WinFS lives
Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley has reported that WinFS -- the Longhorn file system that Bill Gates has referred to as the Holy Grail -- is back. Backported that is, to Windows XP.
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Andrew Nusca is a writer-editor for ZDNet, contributor to CNET and the editor of SmartPlanet, ZDNet's sister site about innovation. In 2013, his coverage will focus on enterprise startups. He is based in New York.
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Intel Kool-Aid? x86 not an Itanium success factor
News.com's Stephen Shankland has an interview with Pat Gelsinger, the co-leader of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group.
Microsoft pushes real-time collaboration
Microsoft's announcements today for its real-time communications products demonstrated the company's real strength: persistence. For the last several years, Microsoft has been working on a suite of enterprise-class collaboration tools that can be integrated into Office.
Blind leading the blind: Is BEA following others in pursuit of mortals?
I woke up this morning to news that BEA is now the latest company to jump on the drag-n-drop programming for non-programmers bandwagon by announcing that in the coming months, it will make available some yet-to-be-named-or-branded tools that "let businesspeople create and make changes to Java code." Sounds a bit vaporwarish to me.
FAQ: Blogging on the job
News.com has a timely and handy FAQ that asks and answers some important questions for bloggers on the job.
The Broadband wars need recruits
If you lived in Orem, Utah, a town of nearly 100,000 people south of Salt Lake, you'd be able to sign up for 10Mbs symmetric broadband service from a small, local ISP, MSTAR. How did this little ISP pull off this feat?
EU to head down the patent rathole?
OK, with a headline like that, you're probably saying I'm anti-patent. I'm not.
Intel's Spindler: There's more to Intel than Moore's Law
When most people think about Intel, the first thing that comes to mind is "processor company." The type of company that, every few months, puts out new chips that make our computers work better, go faster, draw less power, and cost less.
The democratization of surveillance
Researchers at UC Berkeley are developing a micromechanical flying "insect cam.
A new PowerBook and online service surprises
My new 15" PowerBook arrived today. Getting it set up has been dirt simple.