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A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Confucius

I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...

Tags: Windows Mobile, Windows Live, Code names

Blog posts 2007-08-02

Ozzie spells out the Live platform layers

Microsoft is -- almost -- ready to explain what Windows Live "the platform" looks like.Last year at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie provided a very high-level (and tough-to-follow) outline of what Microsoft's Live platform was going to look like. This year, Ozzie abandoned the...

Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Web 2.0, Office Live, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-26

Multiple Microsoft search refreshes due over the 12 months

Microsoft is readying multiple new search releases -- the first of which is coming this fall -- that it will launch over the next 12 months.The fall search update will include improvements to the search core, relevance and performance and mobile capabilities as well as new vertical search experiences,...

Tags: Windows Mobile, Windows Live, Web 2.0, Vista, Search, Research, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-07-26

Another new Window Live buzzword is born

There's a new Windows Live buzzword in town: Windows Live Cloud Infrastructure.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned publicly the elusive Windows Live Cloud Infrastructure during his remarks at Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting FAM on July 26 in Redmond.Microsoft has been bucketing and rebucketing its collection of Live services for months, in...

Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, Search, Office Live, Development tools, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-26

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

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

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's medical search engine now integrated into MSN

Microsoft acquired in February 2007 Medstory, a search vendor focused on healthcare. Five months later, Microsoft has integrated fully into its MSN portal the Medstory search-engine technology.Medstory, which was in beta at the time Microsoft acquired it, is aimed at both consumers and health professionals. Query results can be narrowed...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Healthcare, Search, Windows Live

Blog posts 2007-07-12

Ballmer: Caught between a software rock and a services hard place

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is not one to make concessions. He has laughed about Linux's prospects. He has pooh-poohed the iPhone. He has called Google bloated.But on July 10, during his keynote address at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Ballmer came the closest I've ever heard him to admitting...

Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows Live, Vista, Office Live, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Channel

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the house

On July 1, Microsoft's new fiscal year started with a new slate of Live executives -- or at least a bunch of existing execs with new titles and responsibilities.Brian Arbogast, who had been running Microsoft's Windows Live Developer & Communications Platform for the past few years, is now the Corporate...

Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Office Live, Database, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Code names

Blog posts 2007-07-06

windows live OneCare 2.0 beta due imminently

Microsoft is preparing to field a private beta of a new version of Windows Live OneCare, dubbed Windows Live OneCare 2.0Windows Live OneCare is Microsoft's all-in-one antivirus, antispyware, firewall, backup, maintenance subscription service that Microsoft launched in 2006. In January 2007, Microsoft released OneCare 1.5. Users have enountered various problems...

Tags: Windows Live, Security

Blog posts 2007-07-05

Microsoft buys two datacenters for $200 million

Just before its fiscal 2007 came to a close last week, Microsoft snapped up two datacenters from Savvis, an infrastructure provider.Microsoft was the sole customer of the Savvis datacenters that it purchased. The datacenters are located in Santa Clara, Calif.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street over a year ago...

Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Web 2.0, Office Live, CRM Live, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-02

Microsoft readies a consumer healthcare platform

Microsoft has made no secret about the fact it has designs on being a healthcare-IT contender. But what the company has kept under wraps, at least until now, was what it planned to do on the consumer side of the healthcare space.Sure, there've been hints here and there that Microsoft...

Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, Healthcare, Google, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-06-29

Google complains (again)

That didn't take long.A week after Microsoft announced it would amend Windows Vista so that its integrated Instant Search functionality won't hamper the performance of third-party desktop-search programs, Google has complained to the government again.In a new, seven-page amicus brief -- a copy of which Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Todd Bishop...

Tags: Windows Live, Vista, Service Pack, Search, Legal, Google, Corporate strategy, Code names

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Microsoft's Live Hotmail-Outlook Connector beta ready for download

Microsoft announced in early May that it would make available within a few weeks a beta of a connector for Outlook 2003/2007 users who want to manage their Windows Live Hotmail accounts from inside Outlook.The beta of that connector, as of this week, is now available for download from the...

Tags: Web 2.0, Windows Live

Blog posts 2007-06-14

Was Ohana the Microsoft kitchen client?

Seattle Times Reporter Brier Dudley has an interesting follow-up to my blog post yesterday on the forthcoming Microsoft kitchen client.(And just for the record, from what I can tell, the kitchen client isn't a special version of Vista. It's more of a software layer that will "extend" Windows. Think of...

Tags: Windows Live, Windows client, Vista, Corporate strategy, Code names

Blog posts 2007-06-07

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

Microsoft readies new managed services

A few months back, I speculated on how/when Microsoft would field hosted SharePoint Server, hosted Exchange Serverand hosted Live Communications Server products. My best guess was Microsoft would launch Microsoft-managed versions of these services in the late 2007 or later timeframe.I was surprised to learn today at Microsoft's TechEd 2007...

Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, Virtualization, TechEd 2007, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Exchange Server, CRM Live, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Microsoft delivers a trio of new windows live betas

New beta builds of Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger (8.5) and Windows Live Writer (a blog-authoring service/tool) are available to testers for download as of May 30, according to Microsoft.The next version of Windows Live Mail went to testers in nine markets today. The new version will integrate "features...

Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Web 2.0, Windows Live

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Enough with the 3D maps! What about windows live storage?

Another day, another glitzy Live Search map. (Or is it a Live Map, Live Local Map or a Virtual Earth Map? Who can keep up?)What I really want to hear about isn't who has better 3D buildings, Microsoft or Google. I want more details on Microsoft's storage services. Luckily, the...

Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Windows Home Server, Windows Live

Blog posts 2007-05-29