Mary Jo Foley

New Silverlight 2 extension adds support for dynamic languages

zdnet.com     Mar 11, 2008   1 related          

At Mix '07, Microsoft promised it would add dynamic-language support to Silverlight. As of this year's Mix '08 conference, it has done so. The way Microsoft is delivering support for Ruby, Python and other dynamic languages with its Adobe-Flash competitor is via a Silverlight add-on called...                    

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Lawsuit May Have Driven Vista Virtualization

rcpmag.com     Mar 11, 2008   44 related          

Recently surfaced court papers suggest that Microsoft's change of heart earlier this year to open up Windows Vista virtualization licensing may have been influenced by litigation. ... According to a federal court document dated March 7, 2008, the change appears to be...                    

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Untangling the Microsoft mesh

zdnet.com     Mar 10, 2008   3 related          

"Mesh" was Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's word of the day last week at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference. Ozzie waxed prolific on "social mesh," "device mesh," "seamless mesh" and more. But what are the technological underpinnings that will allow users and developers to bring...                    

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Microsoft tries to stop more ‘Vista-capable’ e-mails from going public

zdnet.com     Mar 9, 2008   18 related          

Microsoft is trying to put the kibosh on more of its internal (and embarassing) e-mail messages around its Vista marketing plans going public. ... Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 12:56 pm As Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Todd Bishop blogged on March 7, Microsoft is...                    

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Microsoft DeepZoom + PhotoZoom = Another Software+Service combination

zdnet.com     Mar 9, 2008   1 related          

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...                    

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Vista Ultimate team releases new discounts, but no new freebies (yet)

zdnet.com     Mar 9, 2008          

After a week on the road, I'm catching up on a few interesting news items I missed this past week. One of them involves Microsoft's Vista Ultimate. Microsoft has caught hell -- as it deserved to -- for failing to deliver in a timely manner the Ultimate Extras it promised purchasers of its...                    

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You Choose: Cheap Office or Web-Office? [Microsoft Weblog]

cellphone9.com     Mar 9, 2008          

Would some of the folks clamoring for Microsoft to release a completely Web-based version of its Office suite be just as happy if Microsoft released a stripped-down Office that was really cheap, or maybe even free and advertising-supported? That’s the intro of a recent article by Mary Jo Foley....                    

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Reflections on Mix08: (nearly) 72 hours of conversation

liveside.net     Mar 8, 2008          

I'm not a road warrior. I've attended three Butterfly Tours, two MVP Summits, two Gnomedexes, and some various one day events (mostly in Redmond), but this is the first big tech conference I've attended outside of Seattle. Just to get the logistics out of the way, I had great flights both ways,...                    

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Who should be thanked for the return of Mr. Jobs to Apple?

zdnet.com     Mar 8, 2008   37 related          

News of Singularity, a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft, sparked my interest in OSes past and present. It got me thumbing though the back issues of MacWEEK for memories of OSes that were built from scratch and now forgotten. But in the research, I found some ironic gold regarding...                    

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Approaching the Singularity at Microsoft

chineselinuxuniversity.net     Mar 8, 2008   3 related          

Approaching the Singularity at Microsoft ... And you thought all Microsoft ever did was roll out endless iterations of Windows and Office in between buying some competitors and threatening to sue the rest -- but there's something going on up in Redmond, Wash., that looks...                    

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