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Microsoft Showcases First LiveLabs Project -- PhotoSynth
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-28
Microsoft has started to provide sneak peeks of the first technology to be hatched by its LiveLabs organization. Officials showed off the technology, code-named "PhotoSynth," at the Microsoft Financial
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Microsoft to Start Charging for Office 2007 Beta 2
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-28
The tester count for Office 2007 Beta 2 is now at more than three million. Given "how dramatically the beta 2 downloads have exceeded (Microsoft's) goals," the company has decided to start charging $1.50 per download for Office Server 2007 to help the company recover costs, officials said on
Small Biz Server R2 Recall Pushes Availability to September
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-28
Microsoft is recalling -- primarily from its OEM and system builder partners – the Windows Small Business Server R2 bits the company released in mid-July, Microsoft officials said on July 28.
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FonePlus: Microsoft's Real $100 Laptop Competitor?
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
From Microsoft Watch: Microsoft has made it to prototype stage with a technology that it is calling FonePlus. FonePlus is WebTV running on a cell phone. Microsoft is investigating whether this kind of a product might be more useful to potential customers in developing nations than, say, a stripped-down
Microsoft Hedges Its Platform Bets with FonePlus
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
REDMOND – Add to Microsoft's lower -cost computing alternatives designed for the developing world a new cell phone operating system, known as FonePlus.
Microsoft officials showed a prototype of the
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Can Microsoft Make Xbox-Live-Like Magic With Zune?
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
From Microsoft Watch: Microsoft shared on Thursday at its Financial Analyst Meeting more details of its hopes and plans for Zune, its portable media player, that is due out this fall. The big-picture game plan is to try to recreate with Zune the online service/community success that it has
Microsoft Shares Its Recipe for Zune's 'Secret Sauce'
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
REDMOND – Microsoft is planning to invest "hundreds of millions" and lose money through 2008 to make its recently announced Zune portable media player a success.
Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's
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Ozzie: Windows Live Is More Than a Bunch of Consumer Services
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie provided Wall Street analysts attending Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting with a high-level, theoretical look at Microsoft's online services business.
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Microsoft Demos Next Version of adCenter
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
Microsoft's Chief Advertising strategist Yusuf Mehdi showed off Version 2 of Microsoft's adCenter advertising platform during Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting on July 27. Mehdi told Wall Street and
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Microsoft Outlines Three-Pronged Linux Attack Plan
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
How does Microsoft plan to outgrow Linux in the coming years? There are three arenas, or workloads, where Microsoft is focusing especially strongly: security/edge computing; Web/hosting; and
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Vista's Speech Support: Not Ready for Prime Time?
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
Sure, Windows Vista is still in beta. But Vista's speech recognition seemed to be more than a little iffy, when Senior Director Shanen Boettcher put it through its demo paces during the morning session at Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) in Redmond on July 27. Vista recognized almost none
Windows Biz Co-President Says January Launch Is Still On (So Far)
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
Is Windows Vista still on track for November business availability and a January 2007 launch? The word is yes, according to Kevin Johnson, the Microsoft executive in charge of platforms and services at
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IronPython Inches Closer to Final
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
The Release Candidate 1 test build of IronPython is now available on Microsoft's CodePlex code repository. IronPython is the .Net language developed by Jim Hugunin, who joined Microsoft two years ago. IronPython is covered by a Shared Source license.
No Mini Microsoft Here
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
Microsoft added more than 10,000 employees worldwide in the past year, according to employment figures quietly disclosed on July 26. To put that in perspective, that was the largest annual increase in Microsoft's history, and is more than the size of Google's entire workforce.
Why Did Microsoft Buy Healthcare Software?
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-07-27
Microsoft's announcement on July 26 that it was purchasing a healthcare software company caught a number of Microsoft watchers by surprise. During his kick-off keynote address at the Microsoft Financial
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