Date: 03/06/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie outlined during his Mix '08 keynote this week a very high-level vision about how Microsoft is moving to be more of a utility-computing/cloud-computing vendor. Ozzie didn't talk specifics about any of the plumbing that makes it possible. But David Treadwell, Corporate...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1248

Date: 03/09/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft is continuing to roll out more Software+Service (S+S) combinations, the latest being the DeepZoom-PhotoZoom combination. DeepZoom is a feature of Silverlight 2, Microsoft's next release of its Flash competitor which is due out this fall. DeepZoom "allows users to explore collections of super high resolution imagery,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1252

Date: 03/09/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, web, microsoft, google

Right now, it seems everything is about Microsoft because its software is a de-facto standard, and it's accused of constantly manipulating that standard to maintain its advantage. As that changes, as the battle shifts from client software to the Web, does Google become the ogre?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/248467615/

Date: 03/10/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, java, linux, microsoft

GanttProject is a free project management software written in Java (cross-platform, runs in Windows, Linux, Mac etc.). The following is a brief review of the benefits and shortcomings along with download link. GanttProject is a competitor to Microsoft Project, the de-facto project management software in many corporations. Key Features of GanttProject - Project Management Software Like [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-project-management-software-cross-platform-review/

Date: 03/10/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: yahoo, microsoft, google

Jan-08 Rank Dec-07 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Audience 54,544 1 1 Yahoo! Sites 42,964 2 2 Google Sites 32,966 3 4 Rakuten Inc 29,921 4 3 Microsoft Sites 29,371 5 5 NTT...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14116

Date: 03/12/08 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

Redmond pushes security fixes for users of the older Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, while owners of the recently released Office 2008 receive a large dose of stability fixes (more like instability fixes) and security patches. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit informed us via the corporate...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1400

Date: 03/12/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, web, linux, microsoft

I had a hard time in selecting a Dell configuration from their website without Microsoft Windows Vista or other Microsoft software. We are a Linux house and have no need for Microsoft products on our machine. As a technologist and a software architect if I found it hard to figure out how to strip Microsoft [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-purchase-dell-computers-without-windows-vista-microsoft-software/

Date: 03/12/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: microsoft

Dell in India doesn’t offer the range of customizations that you would normally come to expect from them. Moreover calling Dell may have some unintended consequences like possibly a call from Microsoft. Here are some issues that you would like to be aware of: 1. The widely displayed configurations doesn’t allow you to remove the Operating [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dells-customization-sucks-in-india-mysterious-microsoft-call/

Date: 03/12/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: php, software, java, linux, microsoft

I just received a mysterious call from Microsoft inquiring about our Windows usage! I was surprised to say the least. Why would a 100% Linux based company get a call from Microsoft? Read on for the juicy details. We are 100% Linux based company. We develop software products and deliver services in Java (cross-platform), PHP and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mysterious-call-from-microsoft-inquiring-about-windows-evil-nexus-with-dell/

Date: 03/12/08 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Mary Jo Foley recently wrote a piece explaining why her Microsoft skepticism is warranted given the "suspicious coincidence" that these moves toward "transparency, standards and interoperability" fell so close to important signposts in Microsoft's tangled road through the legal and regulatory minefield. The much ballyooed interoperability announcement took place close to...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1811

Date: 03/13/08 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

A few links to govtech stories of interest: Microsoft Submits Windows 7 for Antitrust Review (Slashdot) Gates seeks more high-tech visas (AP) FreedomSpeaks lets citizens easily write to Congress by Richard Koman

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3708

Date: 03/13/08 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

As most of the tech world knows, IE 8 has landed with its first beta, but the security improvements may raise some other issues to ponder. Folks--especially security researchers--are kicking the tires on IE 8 (all resources) and finding a few problems that go along with Microsoft's...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=944

Date: 03/13/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

Take a look at this Flash demo of an Apple iPhone running corporate email mainstay Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange using Sybase technology. And this is without the benefits of the recently delivered SDK. Not sure when this will be available (I expect quite soon). But it...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2621

Date: 03/14/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft, google

We know that "Google Sky" in Google Earth is a bit of a mess -- especially when you compare it to other products like Stellarium. Even Microsoft's own World Wide Telescope (WWT) has it beat according to the lucky people who have caught a glimpse. Google...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=967

Date: 03/14/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, microsoft

The Software Freedom Law Center has a paper out today making this charge regarding Microsoft's Open Specification Promise. It was easily made and can be easily broken.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/251395279/

Date: 03/14/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft is getting into the platform as a service (PaaS) market, and doing so in a rather major, though stealthy way. It's no secret that the company's Software+Services strategy has a lot of PaaS capabilities, but putting together information from announcements and briefings at this week's Dynamics Convergence conference, as...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=158

Date: 03/16/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: asp, linux, microsoft

Novell’s Mono project has delivered its first Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Mono as well as a beta version of the next Mono platform. MonoDevelop 1.0, with support for Microsoft’s .NET Framework 1.0, is an open source IDE for Linux developers building GNOME and ASP.NET applications. The IDE complements the Mono open source platform, which [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/252474485/

Date: 03/17/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: java, microsoft

The Eclipse organization has amassed a huge installed base of developers using its Java-based open source development tools. Now the organization has set its sights on the run-time arena and will take on Sun’s Java and Microsoft’s .NET with what it says is an agnostic open source component model that runs across multiple operating systems [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/253070542/

Date: 03/18/08 (Security)    Keywords: technology, java, microsoft

Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology? Jason O'Grady: Apple bumps Airport Express to 802.11n Paul Miller: hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties Paula Rooney: Run-time rival for Java, .NET? Dana Gardner: EclipseCon debuts...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8244

Date: 03/18/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: technology, java, microsoft

Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology? Jason O'Grady: Apple bumps Airport Express to 802.11n Paul Miller: hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties Paula Rooney: Run-time rival for Java, .NET? Dana Gardner: EclipseCon debuts...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8244