Microsoft: Laying off the vision thing
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Blog: Instead of grand plans, Microsoft talks nuts and bolts strategy at the Tech Ed conference in Orlando.
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Microsoft's Windows platform is losing traction as a target for application developers in North America.
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Tycho:  I don't know whose fault it is exactly, mine or theirs, but I won't be installing Vista anytime soon.  I would like some crazy shit to happen when I minimize something don't get me wrong.  I want my windows to go Waja-wajow(!) is possible.  But if there's a great reason to "trade horses midstream" or whatever the going metaphor is I haven't discovered it.
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Conversations I've had this week at TechEd with attendees have made me rethink an opinion I stated early on, about how nice it was to see Microsoft toning down the marketing message and getting down to brass, technical tacks.  Some IT managers who want their employers to get the message of Windows Server 2008, would appreciate it if that message were easier to be "got."
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Microsoft will indeed be trimming some things out of the initial release of the Longhorn client, the next version of the Windows desktop operating system.
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That's Systems Management Server to you Microsoft is beefing up policing for Windows licensing after going back to the drawing board on its asset management strategy.â¦
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The core code for Windows is undergoing a rewrite to make it slimmer for use in a wide range of future products.
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Microsoft's support for Windows XP SP1 ends next wee, and it's urging users to upgrade to SP2 immediately.
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Microsoft is taking the wraps off this week, but the notion of a table-like computer has generated interest at the company since at least 2001.Photos: On the road to Microsoft's Milan
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InfoWorld - A pro-business think tank in Europe has recommended unbundling Microsoft Corp.&#39;s Windows operating system from sales of new PCs in order to give customers more choice when buying a new computer.
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What originally appeared to be a move by Macrovision to build a rights protection empire surprisingly appears to have lost an essential element: its PC software.
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Long-planned escape from beige boxes Analysis Microsoft's announcement of Surface Computing, basically a PC built into a coffee table, might indeed represent a new paradigm in computing technology, but for Microsoft it's just another attempt at getting its software out from the beige boxes under our desks to somewhere, anywhere, else.â¦
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Microsoft announces end of support for the upgrade, urges move to SP2.
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As we suggested on Friday, two mainstays of Windows Longhorn will be &#39;decoupled&#39; from the 2006 release, with Microsoft dropping the WinFS storage and query system.
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Microsoft is shaking up its plans for the next version of Windows to get the software off the drawing board and into PCs by the end of 2006.
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There's no doubt that 2008 will go down in history as the end of the first Microsoft era.  This year, Bill Gates will finally hang up his Microsoft mouse and leave the company he cofounded over 30 years ago.  Most people know that he's going off to spend the very large sums of money he has acquired from those Microsoft years, most of which has been used to set up the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation with $37.6 billion in assets.  But what will that really mean for free software? read more
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Microsoft wants everyone to focus on Vista and forget about whatever may come down the operating system pike.