:: Microsoft Hardliner ::

After the Internet Explorer 8 team posted a detailed update on its plans for new privacy features, most of the comments on the team blog and around the Web have seemed to focus on which of these capabilities are or aren’t already available in other browers, like Firefox. Which makes me wonder why Firefox doesn’t […]

When organizers of the 2008 Democratic National Convention came to Microsoft with their technology requests, they were so stuck in 2004. Microsoft’s General Manager of Government Solutions, Joel Cherkis, took their “standard” requests for e-mail, IM, Web conferencing and videoconferencing and spiced them up with things like adaptive high-definition video streaming, says Redmondmag. And Surface! […]

Microsoft wants to harness the power of the crowd. It’s taking a lesson from other companies that have taken advantage of two-way communications with customers, clients, fans and detractors to fine-tune product development. The product: Windows 7. Perhaps the OS dev team has been reading about Dell’s success with the IdeaStorm project, or other customer […]

Since the numbers for Internet Explorer in the Janco/IT Productivity Center Browser Market Share and Operating System Market Share white paper are so far off the more frequent and more often cited Net Apps browser market numbers, it’s not clear whether the truth might lie somewhere in the middle, but that said, they do hold surprises — […]

eWEEK’s Joe Wilcox this week took a detailed look at desktop and notebook pricing trends, and was a bit surprised by a couple of things. In fact, he wrote up two articles, one for Microsoft Watch and one for Apple Watch, to try to get at the numbers from all angles.
In Microsoft Watch, after having […]