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It’s official: No IE 8 until 2009
After one more public test build early next year, Microsoft plans to release the final version of Internet Explorer 8 in calendar 2009.
Microsoft officials shared the updated timetable via a November 19 post on the IE Blog.
Until yesterday, Microsoft’s only official pronouncement of when the final IE 8 release was due was before the end [...] -
Microsoft-hosted Online security-service for business users due in 2010
Microsoft’s just-announced free anti-virus/anti-malware service, codenamed Morro, isn’t the only new Microsoft security service in the works.
Company officials made a passing reference at their SharePoint Online/Exchange Online launch earlier this week to a new Microsoft-hosted service that will be part of the Online family. A Microsoft blog posting on November 18 shed a bit more [...] -
How Apple gained the upper hand on Microsoft
I’ve just been working my way through hundreds of emails released as part of the Vista Capable lawsuit (if you want to read along at home with me, you can download them from here) and there’s one phrase that keep coming across that might explain why Apple got the upper hand on Microsoft with Vista.
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The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later
Two years ago this month, Microsoft forged its controversial partnership with Novell that, among other things, had the two companies agreeing not to sue each other over intellectual property issues, in part to protect Suse Linux users over any patent litigation from Microsoft.
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Just how well has that deal worked out? That depends on whom you [...] -
Windows 7 promises better performance with NAND SSDs
Microsoft’s plans for improving performance of SSD drives in Windows 7 are starting to emerge concrete with some solutions.
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Manufacturers like Seagate or Sandisk are working to finish their cut of the work as much as possible, and Microsoft is trying to make the Windows 7 fit as best as it can to the new storage [...] -
Microsoft Breaks Into Top 10 of World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers
At the Supercomputing 2008 conference, Microsoft Corp. debuted in the top 10 of the world’s most powerful supercomputers with Shanghai Supercomputer Center and Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd., which ranked at No. 10 with 180.6 teraflops, the parallel computing speed, and 77.5 percent efficiency. A truly incredible achievement considering that 12 months ago in Reno, [...]
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Reflections of a Microsoft shareholder
Michael McDonald, a longtime Microsoft investor, will be attending his first Microsoft shareholders meeting Wednesday morning. In advance of the event, he shared these opinions.
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On election eve, November 2000, I purchased 100,000 shares of MSFT at a split-adjusted, average price of $36 per share for a total cost of $3.6 million.
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Two more Microsoft Labs deliverables debut
Two of Microsoft’s hybrid research-product labs made available test versions of new wares this week.
Microsoft’s Live Labs — the unit that married Microsoft Researchers with MSN developers — quietly delivered a new spinoff to its Seadragon technology. (Seadragon is best known as the technology powering Deep Zoom, a seamless-browsing feature of Microsoft’s Silverlight.) The new [...]