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- WinHEC: Microsoft shows off Windows 7 fundamentals
- WinHEC: Microsoft shows off Windows 7 fundamentalsWhy the obsession over boot times?I shudder to think how many millions of dollars are being spent to shave seconds off something I do MAYBE once a month and I'm sure I'm not alone in my reboot frequency. Microsoft made the default power button...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, applet, Microsoft Corp., Windows 7 fundamental, Microsoft Windows Vista, WinHEC, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- WinHEC: Microsoft shows off Windows 7 fundamentals
- If last week was all about the eye candy coming in Windows 7, this week is more about the less glitzy but core improvements Microsoft is making to its next-generation client operating system. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- New signs point to Windows 7 debuting earlier than expected
- Could it be that Windows 7 is even earlier than even the most optimistic date watchers are predicting and that it's on track to RTM before mid-2009? by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., WinHEC
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- What will Microsoft share about Windows futures in 2008?
- Microsoft's 2008 conference dance card is starting to fill in. It's looking like a very busy February and March for the conference-going set. And, as usual with Microsoft, mid-summer will be full of Microsoft industry and insider events. The biggest questions going into 2008 is how, when...
- Tags: Partnership, Microsoft Corp., Conference, WinHEC, Microsoft Windows, Business Structures, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Microsoft ponies up cell-phone, green-computing research funding
- Microsoft outlined the specific projects to which it's looking to universities for research contributions on July 16, the opening day of its 2007Â Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.(The Research Faculty Summit has been an annual event. Starting next year, it will become an every-two-year event, with a new Microsoft graduate-student-focused research...
- Tags: Research, Healthcare, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- 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 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 offers guidelines for next-gen UMPCs
- Microsoft still thinks there's a bright future for Windows-based ultra-mobile PCs UMPCs, the small-form factor PCs that haven't exactly taken the world by storm.At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft officials outlined some of the "possibilities" the company sees for next-generation UMPCs that will...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Windows Mobile, Windows XP, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Vista Service Pack 1: It lives
- With all the Microsoft-created confusion out there around when -- and even whether -- the company plans to deliver the first service pack SP for Windows Vista, it's nice to see some concrete proof that Vista SP1 does exist.The WinFuture.de folks managed to grab a quick snapshot of a machine...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Vista, Windows client, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Microsoft to launch new Vista-subscription trials in early 2008
- Microsoft is readying a new Windows-Vista based version of its FlexGo hardware-software-services bundle aimed at emerging markets. As part of FlexGo 'Next,' Microsoft plans to shift its emphasis from pay-as-you-go to subscription-based pilots, company officials said at the Windows Hardware Engineering WinHEC conference in Los Angeles this week.Microsoft rolled out...
- Tags: Linux, Vista, Windows client, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Photos: At WinHEC, PCs now and beyond
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates shows off some of the winners of a design contest for new PC concepts.
- Tags: Desktops, PC, WinHEC, Bill Gates, chairman, photograph, Microsoft Corp.
- Image galleries 2007-05-16
- Windows Server team: No detours from the roadmap
- The Windows client team may have decided that it's done talking futures. But the Windows Server team isn't afraid to show off its planned roadmap.At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC on May 16, Microsoft officials talked about the company's next few planned releases. As previously indicated, Microsoft is readying...
- Tags: Fiji, Corporate strategy, Code names, Vista, Windows 7, Windows client, Windows Midmarket Server, Windows server, Windows Server Longhorn, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Microsoft attempts to rally more hardware vendors around Rally
- One of Microsofts biggest pushes at this years Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC is around Rally, a connectivity platform that Microsoft debuted at last years WinHEC. Rally is a set of networking protocols and licenses that are designed to simplify consumersabilities to connect peripherals to Windows Vista and to...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- What you won't hear Microsoft talk about at WinHEC 2007
- Usually, at the annual Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conferences WinHECs, Microsoft provides its system partners with some information about whats coming next on the operating systems front. Even if not a full-fledged roadmap, usually there are a few hints, a handful of futures slides, a couple of thinly-veiled references...
- Tags: Fiji, Corporate strategy, Code names, Vista, Windows 7, Windows client, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Windows Server 2008, it is
- As expected, Microsoft announced officially on May 15 that Longhorn Server will be named "Windows Server 2008."Release to manufacturing is still slated for year-end 2007, but the official launch will be in early 2008.
- Tags: Windows server, Windows Server Longhorn, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- 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
- Microsoft: 40 million copies of Vista sold
- As of last week, Microsoft had sold 40 million copies of Windows Vista, according to company Chairman Bill Gates. Gates released the latest Vista sales figures during his May 15 morning keynote at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC in Los Angeles. Gates said Vista is still selling...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Longhorn Server to be christened Windows Server 2008
- To next to no ones surprise, Microsoft is going to christen Longhorn Server "Windows Server 2008." And it might do so as early as next week to coincide with the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC in Los Angeles. How can I be so sure? Microsoft posted the new...
- Tags: WinHEC, Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Photos: On the show floor at WinHEC
- Guitars, gaming and geekery pull in attendees at Microsoft's hardware confab in Seattle.
- Tags: pull, WinHEC, Seattle, hardware, game, Microsoft Corp.
- Image galleries 2006-05-25
- Photos: Samsung hard drives at WinHEC
- The South Korean company shows off its hybrid hard drive, plus a solid state hard drive, at the Microsoft confab.
- Tags: hard drive, South Korean company, Korean company, WinHEC, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Corp.
- Image galleries 2006-05-24
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