June 30 is the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It’s also a good day (thanks to a recent New York Times opinion piece) to start looking ahead to what comes next — after Windows.
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If you thought it was tough before to get Microsoft to talk about “Fiji,” the next version of Windows Media Center Edition, now it’s going to be next-to-impossible to get anyone in Redmond to utter the “F” word.
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Might a Gates-less Microsoft be rethinking whether a more decentralized Microsoft might be better able to fend off its growing list of competitors?
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In its June 25 letter to stockholders, Yahoo Board Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang had nothing to say about the supposed renewal this week of talks with Microsoft.
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Joel Spolsky, the CEO of Fog Creek Software — and a one-time member of Microsoft’s Excel team back in the early 1990s (Microsoft’s “glory days”) — has a really great look back at the significance of the famed “BillG” reviews.
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Microsoft is expected to announce on June 26 that its Hyper-V hypervisor technology has been released to manufacturing, according to testers claiming familiarity with the company’s plans.
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A number of testers who’ve been dabbing with the first version of Microsoft’s ADO.Net Entity Framework are unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken with the technology — so much so that they’ve created a “no confidence vote” petition to make their gripes public.
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In a new video interview posted to Microsoft’s Channel 9 Web site on June 23, Chairman Bill Gates adds a third group of folks to the list of those who will be filling his shoes after he leaves Microsoft as a full-time employee this month. Gates told Channel 9’s Charles Torres that Microsoft’s group of Technical Fellows also will be helping to fill the technology-leadership void that his departure will create.
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Microsoft may not be willing to let Apple have the last word about Windows Vista, after all. According to a June 20 Fortune Magazine article, Microsoft has earmarked “an additional $200 million for Windows advertising this year, even though in nonlaunch years thre is typically no budget increase at all.”
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Windows Mobile 7 may be closer than many think.
According to a report from at least one major handset maker, Microsoft is planning to make available the final bits of its next mobile operating-system release in time for them to start selling Windows Mobile 7 phones in the first quarter of 2009. If true, that would […]
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