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- Red Dog: Ray Ozzie casts a long shadow
- Red Dog: Ray Ozzie casts a long shadowWhat does the authour mean by new sheriff?What does the authour mean by new sheriff?Microsoft was the father of MicroDogNTFascinating SeriesMary Jo,This looks like it is going to be a fascinating series. In many ways, Red Dog will make or break Microsoft's...
- Tags: Web browsers, Games, Microsoft Corp., Red Dog, Ray Ozzie
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Azure: One big, happy platform?
- Azure: One big, happy platform?Red DogAnd on a totally unrelated topic:Every time I see "Red Dog" in blogs, my mind wanders back to my college years. When youre dirt poor and need some booze, Red Dog beer was the way to go. Tastes horrid, but it gets the...
- Tags: Red Dog, happy platform, Azure
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Red Dog: Five questions with Microsoft mystery man Dave Cutler
- Red Dog: Five questions with Microsoft mystery man Dave CutlerExcellent questions MJ.They've addressed some doubts about outages and reliability.Looking forward to the next RD instalment.:)RE: Red Dog: Five questions with Microsoft mystery man Dave CutlerTechies need to understand the difference between techies and "execs." Cutler is a techie. MFJ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, opposite, MFJ, Dave Cutler, Red Dog, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-25
- Red Dog: Five questions with Microsoft mystery man Dave Cutler
- Dave Cutler, the father of the NT and VMS operating systems, is a key member of Microsoft's Red Dog cloud OS team. I had a chance to ask Cutler about what he's working on now. Here's our exchange. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Team, Hypervisor, Operating System, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Corp., Red Dog, Fabric Controller, MJF, Opposite, Virtualization, Team Management, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Management, Storage, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- How the Red Dog dream team built a cloud OS from scratch
- How the Red Dog dream team built a cloud OS from scratchKeeping it simple is good.Thanks for your attention to my post requesting a definition of Red Dog yesterday.I was hoping it might be in the introduction. But I did encounter more later:Calling Red Dog an ?operating system? is...
- Tags: Team management, Balmer, Keeping it Simple, Red Dog, operating system, team, Azure
- Discussion threads 2009-02-24
- Red Dog: Can you teach old Windows hounds new tricks?
- Red Dog: Can you teach old Windows hounds new tricks?Obviously, Microsoft has a lot of money to invest, and they have nowdecided it is time. Will be interesting to see what they actually create.New tricks for an old dog?No. Just recycling an old one. I see they've retrieved...
- Tags: Data centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Obviously Microsoft, Red Dog, old-Windows, new trick, Azure
- Discussion threads 2009-02-23
- Microsoft 'Red Dog': A pink poodle in disguise?
- Microsoft 'Red Dog': A pink poodle in disguise?Nice to see David Cutler in the limelight again...Nice to see David Cutler in the limelight again. What had he been doing these years?Great story about great company...This is one of those great stories that people will tell years from now after Project...
- Tags: Red Dog, David Cutler, pink poodle, Pink Poodle, poodle, disguise, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- 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
- Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform
- Microsoft is gearing up to go big with its plans for its own version of its hosted development platform later this month. But Amazon.com isn't sitting idly by, waiting for Microsoft to rain on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Red Dog, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Servers, Operating Systems, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Piecing together Microsoft's cloud-computing vision
- A new white paper, sponsored by Microsoft and written by the always entertaining consultant David Chappell, provides more clues about what the Softies are planning to unveil at this October's Professional Developers Conference. For anyone looking to understand how and where Red Dog, Zurich, BizTalk Services and SQL Server Data...
- Tags: Zurich, Operating System, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Service, David Chappell, Red Dog, SQL Server Data Services, Application Service, EC2, EC2 Customer, Windows Live ID, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktop Virtualization, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
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- Amazon vs. tax happy states: E-tailer could nuke Associates program and still win
- Amazon vs. tax happy states: E-tailer could nuke Associates program and still winFree internet, a distruption to govt run bussinessesFor past few centuries governments always picked businesses which are very easy and made sure of no-competition. Some of these businesses are tax collection, lottery program, etc. Only politicians have full...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Amazon.com Inc., happy state, tax, still win, online retail company
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?
- Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?Agreed. Tried it out.It can answer "some" questions faster then Google but still suffers the problem of you want to do further research even then to be assured Wolfram got it right. As I suspected, its much like Wikipedia; just a smaller...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., search engine, Wolfram/Alpha
- Discussion threads 2009-05-16
- Microsoft's latest "Laptop Hunter" ad
- Microsoft's latest "Laptop Hunter" adAnother joke from MicrosoftYou can get a laptop for $300 dollars, why did they give her $2000? Since the quality, user experience, usability, stability, resale value, ownership costs, capabilities, etc never seem to fit into this lines of commercials, what is the use of giving $2000?...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, advertisement, Apple Macintosh, laptop computer, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- 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
- All About Microsoft: CodeTracker
- Revised - May, 2009 Can't keep Midori straight from MinSafe? Unsure how Red Dog, Cosmos and Zurich fit in Microsoft's cloud OS picture? Tracking Microsoft's myriad codenames is an almost full-time occupation. And Mary Jo Foley knows that better than anyone, as she spends...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Is $100 million enough to help Microsoft gain search share?
- Is $100 million enough to help Microsoft gain search share?Could it? Yes. Will it? No.Why do I think that? Gut feeling. Given the information provided that's about all we have to go with.Rebranded is worthless don't they get that by now?How many times do they have to re brand MSN,...
- Tags: Marketing research, IT User, MS-search, Microsoft Corp., marketing, MSN
- Discussion threads 2009-04-02
- News to know: VMware; IE 8; Google; 3D Web
- 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. Sam Diaz: Facebook responds to redesign concerns; Changes are coming Mary Jo Foley: VMware picks up yet another former...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3D, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., VMware Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Twitter, Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Open Source, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Microsoft: No on-premise Azure hosting for business users
- Microsoft: No on-premise Azure hosting for business usersThat ends any chance it ever had, way to go MS.They must take their time to make certain they have their foot in their sights before pulling the trigger...Sorta wonder what was going through your headwhen you came up with these questions.Did Cisco...
- Tags: Data centers, cloud computing, Azure, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- Microsoft refreshes Azure cloud, development kit
- Microsoft is making its first big refresh to its Azure cloud platform since the company first rolled out "Red Dog" operating system and the Azure layer of accompany cloud services officially last October. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Official, Microsoft Corp., Azure, Data Centers, Business Structures, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Is Microsoft Amalga in trouble?
- Is Microsoft Amalga in trouble?Could it be Vista's reputation?Or should we call it Longhorn? Sadly the problems related to the Longhorn/Vista development was very public and far from the best PR.If someone was to go with a "name you can trust" IBM is ahead of MS. Apple's probably...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Amalga, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-17
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