Microsoft News
« Previous EntriesThis Is It, Bill Gates’ Last Day at Microsoft Is Here
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Today, June 27, 2008, Microsoft is officially entering its post-Bill Gates era. Microsoft A.B. (after Bill) will be led by Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer; Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect and Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer. This morning, approximately 1,000 Microsoft employees were accompanying Gates on the start of his last day in [...]
Vista System Tools Survived into Windows 7 M1
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Microsoft already confirmed that Windows 7 will have Windows Vista as its foundation. Like it or not, Windows 7 will be nothing more than an evolution of the current Windows client. According to the little details the Redmond company did manage to make public, the Vista architecture will survive into the next generation of the [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen, Bill Gates Has Left the Building
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Yesterday, June 27, 2008 was a day that made it into history simply because it marked the transition of Bill Gates out of his day-to-day role at Microsoft, a company founded together with Paul Allen in 1975. As of June 28, Microsoft is officially sans Bill Gates, now 52 years old and committed to focusing [...]
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Has RTM’d
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Even though its has released to manufacturing Windows Server 2008 on February 4, 2008, alongside Windows Vista SP1, and was launched on February 27, Microsoft is still wrapping up the latest Windows server operating system. In this context, the Redmond company announced that Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V was released to manufacturing today, June 26, 2008. [...]
Windows XP SP3 - No Future
Saturday, June 28th, 2008With Windows XP but four days away from the June 30 end-of-sales date, various scenarios are depicting the operating system as already dead. But XP is far from being expired, and this is why Microsoft has not been shy about talking about the future of Windows Vista's successor, as irreverent as this might seem. But [...]
20 Million Firefox 3.0 Downloads Later, Firefox 3.1, 3.0.1 and 2.0.0.15
Saturday, June 28th, 200820 million downloads of Firefox 3.0 later and Mozilla is moving onward with Firefox version 3.1, 3.0.1 and 2.0.0.15. Version 3.0 of the open source browser was dropped on June 17, 2008, and skyrocketed to over 8 million downloads in the first 24 hours. By the end of week one, Firefox 3.0 accounted for more [...]
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 Just Around the Corner
Saturday, June 28th, 2008The next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator (MAP) is just around the corner. Baldwin Ng Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Solution Accelerators revealed that the Redmond giant is gearing up for the release of the final version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1. Baldwin Ng did not pinpoint the deadline [...]
Windows 7 Needs to Tame OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Windows 7 will need to tame Apple's Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard, a task that Windows Vista has failed at. Neither Windows XP, nor Vista have been able to stop the combination of Mac computers and OS X gaining more and more market share, and increasing inroads into the Windows and PC territory. [...]
Forget Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Serves a Taste of Firefox 3.0.1 and 3.1 Shiretoko
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Believe it or not but Gran Paradiso is making a comeback. The codename for Firefox 3.0 is not dead, even after Mozilla released the final version of the latest iteration of its open source browser. Over 20 million of Firefox 3.0 downloads later, a piece of the original 3.0 version project is moving to the [...]
Hyper-V RTM Supported Platforms, Including Vista SP1 and XP SP3
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to manufacturing on June 26, 2008. The final version of Hyper-V is designed to integrate exclusively with the gold build of Windows Server 2008, RTM'd on February 4, and launched on February 27. The hypervisor-based virtualization technology is available as a role in select SKUs of Microsoft's latest Windows [...]
« Previous Entries