Yes, calendar-wise it is mid-December. But that isn't stopping Microsoft from calling a new set of social, mobile and local search enhancements it is rolling out to Bing users over the next couple of weeks its "fall update."
Some Wall Streeters are sounding early warning bells regarding a possible consumer PC slowdown. Yesterday, those rumors affected Intel and AMD share prices. On August 11, Microsoft also got dinged. Microsoft execs are downplaying the reports.
When Microsoft and Yahoo announced their search partnership plans just over a year ago, there were a number of unanswered questions about Yahoo's future search-development efforts. On August 17, Yahoo answered a number of those questions via a blog post on the Yahoo Developer Network site
The March edition of my free Microsoft Codetracker is done and ready for download. This month includes "Broadway," among other new Microsoft codenames.
Microsoft isn't always the quickest in updating the executive bios on its corporate Web pages. But sometimes, former managers just disappear from the executive bio pages.
I'm seeing folks leap to the conclusion that Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer met with Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen to talk about Microsoft buying Adobe. Do you see this happening? I sure don't.
The U.S. Department of Justice is expanding its review of the pending Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership the pair unveiled this summer.
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie defended Microsoft's continued heavy investments in the online-systems arena, claiming the flowing trail of red ink from Microsoft's Online Systems Business (OSB) doesn't tell the whole story.
There are a couple of details about the Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership I found interesting, especially when comparing Yahoo's 8-K filing to the Yahoo-Microsoft costs slide that Microsoft erroneously included in a Financial Analyst Meeting slide deck last week.
Now that company officials finally have decided to talk about Windows' competition by name, Microsoft isn't letting up with its anti-Apple messaging.