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Google Wins Search Deal With Microsoft Customer MySpace
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-08
As noted during last month's major MySpace outage, MySpace is a major Microsoft customer. In spite of (or maybe because of) that fact, MySpace parent Fox Interactive Media selected Google to be MySpace's
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Microsoft Readies Vista RC1
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-08
Looks like calls for Microsoft to add another beta to the Windows Vista timeline are falling on deaf ears. Microsoft has begun testing internally Vista Release Candidate (RC) 1 builds and will likely issue one more interim test build, designated RC1, to a group of selected testers before the
Microsoft to Pull the Plug on Virtual PC for Macs
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-08
After months of hedging, Microsoft is finally acknowledging what many had expected: It plans to discontinue support for Virtual PC on Macs. Microsoft is attributing its decision to the expected lengthy
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Vista PCs Taking Shape
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-08
If Microsoft and its PC partners have their way, Windows Vista PCs will be recognizable by more than just their boot-up screens. Microsoft is encouraging PC makers to think different (maybe even Think Different, a la the Mac) when designing Vista hardware and is distributing an industrial-design kit that
Is Apple's 'Leopard' Really 'Vista 2.0'?
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-07
We like a good Windows Vista dig as much as anyone. But is Apple CEO Steve Jobs really justified in calling Mac OS X 10.5 (a k a "Leopard") the equivalent of Vista 2.0? Can't the 64-bit versions of Vista fully support 64-bit applications? And isn't Apple's TimeMachine feature
Windows Live Spaces Still Not Working for Many
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-07
Windows Live Spaces users have been on a rampage since August 1, when Microsoft rolled out the final version of its Windows Live Spaces blogging/social-networking service. On August 2, Microsoft officials
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Microsoft Focuses on User Behavior With New Search Research
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-07
Search is about more than search-engine algorithms. It also must take into account user click-through and browsing behaviors, if search-result accuracy is to be improved.
That's according to Microsoft
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Microsoft: User Behavior as Key to Improving Search Results
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-07
From Microsoft Watch: When it comes to search, Microsoft researchers are some of the key movers and shakers inside the Redmond software company. At this week's SIGIR information-retrieval powwow, Microsoft
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Another Operating System Expert Goes to Google
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-06
A year ago, one of Microsoft's key Windows architects defected to Google. Now, another operating-system expert has joined Google. The latest Google hire is Linux expert Andrew Morton, Linus Torvald's right-hand man. As is the case with Lucovsky, no word on exactly what Morton will be doing at Google
IE 7 Minus the Plus
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-06
Microsoft won't be using the "plus" symbol to differentiate the version of Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 that is bundled into Windows Vista, after all. Microsoft officials say they listened to customers in deciding
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Vista Demos Dominate Black Hat
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-06
While there is no such beast as a 100 percent secure operating system, Microsoft was out to show at the Black Hat security confab that it had come a long way with Windows Vista, in terms of security. Attendees were, by in large, impressed with Microsoft's Windows security progress.
Windows Fixes to Dominate Patch Day Dozen
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-06
Patch Tuesday is just around the corner. Expect a dozen new security bulletins, with plenty of Windows patches – a number of which will be deemed "critical," according to the Softies. There will be more Office fixes in the new patch batch, too.
Microsoft Windows Live Spaces Users Hit Roadblocks
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-03
From Microsoft Watch: Microsoft's latest iteration of its blogging/social-networking service may have gone live earlier this week, but many users aren't convinced Windows Live Spaces is ready for prime
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Problems Plague Windows Live Spaces
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-03
Microsoft's August 1 launch of its Windows Live Spaces blogging/social-networking platform has not been a smooth one.
Customers of Microsoft's successor to MSN Spaces are reporting a variety of
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Microsoft Readies Vista App-Migration Technology
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-08-03
Microsoft is getting ready to unleash the Alohabob application-migration technology it acquired earlier this year when it bought Apptimum. At the same time as Microsoft makes available Vista Release
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