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Microsoft readies new ‘don’t blame Windows’ tool

June 1, 2008

Microsoft has begun privately beta evaluating a new tool, known as “Windows Advisor,” which is aimed at helping consumers better pinpoint why their Windows machines might not be up to snuff.
Microsoft officials have been saying that Windows — and particularly the much-maligned Windows Vista — isn’t to blame for all of …

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See the demo of Windows 7 multi-touch

June 1, 2008

Not to say I told you so — well, OK, I will say it — but Microsoft demonstrated the multi-touch functionality it is building into Windows 7 at the D6 conference on May 27.
(See my original post on Microsoft’s plans to demo the touch piece of Windows 7 at D6.)
Microsoft is really pushing touch as a new and innovative way for users …

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Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable (again)

June 1, 2008

It sounds like Microsoft is aiming to get Windows 7 out earlier than it promised — at least whether you believe the company’s CEO.
During his fireside chat with Chairman Bill Gates at the D6 conference on May 27, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged that Microsoft was aiming to deliver Windows 7 in late 2009.
For those of you who…

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Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google

June 1, 2008

Google has nothing on open source when it comes to potential competitive threats to Microsoft, according to Redmond’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie.
Ozzie fielded a number of questions on his role at Microsoft and the company’s evolving technology strategies during an appearance at the Sanford Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conferen…

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Microsoft looks to ‘Echoes’ to grow its Windows Live mobile, TV services share

June 1, 2008

Microsoft is readying a new platform, code-named “Echoes,” that it is hoping will get more telco carriers to offer their subscribers Windows Live and other forthcoming Microsoft services.
Microsoft’s near-term goal with Echoes is to assemble the scaling and expediting of its Windows Live mobile service deployments easier. The plat…

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Microsoft’s grand plan to eliminate phone numbers

June 1, 2008

I’ve been puzzling by transcripts of a couple of recent speeches by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates where he discussed his vision for the end of phone numbers. But it wasn’t until today, when I learned more about Microsoft’s “Echoes” services platform for telcos that I began piecing together how Gates & Co. thinks Mi…

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Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd

May 27, 2008

One of the new technologies that Microsoft is planning to showcase at its upcoming TechEd U.S. conference is its social-bookmarking tool.
John Martin, Lead Evangelist for Server & Tools Online — as he describes it, “the group that manages the global MSDN, TechNet, Codeplex, and Expression websites” — blogged on May 23 a…

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