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Microsoft's 'multipoint' tech for emerging markets

To bring technology to emerging markets, Microsoft has an ongoing project called Unlimited Potential. CNET News.com's Ina Fried sat down with Microsoft VP Will Poole to discuss what the project's new "multipoint" technology is doing to help address the problems of having just one computer for a large classroom.

Tags: Microsoft Corp., News.com, Marketing Research, Financial Services, microsoft, will poole, unlimited potential, multipoint, emerging markets, emerging segments, third world, cell, mobile, cellular, phone, computer, pc, Emerging Market, Marketing

Videos 2007-10-10

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Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for Microsoft

Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for MicrosoftNot even Bill gates is happy with MicrosoftStrange that you should incessantly spin them as compelling..... or are you being adequately compensated (free money, not software)?Bill Gates Sends Angry Email to Microsoft http://www.lockergnome.com/digged/2008/06/25/bill-gates-sends-angry-email-to-microsoft/Wednesday, June 25th,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Virtualization, cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most

Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the mostBrilliance = Techie + Financial ManagerialI think one of the reasons Microsoft has been so succesful is that Bill Gates was adept not necessarily the best at both spectrums: the techie and the business side. Witness General Motors under the "Smith" bean counter tenure:...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Report: MySpace turning News Corp. stock toxic; advertisers shy of UGC

While I don't normally comment on matters relating to Wall Street here on The Social Web, a Bloomberg article published today raises a number issues relating to News Corp.'s attempts to extract profit from MySpace. After Fox Interactive Media FIM, the company division that runs MySpace, said...

Tags: Fox Interactive Media, Stock, News Corp., MySpace, Advertiser, Social Networking, Branding, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-04-21

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

Customization: curse or blessing?

At the high end of the platform-as-a-service spectrum, there's a cluster of vendors that offer fully templated but still highly customizable business applications, targeting small to mid-size businesses and departmental managers in larger organizations. Interestingly, in a poll of ZDNet readers I ran earlier in the month asking where you'd...

Tags: Application, Curse, Platform, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Customization, LongJump PaaS, Mike McGinn, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-03-24

Windows Vista (In)capable

What went wrong? I'll tell you what went wrong: Microsoft execs - starting with Steve Ballmer - don't care enough about their customers. Which is too bad for the thousands of smart, hard working 'softies who do. I went through the Vista Capable lawsuit Exhibit A emails....

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, News, Intel Corp., Development Team, Features, Allchin, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-03-02

Microsoft targeting hospital IT with Azyxxi

The name reads like a sneeze. It's pronounced ah-zic-see, and it's Microsoft's most direct attack yet on the hospital automation market. The idea, says sales director Tom Poole, is to store all types of medical data -- registration data, lab results, pharmacy orders, all types of scans...

Tags: Hospital, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Old meets new: Lotus Domino and Atlassian

A couple of weeks ago, I caught the end of a presentation by Alek Lotoczko who runs the intranet for NYK Logistics & Megacarrier. Earlier this week, I called Alek to get more detail. As background, NYK is one of the world's biggest shipping companies but when Alek reviewed use...

Tags: Open Source, IBM Lotus Domino, Wiki, IBM Corp., Intranet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-17

Policy-based management may help bridge some pitfalls in SOA's evolution

I had a nice chat with Rich Seeley at TechTarget this week on SOA and management, and he produced this story. The major theme of the article is that SOA forces a new kind of management, one that's by necessity highly inclusive and crosses the borders of the emerging loosely...

Tags: Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, datacenters, Developer Tools, Enterprise 2.0, IBM, IT Management, IT Service Management, ITIL, management, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Testing Tools, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Is the $3 Winsdows/Office bundle too good to resist? It is when you throw in a cheap PC

When Microsoft decides to devalue Windows and Office down to $3 per seat in emerging markets which currently make limited use of technology (no, you and I wont be getting these great deals!), you know that the Redmond giant is Maybe $3 for Windows an Office is an offer that...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Post Vista, Microsoft reorgs the Windows group

As typical, following a major product release, Microsoft is reorging. This time, following Windows Vistas launch, its Windows client business unit doing the shuffle, according to sources close to the company. Heres whats happening. Kevin Johnson, head of Microsofts uber Platforms and Services unit, has created a new business...

Tags: Anti-piracy, Corporate strategy, Windows client, Vista

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Apple's new 13" MacBook is a good buy, but in specific cases

Depending on where Google or your favorite search engine takes you when youre looking for more information on Apples latest notebook MacBook offerings, youre likely to get a different opinion on whether its worth a looksie. What makes the latest round of MacBooks different (Ill refrain from using the word...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple, Wired &, Wireless, Personal Technology, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2006-11-17

Apple's new 13" MacBook is a good buy, but in specific cases

Depending on where Google or your favorite search engine takes you when youre looking for more information on Apples latest notebook MacBook offerings, youre likely to get a different opinion on whether its worth a looksie. What makes the latest round of MacBooks different (Ill refrain from using the word...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Mobile, Berlind, Apple, Apples, Apple MacBook, Intel Core 2 Duo

Blog posts 2006-11-17

Oct 3 (tomorrow): DRM lovers' day of reckoning?

Oct 3 tomorrow: DRM lovers' day of reckoning?Simple oneWebsite designers can thanks to MS detect whether clients connecting to them support some of the greasier DRMfoolishness such as remote attestation.Those infected get redirected to a "security fault detected" page with removal/repair instructions.It ain't free to make - it ain't free...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, DefectiveByDesign.org

Discussion threads 2006-10-02

Am I really reading/hearing this?

Yes, readers, it's true -- right alongsidequotes from articles by Reuters, eWeek,CRN, and other news publications,a series of quotes from bloggers about Lotusphere 2006 are being shownon the main screen as we lead up to the start of the closing session (andduring Surjit's presentation as...

Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Notes app

Blog posts 2006-01-30

Some Lotusphere observations from around the blogs

DeclanLynch from the opening session:Thenew Hannover client. At the moment all I can say is WOW. it looks greatand seems to be pretty fast. this looks like a product that end userswill finally be very very happy to use. It has proper windows...

Tags: Declan Lynch

Blog posts 2006-01-24

Amidst piracy crackdown, has Windows jumped the shark?

After seeing Arthur "the Fonz" Fonzarelli jump over a threatening shark while water skiing in an episode of the classic television series Happy Days, Jon Hein knew that there was no better metaphor than "jumping the shark" to describe that absurd moment in a TV series' history when its...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2005-02-03

Windows update will be late, Microsoft says

Windows update will be late, Microsoft saysFirst Post, Muh hahahaWith ContentI would be the typical zealot making fun of Microsoft for missing deadlines and not being able to forfill deadlines like the software giant that they are, but that would be wrong of me. Ha ha, Microsoft can't...

Tags: Operating systems, Viruses and worms, security, Microsoft Corp., RC2, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-07-12

Service-Oriented Architecture -- Simplified

IBM WebSphere Vice-President Sandy Carter talks with IBM's David Poole about the power of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA. Discover how it can help your business reduce costs, gain greater flexibility, uncover new business value, and become more competitive.

Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

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