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What will next-generation multicore apps look like?: The move to multicore processing is well underway. But the creation of software that takes advantage of multicore capabilities is still little more than a twinkle in the eyes of developers -- including Microsoft's developers.Microsoft has started thinking through what apps might look like in five-plus years. And Craig Mundie,...; Tags: Research, Healthcare, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Windows client, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-07-30
Here's the list of fixes in those new Vista fix packs: I linked to an AeroXP post this morning listing hot fixes for Windows Vista provided in two new Knowledge Base postings. The AeroXP post is gone now. Poof!So if you wanted the list of what's in there, here it is. I grabbed it from NVNews.Net. I am posting the Vista...; Tags: Windows client, Service Pack, Vista, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-30
New Vista fix packs provide updates promised for SP1: Microsoft has rolled out to select testers two new Windows Vista fix packs that deliver many of the same updates expected to be provided by Vista Service Pack SP 1.The fix packs (detailed in Knowledge Base articles 938194 and 938979) were made available to Windows Server 2008 testers on July...; Tags: Corporate strategy, Windows client, Vista, Service Pack; Blog posts 2007-07-30
Windows Vista hits the 60-million-copies-sold milestone: I predicted Microsoft would hit the 60-million-copies-sold mark with Windows Vista around July 1. On July 26, at its annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM, Microsoft officials acknowledged the company has hit that milestone.At the end of the fist 100 days of sales, at the start of May, Microsoft said it...; Tags: Windows client, Vista, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-26
Microsoft: Expect Windows installed base to hit 1 billion by mid-2008: The Windows installed base will hit the 1 billion mark by the end of Microsoft's fiscal 2008 (which ends on June 30), according to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO."There will be more PCs running Windows than automobiles at that point," Ballmer told attendees of the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM...; Tags: Windows client, Research, Corporate strategy, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-07-26

Drawing more Microsoft roadmaps: Now that Microsoft has provided an official ship target for Windows 7, the next major version of Windows client, it's time for some educated guess work.Windows 7 is the only piece of the Windows client roadmap for which Microsoft is willing to provide a date right now. Here's what I'd...; Tags: Windows XP, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Windows Midmarket Server, Windows client, Windows 7, SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Fiji, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Windows Seven: Think 2010: Windows Seven now has an official ship target -- 2010.At Microsoft's Global Exchange MGX annual sales conference in Orlando this week, Microsoft shared a bit more -- albeit at a high level -- on Windows Seven, according to a copy of a slide deck I saw that was distributed...; Tags: Windows Live, Windows client, Windows 7, Vista, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-20
Can Microsoft create a reality-distortion field?: The past couple of weeks of twists and turns along the road to obtaining info about Vista Service Pack 1 has gotten me thinking about RDFs -- reality distortion fields.Given that RDF may be less familiar to Windows users than Apple ones, here's a quick recap: "Reality distortion field RDF...; Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Windows 7, Linux, Google, Corporate strategy, Code names, Apple; Blog posts 2007-07-20
New hires, datacenter investments evident in Microsoft earnings: Most of the reports of Microsoft's fiscal Q4 2007 and full year results are focusing on how the $1 billion one-time charge Microsoft took to offset Xbox hardware failures affected the company's bottom line.But there were lots of other meaty bits buried in the Microsoft balance sheets -- including the...; Tags: Xbox, Windows Live, Windows client, Web 2.0, Vista, Office 2007, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-19
Wanted: New information on XP SP3: If Microsoft officials don't want you to know about Vista Service Pack SP 1, you can be darn well sure they really don't want to talk about Windows XP Service Pack SP 3. But customers definitely want to discuss it.XP users who still aren't crazy about the idea of moving...; Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Vista, Service Pack, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-19
It is time to stop the spread of Vista SP1 misinformation!: Microsoft wants you to be informed about the current state of the Windows Vista SP1 beta.(Not really, but they are pretending they do....)Here is the latest official missive on Vista SP1 from Microsoft headquarters:"There will be a Windows Vista service pack and our current expectation is that a beta will...; Tags: Windows client, Windows 7, Vista, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-19
Microsoft wants inside your kitchen: It looks like Microsoft has more kitchen-related projects in the works than the Windows-based Kitchen Client.The BBC is reporting on efforts coming out of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, to build kitchen-centric computing tools and technologies. (Thanks to ActiveWin.com for the BBC link.)I could be wrong, but I don't believe...; Tags: Windows Live, Windows client, Research, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-17
Microsoft starts priming the pump for Vista SP1 Preview: Microsoft is still on track to make a beta available later this week of what it's referring to as "Vista Service Pack 1 Preview," according to sources close to the company.Microsoft is expected to provide certain testers with access to the Vista SP1 Preview beta code later this week, possibly...; Tags: Windows client, Vista, Service Pack, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-17
Microsoft hones its future Windows feature-set list: In December 2006, Microsoft requested feedback from a select group of invitees regarding what they would like to see fixed, changed and/or added to future Windows builds. The Windows team got an earful: Nearly 800 new feature requests, another 560-plus change requests and almost 400 defects.The Windows team has winnowed...; Tags: Vista, Windows 7, Windows client; Blog posts 2007-07-12
More on what's in store for Vista SP1: So what else will get fixed as part of the first service pack for Vista?I ran a short list on July 8 of some of the fixes and enhanced functionality that my sources are telling me will be part of Vista SP 1, a first beta of which is due...; Tags: Windows client, Vista, Service Pack, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-09
Report finds Microsoft customers increasingly leery of Software Assurance: Microsoft subscription maintenance program for its volume licensees has never been overly popular. But according to a new report from Forrester Research, Software Assurance is looking like even less of a good deal to Microsoft customers than before.Microsoft introduced Software Assurance SA in 2001, and has tweaked continually the SA...; Tags: Windows server, Windows client, Support, SQL Server, Office, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-09
Vista SP1 beta 1 to launch in mid-July: It's official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft.Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista -- not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end -- the company...; Tags: Windows client, Vista, Service Pack, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-08
Google petitions again to weigh in on Microsoft-DOJ case: If at first you don't succeed, complain, complain again.Google has filed a second request to be considered a friend of the court in the Microsoft-Department of Justice antitrust case.As noted by Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Todd Bishop, Google filed its latest five-page request on July 2, a week after Judge Collen...; Tags: Google, Legal, Search, Vista, Windows client; Blog posts 2007-07-03
Microsoft's Iain McDonald: It's the end of a (Longhorn) era: Iain McDonald, a guy with the humble title of Director of Project Management for Windows Server, has had a long and deep impact on Microsoft's Windows organization.The 15-year Microsoft veteran has served on a variety of teams, from Product Support Services, to Exchange Server, to Windows Server. He was a...; Tags: Corporate strategy, Vista, Windows client, Windows server, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows XP, WinHEC; Blog posts 2007-07-03
Microsoft says more Vista Ultimate add-ons are in the pipeline: Windows users who shelled out extra to get the top-of-the-line Vista Ultimate SKU, your requests for an update have been answered. Microsoft hasn't abandoned its promise to get more of the expected downloadable add-ons to Ultimate to you, after all.Microsoft posted an update on the whereabouts to the Vista Team...; Tags: Windows client, Vista, Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-02