Perhaps Microsoft will make their seemingly aggressive January 2010 date for Windows 7 after all. They've already added a "Windows 7 Client" category to Windows Update and to the Microsoft Update Catalog (see above, click to enlarge).
Let's be honest: even if you use a PC you have to admit the Apple "Get a Mac" ads are hip, funny, and interesting. Despite my PVR I will stop a commercial skip and watch a new "Get a Mac" ad.
Most of us who have used a Windows PC know what a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is. Well, there could be no more perfect timing for a BSOD than this. Right when Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the climax of the torch-lighting ceremony, someone snapped this photo of the familiar BSOD most of us have seen at one time or another.
Despite my technophile-ness, I haven't considered moving to the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, mostly because I figure I will have application or device driver woes. However, in a blog post on the Windows Vista blog, Microsoft product manager Chris Flores said that Microsoft has noted a shift in adoption of 64-bit operating systems.
Earlier we wrote about how Microsoft used a kind of blind taste test to get die-hard Windows XP users to try Vista --- and that they even liked it. They were told that they were trying a new OS, called Mojave. We also said that Microsoft hadn't figured out a marketing campaign, but it appears that's changed.
Now we know: Microsoft and Yahoo! are perfect for each other. Despite watching Microsoft's recent debacle when it announced it was going to shut down the licensing servers for their defunct Music Store - a debacle which resulted in Microsoft reversing its decision - Yahoo! decided to try to do the same thing.
We've written about the Windows Home Server (WHS) data corruption bug several times since it first emerged in late December. On Monday Microsoft finally - finally, released WHS Power Pack 1, which contains the fix, as well as a bunch of other stuff no one really cares about.
While in February Legg-Mason recommended that Yahoo! take a Microsoft offer, it said it should only do so if Microsoft boosted their offer to $40+ a share. In the upcoming fight that will likely occur at the August 1st Yahoo! shareholders meeting, Bill Miller, chief investment officer of Legg-Mason - although not guaranteeing to vote in that direction - said that it was his firm's "intention" to vote its 4.4% stake in Yahoo! in favor of the company's existing board.
As Microsoft continues to have to "prove" to people that Vista is compatible with their hardware and software, the Windows Vista Compatibility Center launched on Tuesday, as announced at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston.
Of course, it proved incompatible with the Web, as visiting the site got you a "The Windows Vista Compatibility Center will be launching soon, please check back!" message.
Talk about cannibalizing sales from Windows Vista. It's bad enough Microsoft has to worry about XP doing that, but ...
All right, all right, obviously I'm just kidding. And yes, you read that right. Windows for Workgroups (WFW) 3.11 is still being sold. Microsoft is selling it in the Embedded Channel.
Rumors have been circulating of a possible $50 price cut for the Xbox 360 Pro, the 20 GB model. While still a rumor, more evidence has arisen which seems to not just point to a $50 price cut, but also to the day: this coming Sunday.
Microsoft on Tuesday released a new tool designed to allow customers to see whether their hardware and software will work properly with Windows Vista. Actually, you remember that before Vista even launched they had such a tool, so is this time-travel?
Nope, on Tuesday Microsoft launched the Windows Vista Compatibility Center.
On Monday Carl Icahn, who we know is not er, happy, about the lack of a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo!, cited discussions with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an open letter he published.
Remember Albany, the beta version of Microsoft's subscription-based version of Office and Windows Live OneCare that I wrote about in mid-April? Well, Albany is now Equipt, but you won't find it in the state of New York: for now, starting in mid-July, you'll find it only at Circuit City.
Despite numerous assertions from both companies that they've "moved on," and even a statement from Bill Gates indicating a Yahoo! deal is unlikely, it appears Microsoft continues to pursue Yahoo!, somewhat like a spurned suitor pursuing his ex-.
The latest in the continuing soap opera: a report that indicates that Microsoft is in talks with other companies, searching for partners for a new run at Yahoo!.
Perhaps Bill Gates should have pushed his semi-retirement back a few days, so it could coincide with Windows XP's. As of today, XP says good-bye, for the most part.
Earlier I speculated that some companies may choose to skip Windows Vista in favor of Windows 7, given Microsoft's statement regarding a January 2010 launch of Windows 7 and continued support for Windows XP until 2014.
And it seems like Intel, Microsoft's BFF, is making that choice.
It's not over yet - not completely - but it might as well be. On Monday Microsoft sent out a letter to its customers dashing any hopes of a stay of execution for Windows XP.
On Thursday Carl Icahn launched his long-delayed blog, which was first announced in February. The Icahn Report, despite debuting on Thursday, already had seven entries, including one dated as early as June 12th.
