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- Gallery: What's brewing inside Microsoft Research?
- Microsoft Research recently opened the doors to its research and development facility in Cambridge and silicon.com went along to take a look at the technology being worked on - from augmented reality and Microsoft's Surface technology, to making disk drives more efficient. by Andy Smith
- Tags: R&D, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, research and development, Microsoft, Andy Smith
- Image galleries 2009-05-14
- Touring Microsoft's science fair
- Walking around TechFest 2008, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie talks to News.com's Ina Fried about the latest from Redmond's labs and where the company is placing its bets these days.
- Tags: microsoft techfest 2008, redmond, seattle, bill gates, steve ballmer, ina fried, research and development
- Videos 2008-03-11
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- Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon
- Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....
- Tags: Google Inc., developer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Software that automatically fixes itself, without shutting down
- Invariant DetectionThis is supposing that the software is simple enough to determine invariants and not block valid code paths that are infrequently used. It sounds a lot like applying design by contract after the fact.Software That Fixes Itself?The headline implies an application that fixes itself. The article describes and...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, invariant, software, Clearview, erroneous execution
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- TN Bridge Host Integration Pack 3.5 for .NET 2.0 (Windows)
- TN Bridge Host Integration Pack 3.5 is Integration Pack is a set of components and productivity tools to extend and take advantage of already developed and tested host applications. By providing connectivity to IBM S/390 and AS/400 systems through standard telnet protocols TN Bridge gives access to screen-oriented applications without...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Borland Software Corp., Microsoft Windows, Integration, Cybele Software, TN Bridge Host Integration Pack 3.5, Telnet, .Net, C#, XML, Programming Languages, Servers, Networking, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- Yahoo gains respect, credibility as news outlet; looks to expand offerings
- Good for them!Somebody had got to discover the news and write the stories or else Google will have nobody to ripoff and create aggregate news pages. Google is a real bloodsucker as well as an aggregator of personal information about everybody that uses their services. Yahoo has lead...
- Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo! Inc., media need, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Can you teach programmers to be journalists?
- Megan Taylor over at PBS' MediaShift writes about the challenges of getting programmers and journalists to work together.MediaShift . Can Programmers, Journalists Get Along in One Newsroom? | PBS It's an interesting subject because newsrooms are increasingly digital and they need to add programming skills to help...
- Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Journalist, Programmer, Ms Taylor, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- The chief value of open source
- Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...
- Tags: open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap
- Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....
- Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- A Forrester interview with Steve Ballmer about the SharePoint Business
- I had the pleasure to sit down with Steve Ballmer for an interview at the Microsoft SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this week. My research team at Forrester spends a lot of time thinking, researching, and writing about the future of information work. So getting Steve’s view on SharePoint’s decade-long...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Steve Ballmer, Forrester Research Inc., Steve, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Matthew Brown
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
- You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Websters, MySQL, GPL, Stallman
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Brickbats over bricks
- Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....
- Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Looking beyond Windows 7 and Office; Pondering the alternatives
- No reason to look beyond Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office, its a complete solution out of the box for every business need. Pondering the alternatives will take all of 5 seconds before realizing the alternatives won't live up to what Microsoft has to offer.Preceding message brought to you...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Loverock Davidson
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Intel debuts Core i7 960
- Why?LGA1366 is effectively dead.RE: Intel debuts Core i7 960I think I was happier when Intel had competition at the high end and had to price their chips accordingly.Whether or not I use AMD, I need them to compete better to keep Intel's prices down.Why would you say that?Where are you...
- Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Intel Corp., socket, chipset, LGA1366, Bloomfield, LGA1156
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Free Silverlight streaming service to be replaced by paid Azure-hosted service
- Ought to be interestingSilverlight is the means by which Netflix streams their on-demand content. I cannot help but wonder if MS cut a deal with the new Blockbuster service.Does MS support "open internet", or do they want us to pay for itDoes MS support "open internet", or do they want...
- Tags: cloud computing, Strategy, Media Streaming, Microsoft Silverlight, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Corp., open-Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Testers to get Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 this week; final by March 2010
- Side-by-side installationYou said "Also unlike its predecessors, .Net 4 can be installed side-by-side with the previously released .Net 3.5"Notwithstanding the fact that .Net 4's predecessors actually was .Net 3.5, haven't all previous versions of .Net featured side-by-side installation?translations....[i]Microsoft is touting .Net 4 as being 81 percent smaller than its predecessors,...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?
- Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. Cars are now recycled throughout North America and Europe at high efficiency rates. Everything seems to be covered, right? Computers and batteries face recycling problems. We already know that...
- Tags: Landfill, Computer, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Government, Hardware, Components, Doug Hanchard
- Blog posts 2009-10-18
- Managed Print Services and Beyond:How You Can Cut Costs and Go Green While Increasing Employee Productivity
- Did you know that print costs typically consume 3% of total revenue for businesses today? For many organizations, this is nearly equivalent to the amount spent on research and development each year. According to the Photizo Group, a recognized thought leader in print services management, hardcopy costs are the last...
- Tags: Cost, Ricoh Corp., Employee Productivity, Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2009-10-08
- The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing
- Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...
- Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Microsoft's Midori: Who's on the all-star roster?
- that's by no means a' who's who' listMore likely a 'who's he' list.These guys are no match for FOSS and Linux in particular.Rather than failing to reinvent the wheel, they should just adopt Linux and do themselves a service for doing the right thing.Before you make yourself look any more...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NT-kernel, Microsoft Corp., Linux, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Unix
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
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