Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
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).
A Global Equities research analyst said this week that he found "many Vista owners that once used Google's desktop search feature have switched to Microsoft's" desktop search which is built into Windows Vista.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has come up with a list of the nine "opportunities" where he believes Microsoft can sustain a half billion or more in new margin growth over the next three years.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street analysts and shareholders that many of their projections for Windows Vista were "overly aggressive."
Microsoft is snapping up some off-the-beaten-path hires, as of late. All this has me wondering who's next.
If you really want to understand the extent to which the Softies are studying open-source methods for clues that might be used in shaping their own business practices, it's worth checking out a couple of recent posts from John D'Addamio, a software design engineer in test in Microsoft's Developer Aftermarket Solutions unit.
Office 14, the follow-on to Office 2007, is due out in the first half of calendar year 2009, according to a slide deck allegedly from Microsoft, posted on the AeroXperience blog.
The Windows 7 genie is out of the bottle. Trying to stuff it back in will do nothing but create more customer confusion.
As Microsoft promised late last year, the company has ported some of its volume-activation technology to Windows Server 2003. One Microsoft corporate customer is none too happy about a virtualization change introduced as part of the new KMS port.
Microsoft watchers know Anoop Gupta has been a fixture in Microsoft's Business Division, and specifically, on the Unified Communications Group (UCG) side of the house, for some time now. But Gupta's gone. Not gone from Microsoft all together, but gone from the Business Division and now working for Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie. What gives?
Microsoft is soliciting testers interested in trying out the newly minted Windows Home Server Beta 2.