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).
It's not surprising Microsoft will be touting Windows Vista at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. But the slogan the company has chosen to tout its new version of Windows may catch some off-guard.
Here are a few more holiday-season posts you might have missed if you were away from your PC the past couple of weeks. Microsoft historians are likely to find these links especially well-worth a read.
In the "posts you might have missed over the holiday" category, the e-mail Q&A I did with Novell-turned-Google employee Jeremy Allison got some readers pretty stirred up. (Back story, for those who steered clear of Web news for the past month-plus: Samba lead developer Allison quit Novell just before Christmas, in protest over the Microsoft-Novell technology agreement announced in November.
Whether you love or hate the "meme," the "Five Things" one is still circulating. And once you've been tagged, it seems rude not to respond. So here are five things you may not know about me.
On December 21, word leaked out that lead Samba developer Jeremy Allison quit Novell in protest over the Microsoft-Novell alliance, unveiled in early November. Other than sharing the fact that he had taken a new job with Google, Allison said he couldn't provide specifics on his decision until some time after December 29, which would be his last day at Novell.
Today's final entry in the December 2006 "Microsoft Code Name a Day" series is "Centro," aka Microsoft's Windows Server SKU aimed at mid-sized businesses. I know there are lots more Microsoft code names out there that I didn't highlight ... so stay tuned in the new year for more.
If you liked the "Whistler" and "Longhorn" codenames, you'll appreciate "Creekside," as well.
Microsoft is planning to share details of its long-awaited Windows Home Server at CES 2007, sources say. But, contrary to initial belief, Windows Home Server looks to be a Vista-based system, not a Windows Server-based one.
Any business users out there finding the little-publicized Exchange 2007/Outlook 2007 licensing changes Microsoft has made to be potential "deployment blockers"?
The vibrant (and vocal) Microsoft Visual FoxPro community is involved in a couple of projects with planetary code names: Sedna and SednaX.