Monthly Archives: July 2006
Microsoft Shares Its Recipe for Zune’s ‘Secret Sauce’
REDMOND – Microsoft is planning to invest "hundreds of millions" and lose money through 2008 to make its recently announced Zune portable media player...
Feds Retrieve Google Records after Gmail Used for Hate Speech
Federal agents requested and retrieved records from Google concerning a Gmail account that contained threatening speech, Google Watch has learned.The agents requested the records...
Microsoft Demos Next Version of adCenter
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...
Judge OKs Google $90M Trick Click Fix
An Arkansas state judge has approved Google's $90 million settlement in a click fraud class action suit against the company.According to Marketwatch's Ben Charny,...
Microsoft Outlines Three-Pronged Linux Attack Plan
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...
Vista’s Speech Support: Not Ready for Prime Time?
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...
Windows Biz Co-President Says January Launch Is Still On (So Far)
Is Windows Vista still on track for November business availability and a January 2007 launch? The word is yes, according to Kevin Johnson, the...
Why Did Microsoft Buy Healthcare Software?
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...
No Mini Microsoft Here
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...
IronPython Inches Closer to Final
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...