Mary Jo Foley

New virtualized sandbox, Vista SP2 and other PDC-week leftovers

With so much attention on Windows 7 and Windows Azure last week, a few Microsoft announcements slipped through the cracks during the week-long Professional Developer Conference PDC onslaught. Here's my short list of what I...

Eye on Microsoft: Foggy Clouds, Counterfeiting, and Security Problems

at 4:00 pm by Roy Schestowitz Lights out for the Microsoft cloud? MANY of the posts so far today have been about Microsoft (e.g. [ ]), but before we come to Novell — as there’s plenty to cover there too — it’s important to show...

Add Windows Mobile 6.5 to the Microsoft roadmap

Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 3:26 pm this week revealed that Microsoft’s next version of Windows Mobile isn’t Windows Mobile 7, but is actually Windows Mobile 6.5. I asked around and heard from sources that yes, indeed, 6.5 is in...

Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors

Microsoft has been hinting that even though it had no plans to make major changes to the Windows kernel, it did have a scheme up its sleeve to make Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server better suited to working on multicore/parallel...

Microsoft drops more new codenames, including another 'Mojave'

Microsoft used this week's Professional Developers Conference to flesh out a bunch of codenames that had been circulating for the past several months -- everything from "Red Dog," to "Geneva," to "Zurich." At the Los Angeles...

Windows 7 PDC News Round up

There has been tons of info coming from all over the place about Windows 7. Here are some of the ones you should check out. Mark Russinovich Inside Windows 7 - Channel 9 Windows 7 for the Business Users - Mary Jo Foley Windows...

Microsoft PDC attendees get 'the goods'

Microsoft provided attendees of its Professional Developer Conference this week with a 160 GB drive full of bits and resources. The Windows 7 M3 pre-beta build and Windows Server 2008 R2 M3 pre-beta are on the drives. What else...

Windows 7: What’s coming for business users

By Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet Blogs) Microsoft showed off publicly for the first time Windows 7 at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on October 28. But almost everything shown were consumer-focused features. Does that mean...

Windows 7: What's coming for business users

Microsoft showed off publicly for the first time Windows 7 at the Professional Developers Conference PDC on October 28. But almost everything shown were consumer-focused features. Does that mean Windows 7 won't have anything...

Microsoft to 'webify' Office (sort of)

Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 9:09 am Microsoft is finally doing what many have been clamoring for — making Web-based versions of its Office apps available — but in a different way than expected. As part of the Office 14 release...