Little-Known Facts About Well-Known Leaders - Bill Gates
Everyone knows the most recent headlines about our country’s greatest leaders. In this feature, we’d like to shed some light on the lesser-known facts about these folks in hopes of giving you a little greater insight as to what makes them tick.
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23.6.2007 Top Vista Features
thepodest prepare great review of Best Windows Vista features on
his blog. thepodest wrote: I have picked what I think are the best features introduced in Windows Vista.
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1.6.2007 The Best of the Best: Microsoft Recognizes Top Vendors
Five of Microsoft’s vendors receive annual Excellence Awards.
Microsoft Corp. today announced the winners of the 2006 Microsoft Vendor Program (MSVP) Excellence Awards. This year’s five winners — Trammell Crow Co., GE Plastics, Taylor Nelson Sofres plc (TNS), MRM Partners Worldwide and Milligan Events — were selected from among more than 20,000 Microsoft vendors in the U.S.
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Top 10 Vista Hacks
You've run Windows Vista, you've played around with the Aero interface, and maybe you've even mucked around a little bit in Vista's innards to see what makes it tick.
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17.4.2007 Top Security Software of 2007
2007 has been a busy year when it comes to computer security, with all kinds of threats aiming to be deployed on people's computers.
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30.12.2007 Internet Explorer comes out on top against Phishing
NSS Labs, an independent security research group, found that Internet Explorer 8 was the best browser tested at thwarting phishing attempts.
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14.8.2009 Your top Windows 7 questions, answered
Since Windows 7 launched on October 22, my e-mail inbox has been deluged with questions, comments, and pleas for help.
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17.11.2009 A Top-to-Bottom Review of Office 12
Releases of Microsoft Office over the past 6 years have been considered evolutionary upgrades, delivering new features with each new version making life a bit easier for authors of Office documents. The release of Office 2000 in 1999 introduced tighter integration with the Web, giving users the ability to flawlessly save documents in HTML format and distribute over the Internet or Intranet, adding stronger ways of accessing information.
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14.1.2006 Review: Top 5 Improvements In Vista RC1
When the CRN Test Center last looked at Microsoft Windows Vista, it was obvious the operating system was far from complete, which wasn't a surprise because it was still a beta version.
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8.9.2006 Top court rules for Microsoft on patent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday overturned a ruling that Microsoft Corp. should be held liable for patent infringement on copies of the Windows operating system sold overseas.
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1.5.2007 Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks
Today Microsoft is announcing some significant developments to the Windows Live platform that demonstrate Microsoft’s commitment to data portability and giving users a choice of how to use and control their information.
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25.3.2008 Top 6 Vista Application Incompatibility Reasons
Application incompatibility is one of the aspects that have managed to deliver extensive damage to the adoption rate of Windows Vista.
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24.5.2008 10 top Vista tweaks part 2
As I noted in the first installment of this series, some of my favorite productivity-enhancing techniques don’t involve custom code or registry edits.
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18.6.2008 Top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows 7
With the Windows 7 Release Candidate already leaked to the public, and the the official bits coming May 5, there's been a lot of hype surrounding Windows 7, with generally positive reviews from the community. Windows 7 is everything Vista wasn't... and some of what it should of been.
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28.4.2009 Top 10 Windows Freeware tools for 2005
As we head into 2005’s home stretch, I thought I’d do a round-up of my top 10 pieces of Windows Freeware for 2005. Some of these aren’t new, but certainly what I’d consider essential. Some on the other hand, are new. I’ve tried to avoid the instantly popular ones like Firefox and Opera, although I did give way to Winamp and Konfabulator in the end. But hey, it’s my top 10. If you don’t like it, post your own.
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Office 2007 Downloads Top 200,000
In the first 24 hours since going live, Microsoft counted 200,000 downloads of Office 2007 Beta 2. While the company provided no estimates of how many users it expected to try the new release, Microsoft officials said they were excited by the numbers. BetaNews alone pushed over 5,500 downloads of Office 2007.
