Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
Does Microsoft know something about app compatibility and Windows Vista that the rest of us don’t? Is there some compatibility bombshell the team is waiting to drop on or before the business launch of Vista and Office 2007 in New York City on November 30?
Microsoft traditionally has used its ten-year-old Windows CE platform as a testing ground for source-code code-licensing strategy. On November 1, the company took another step in this arena by making its Windows CE 6.0 kernel available under a new element of Microsoft's Shared Source licensing program.
"The Max Project has concluded." With that simple statement, Microsoft's Max team announced that it is done with beta testing Max, its photo-sharing application that was designed to showcase Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
On November 15, when Microsoft makes available the final version of its three Office Live service offerings, there will be a few surprises.
SQL Server 2005 Service Pack (SP1), which Microsoft made available for download in April 2006, won't work on Windows Vista or Longhorn Server, Microsoft is warning users and partners.
Microsoft all but admitted earlier this month that the company is building a “kill switch
If you think the consumer Windows Vista licensing terms are confusing, the business licensing ones are even more complicated.
Slowly but surely, Microsoft is looking to grow its user base by giving away entry-level SKUs of its products. The latest freebie: Office Accounting Express 2007, the new, low-end of its not-so-popular small-business accounting software.
Microsoft Co-President of Platforms and Services Jim Allchin shares his thoughts on Windows Live (which, along with Windows and developer tools also falls under his organization); competition with Google and Apple; and why a client-based version of Windows won’t ever completely disappear, regardless of how successful Web services become.
Here's Part 1 of my Q&A with Windows chief Jim Allchin, where the outgoing Microsoft veteran talks about what Microsoft learned in developing Windows Vista, and how the company intends to apply some of those lessons with Windows, going forward.
The most interesting piece of information from Microsoft's Q1 FY 2007 earnings, in my mind, was the loss posted by the company's Online Services Business unit.
A handful of members of the Joejoe.Org Windows enthusiast site have begun building a Longhorn-client-based, community-developed product they currently are calling “Longhorn Reloaded.
With IE 7 finally out the door, Microsoft has begun sharing some hints about IE 8.0, also known as IE Next. Chris Wilson, the newly minted platform architect for IE, addressed the Ajax Experience crowd this week and presented some of his thinking on what matters for the Web, going forward.
In the next couple of weeks, it seems like a lot of long-awaited Microsoft products will finally go live.
Microsoft, a handful of big-name PC partners and various system builders announced on October 24 their long-awaited plans for making holiday coupons available for both Windows Vista and Office 2007.
Microsoft's new Outlook email client is live (at least for now)
Productivity
Microsoft to rebrand its partner program and focus resellers further around its cloud
Cloud
Microsoft readies its latest 'industrial metaverse' pitch
Metaverse
Microsoft's latest Windows patches fix the bug causing user data not to be erased
Windows
Microsoft starts testing 'Suggested Actions' in new Windows 11 test build
Windows 11