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Microsoft’s grand plan to eliminate phone numbers
via All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley on May 28, 2008
I’ve been puzzling over transcripts of a couple of recent speeches by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates where he discussed his vision for the end of phone numbers. But it wasn’t until today, when I learned more about Microsoft’s “Echoes” services platform for telcos that I began piecing together how Gates & Co. thinks Microsoft can do this.This is from one transcript of an early May speech...
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Microsoft adding 10,000 new datacenter servers a month
via All about Microsoft by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble I heard last night that Google is buying 500,000 new servers a year. Is that true? If so, Microsoft is a LONG WAY from keeping up.Today’s trivia question: How big is Microsoft’s back-end services infrastructure?Microsoft officials won’t say how many servers total Microsoft has churning in its various datacenters. But Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Global...
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Gates rules out returning to Microsoft
via All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley on June 04, 2008
... officials on the topic of Gates’ and Ballmers’ interpersonal relationship — is at the very end.“The question remains if Mr. Gates can resist the temptation to dive back in if Microsoft hits a crisis point. Over the past decade, several high-profile founders jumped back in when their companies were under siege, including Steve Jobs, who remade Apple Inc., and Michael Dell of Dell Inc. ...
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Microsoft takes its ball and leaves Yahoo on the Web 2.0 playground
via All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley on May 03, 2008
Some — probably many — are going to portray Microsoft’s decision announced on May 3 to withdraw its Yahoo bid as a victory for Yahoo and a defeat for Microsoft Chairman Steve Ballmer & Co. Me? I see this as the smartest thing Microsoft could do.In fact, I’d go so far as to say Microsoft’s decision to walk restores my faith in the future of the company. (Update: Looks like I’m not...
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Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXML
via All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley on January 13, 2008
Market researchers with the Burton Group have issued a 37-page study -- not commissioned by Microsoft or any other tech vendor -- that finds Microsoft's OOXML document format to be more useful than the rival ODF format backed by Microsoft's competitors.
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Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week
via All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley on January 20, 2008
This week -- specifically on January 22 -- Microsoft will make its Adobe-Flash-alternative Silverlight 1.0 available to corporate users via Windows Software Update Services (WSUS), as well as via Microsoft Update (MU).
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Microsoft memo: Windows 7 and Windows Live to be even more tightly joined at the hip
via All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley on January 22, 2008
The "plus" in Microsoft's Software+Services strategy is going to get a lot more oomph in the not-too-distant future -- at least according to a planning memo for Windows Live Wave 3 that I had a chance to see recently.
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Is Microsoft tinkering with Live Search results?
via All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley on January 23, 2008
Is Microsoft filtering out from its Live Search results those it considers "undesirable" for the company? That's one one tipster has suggested with some interesting proof, involving a blog known as "Shipping Seven."
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Google on the verge of launching Microsoft HealthVault competitor
via All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley on January 23, 2008
Google is finally poised to launch its long-awaited Google Health service, which will be a head-to-head competitor with Microsoft's HealthVault software/service that Redmond released in beta in October 2007.
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What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front?
via All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley on January 27, 2008
What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front? Several well-known Microsoft engineers, plus programming-language gurus from other companies, are convening on the company's Redmond campus this week for its second Lang.Net symposium
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