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- Could Windows Home Server be Microsoft's iPhone?
- Run down the check list: Relatively quiet development period, followed by short and seemingly successful beta. Check A product that users actually want and understand. Check Potentially cool form factors. CheckMicrosoft just might have a hit on its hands with Windows Home Server when the first Home Server models debut this fall.Is it...
- Tags: Windows Home Server, System builders, OEMs, Corporate strategy, Channel, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Ad-funded Microsoft Works pilot starting soon
- On the afternoon of August 1, Microsoft finally decided to talk officially about its plans for an ad-funded version of Microsoft Works.Courtesy of a Microsoft spokeswoman, via e-mail:"Microsoft is initiating a pilot program featuring an ad-funded version of Microsoft Works – Microsoft Works SE 9.""Since its release in 1986,...
- Tags: Web 2.0, System builders, Office, OEMs, Google, Corporate strategy, Channel, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Microsoft to launch Office Communications Server 2007 this fall
- Microsoft will launch the latest versions of its unified communications products -- Office Communications Server OCS 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 client -- sometime this fall.Microsoft is on track to release to manufacturing the two OCS products on Friday, July 27, according to Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes.Raikes, who...
- Tags: Web conferencing, VOIP, Telecommunications, System builders, Speech, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Office 2007, Office, OEMs
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Microsoft to simplify downgrades from Vista to XP
- Microsoft is simplifying the processes via which its PC-maker partners will be able to provide "downgrade" rights from Windows Vista to Windows XP for their customers.Microsoft will implement the first of the policy changes for its Gold Certified (top-tier) OEM partners within the next couple of weeks. The company will...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, OEMs, Resellers, System builders, Vista, Windows client, Windows XP
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- From the 'I'm glad I'm not a Vista salesperson' files
- All the recent career advice I've received from Mac zealots has really got me thinking about my future. (The "go back to baking muffins and taking care of the kids" e-mail from one reader definitely gave me food for thought.)If I ever decide to hang up my blogging hat, there's...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Vista, System builders, OEMs, Legal, Google, Corporate strategy, Channel, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- July 1: No more Office 2003 for OEMs
- It's only been six months since Microsoft launched Office 2007 at retail. But as of July 1, 2007, Microsoft won't be making the OEM version of Office 2003 to its PC partners, a k a "OEMs."Eric Ligman, Senior Manager of Small Business Community Engagement with Microsoft, reminded OEMs and customers...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, OEMs, Office, Office 2007, Resellers, System builders, Vista, Windows client, Windows XP
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Microsoft headed for a services show-down with its hosting partners
- Microsoft is on a collision course with its hosting partners.During the past couple of weeks, Microsoft officials have started touting publicly the handful of hosted managed services that Microsoft is selling directly to customers. This week at the NXTcomm 2007 show in Chicago, Microsoft was out hawking its"Microsoft Solution for...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server, Network service providers, OEMs, Resellers, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, System builders, Systems integrators, Telecommunications
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Microsoft preps Windows-based kitchen client
- Microsoft is beginning work on the first of what it plans to make a family of customized Windows platforms designed for specific rooms around the home.The "Kitchen Client" software will extend the Windows operating system and integrate with current and future Windows Live services, according to sources close to the...
- Tags: Fiji, Corporate strategy, OEMs, Resellers, System builders, Vista, Windows client, Windows Live
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Is Microsoft becoming a hardware vendor?
- Microsoft for years has been building keyboards, mice and joysticks. More recently, it started building Xbox gaming consoles. Then Zune MP3 players. Now, with the company's official unveiling of Surface, a k a Milan/PlayTable, Microsoft is mamufacturing large-screen, multitouch, gesture-recognizing computing devices.Does all this mean that software vendor Microsoft is...
- Tags: Apple, Channel, Corporate strategy, OEMs, Resellers, System builders, Xbox, Zune
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Microsoft Pika: Media center remoting comes to devices
- During Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC keynote last week, there was a demo of Media Center content being streamed to a TV. Gates referred to the technology behind that demo as "Pika," but didn't offer up much else in the way of explaining what WinHEC attendees...
