Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
What are some of the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) and Volume Activation 2.0 aspects that are not common knowledge – but about which Microsoft watchers still might want to know? Here’s my short list.
Another day, another mashup. Isn’t Microsoft’s “Nemo
It looks like the final broadscale Vista test build is going to hit some time the week of October 2.
Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) isn’t the only Microsoft anti-piracy scheme that might raise the hackles of future Vista customers. Volume Activation 2.0 is worrying some Vista testers who’ve had a chance to dabble with early versions of that technology.
Microsoft has “one more EDW
Microsoft is predicting on the very day that Microsoft launches Vista for businesses – which officials are (still) saying will happen some time in November 2006 – business customers who’ve been testing the operating system will launch 60,000 worldwide seats of Vista
Here are a few Microsoft-related conferences and confabs slated for this fall that might be of interest to Redmond watchers out there.
I’ve consciously refrained from weighing in on Symantec’s mounting efforts to fight back against Microsoft with Windows Vista. The reason? I’ve been vacillating.
A reminder for Microsoft customers out there who are using Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 1 or 1a: Microsoft is ending support for those Windows updates on October 10. As part of the cut-off, Microsoft is discontinuing security updates for XP SP1 and 1a on that date, as well.
Microsoft’s PowerShell command-line scripting shell is moving forward.
Microsoft may be reticent to provide a list of what’s not working on Vista, but that isn’t stopping others from going public with their findings.
At this week’s open house for press and analysts, Microsoft Research (MSR) will be showing off a multitude of projects, including a (so far) little-publicized distributed-computing platform under development that is code-named “Dryad.” Dryad is one of a number of large-scale-computing efforts in which Microsoft researchers are engaged.
A growing number of Microsoft Research projects have morphed into key components of established Microsoft products, and/or products in their own right.
Microsoft’s own Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack (SP) 1 – a first beta of which went live on September 26 -- may not work correctly with Windows Vista. That revelation (admirably) comes courtesy of the blog of Microsoft’s Corporate VP of the company’s developer division, S.
Microsoft reportedly has purchased Gteko, an Israeli networking and support software vendor for an undisclosed amount.
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