It has become an annual tradition around here to publish a story on what to watch at Microsoft in the coming year. Here is this year’s installment, published in today’s newspaper — looking at Bill Gates’ impending departure, Windows Vista’s reception, Microsoft’s struggle for online profitability, the upcoming Windows Server launch, and other issues. And here are a few more categories I would have included, given more space.
In a long overdue update to my Apple iPhone review, I look at three updates Apple and Google have provided for the device over the past few months!
As part of Microsoft’s latest Windows Vista promotion, Microsoft is offering a variety of prizes to its MSDN and TechNet Vista testers, including a two-for deal on Vista Ultimate; $250 Amazon.com gift certificates (in exchange for completing an online Vista deployment-plan survey; and a chance to win one of ten ASUS W5fe PCs that have been signed by Chairman Bill Gates.
Developers are puzzling over recent clues blogged by a few Microsoft employees regarding a new “Emacs.Net” tool the company is building — and about which it will share more details at the Professional Developers Conference in October 2008.
Happy and Prosperous New Year to all Windows Vista Weblog Readers!
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Everything you need to know about Microsoft certs (ComputerWorld)
Windows Vista Runs On Asus Eee PC (HTLounge)
PCWorld Says Firefox is Strong, Vista is Weak (SlashDot)
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There is a new channel in YouTube named WindowsVistaAndLive. It seems it was started on December 21, 2007 and shows video about Vista. How about Microsoft using their competitor Google’s bandwidth for their campaign? Anyways, you might want to subscribe and see how Vista Live can be used.
The YouTube site is here.
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Techtree has a report on a Windows Vista Yahoo Messenger. It is cool, except for this: Yahoo Messenger has been a popular Instant Messaging client till Google Talk came into existence (it’s still a favorite for many). At least so many stats show that Google Talk is not even close to either AOL, MSN […]
What is wrong with this? I am copying a file 14.6 MB in size while the free space for my destination drive is 42.1 GB. What the hell is Windows Vista telling me here? I figured out my source hard disk has 0 bytes left and after cleaning it up for a few mega bytes, […]
Filed under: Internet, Video, Microsoft
We’re going to go ahead and give Microsoft some points for thinking outside of the box with their latest advertising strategy. The company has posted a series of videos to YouTube highlighting the features of Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Windows Live online services. Considering YouTube is owned by Microsoft arch-nemesis Google, that took some guts. But even more gutsy (or foolish), was the decision to leave the comments open on Microsoft’s new YouTube channel.
While Windows may be installed on the vast majority of work and home PCs, it probably won’t come as a surprise to you that Microsoft has a few detractors. And they tend to be somewhat vocal in their criticisms. The comment section of the company’s YouTube channel kind of reads like a collection of prison letters from Sideshow Bob to Bart Simpson.
We also would have expected Microsoft to post the promotional videos on its own MSN Video site, not YouTube. So overall, the YouTube channel appears to be a way of reaching out to potential customers wherever they may be. And as we’re seeing, those potential customers are more than happy to reach back — even if it’s not necessarily in the way Microsoft may have hoped.
[via istartedsomething]
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