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Microsoft loses MLB but keeps swinging

ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz talks about the recent announcement by Major League Baseball to drop Microsoft’s Silverlight service for Adobe's Flash player. Diaz says it's a setback for Microsoft but he doesn't believe the loss of business will have long lasting effects since the company has also signed deals...

Tags: MLB, Microsoft Corp., Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Sam Diaz, NBC, Netflix

Videos 2008-11-21

Yang resignation, successor the talk of the Valley

Silicon Valley is atwitter over what kind of CEO Yahoo needs to hire to replace the outgoing Jerry Yang. CNET's Kara Tsuboi hears opinions and analysis from some "armchair quarterbacks" over this crucial decision for the Internet giant.

Tags: Internet, News, kara tsuboi, yahoo, jerry yang, google, shareholders, microsoft, san jose, santa clara

Videos 2008-11-19

Yang's out. Is Microsoft in?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about Jerry Yang's resignation from the search giant and why it wasn't entirely shocking. Diaz also explains why Microsoft, while currently claiming disinterest in Yahoo, may act differently in the near future.

Tags: Senior Editor, Microsoft Corp., Yang, Yahoo, Microsoft, Jerry Yang, search, Steve Ballmer, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz

Videos 2008-11-18

Office 14 Web Applications

A quick close-up look at the Office Web Applications which are set to be released along with Office 14, extending the office suite into an advanced version of Office Live Workspaces. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Web Application, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker, Office 14, Microsoft, Office, Productivity, Cloud computing, Office Live

Image galleries 2008-11-18

Browser wars: who’s the fastest?

Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, talks about the race for the fastest browser engine. Google, Microsoft, Apple—are all competing with Mozilla. The competition, he says, is good for users and developers.

Tags: Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Firefox

Videos 2008-11-18

IE6 for Windows Mobile - Better, but not brilliant

I've just taken the Windows Mobile 6.1.4 emulator featuring Internet Explorer 6 for a spin. Conclusion: IE6 on Windows Mobile is better, but Microsoft still has a long way to go to make it brilliant. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, microsoft, windows, mobile, internet, explorer

Image galleries 2008-11-13

Windows 7's troubleshooting tools

Windows has always come equipped with troubleshooting and diagnostic tools, but in Windows 7 Microsoft has done something it should have done a long time ago and put them all together in one place in Control Panel. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Tool, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, microsoft, windows, 7, diagnostic, tools

Image galleries 2008-11-07

First Look at Windows 7

Taking my first look at Windows 7. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, windows, microsoft, 7, operating, system

Image galleries 2008-11-06

Ballmer calls Google's Android 'way behind'

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer dismissed Google's Android operating system, saying he believed it was financially unsound. Sydney, Australia--Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday dismissed Google's Android operating system, saying he believed it was financially unsound. Speaking at Telstra's annual investment day, Ballmer said that Android was...

Tags: Telstra Corp., Google Inc., Google Android, Operating System, Steve Ballmer, Operating Systems, Software, Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet.com.au, Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet.com.au, Telestra, Microsoft, Google, Android

News items 2008-11-06

Windows 7 pre-beta screenshots

Interested in how Windows 7 is getting along? Take a look at this series of screenshots to find out! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Screenshot, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, microsoft, windows, 7, beta

Image galleries 2008-10-29

Ray Ozzie announces Windows Azure

At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about the company's new cloud computing operating system, called Windows Azure. The new OS is a framework that allows you to scale from 10 users to 10 million users without additional coding. Ozzie also...

Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Windows Azure, Microsoft

Videos 2008-10-28

Pre-beta Vista SP2

A look at pre-beta Vista SP2 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, microsoft, vista, sp2, service, pack

Image galleries 2008-10-24

Ballmer touts Windows 7 features

At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that Windows 7 is going to be a major release, not just a Vista update. He says the new Windows will have a better user interface, information management tools, and performance. It isn't practical to wait for Windows...

Tags: Information Management, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management, Ballmer, Microsoft, Gartner, Vista, Windows 7, user interface, touch, compatibility

Videos 2008-10-17

Patch Tuesday's make investors jittery

Disclosing software vulnerabilities can be bad for stock price, according to research carried out by security firm McAfee. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Software Vulnerability, Investor, Financial Accounting, Investment, Security, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, stock, microsoft, mcafee

Image galleries 2008-10-14

Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC

Security company Symantec has released a tool that helps to make Vista's UAC User Account Control feature clearer and less of a pain to use. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, uac, vista, norton, microsoft, security

Image galleries 2008-10-10

Image Gallery: Matthew Miller's mobile device history, 1997-2008

I was recently asked how many PDAs and mobile phones I have owned since I started using them in 1997 and discovered there were 90 that I could remember. This doesn't even count all the review units I used for 2 weeks to 30 days throughout the years too. Take...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Device, Matthew Miller, Advertising & Promotion, PDAs, Marketing, Handhelds, Hardware, product photos, palm, pocket pc, microsoft, windows mobile, symbian, s60, apple, nokia

Image galleries 2008-10-03

Microsoft Student Technology Day (2 of 2)

The first half of the day after lunch, with the Q&A session which followed shortly after, and demos of Microsoft Surface and developing with it and how Windows 7 ties into it. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker, Photograph, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Startups, Enterprise, London, Surface, Windows 7

Image galleries 2008-10-03

Microsoft Student Technology Day (1 of 2)

The first half of the day before lunch with Andy McLoughlin from Huddle.net, some photos of the Live Search product, and Steve Ballmer's keynote. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Zack Whittaker, Photograph, Microsoft, Windows Live, Huddle, Startups, Enterprise, London, Online, Careers, Steve Ballmer, Surface, Multi-touch, Windows 7

Image galleries 2008-10-03

Tech earnings preview: Analyzing the enterprise

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to editor in chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz about the financial health of enterprise giants Microsoft, Intel, and SAP. Dignan and Diaz share their views on the success of Microsoft's new ad campaign, Intel chip sales for the new Netbook, and whether...

Tags: Larry Dignan, SAP AG, Earnings, Intel Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Microsoft, SAP, Intel

Videos 2008-09-29

Ballmer's battle with VMware

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Ann Winblad, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, about Microsoft's move into virtualization with its new Hyper-V technology. He also shares his thoughts on increasing the overall market and how his company differs from...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Churchill Club, Microsoft

Videos 2008-09-26