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- Windows 7: The information lockdown continues
- Windows 7: The information lockdown continuesOnce burnedtwice shy. MS isn't going to risk the kind of PR flak that they caught over the slipped schedules, withdrawn features, etc. the last time around.My notoriously unreliable crystal ball predicts that the first anyone sees of their next platform will be when...
- Tags: Operating systems, PDC 2008, Microsoft obviously, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, information lockdown, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Surprise! There will be a PDC 2008 after all
- Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference PDC -- which was "postponed" this year -- is on for 2008, according to the company. PDC 2008 is slated for October 27 to 30 in Los Angeles. (I wonder if it will be right before/after/during the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, also slated...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., PDC 2008, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
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- Google makes Chrome OS open source today
- I like itThe ChromeOS demo looked pretty cool!I'm almost 100% webapp-based already, so I could see myself using a simple, fast & no maintenance OS like that the majority of the time.I like it too, but, for me, I need to compile and run programs locally. I would imagine that...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, open source, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, ChromeOS
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- What derailed the Windows Mobile 7 train?
- One has to wonderwhether Microsoft even knows how to deal with a competitive environment anymore. One also has to wonder how long the Teflon coating will last on its CEO, because while MS will not be declaring bankruptcy any time soon, you cannot seriously argue that this CEO has maximized...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows CE, Mobile operating systems, Handhelds, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Mobile, SMP, Microsoft Windows, WM7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 expected as soon as next week
- Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 expected as soon as next weekGetting closer!Very exciting! Visual Studio 2010 is going to be an excellent improvement for Windows and ASP.NET developers. Can't wait! :-)RE: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 expected as soon as next weekIt has been terribly quiet around VS 2010, A...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, Microsoft Visual Studio
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Windows Azure: a very difficult concept explained
- Since the announcement of Windows Azure, codenamed "Red Dog" as discovered by my colleague Mary-Jo Foley, at PDC 2008, I have felt an element of doubt hanging over the service, simply because I didn't know enough about it. This post will explain everything you need to know about Azure -...
- Tags: Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Service, Windows Azure, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- New Live Framework tookit adds Win 7, IE 8 support
- New Live Framework tookit adds Win 7, IE 8 support'invisible? Internet Explorer wrapper ... like an HTA?http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536496(VS.85).aspxSeriously, this whole thing sounds stupid. An IE wrapper around a Silverlight app, running offline? Why not just use WPF? Screw the IE wrapper and get offline support, seamless deployment (and...
- Tags: Web browsers, Offline Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Silverlight app, Microsoft Silverlight, IE Wrapper
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7
- Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7VISTA tax"Over the course of the last two years, I've discarded or replaced a handful of devices that didn't work at all with Vista: several network cards, some storage adapters, a scanner, a TV tuner."Fantastic.RE: Six things Steve Ballmer won't tell...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, IT Organizations, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- Microsoft kills Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription services
- Microsoft kills Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription servicesFREE anti-virus anti-physing s/w for windows usersThat's what licensed windows users need! It will also encourage people to use license copies.RE: Microsoft kills Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription servicesThis is very strange..it makes MS look indecisive and incapable, especially as...
- Tags: Equipt, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft kills Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Kills, Equipt subscription service, subscription service
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- Office 2.0: a digital revolution for students worldwide
- With hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people using Google Apps and Zoho, two of the main cloud office suites on the web, Microsoft once again sees an opportunity to slam it's iron fist onto the web in hope of crushing the same competitors as before. ...
- Tags: Office 2.0, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- America loses its moral technologist: Michael Crichton
- Author, Producer and Director Michael Crichton, 1942-2008. Photo: Associated Press With election week and coverage of other events such as the Microsoft PDC and the latest Windows 7 builds, many of ZDNet's readers may be unaware that one of America's most...
- Tags: America, Fiction, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- My favorite Windows Vista gadgets
- When I first began using Windows Vista, I dismissed the Sidebar as a gimmick. It didn’t help that the default gadgets Microsoft offered were of limited utility and that some early gadgets caused performance problems. Over time, though, I’ve become a Sidebar convert. I haven’t encountered a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Gadget, Sidebar, ShareMaster Gadget, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- News to know: Windows 7; OpenOffice flaws; Cybercrime; Apple
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: You've got Windows 7 questions, I've got answers Sam Diaz: Real vows fight for RealDVD, adjusts outlook Ryan Naraine: Code execution flaws...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Flaw, LinkedIn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Linux, Federal Government, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Government
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Microsoft PDC attendees get 'the goods'
- Microsoft provided attendees of its Professional Developer Conference this week with a 160 GB drive full of bits and resources. The Windows 7 M3 pre-beta build and Windows Server 2008 R2 M3 pre-beta are on the drives. What else is on there? by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Attendee, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, UXEvangelist Blog, .Net, Microsoft Development Tools, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Gallery: Microsoft takes wraps off Windows Azure
- At Microsoft's PDC 2008 conference, the company's chief software architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Windows Azure which is an operating system that lets developers write programs for Microsoft's data centers instead of individual pieces of software for business servers. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Andy Smith, Cloud, windows, PDC08, Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia, David Thompson
- Image galleries 2008-10-29
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Keeping track of Microsoft ... by the codenames
- Keeping track of Microsoft ... by the codenamesits 2008, not 1998A download? Come on MJF....you can do better than that. What about putting it in Office Live Workspaces, or http://listas.labs.live.com...or Google Apps. Somewhere where we don't have to have our own copy of it and where we can go and...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-17
- Ballmer: 'Windows 7 will be Vista, but a lot better'
- Ballmer: 'Windows 7 will be Vista, but a lot better'Here's a suggestionI noticed that some of your readers post comments only when you blog about the "Windows OS". I am doing it now to convey a point hereMy family member watched Oprah show yesterday, and mentioned that the topic...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement
- (Update: It also looks like you can grab the final bits as of 12:01 this morning: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx?v=2.0) After listening to the Q&A from the press conference today recording here, digging into some of the details, and reading some of the commentary on various blogs, there are a...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Eclipse, Numbers Game, Linux, Java Development Tools, Microsoft Development Tools, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrow
- Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrowThanks are due.Many thanks to Microsoft for delivering Silverlight 2 with all haste and for not making developers wait until PDC 2008. As there is heavy local competition against Flash shops, this is most welcome news sorry Ryan, particularly within the context of...
- Tags: Silverlight 2, Microsoft Silverlight
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
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