Battery Recall May Ding Dell Reputation
Dell's battery recall couldn't have come at a worse time, with customer service waning and Wall Street increasingly growing impatient with the PC giant's earnings misses. The good news: Dell's main supplier, Sony, is expected to foot most of the bill for recalling 4.1 million batteries, analysts said. Late on... Read on »
The Infamous RC1 'Conversation': Vista WILL Rock You
Whew. Brandon was definitely not thrilled with me after this conversation. If you've seen my Windows Live Messenger personal message the last couple days, I said "The next build of Vista will rock your world." It led to a very interesting discussion with Brandon about "expectations", and what RC1 will... Read on »
Microsoft Vista undelete sparks more facts
OUR RECENT examination of the 'undelete' technology in Windows Vista has become more important since Apple formally announced 'Time Machine' in Leopard, the next iteration of OSX. Unfortunately Apple's Time Machine requires a separate disk, dedicated to the backing-up of data on your primary drive. Useful in the case of... Read on »
Microsoft adCenter Upgrades Include Firefox Support
Microsoft adCenter has a new release launching Saturday, August 5th, and one of the upgrades includes the long awaited Firefox browser support.... Read on »
Vista Needs More Time: The Entry I Didn't Want To Write
I've been defending Microsoft's ship schedule for Windows Vista for quite some time. Up to this point, I've been confident that Vista... Read on »
MSDN Library May 2006 Edition - Available Free
For the first time, we're making the MSDN Library freely available for download from Microsoft Downloads. Previously, the Library was only available for download to MSDN subscribers. The current download is the May 2006 Edition and future editions will also be available when we release them. MSDN Library provides access... Read on »
Yahoo Launches Messenger 8 With 180 Plugins
Yahoo Messenger Version 8 for Windows, which can be downloaded here, launched out of beta today. Our previous writeup of the beta launch is here. The key new feature of Messenger 8 is that it is open to third party developers to create widgets that work within the client. Yahoo... Read on »
Security Vendor Claims Microsoft Is Shutting Out Competition
Security solution provider Agnitum claims that Microsoft's kernel patch protection will shut out competing products unless competitors resort to hacker tactics. In an article posted to the company's Web site, Agnitum said that because of the way Microsoft designed its kernel patch protection "it will be more complicated for third-party... Read on »
Post Beta 2 Vista Improvements
Thanks to shishyan for submitting this to the newsdesk As we come into the home stretch in the Windows Vista development cycle, we’ve got a lot of stuff left to do to make this the best Windows release ever. As we do this, we wanted to take a moment to... Read on »
Microsoft Explains its Zune Strategy
Speaking here just now on Microsoft's Redmond campus, Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment & Devices Division, explained the strategy behind the company's planned Zune media devices and services -- the company's forthcoming iPod and iTunes challengers. Bach cautioned the audience of financial analysts that the project will require an... Read on »
Microsoft Research - New Projection Technology
Originally posted by Laura Foy in On10.net blogs We dropped in at Microsoft Research (MSR) to get a look at the potential for today’s technologies long before they ever evolve into products. Andy Wilson’s Play Anywhere prototype uses a clever combination of a projector, a camera, and a computer to... Read on »
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