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With Windows 7, Microsoft faces a future full of challenges
For all of its astounding profitability and presence, Microsoft’s most important product, Windows, has had a tough couple of years. And the path ahead, which Microsoft plans to lay out at a conference this week, is fraught with challenges.
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Media Center Gadgets for SideShow released!
There are four gadgets – TV, Music, Pictures + Videos, and Now Playing – that let you browse and control your Media Center PC from any SideShow remote control or device, or even a Windows Mobile phone (if it has the platform installed). The gadgets let you browse the TV guide and details, recorded shows, [...]
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Microsoft strategist Craig Mundie looks to future
A global recession may be looming, but Craig Mundie sees a silver lining in corporate retrenchment.
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Microsoft Corp.’s chief research and strategy officer, who inherited part of Bill Gates’ job in July when the founder retired from day-to-day responsibilities, predicts that companies will be more receptive in hard times to investing in technology. As a result, [...] -
Google Versus Microsoft: The Fight for the Future of Cloud Computing
While Google and Microsoft have each developed very different business models and attitudes toward consumers and the enterprise, both companies are preparing to clash when it comes to how the world’s cloud computing infrastructure develops in the next 10 years. While Google and Microsoft might fight for dominance in the cloud, it’s not clear which [...]
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Microsoft: We’re all ‘mixed source’ companies
"Today, but increasingly in the future, we are all going to be ‘mixed source’," Microsoft’s top intellectual property lawyer said in a lunchtime interview on Thursday. To bolster his claim, Horacio Gutierrez notes Microsoft is releasing plenty of stuff as open source, while open-source companies like Red Hat often license commercial software alongside their open-source [...]
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I agree with Ballmer: Let’s wait for Windows 7
For some odd reason, Microsoft is intentionally working against Vista and making it abundantly clear to anyone who will listen that the future of Windows is in Windows 7, not Windows Vista. And although Windows Vista may be an attractive alternative to those looking to buy a new computer, shouldn’t they take Microsoft at face [...]
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Microsoft Shows What A Tablet PC Of The Future Can Do
Truc Bui: I’m still trying to wipe the puddle of drool off my keyboard after seeing this demonstration from Microsoft’s Jonathan Cluts. The interactive 3-D Gray’s Anatomy with various systems of interest a touch away is truly amazing. Speaking of touch, Microsoft seems to have fully implemented its capabilities during this demonstration. Not once was [...]
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Microsoft Research Unveils Codex Project
Microsoft Research’s Ken Hinckley has unveiled a prototype device based on two OQO Model 02s running together.
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Named "Codex", Hinckley believes it’s the future for gadgets as "dual-screen devices have become the subject of increasingly elaborate internet fantasies. Now, rumors about an Apple "Brick" device have stirred up dreams of future tablets, such as the alluring [...]