Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is a dark day indeed for companies who provided hosted Exchange and related Microsoft products. According to Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft announced today that it will begin offering hosted Exchange and Sharepoint for $3/user/month. For an additional $12/user/month customers can add instant messaging and presence as well as other related services. For years we considered [...]
Ed Bott's Window Expertise (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Mary Jo Foley and I are teaming up with a pair of posts on the same topic over at ZDNet. My entry is titled “Why you’ll have a long wait for Microsoft’s next OS”: The recent buzz over Microsoft’s efforts to build a completely new OS from scratch has led to some wild speculation. As my [...]
ActiveWin.com Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today, Mary Jo Foley posted a follow-up to her initial exclusive of Microsoft's Midori OS. In addition to her follow-up, I would like to contribute to the confirmation of Midori by linking to yet another presentation I found on Microsoft's Research site. It is a presentation given by Shaz Qadeer of the Microsoft Research "Software Reliability Research" group at Princeton University in...
Ed Bott's Microsoft Report (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The recent buzz over Microsoft’s efforts to build a completely new OS from scratch has led to some wild speculation. As my colleague Mary Jo Foley has reported, Microsoft already has an all-star team that’s working on a next-generation operating system. It’s called Midori, and Mary Jo’s sources say it’s in “incubation,” which means it’s on a fast track to being turned into a product....
ActiveWin.com Headlines (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Mary Jo Foley: My post about Microsoft’s post-Windows operating system, code-named “Midori,” elicited some interesting responses — and a few potential new clues over the past week. To those of you who sent me notes speculating/wondering whether Microsoft’s Midori might be a derivative of the Midori Linux effort and/or the Midori lightweight Web browser project, I’ll reiterate that I don’t...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
For Microsoft resellers that had been fearing Microsoft would drop the bottom out of the hosted-services business with its Microsoft Online services offerings, their nightmares were realized on July 8. Microsoft is planning to sell Microsoft-hosted Exchange and SharePoint for $3 per user per month. by Mary Jo Foley
Voices - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Mary Jo Foley, Blogger, All About Microsoft My post about Microsoft’s post-Windows operating system, code-named “Midori,” elicited some interesting responses — and a few potential new clues over the past week. Microsoft’s Midori — from what little I’ve been able to glean about it — is a next-generation Microsoft operating system that is currently in “incubation” — meaning that it’s...
MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
I really enjoyed Mitchell Ashley’s post in Network World titled Ozzie, You Must Transform Microsoft . Mary Jo Foley’s recent book, Microsoft 2.0 , take a thorough look at some of the challenges that lay ahead for Microsoft but in a few short paragraphs I think Mitchell does a pretty solid job. The man tasked with many of those challenges is Ray Ozzie. I’ve talked about Ray before on...
The Register (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Mary-Jo Foley on life after Gates Radio Reg Who'd have thought a bad haircut and rocking backwards and forwards in your chair like a child with ADD could pass as must-have traits? Yet, such was the cult of Bill Gates at Microsoft, company employees adopted these to become more like their boss.…
Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses Subscribe to News to know’s RSS feed Ryan Naraine: IE 8 Beta 2: Security makover Ed Bott: Microsoft to ratchet...
Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft’s search plan: It’s about semantics and possibly for naught. Dennis Howlett: Powerset’s smarts are Microsoft’s gain Paul Miller: Powerset really does go to Microsoft… but for how much? Mary Jo Foley: Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search Techmeme Foley: New Microsoft program to make volume licenses ‘evergreen’ WSJ:...
Widgets Lab (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
While Adobe cheers itself to sleep because they have made flash now more search engine friendly. the solution they proposed is not integral or far reaching as what Microsoft did with Silverlight from the start. Silverlight is searchable by design and it offers a fully integral solution Adobe cannot match. i knew this but until now there was not a Official Announcement from Microsoft on this. Mary...
WinExtra (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
... Headline [ nw ] :: BL Ochman New Microsoft Office subscription bundle to hit in mid-July [ nw ] :: Mary Jo Foley Microsoft Launches Consumer Subscription Offering [ nw ] :: Live Side Yahoo To Be Sold For Parts [ nw ] :: Stowe Boyd Curse Of Being an Early Adopter and Tech Blogger [ nw ] :: David Risley The Black Market Code Industry [ nw ] :: Fast Company Play the Smoke Break Podcast...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Microsoft took the wraps off a new licensing program -- Select Plus -- which company officials said is aimed at simplifying software and services purchases by large and mid-size businesses. by Mary Jo Foley
