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Google and rival Microsoft are battling on several fronts: search, browsers, operating systems and office software. And the office software front is heating up as Google continues to push Google Docs to the forefront of cloud computing and Microsoft readies to move its ubiquitous Office suite into the cloud as well. However, Dave Girouard, president […]

Increased government regulation, the complexities introduced by globalization and explosive growth in data are major issues, Briggs said at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday evening. Microsoft recently completed a project that encapsulates those three factors — a master customer database, containing records for 100 million corporate customers and some 2 billion identities, Briggs […]

It turns out the idea was a bad one. And it took Microsoft a single day to change its path, as documented in two back-to-back blog posts on the “IE for Windows Phone Team” blog. A quick bit of background: Webkit is the rendering engine at the heart of a number of browsers, including those […]

Introduction Microsoft has made a significant investment in Parallel computing features with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Often the best way to understand new features is to look at core feature components and then find the core features or concepts within; proceeding deeper and finding a set of components that seem […]

For several years now Microsoft has been written off by friends and foes alike as a shuffling shadow of its former self, doomed to feed off the profits of past successes while it goes gentle into the good night of irrelevance. And yet Microsoft’s profits remain enviable and its outlook far from bleak. Microsoft, after […]

Apple is reported to be developing their own native and standards based web framework to compete with Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight. Named “Gianduia”, the client-side javascript framework would enable developers to create rich, desktop class web apps without the need for additional browser plugins. It’s beginning to look as if Apple’s negativity toward […]

Microsoft is breaking from its native Windows Mobile stack and introducing a managed API platform for .NET developers. .NET developers can use this platform to start building third-party mobile apps that run on Microsoft Windows Phone 7.0 devices, which are expected at retail in September. But can a brand-new mobile platform fueled by killer apps […]

The Microsoft and Cisco vision and integrated Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Cisco WAAS solution enables organizations to optimize their deployment of localized and centralized IT services for branch offices. By partnering with Microsoft and Cisco, organizations can focus on creating strategic advantage through IT, rather then on solving the operational issues that arise when […]

Introduction On Saturday March 13th 2010, the ISOC C++ standards committee moved one step further towards the completion of the C++0x standard by approving the C++0x Final Committee Draft (FCD). As some committee members put it: the FCD approval is a big deal, jocularly referring to a recent comment of the US vice president. However, […]

Quick- when was the last time Microsoft dazzled you with breakthrough thinking and agenda-setting innovation? What was the last Microsoft product you couldn’t wait to get your hands on, that would make a huge impact on your enterprise? One former executive, writing in The New York Times, called the company “a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator” because, […]

Last summer, the pair announced that, post-regulatory approval, Microsoft would be providing search results for many of Yahoo’s search properties and migrating Yahoo’s ad-platform customers from Panama to Microsoft adCenter. Yahoo would be selling online ads (but not display ads) for Microsoft. This week, the Yahoos said Yahoo’s goal is to complete the transition of […]

.NET Framework 4 offers dozens of new classes, structures and enumerations to support many common parallelism scenarios. However, there are some additional scenarios not covered in the base classes that compose Parallel Extensions. .NET Framework 4 includes the new Parallel Extensions. They offer the new task-based programming model, PLINQ (short for “Parallel Language Integrated Query”) […]