Archive for June, 2008

Jun18

Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?

It’s been over a year since Microsoft announced its dynamic language runtime (DLR), a software layer on top of .Net that allows dynamic languages, like Ruby and Python, to integrate more tightly with Microsoft’s core set of developer class libraries.


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Jun18

China: A potential, new antitrust battleground for Microsoft

Joining the U.S., the European Union, Japan and other sundry antitrust investigators who have set their sites on Microsoft, China is now looking into whether Microsoft is abusing its monopoly power.


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Jun18

‘Sensing’ more about what’s coming in Windows 7

One potential new Windows 7 feature about which I haven’t seen a whole lot of speculation is something called “Windows Sensors.”


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Jun17

Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3

First, the bad news: Firefox 3 breaks some Silverlight 1.0 installations. The good news: Silverlight 2, a Beta 2 version of which Microsoft released earlier this month, works fine with Firefox 3.


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Jun16

Why is Microsoft sponsoring the Open Source Census?

The Open Source Census, a collaborative project endeavoring to quantify the use of open-source software in enterprises, got a new sponsor on June 16. Microsoft.


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Jun12

Yahoo says it won’t sell its search biz to Microsoft

Yahoo has decided not to sell its search business to Microsoft.


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Jun12

Microsoft switches one gaming chief for another

Microsoft has turned responsibilities for first-party Xbox and Microsoft Games for Windows over to a new leader.


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Jun12

Microsoft warns Web site owners to prep for IE 8

Although Beta 2 of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 isn’t due out until some time in August, Microsoft is cautioning Web site owners now that they need to be prepping now for possible problems the new, more standards-compliant browser may cause.


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Jun11

Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype

Office Labs — an incubator within Microsoft testing business-focused technologies that may or may not end up part of future Microsoft products — is showing off this week yet another of its ideas. The latest, known as “TownSquare,” is a Facebook-like social-networking tool for business users.


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Jun11

About those Windows XP ‘upgrades’ from Vista …

The hits just keep coming for the Rodney Dangerfield of operating systems — Windows Vista.


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