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26.5.2006 Ballmer: Windows Live Is Top Microsoft Priority
Windows Live is the most important initiative at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, told the audience at the annual Gartner Symposium and IT Expo here on Oct. 10.
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11.10.2006 Top 10 New Features in Windows Server 2008
There are a myriad of both subtle and fundamental differences in the basic architecture of Windows Server 2008, which could dramatically change not only the way it's used in the enterprise, but also the logical and physical structure of networks where it's the dominant OS.
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25.5.2007 Top Overlooked Features of Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 is on its way. With the first release candidate in the pipeline, it shouldn't be long before release to manufacturing and general availability.
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8.10.2007 Fixing Windows Vista 3 - Top Troubleshooting Tools
Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing.
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7.5.2008 Microsoft CEO sees Web services as top R&D priority
Microsoft Corp. plans to double spending on research and development at its MSN Internet unit as the company focuses on software services, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday.
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5.5.2006 Top 10 Microsoft Windows XP Tips of All Time
Despite all the hoopla about the introduction of Windows Vista, the truth of the matter is that the new OS isn't due for at least another seven to nine months.
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14.8.2006 Top Rated Windows Vista Cracks - When WGA Fails
inuyasha62....Is now Famous (Softpedia). There is little tangible proof of the success of the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism. Microsoft itself has only statistics as the palpable sign of the fact that the WGA is hard at work.
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30.5.2007 Microsoft: Top 10 Reasons to Stay Away from Google Apps
Google Apps and the Microsoft Office 2007 System have been sicced one another as rivals and with both the Mountain View and the Redmond companies failing to share a common perspective on either the two solutions are indeed competing.
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11.9.2007 Top 10 Absolute Worst Windows Applications in 2007
Think Windows Vista is bad? Well, the fact of the matter is that is largely a subjective perspective that is little open to dispute. However, when it comes down to what users can integrate with the operating system, the situation is a tad more severe.
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5.11.2007 Windows 7 top feature request list leaked to the public
With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do.
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18.11.2007 Windows 7 top feature request list leaked to the public
With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do.
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27.1.2008 Top Ten Reasons to use Windows Small Business Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 is designed for businesses like yours. It is a complete, affordable network solution that helps you stay connected with your customers and run your business more efficiently. And it helps secure your network by automatically protecting your information to keep your business up and running.
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2.3.2006 Microsoft Cites Top 10 Reasons Partners Should Pitch Vista
Microsoft cut the WinFS file system and PC-to-PC synchronization from Windows Vista, but the company says there are at least 10 key reasons for partners to push the upgraded desktop operating system to their SMB customers.
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11.7.2006 300 Top Software Developers Worldwide in New Microsoft Development Center
Even as early as July 5, 2007, Microsoft announced that it was extending north of Redmond and into Canada.
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11.9.2008Microsoft Gets Gartner's Business Intelligence Top Ranking
Business Objects and Cognos have long been considered the leaders in business intelligence (BI) platforms. But in a surprising new report, Gartner
ranks Microsoft ahead of those companies in its ability to execute.
Gartner's "magic quadrants" are typically annual market
evaluations that place software vendors in one of four quadrants within a square: niche players, visionaries, challengers, and leaders. Specific
placement depends on a vendor's ability to execute, which moves them upward, and completeness of vision, which moves them to the right.
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04.03.2008EU leaders clash with Google over the meaning of 'personal data'
With the EU crafting new laws governing how data collectors such as Google protect users' personal data, lawmakers there are clashing with US
business leaders over how far that protection can and should extend...
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23.01.2008Industry leaders join board of OpenID foundation
Several industry leaders in the tech industry, and in particular the online side of it, have officially joined the OpenID foundation as corporate
board members, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, IBM, and VeriSign. This large step forward for the OpenID foundation could lead to quicker adoption
of the technology which vows to eliminate the need for multiple accounts across different services, by essentially only making the user sign up once
to use an account across all supporting services.
