Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... a Microsoft product that is not cross-platform . From listening to this audiocast which includes Mary Jo Foley, I was able to gather that Silverlight may converge and merge with WPF , a desktop-side environment like AIR, but one which favours Windows and Internet Explorer. Silverlight has turned Miguel de Icaza into a "drooling" fan , to use his own verbal descriptions (where he labels...
Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... Microsoft talking points. In the previous post we showed Novell’s de Icaza sharing this post from Mary Jo Foley about XAML as an anti-GNU/Linux weapon (Chrome OS specifically) . Novell’s de Icaza then praised Silverlight. Will Microsoft’s Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google’s Chrome OS? [...] First, as others have noted, Google’s Chrome OS is a new windowing system layered on...
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download — Microsoft released on November 18 the public beta of Office 2010. It can be downloaded by anyone for free, as of 1 pm ET today. — Microsoft is making available several different versions of Office … [...]
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Microsoft has launched new betas for its free Office suite and for the "streaming" technology it will use to deliver some paid versions of Office 2010 next year. As first reported by ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft has kicked off a private beta of Office Starter 2010, the ad-supported edition that the company will offer computer makers in lieu of the ancient Microsoft...
istartedsomething (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
It’s day two of the three day Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2009 and keynoting today is Scott Guthrie, Kurt DelBene and Steven Sinofsky where the focus is said to be all things Silverlight, Internet Explorer, Windows and Office. Join Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Kip Kniskern, Paul Thurrott, Rafael Rivera, Tom Warren and I in our [...]
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Microsoft opens up Windows 7 to advertisers via downloadable themes — The same way that it already allows advertisers to buy placement on various Microsoft sites and properties, Microsoft may allow them to extend their brands onto Windows 7. — The ads aren’t being foisted on Windows 7 [...]
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Microsoft released on November 18 the public beta of Office 2010. It can be downloaded by anyone for free, as of 1 pm ET today, as can new public betas of SharePoint Server 2010 and Office Web Apps. by Mary Jo Foley
All About Microsoft (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
November 17th, 2009 Microsoft to share some details on IE 9 at PDC show this weekPosted by Mary Jo Foley @ 10:18 amCategories: , , , Tags: , , , , +35Microsoft is on tap to share some information about its Internet Explorer (IE) 9 browser at its Professional Developers Conference this week, but isn’t yet ready to deliver any bits.Microsoft will be providing on November 18, but isn’t yet...
LiveSide (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
We're here in sunny Los Angeles ( 76 degrees and sunny :) ) again, liveblogging the PDC keynotes today and tomorrow. You can watch the keynote live at www.microsoftpdc.com , and follow along with our motley crew of bloggers and journalists (Long Zheng, Mary Jo Foley, Ed Bott, Paul Thurrott, Tom Warren, Rafael Rivera, and yours truly). Hope you have as much fun as we do, and from what...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Microsoft made available on November 16 a code-complete beta of Windows HPC High Performance Computing Server 2008 R2 to selected testers. The company made the announcement at the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portland, Oreg. by Mary Jo Foley
All About Microsoft (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
November 20th, 2009 Office Starter 2010 private beta, with 'Office to GO,' goes to testersPosted by Mary Jo Foley @ 8:21 amCategories: , , , , ..., , , Tags: , , , , ..., +24Microsoft released a bunch of this week. But it also released another one under non-disclosure to a select group of testers: Office Starter 2010.Microsoft made the code for Office Starter 2010 available to select...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU General Public License. by Mary Jo Foley
All About Microsoft (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
November 12th, 2009 PDC 2009: Tune in for our live blogging frenzy next weekPosted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:31 amCategories: , , , , ..., , , , , , , , , , , , Tags: , , , , +11Microsoft’s kicks off the week of November 16. Like we did last year, a handful of us Microsoft watchers will be live blogging the keynotes as a group.The PDC keynotes are slated for Tuesday November 17 from 8:30 a.m....
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Microsoft has been having a tough time keeping its Office 2010 bits from leaking. On November 13, the Professional Plus version of the next version of Microsoft's productivity suite leaked again. by Mary Jo Foley
Bob Sutor's Open Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Open Source Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL? ZDNet / Mary-Jo Foley Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU General Public License. Where is the Linux desktop going? ComputerWorld / Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Windows [...]
