microsoft-watch.com - 10/27/2008
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The vanishing license count. Every quarterly earnings since Vista's release, Microsoft executives counted up the number of licenses shipped. There was near silence during last week's 2009 fiscal first-quarter earnings announcement. The number was 180 million three months earlier. It's now ...
microsoft.com - 10/28/2008
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Q&A: Microsoft Senior Vice President Chris Capossela discusses
how extending Office applications to the browser will increase...
choice and flexibility for customers. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28, 2008 — As part of a strategic companywide shift toward embracing ...
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Microsoft to Extend Office to the Browser: Q&A: ...
microsoft.com - 10/27/2008
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Company releases comprehensive Azure Services Platform for the
cloud, offering unprecedented power of choice and open connections...
for developers. LOS ANGELES — Oct. 27, 2008 — Today, during a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers ...
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Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure at Professional ...
readwriteweb.com - 10/28/2008
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Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference
that the next release of Microsoft Office will include...
browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. These will be "lightweight ...
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Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally)
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Linkpost | 10.27.2008
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... October 27, 2008 Linkpost | 10.27.2008 • Windows Vista No Longer Matters - As the Professional Developers Conference kicks off, it's clear Microsoft is moving on to Windows 7, Joe Wilcox says. • ...
When would it be appropriate to declare Vista dead?
CrunchGear —
... Read this line and you’ll understand how Joe Wilcox (and pretty much everyone else online) over at eWeek feels about Windows Vista: ...
Windows 7 a Big Improvement over Vista
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
... and achievable. In the day and a half Ive spent using Windows 7 on a Microsoft-provided Dell XPS M1330 machine preinstalled with build 6801 of the OS, Ive found its polish and performance a world away from the first Longhorn build I tried out at PDC 2003. At this point, Windows 7 feels more like a second beta or an early release candidate than a developer conference sneak peek. Rather than constitute some major leap from Vista, Windows 7 feels like a tighter, faster version of Vista , with an assortment of worthwhile feature enhancements, including various improved and some ...
PDC 2008: The hard job of moving on after Vista
Betanews —
... to, in the words of my friend and colleague at Microsoft Watch , Joe Wilcox, a "flop." The very fact that such a variety of monikers exists is all the indicator one needs that something went wrong during the lifecycle of this product. Its initial release, with its stark, persistent, and nagging reminders of the need to maintain security, planted in users' minds the idea that something was inherently wrong with the product. That seed was nurtured and grew to fruition as a serious lingering doubt, well before Microsoft decided to start taking action. The problem could perhaps ...
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