Todd Bishop reports that Microsoft has created a Chief Environmental Strategist position and appointed Rob Bernard. He will "… assess the company’s environmental impact and opportunities at all levels…"
From P-I reporter John Cook, cross-posted from his Venture Blog:
Microsoft says it has created the new position of chief environmental strategist and named an existing manager, Rob Bernard, to fill it. Here’s his mission, as described in an e-mail from a company spokesman:
On the one-year anniversary of the launch Internet Explorer (IE) 7, the IE team posted yet another “stay tuned” message to the IE team blog, regarding an informational update on IE 8. And users are none too happy about the continued silence of the IE team.
Today’s big news out of the Japanese video-game console market is that Sony’s PlayStation 3 topped the Nintendo Wii in sales for the first time in November, according to a study by the Enterbrain market research firm. But the numbers also show that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is continuing to have trouble keeping pace in the country, a critical market for video games.
Two years ago, Microsoft added SynchToy to its PowerToys collection. It has now been updated to version 2. The tool is designed to keep the contents of two different folders synchronized. It is useful as a folder backup or for using a thumb drive to keep the contents of folders on different computers the same. […]
Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to get more developers to build products on top of its unified-communications technology, and has launched a new developer portal to provide a single spot for API, SDK and related documentation. Still no word on new unified-communications-spefici dev tools, however.
Microsoft’s C# language is moving to Second Life.On Dec. 8, Microsoft will hold a Microsoft C# Day on the Second Life virtual world platform to introduce C# to developers that are new to the language.We are finally having our first big event in Second Life, Zain Naboulsi, an MSDN developer evangelist, wrote in a blog post on Nov.
Microsoft’s introduction Nov. 30 of its new United Communications Developer Portal is the next step in fulfilling Chairman Bill Gates’ promise in October that the software giant was readying a major push into the unified communications space.At the Oct.
As I have said before, one big advantage for the Firefox browser is all the free extensions that can be added. For example, there are excellent controls for configuring scripting and for blocking obnoxious ads. Internet Explorer has far fewer useful free add-ons but I have been trying one for a few weeks that I […]