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Microsoft Corp. went public on Monday with its end-to-end business intelligence strategy. But company officials still arent talking much about the team charged with implementing the BI strategy, or what the next deliverables from that team will be. That team, the OBA (Office Business Applications) group, is the Microsoft entity formerly known as the “Business […]

Heres a mystery for you. Every week in a certain company, every project manager turns in a chart for each of his or her projects. The first thing management looks at when they see the chart is the small color-coded box in the corner that illustrates the overall project status. Each project is rated green, […]

Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) is no more. The new strategy is to make the various technologies that were to comprise MBS available as part of a variety of other currently shipping and soon-to-be-delivered Microsoft products. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced internally that it had reassigned the couple hundred MBF team members to other product teams, primarily […]

Privacy arguments tend to be emotional, often expressed in terms of “security versus privacy.” A new book out about the future of RFID goes far beyond that. The authors of Spychips do not hesitate to go for the emotional jugular frequently, using references and examples from the Bible, the Nazis, the Russian government and the […]

Microsoft Corp. is hot to change the perception that Office is just a desktop suite. With the Office 12 release, due out next year, the company will make another move in that direction by positioning the desktop applications, as well as the new Office 12 servers, as the cornerstones of the companys integrated business intelligence […]

Finally, after months of rumors, its official: Microsoft is planning to bundle the core of its Windows AntiSpyware product into Windows Vista. We know, we know: Bundling is a banned word in Redmond. When a previously stand-alone Microsoft product or technology is subsumed by another, the result is supposed to be labeled “innovative integration,” according […]

Grady Booch is a co-founder of Rational Software and a key author of Unified Modeling Language, along with Ivar Jacobsen and Jim Rumbaugh. Booch spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft earlier this month about UML, modeling and competing with Microsoft Corp., which is about to release its foray into the modeling world with […]

Thinkpad Z60t Is Stylish, Powerful Talk all you want about the new features packed in Lenovos ThinkPad Z60t, but the first thing everyone wants to know is: How does a ThinkPad look in silver? Released last month, the Z60t is the first ThinkPad to offer users a choice of a black or special-edition titanium cover. […]

Im not sure I can go along with Jim Rapozas proposition that some FEMA developer was “lazy” in not accommodating more browsers than Internet Explorer (Tech Directions, “High Stakes for Standards” or “FEMAs IE-Only Form: Just What Katrina Victims Dont Need,” Sept. 19.) Im no shill for Microsoft and no apologist for FEMA [which Rapoza […]

Microsoft has released a new test build of its Windows Vista release that is as interesting for what is included now as for whats coming next. On Monday, Microsoft made available to its 15,000 to 20,000 technical beta testers the second Community Technology Preview (CTP) release of Vista, Build 5231. Company officials said they expected […]

Every managers tool box contains a jumble of tools he or she uses every day, some jetsam that never quite matched the job at hand and, if the owner is clever, a little cup over to one side for pieces that are rarely useful for their designated purpose, but are invaluable for other jerry-rigging. All […]

Microsoft is poised to release to testers the second Community Technology Preview (CTP) release of Windows Vista, paving the way for a second full-fledged beta, which is now expected in December. Among the new features which could find their way into the updated build are a number of Internet Explorer 7.0 enhancements; the resurrected “Sidebar” […]