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- Microsoft Student Technology Day (1 of 2)
- The first half of the day before lunch with Andy McLoughlin from Huddle.net, some photos of the Live Search product, and Steve Ballmer's keynote. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Zack Whittaker, Photograph, Microsoft, Windows Live, Huddle, Startups, Enterprise, London, Online, Careers, Steve Ballmer, Surface, Multi-touch, Windows 7
- Image galleries 2008-10-03
- Wave 3: Windows Live Photo Gallery (Beta 1)
- A sneak preview at the new Wave 3 version of Windows Live Photo Gallery. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Beta, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker, Microsoft, Windows Live, Wave 3, Online, Social Networking, Up Yours Sinofsky, LiveSide
- Image galleries 2008-09-17
- Wave 3: Windows Live Movie Maker (Beta 1)
- A sneak preview at the new Wave 3 addition to the suite, Windows Live Movie Maker. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Movie, Microsoft Windows Live, Beta, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker, Microsoft, Windows Live, Wave 3, Online, Social Networking, Up Yours Sinofsky, LiveSide
- Image galleries 2008-09-17
- Wave 3: Windows Live Mail (Beta 1)
- A sneak preview at the new Wave 3 version of Windows Live Mail. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Windows Live, Beta, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker, Microsoft, Windows Live, Wave 3, Online, Social Networking, Up Yours Sinofsky, LiveSide
- Image galleries 2008-09-17
- Wave 3: Windows Live Messenger (Beta 1)
- A sneak preview at the new Wave 3 version of Windows Live Messenger. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live, Beta, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker, Microsoft, Windows Live, Wave 3, Online, Social Networking, Up Yours Sinofsky, LiveSide
- Image galleries 2008-09-17
- What's new in Windows Live Messenger 9
- A quick look over the new features of a pre-release Windows Live Messenger 9, how students can use the features to their advantage, and how we'll benefit from it. Thanks for the support of LiveSide, the legends that they are. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker, Windows Live, Microsoft, Students, Collaboration, Instant messaging, Social networking, WPF, Wave 3
- Image galleries 2008-08-31
- 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

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