- Tags: WinHEC, Windows client, System builders, OEMs, Fiji, Corporate strategy, Code names, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Microsoft reveals more partners, plans for Windows Home Server
- Gateway, consumer storage vendor LaCie and Medion International will join Hewlett Packard in delivering new Windows Home Server systems this fall, Microsoft announced on May 15, the opening day of its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC in Los Angeles. Microsoft also announced, as many expected, that the company will...
- Tags: Channel, OEMs, Resellers, System builders, Windows Home Server, Windows server, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Could Microsoft take a community lesson from Sun?
- Microsoft talks a lot about community and wanting to foster/tap into it. But there really is no single, cohesive "Microsoft community," akin to the Linux community. The reasons for this are many and varied. A dominant market player-- vs. an up-and-coming underdog -- seems to inspire less vocal customer/developer...
- Tags: Systems integrators, System builders, Resellers, OEMs, Novell, Network service providers, Linux, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Microsoft delivers a new Windows Home Server test build
- On April 17, Microsoft made available to testers another new Community Technology Preview CTP build of Windows Home Server. Windows Home Server -- a product designed to help users with multiple home PCs and devices "store, protect and share their photos, music videos and documents" -- is still on...
- Tags: Windows Home Server, System builders, OEMs
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Is Microsoft still worthy of the 'Evil Empire' crown?
- Forget programmer Paul Grahams "Microsoft is dead" headline. It got the desired effect: Hes gotten links on TechMeme, Slashdot and a lots of other news-starved sites this weekend. But dont dismiss Grahams question as to who if anyone is afraid of Microsoft any more. It wasnt that long...
- Tags: Systems integrators, Resellers, OEMs, Novell, Legal, Google, Corporate strategy, Channel, Web 2.0, VOIP, System builders
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- Microsoft releases Windows Home Server SDK
- If youre champing at the bit to build applications that will be able to take advantage of Microsofts forthcoming Windows Home Server WHS product, you might want to download the newly released beta version of the WHS software development kit SDK. As Microsoft explains: "The SDK will enable...
- Tags: Windows server, Windows Home Server, System builders, OEMs, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Ex-Softie weighs in on how to avoid the dancing Microsoft elephant
- Speaking of Microsofts unified-communications strategy, former Softie Alec Saunders has an interesting post on how to "avoid becoming Microsoft roadkill" in the converging VOIP/conferencing/phone market. (Saunders spent nine years at Microsoft in a variety of product management and marketing roles, including the initial launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer. He...
- Tags: VOIP, System builders, Speech, Resellers, OEMs, Network service providers, Telecommunications, Systems integrators, Exchange Server, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Cisco's Chambers claims a three-year lead on Microsoft
- Cisco CEO John Chambers has thrown down the gauntlet. At Ciscos Partner Summit in Las Vegas this week, Chambers told the press corps in attendance that he believes Cisco has a three-year lead on Microsoft in the unified communications space. And, according to TechIQ Magazines "VAR Guy," who...
- Tags: VOIP, Telecommunications, Systems integrators, System builders, Speech, Resellers, OEMs, Network service providers, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Lenovo agrees to preload Windows Live services on new PCs
- Finally, a piece of good news for the Microsoft Windows Live/Online Services unit. On March 13, Lenovo and Microsoft announced an agreement via which Lenovo will preload certain Windows Live services on ThinkPad notebooks, ThinkCentre desktops and Lenovo-branded PCs. Among the services included are the Windows Live Toolbar and...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Live, Lenovo Group Ltd., Microsoft Windows, OEM
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Microsoft quietly tests a new 'pay-as-you-go' rental scheme for Office
- Would you pay $15 a month to use Microsoft Office 2003? Some users, who are helping Microsoft test whether renting Office might be preferable to buying it for certain groups of customers, say they would. Microsoft has been testing quietly a new "pay-as-you-go" rental program for Office 2003 in...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, Microsoft Office, Office, Office 2007, System builders, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- Local PC retailers prep Vista system give-aways
- Not all of the new PCs preloaded with Windows Vista are going to come from major PC makers like Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Microsoft is trying to make sure local system builders have something new to offer customers, too. The latest iteration of the Microsoft-backed "Buy Local" campaign will kick...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Corporate strategy, Channel, System builders, OEMs, Systems integrators, Resellers, system builder, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
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