Opposition Mounts to Google/Yahoo! Ad Deal
Google and Yahoo! have agreed to a "brief" delay in the planned start of a controversial search advertising deal. The delay was made at the request of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), which is investigating the antitrust implications of the deal... WinInfo - Paul Thurrott
[October 06, 2008]
Ballmer: Xbox 360 'an Unqualified Success'
It's a product line that has consumed tens of billions of dollars of R&D, money that can never be recouped. The most recent version of the product is so endemically buggy that it has suffered from an historic product recall whose value exceeds $1 billion... WinInfo - Paul Thurrott
[October 03, 2008]
WinInfo Short Takes: Week of October 6, 2008
An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including the arrival of Paul's new book, Steve Ballmer's leaky ship, Microsoft's search desperation, Red Hat's cheaper HPC solution, Amazon's cloud services, Xbox 360 sales in Japan and much more... WinInfo - Paul Thurrott
[October 02, 2008]
Microsoft Confirms 'Windows Cloud' OS
At its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) event later this month, Microsoft will publicly unveil its 'Windows Cloud' Internet-based operating system, the company confirmed. I've been told several times by Microsoft representatives in the recent past... WinInfo - Paul Thurrott
[October 01, 2008]
Microsoft Makes Virtualization Advances
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has finalized development of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, it's standalone, "bare metal" virtualization server. Additionally, the software giant revealed that it will finalize its Virtual Machine Manager 2008... WinInfo - Paul Thurrott
[September 30, 2008]
Microsoft Goes After Scareware Vendors
Microsoft and the attorney-general of Washington State on Monday announced that they are teaming up to curb the spread of so-called scareware pop-up advertisements. These insidious pop-ups warn consumers that their PCs are in risk, often using windows... WinInfo - Paul Thurrott
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