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[2006-03-30] Microsoft's Mistakes Proving Costly
The wizards of Redmond turn thirty this year. Officially founded in 1976, Microsoft appears to have lost its edge as it enters its third full decade.
[2006-03-29] Should Microsoft Offer Free Vista Upgrades?
Techdirt asks an excellent question, one I've been wondering myself: Since Windows Vista is missing the holiday season, why not give free Vista upgrades computers bought during that period?
[2006-03-27] New ecto for Windows looks good
The first post with the second beta of the forthcoming ecto for Windows version 2 offline blog editor.
[2006-03-27] Microsoft Appealing Korean Case
The software company has appealed the case brought by the Korean Fair Trade Commission against it, and sought the revocation of the KFTC decision.
[2006-03-27] Vista 60 Percent Rewrite Is All Speculation
A report from an Australian publication citing a source at Acer Australia claimed up to 60 percent of the Windows Vista code needed to be rewritten, and Xbox engineers were being moved over to help with the programming.
[2006-03-26] New Vista Build (5342)
Recently, Microsoft released a new build of Windows Vista to testers, Build 5342. 5342 included some new stuff, like new Windows Sidebar Gadgets:
[2006-03-25] FUD Surrounds Vista
Hot on the heels of Microsoft's postponement of the consumer launch of Windows Vista comes bad news about the actual code of the product, reported yesterday by Australian tech magazine Smarthouse:
[2006-03-25] Feed Demon 2 close to final
Release candidate 2 (build 2.0.0.19) of the forthcoming version 2 of the Feed Demon RSS reader for Windows was released yesterday.
[2006-03-24] Microsoft Pulls On The Reorg Boots
The company's Platform & Services Division (PSD) has been reorganized into an eight-headed organization aimed at aligning "Windows and MSN assets with Microsoft's overall Live strategy."
[2006-03-24] Windows Live Spaces Coming This Summer
LiveSide points to the MSN Spaces homepage, which now says:
[2006-03-24] Rewrite of Windows Vista underway? Hogwash!
I can't believe that headlines get written like this. Totally 100% false.
[2006-03-24] Where the Heck is Scoble?
The Vista Office blog asks "what is going on here?" I was traveling from Las Vegas yesterday.
[2006-03-22] No Consumer Vista Seen For 2006
While business users will have Microsoft's new Vista operating system available in November 2006, the company will miss this year's lucrative holiday shopping season as its consumer version of Vista has slipped to January 2007.
[2006-03-22] Spinning Vista and Grassroots Resentment
So Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows Vista will be delayed in its public release for consumers, not coming out until early 2007 instead of the expected later in 2006.
[2006-03-19] Microsoft Takes Aim At IBM
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer unveiled Thursday a $500 million promoting Microsoft software for "people-ready business".
[2006-03-17] Microsoft Spending Big To Beat IBM
The business market for software just became a little more heated, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced a $500 million marketing campaign to try and boost Microsoft's fortunes at IBM's expense.
[2006-03-14] Office 2007 Beta 1 Refreshed
Microsoft today released the refresh of Beta 1 of Office 2007 (could we just call it Beta 2 and feel better?).
[2006-03-13] Vista Will Not Support EFI
Microsoft revealed at the Intel Developer Forum on Friday that no 32-bit Windows system would ever support Extensible Firmware Interface, dashing hopes that dual-booting Vista and Mac OS X would be a lot easier.
[2006-03-13] Microsoft Promoting Products With On10.net
The On10.net website launched its first longer video Monday as Microsoft begins its efforts at viral marketing through the eyes of a camera.
[2006-03-13] Windows Live Answers?
The LiveSide blog says MSN Spaces users have reported seeing two modules called "Questions Asked" and "Questions Answered", and that they are related to a yet-to-be-announced Windows Live service.
[2006-03-13] Windows Live Video, Answers On Tap
A couple of new services associated with Microsoft's Windows Live online platform offer competition to Google Video and Yahoo Answers.
[2006-03-09] WashTech Union Snipes At Microsoft
Invoking leaked documents and the Mini-Microsoft blog, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers attacked Microsoft over its compensation and review policies.
[2006-03-09] Windows Live Too Slow?
Via Digg, found this video comparing the load times of Google.com and Live.com (and making fun of them, and Brokeback Mountain).
[2006-03-08] Windows Live Shows ETech A Pair
Microsoft upped the ante in the quest for more users with a couple of updates to Windows Live that offer new search capabilities and toolbar functionality.
[2006-03-08] Microsoft Launching Windows Live Search
Okay, so this has been about two days coming, but a project of this magnitude takes time, so I'm going to post on it before it is complete.
[2006-03-08] Live.com Upgrades in progress
Wow, that's fast. There are a few teams pulling an all-nighter across the freeway from where I'm sitting right now (yeah, I'm still at the office at 1:46 a.m.) working on pushing up new code to Live.com and Richard MacManus already has a post about the changes.
[2006-03-07] Windows Live Clipboard? Sort Of
Ray Ozzie gave a talk at ETech today, and he discussed an idea he had called a "live clipboard".
[2006-03-06] Microsoft, Cisco SIP At Communications
A powerful combination of the leading operating system and networking system companies yielded an agreement to develop real-time communication services for the enterprise.
[2006-03-03] Microsoft, EU Feud Heating Up
The long-running antitrust saga involving Microsoft and the European Union took another nasty turn as both sides engaged in fingerpointing and tossing around accusations of misconduct.
[2006-03-01] Vista Lineup Chaos Theory
Despite the presence of numerous versions of Microsoft's next operating system, on taps for late 2006, it is easy to narrow them down to a handful of choices.
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