Joe Wilcox

Today, Microsoft is releasing Windows 7 Release Candidate to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, with public availability coming on May 5. Microsoft isn’t waiting until next month to tout the release candidate, which marks the near completion of Windows 7 development. Jeff Price, senior director for the Windows ecosystem team, spoke with eWEEK about the release […]

Microsoft will make a Windows 7 release candidate available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers on April 30. The software will be generally available on May 5. For those currently running Beta 1, the transition will be somewhat arduous but hopefully rewarding. The near-final build sports many changes, the majority of them spit and polish, from […]

Enterprises should make no mistake about what Microsoft Office 2007 is and is not. Starting with Office 2003, Microsoft expanded Office’s core functionality from the desktop to the server. The company has since integrated many Office features with various Microsoft server products. Service Pack 2, available April 28, is a clear indication of how deep […]

On April 30, Microsoft plans to release Windows 7 Release Candidate to Microsoft Developer Network and to TechNet. The release candidate will be available to everyone else on May 5. April arrival means that technically, Windows 7 development isn’t running behind schedule after all. Microsoft’s Brendon LeBlanc revealed the dates in an April 24 post […]

Colleague Larry Seltzer raises some interesting questions about Windows XP Mode, which Microsoft plans to make available in beta sometime in the near future. XPM uses virtualization to let users run Windows XP under Windows 7. The idea: to provide a compatibility mode for older applications. The virtualized Windows XP (with Service Pack 3) integrates […]

Economic gloom once again has descended on Microsoft, which reported disappointing fiscal third quarter results. The sales figures are yet another sign that enterprise spending is down during the recession and that many businesses are holding back major operating system and business application deployments until Windows 7 releases. Once again, netbook sales sapped Windows Client […]

Apple is once again coming out against netbooks, or mini-notebooks as many analysts call them. The company’s second-fiscal-quarter results perhaps show that netbooks aren’t a good category for any computer manufacturer. “It’s not a segment we would choose to play in,” Apple CFO Tim Cook told financial analysts during a conference call April 22. But […]

For months, analysts and pundits have speculated about how the economy would affect Apple sales. Today the company answered with fiscal second-quarter results. After the market closed on April 22, Apple announced earnings of $8.16 billion, up from $7.51 billion a year earlier. Net profit grew from $1.05 billion a year earlier to $1.21 billion, […]

What’s that sappy smile coming from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer? It’s a great day to be alive. Oracle is buying Sun-and not IBM. The Oracle-Sun merger poses more competitive risks to Cisco and IBM, particularly as Oracle expands its customer base in verticals such as government and telecommunications. Oracle will gain more enterprise breadth from […]

Friday’s guilty verdict in the Pirate Bay trial should surprise no one. But that doesn’t mean justice was served. My colleague Larry Seltzer says, “Lock ’em up.” He’s a security guy, and Torrents are notorious for spreading malware. Of course, he would praise the verdict. Not I. For all those copyright holders slapping one another’s […]