Microsoft delivers two new design-tool betas
Microsoft delivered two new Expression design tool betas. And it sounds like the company's got some new Expression-WPF/E/SoapBox tie-ups in the works, as well.
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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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Look who has joined Microsoft's IE team
OK, so she's only a "contractor" and not a Red-Pill-popping full-timer. But standards maven Molly Holzschlag is now working on the Web Platform and Tools team (of which Internet Explorer is part).
Microsoft answers Outlook 2007 critics on rendering-engine changes
Microsoft is preparing a new Knowledge Base (KB) article that will attempt to answer questions raised by critics of changes it made to the rendering engine in Outlook 2007 that they claim are killing backwards compatibility.
Microsoft quietly tests a new "pay-as-you-go" rental scheme for Office
Microsoft has been testing quietly a new "pay-as-you-go" rental program for Office 2003 in South Africa, Mexico and Romania, and will decide in the next couple of months whether to extend the program to include Office 2007.
Vista launch: The day after
PC salesfolks far in a couple of New York retail outlets seemed far more up-to-speed about Vista than were their telephone counterparts four months ago. Now, all that needs to happen is for the customers to show up.
Dell: "Tens of thousands" of copies of Vista sold
Dell Computer began taking orders for Windows Vista systems this weekend. The first reports are in.
Vista: Where are the killer apps?
Windows Vista ships worldwide starting January 30. So where are the rest of the Vista killer apps -- the ones that will convince users that they need Vista sooner rather than later?
Huh? PDF standardization decision has nothing to do with Microsoft?
Does anyone out there believe Adobe's contention that its decision to submit PDF to ISO for standardization has nothing to do with Microsoft? Especially after Adobe's much-publicized objections last summer to Microsoft embedding XPS in Vista and Office 2007?
Microsoft's Live Points point the way to micropayments
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up his vision for a micropayments strategy during the World Economic Forum in Davos. The strategy sounds a lot like Microsoft's existing "Points" system that allows Xbox and Zune customers to make small-dollar-value purchases over the Web.
Microsoft starts gathering IE 8 input
Microsoft has contacted a number of beta testers to seek input it will use to customize Internet Explorer (IE) 8, the next version of its Web browser. A Microsoft survey included a number of questions around RSS feeds, Favorites and browser navigation, in general.