Read full story.....
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08.02.2008Burst Media's 'Thought Leaders" network: Grownups wanted
When the going gets weird, the weird... grow up? That's the bet Burst Media's making with its new Thought Leaders network...
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09.10.2008Microsoft's new leaders prepare for the post-Gates era
Microsoft had always taken an ad-hoc approach to charting the future of technology and its place in it, relying heavily on the insights of Bill Gates
and his legendary "think weeks."
With the twilight of Gates' career at the company approaching and new technical and strategic
leaders Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie preparing to fill his role, Microsoft executives decided to make this prognosticating more formal.
"This year we, for the first time, said 'Let's not make this ad hoc,' " Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told a small audience of
tech-industry tastemakers in April.
So company leaders recorded their best guesses about "the things that are going to change
technology over the next five to 10 years
what we can do to lead those trends," Ballmer said. It was an attempt, he said, to do what Gates has
done "in his head" and bring more people into the act.
winbeta.org - 27.08.2007
Top holiday sellers could be top polluters
Environmental watchdog group Greenpeace believes this holiday's top-selling consumer electronics devices are produced by the least environmentally
conscious companies...
betanews.com - 28.11.2007
ICANN moves ahead with international domain names
Participants made good
progress discussing changes to
Internet governance during an
ICANN meeting in Puerto Rico
that closed on Friday, leaders
of the organization said.
One topic that leaders
worked on was the future
enablement of non-Latin
characters in domain names.
ICANN hopes to support
Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, and
other characters in the
future, but that's easier
said than done.
In
2003, ICANN made an attempt to
widen the acceptable
characters but found that its
rules were too permissive,
said Vint Cerf, ICANN's
chairman. "There could be
confusion between similar
registrations that might
mislead users," he said
during a conference call to
discuss the meeting. ..
winbeta.org - 30.06.2007
Microsoft CIO Tony Scott on IT Strategy in 2009
Microsoft CIO Tony Scott has seen a lot in his years as an IT and business executive. His thoughts on 2009: IT leaders are uniquely prepared to deal
with the economic downturn.
Maybe its not that bad out there for CIOs.
With budgets under the CFOs
microscope, projects in jeopardy and the role of the CIO itself in question, IT leaders are certainly feeling some pain. But fear not, says Microsoft
CIO Tony Scott...
winbeta.org - 14.04.2009
Microsoft Patent Portfolio Tops IT Industry Scorecards
Two different organizations that track the quality and quantity of companies patent portfolios recently gave their top ranking to Microsoft, a
position historically held by hardware leaders such as IBM and HP.
The November 2007 issue of IEEE Spectrum , a publication
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), ranked Microsoft the IP leader among all technology companies, based on 2006 U.S.
patent awards, up from the seventh position a year earlier. In addition, the Patent Board, a leading independent provider of patent metrics, ranked
Microsofts patent portfolio number one in Technology Strength in their January 2008 Scorecard for the Information Technology (IT) industry, up from
second place a year earlier.
Microsoft currently has more than 8,500 issued U.S. patents, with more than 15,000 more pending.
Microsofts portfolio continues to grow at a higher rate than most companies in the top 25 of patent issuers, and was one of only five in the top 25 to
receive more patents in 2007 than in 2006.
PressPass spoke with Bart Eppenauer, chief patent counsel and associate general
counsel at Microsoft, and the individual responsible for the oversight of Microsofts Patent Portfolio, about how the company accomplished its rise to
the top of these two IP rankings and what this means for the company and the industry going forward.
winbeta.org - 28.01.2008
With DRM fading away from MP3s, here come the ads
Today, Amazon.com announced an advertising partnership with Pepsi that coincides with the direction of the music industry as predicted by its leaders...
betanews.com - 14.01.2008
Google pips Microsoft to UK super-brand crown
Google is the number one business brand in the UK, according to the latest Superbrands survey. The search giant came in ahead of the BBC, The
Financial Times and British Airways, but will draw the greatest pleasure from pipping arch rival Microsoft to the top spot.
