Just a couple of months after releasing to manufacturing SQL Server 2008, Microsoft is starting to offer details about its next release of its flagship database. That product, code-named "Killimanjaro," will ship in the first...
By Jack McCarthy, ChannelWeb Microsoft is extending again the time period for which PC makers can use 'downgrade rights' to switch from Windows Vista to Windows XP on their machines. In the face of demand for continued access...
CEO Steve Ballmer reiterated this week that Microsoft has decided against building its own Zune phone. (Chairman Bill Gates said the same thing back in January 2008, for those keeping score at home.) Ballmer also noted this...
Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-gates Era, by Mary Jo Foley If you need a Christmas gift for an insomniac geek, look no further. This book is the product of an extremely well-informed and...
David Flynn25 September 2008, 10:48 PM (1 day ago.) As Windows 7 moves towards Beta 1, with an end-of-2009 target for final release, Microsoft will puzzle over how to position the next-gen OS. Towards Beta 1 Legendary...
Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 10:01 am , the company is stepping up its campaign to change the way that the efficacy of online advertising is measured. On September 22, Microsoft announced that the beta of its “Engagement...
Posted by Jonathan Skillings | Post a comment Some purported screenshots from a new build of Windows 7 have Microsoft watchers ruminating on the forthcoming version of the operating system and the company's take that the...
By Jonathan Skillings, CNET Sun Sep 21, 11:29 PM ET Some purported screenshots from a new build of Windows 7 have Microsoft watchers ruminating on the forthcoming version of the operating system and the company's take...
Microsoft's strategy for keeping recent builds of its latest operating system tightly under wraps sprang a few holes last week. On Friday, longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley reported that new pictures and videos...
The logical foundation for the ads was unconvincing. The problem is that everyone already knows that everyone (or at least 90% of them) already uses a PC. One could argue that the ad might as well have been singing the...