Connecting the dots on Windows 7
What will Windows 7, the next full version of the Windows client operating system, bring to the table? Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has been dropping a few hints lately.
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Mary Jo Foley
Mary Jo has covered the tech industry for more than 25 years for a variety of publications and Web sites, and is a frequent guest on radio, TV and podcasts, speaking about all things Microsoft-related. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).
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Apple 'few weeks away' from updating iTunes for Vista
Apple is advising users attempting to use iTunes on Windows Vista to wait a few more weeks for an update that will be designed to be Vista-compatible from the get-go.
Microsoft: Valid Vista Family Discount keys on the way
This update just in from the Windows Vista licensing department. If you are one of the folks who purchased this week the Vista Family Discount Pack and got an invalid licensing key, the fix is coming soon.
Windows Live ID SDK makes its first public appearance
Microsoft has been fleshing out the Windows Live development platform for almost a year now. One nagging piece has been missing, until this week, that is, was the Windows Live ID software development kit (SDK).
Microsoft's 'Scout' search app goes underground
If you're waiting for Microsoft to field "Scout," a Microsoft-Research-developed search applet designed to help users navigate Office 2007, don't hold your breath.
Microsoft's 'Flash-killer' now supports Firefox on the Mac
The latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) test builds of Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) product went live this week. As of this build, Microsoft is supporting, for the first time, the Firefox on the Mac.
Microsoft tried to muck with anti-Linux 'facts'
Microsoft's practice of paying analysts to conduct studies showing Windows' superiority over Linux have never sat right with me. It looks like my hunch was right that Microsoft's "Get the Facts" campaign wasn't and isn't all it's cracked up to be
Original 'Origami' team moves to a new secret project
Microsoft Mobile PC Manager Dustin Hubbard and his team are moving to some new "secret" project, according to a post by Hubbard on the Origami team blog.
Goodbye, 'Vienna.' Hello 'Windows 7'
It's February 1: The first "official" day of the Steven Sinofsky Windows era. That means, among other things, that it's time to move beyond the vista-themed family of codenames and begin using the more boring and sanitized ones -- like Windows 7.
Users find ways around early Vista licensing hurdles
The first wave of Windows Vista users are hitting some licensing glitches that are making them none too happy.