By Paul Thurrott, 03/18/2010
An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including the end of 11 straight days on the road, a Microsoft confirmation of my Windows 7/R2 SP1 reports, a nice change for Virtual PC, a Google migration tool for Exchange, and so much more......
By Paul Thurrott, 03/18/2010
Like a swarm of locust, Microsoft's critics are pouring over all the news releases and blog posts this week from MIX'10, trying to poke holes in the company's Windows Phone strategy. It's a tactic they used in the past, successfully, to destroy Windows Vista's reputation. Sorry, but I'm not going to let it happen this time....
By Paul Thurrott, 03/17/2010
On the second day of its MIX'10 conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Microsoft announced a pre-release version of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 aimed at web developers. Called the IE 9 Platform Preview, this pre-beta version of the browser provides no hints about any future UI changes....
By Paul Thurrott, 03/15/2010
As part of an ongoing series of revelations about its upcoming Windows Phone platform, Microsoft on Monday discussed the developer story for the platform. This information follows the initial Windows Phone announcement last month at Mobile World Congress and some game developer info at the Game Developer Conference earlier this month....
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 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. ...