WinInfo Short Takes: 080808 Special Edition
An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including a surprising side-trip to Northern Ireland, the 2008 Summer Olympics, Microsoft vs. VMWare, Samsung's lousy SSDs, IBM and Lenovo sitting in a Microsoft-free tree, and much, much more
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Report: Microsoft to Buy Back $20 Billion in Stock
According to a Bloomberg News report quoting a UBS analyst, Microsoft will soon buy back $20 billion of its own stock in order to jumpstart the share price, which has languished over the past decade. The buyback will occur over a three month period and
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SQL Server 2008 Heads to Manufacturing
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it had completed development of its SQL Server 2008 database server and business intelligence (BI) platform, and had released the product to manufacturing. SQL Server 2008 is the follow-up to the previous version of
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Microsoft, Others Push Green Computing
Microsoft has allied with various tech giants and a non-profit group to tout energy-efficient "green" computing. This effort, however, is aimed at consumers, and includes free energy-saving software called Edison that is a scaled-down version of a product
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Microsoft: Midori is Not a Future Windows
As I've written previously here and mentioned in the "Windows Weekly" podcast, the oft-hyped-of-late "Midori" project that Microsoft is currently working on is not designed as an update to its current family of Windows operating systems. Midori has been
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Taking It on the Road: A Working Summer Vacation
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Taking It on the Road: A Working Summer Vacation
New technologies have made working while on the road easier than ever, as Paul Thurrott finds out while vacationing in Ireland.
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Intel Details Next-Gen 'Larrabee' Microprocessor
Microprocessor giant Intel on Monday provided the first details of its next microprocessor architecture, codenamed Larrabee, which will combine multiple processor cores with graphics processing functionality. The first Larrabee processors will appear
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Yahoo's Shareholder Meeting Passes without Major Incident
The drama surrounding Yahoo!'s annual shareholder meeting, at which the company's board of directors was at one time expected to be ousted, passed Friday without any major incident. There were questions about the aborted purchase by Microsoft, of course
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WinInfo Short Takes: Week of August 4, 2008
An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including a successful arrival in Ireland and a not-so-successful debit card adventure, Midori madness, 64-bit Windows on the rise, a 10-K filing about Microsoft's competition, and so much more
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Microsoft Misses Windows Mobile Sales Target
The warning signs were there. After boldly proclaiming that it would sell "more than" 20 million licenses to its Windows Mobile operating system by the end of its fiscal year on June 30, Microsoft later scaled that prediction back to "nearly" 20 million
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Wii Sales Soar as Console Overtakes Xbox 360, Drives Revenues
Sales of the Nintendo Wii video game console soared in the second calendar quarter of 2008, easily surpassing sales of rival consoles from Microsoft and Sony. But Nintendo set a few other milestones in the quarter as well: The Wii surpassed total sales
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Windows Vista: They Like It!
Not surprisingly, Microsoft's recent "blind taste test" of Windows Vista has yielded the kind of PR bonanza that Microsoft couldn't beg, borrow or steal just a few weeks ago. This week, the company released a slew of videos showing some of the 140
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Ex-Googlers Release 'Cuil' New Search Engine
A group of former Google engineers have released a new Internet search engine called Cuil (pronounced "cool") that they say exceeds the index size of market leader Google while offering various other advantages. The idea, they say, is to out-Google Google
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Microsoft Lashes Out at 'Schizophrenic' Forrester Analysts
Microsoft this week lashed out at the "schizophrenic" analysts at Forrester, calling them out on the incongruity of alternatively recommending and then panning Windows Vista in two different and recently released reports. In a post to the Windows Vista
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Living in a Virtual World. No, Not that Kind
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Living in a Virtual World. No, Not that Kind
Virtual meetings are helping to cut down on the soaring travel costs of in-person meetings.
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