By Paul Thurrott, 03/14/2010
This week, Microsoft will hold its annual MIX conference in Las Vegas, and while the show isn't as big as, say, CES—heck, it's got less hype than an Apple press conference—it's a big deal for the software giant and its customers....
By Paul Thurrott, 03/12/2010
An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including a rainy week in Redmond, the Apple iPad preorder begins, Windows Phone 7 device resolution support, Microsoft loses another Word appeal, Xbox 360 on top of the world, and so much more ......
By Paul Thurrott, 03/11/2010
Microsoft's Bing online search service gained usage share in the US for the ninth straight month in February, according to market researchers at Hitwise and comScore. Google still dominates the market, with about 68 percent of all searches. But Bing now accounts for over 10 percent of searches....
By Brian Reinholz, 03/10/2010
Microsoft has revealed that it plans to release an SP4 for SQL Server 2005. Find out when and where to go from here....
By Paul Thurrott, 03/10/2010
Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz this week said he understands how Google must feel in the wake of Apple's patent-infringement lawsuit against Android phone maker HTC....
By Paul Thurrott, 03/09/2010
Responding to critics who claimed that the new browser ballot screen that it delivered to Windows XP, Vista, and 7 users in the EU was flawed, Microsoft last week quietly changed the code to be truly random....
By Paul Thurrott, 03/08/2010
Almost two months after promising to ship its iPad tablet device in the United States in March, Apple did what Apple so often does: It slipped on a ship-date promise. Now, the iPad will start shipping in April instead, and customers who had hoped to preorder the device have to wait until March 12. ...
By Paul Thurrott, 03/05/2010
An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including massive PC sales growth for 2010, Microsoft's big bet on the cloud, a Microsoft-branded phone, Windows Phone developer dribbles, a non-surprising Apple iPad delay, and more......
By Paul Thurrott, 03/04/2010
In a speech yesterday at the London School of Economics, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner says he sees a gradual recovery in business spending this year. But that won't dampen the prospects for the company's blockbuster new OS. According to Turner, Microsoft expects to sell over 300 million copies of Windows 7 this year alone....
By Paul Thurrott, 03/04/2010
It doesn't sound like that dramatic of a proposal: At the RSA Conference 2010 this week in San Francisco, Microsoft corporate vice president Scott Charney followed up on comments he made at last year's show and vaguely proposed standards for more secure and private access to the Internet....