Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
Microsoft is readying a new tool, called the Windows Easy Transfer Companion, designed to transfer actual applications from Windows XP PCs to Vista PCs using a cable or a network connection.
How has Microsoft fared, in terms of living up to the "Microsoft Live" goals it set for itself a year ago? I’d give the company an A- for delivery, but a D- for presentation. Microsoft is actually making some real headway in the way it is developing and distributing services, but almost no one knows it, thanks to the abysmal job the company has done in defining Live and updating the various Microsoft constituencies on its progress.
Microsoft officials obviously believe Windows Vista is ready, given that it is set to release it to manufacturing within weeks. But what do some of its toughest testers think?
n October 20, the company finally hit the Beta 1 milestone with "Atlas," the product known known as Microsoft ASP.Net Ajax v 1.0.
Microsoft has made available to testers yet another Windows Vista build. The latest release, No. 5808, was made available to participants in Microsoft's Technology Adoption Program (TAP) late on October 19, testers said.
Windows XP Service Pack (SP 3), which Microsoft officials said to expect in the latter half of 2007, now has slipped into 2008.
Vista is not on track to be released to manufacturing on October 25, after all, according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's platforms and services division.
Microsoft has released to manufacturing the final Internet Explorer (IE) 7 bits for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. But that doesn't mean you and/or your organization will actually have them pushed to you via Automatic Update any time soon.
Here are a few favorite sound bites on some of Microsoft's recent strategic moves on the spending and licensing fronts.
If Microsoft's own countdown clock doesn't get reset, the company will release to manufacturing the Windows Vista operating system next week, on October 25.
There’s been plenty written (with plenty more to come) about the features that are set to be included in Windows Vista. But what about features that won’t be in the next version of Windows?
What makes Google tick? Is it different from what gets the Softies going? Is Google just like Microsoft was, when the Redmond software company was comprised of 8,000 people (the current size of Google) vs. nearly 71,000 (the size of present-day Microsoft)?
Microsoft is beating the bushes for Windows Vista application partners of all ilks -- even open-source ones.
Microsoft reconfirmed on October 13 that it won't delay Windows Vista's launch in the European Union or South Korea. But Microsoft will be making further modifications to the product to appease EU regulators, Microsoft officials confirmed Friday.
Windows Vista is not fully baked, but that doesn't mean senior management isn't already thinking about "Vista+1" as they like to call the next Windows client release (the one I believe is -- or at least was -- code-named "Fiji."
Mobility
More Microsoft reorg moves shed light on cross-platform experience plans
Internet of Things
Productivity
Microsoft's OneNote for Windows 10 to become the default Windows version later this year
Windows 10
Microsoft releases another Windows 10 'Redstone 4' test build with 'reliability' fixes
Microsoft
How much does Microsoft Office 2016 cost without a subscription?