Apple,
meanwhile, has dropped out of the top 10 despite the arrival of the iPhone, Apple TV and MacBook Air. The survey, which was drawn up by senior
business leaders, canvassed the opinions of 1,500 professionals.
neowin.net - 27.02.2008
Major Nelson: How Would You Change Microsoft?
Got a beef with the way Microsoft runs things? Anything? Now's your chance to tell it to someone's face -- by proxy. Major Nelson
(aka Larry Hryb) is heading to a big, important meeting filled with big, important Microsoft people next week, and he wants to know what you would
have to say to them.
"If you had ten minutes with the CTO of Microsoft, what kind of advice would you offer? What questions
would you ask?" writes Hryb in the post. Head over and let him know in the comments, and he promises to share some with the appropriate people. In
reality, though, with 612 comments (and counting) already there, the odds of getting yours through may be pretty slim.
winbeta.org - 06.10.2007
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microsoft.com/windowsvista - 16.09.2005
Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft
A CEREBRAL computer-scientist-turned-executive, Eric E. Schmidt has spent much of his career competing uphill against Microsoft, quietly watching it outflank, outmaneuver or simply outgun most of its rivals.
At Sun Microsystems, where he was chief technology officer, Mr. Schmidt looked on as Scott G. McNealy, the company’s chairman, railed against Microsoft and its leaders, Steven A. Ballmer and Bill Gates, as “Ballmer and Butthead.” During a four-year stint as chief executive of Novell, Mr. Schmidt routinely opined that it was folly for any Microsoft rival to “moon the giant,” as he put it; all that
would do, he argued, was incite Microsoft’s wrath.
winbeta.org - 16.12.2007
Microsoft Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Latest Magic Quadrants for Application Infrastructure
Microsoft Corp. has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of four Gartner Magic Quadrants: the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure
for Back-End Application Integration Projects, the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects, the Magic
Quadrant for New Systematic Service-Oriented Business Application Projects and the Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems.
winbeta.org - 27.01.2009
TED Conference to Tackle Origins of Evil, Theories of Everything
A sold-out confab of celebrities, industry titans and alpha geeks will converge on Monterey, California, for a four-day, invitation-only celebration
of big ideas this week.
Now in its 24th year, TED begins on Wednesday and runs through Saturday. It is an elite event where
leaders in technology, entertainment and design gather to cross-pollinate ideas and gain inspiration from presentations on the latest developments in
sciences and the arts. Political leaders take the stage too: Former President Bill Clinton received the annual TED prize at last year's conference;
former Vice President Al Gore has also been a speaker.
winbeta.org - 26.02.2008
One more Yahoo reorganization, this time out of necessity
It is an obvious scramble by Yahoo's leaders to reassess a corporate structure that appears to have been shattered in recent weeks, and assemble a
template that makes it appear the shards fell into place intentionally...
betanews.com - 27.06.2008
Q&A: WiredSafetys International Stop Cyberbullying Conference
Microsoft joins Internet safety organizations, educators, government officials and industry leaders at new conference dedicated to helping keep kids
safe online...
microsoft.com/presspass - 02.06.2008
Microsoft and Industry Leaders to Bridge Communications Systems
Industrywide support for
Microsoft unified
communications software brings
flexibility and cost savings
to customers...
microsoft.com/presspass - 29.05.2007
Windows, IBM Top Server
Rankings
Windows has narrowly edged out
Unix as the top server
operating system in terms of
revenue, and IBM has surged to
the top spot in the Unix
market for the first time in
nearly a decade. The findings
were part of research firm
IDC's quarterly and year-end
Server Tracker report issued
Wednesday...
betanews.com - 22.02.2006
