Advisor, William Press, David E. Shaw, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaks

Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaksWindows 7It seems that Microsoft is playing it safe with Windows 7 by having minimum changes.Is WinFS still alive or do we have to consider it as a dead duck?Thanks RodIt's mostly the applications anywaysFrankly, it's mostly the applications that need to take advantage of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Windows Kernel, Craig, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, parallel-processing tweak, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Win32, tweak, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Yes folks, the cloud and parallel processing need killer apps

Microsoft's research chief Craig Mundie outlined his view of where computing is headed over the next decade or so and here is a big takeaway: The cloud and multiprocessor computing could use a few good killer applications. Mundie was speaking at the Technology Review Emerging Technology conference....

Tags: Killer Application, Parallel Processing, Computing, Craig Mundie, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-25

What comes after S+S? A truly unified client-cloud platform

Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie's current priority No. 1 is to help the Softies, customers and partners understand the changes necessary to program and use computing resources in the form of a composite platform -- i.e., the cloud and the client as a single unit. by Mary...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Craig Mundie, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs

Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the user interface of the future will look like is more complex than that. Instead of allowing users...

Tags: Receptionist, User Interface, Microsoft Corp., Robots, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Is Bill Gates a secret cloud convert?

Is Bill Gates a secret cloud convert?He doesn't say use it in the cloudHe doesn't say use it in the cloud, he said it is with the Windows Live download which includes lots and lots of non-cloud based programs, windows live writer for instance.Originally the "Internet" was going to be...

Tags: Bill Gates, cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., secret cloud

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Is Microsoft the answer to Africa's health woes?

In my story earlier today I pointed out how African researchers see mobile data networks as the key to improving health outcomes on the world's poorest continent. The French group formerly known as Fone+, now combined under Craig Mundie into Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Group, is pushing precisely...

Tags: Mobile, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Smart Phones, Healthcare, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Another Windows veteran to leave Microsoft

Will Poole, a Microsoft Windows veteran -- and most recently, Corporate Vice President in charge of the company's Unlimited Potential group -- is retiring, according to sources who asked not to be named. Poole, who has been at Microsoft 12 years, previously was the Senior Vice President...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Poole, Ayala, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-14

News to know: Microhoo; Adobe patch; Windows bloat; AMD

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo goes nuclear vs. Microsoft: Inks limited Google ad deal; Microsoft fires back Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer? Garett Rogers: Google gets business from Yahoo...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-10