Monday, November 23, 2009 5:15 PM/EST
Twitter may not be a massive revenue generator, but it may find a way of producing some income with sponsored sites such as ExecTweets, funded by Microsoft for an undisclosed sum. Now Microsoft and Twitter have added another part to ExecTweets, called ExecTweets IT, which collates the 140-character "tweets" of IT pros.
Friday, November 20, 2009 5:09 PM/EST
Microsoft released a host of betas during its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles Nov. 17 to 19, including Office Mobile 2010. In addition to offering features such as the ability to cut and paste across applications, Microsoft's smartphone productivity suite offers integration with Windows Mobile 6.5's improved touch screen interface--but with Microsoft offering mobile productivity software on Nokia, and possibly other phones, the actual market-share benefit to Mobile 6.5 may be negated.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:57 PM/EST
New data from research company ComScore suggests that Bing's share of the online search market held steady in October, reinforcing similar data from Experian Hitwise. Meanwhile, Yahoo's market share degraded despite a massive ad campaign, leading one to wonder: Despite this summer's Microsoft-Yahoo deal over online search and advertising, does Microsoft really need Yahoo in order to present a viable alternative to Google?
Monday, November 16, 2009 3:15 PM/EST
Microsoft plans to release a Zune-branded video service internationally on Nov. 17, but will not release the Zune HD to those same global markets. While this suggests that Microsoft is indeed pushing a cloud-based services strategy, it also signifies that the Zune HD is an increasingly marginalized product within the Microsoft ecosystem. A marginalized Zune HD, combined with weak adoption of Windows Mobile, could spell trouble for one part of Microsoft's cloud strategy.
Friday, November 13, 2009 4:37 PM/EST
Microsoft announced at the Monaco Media Forum in Monte Carlo that it would roll out branded desktop wallpapers and gadgets in conjunction with media partners ranging from Coca-Cola to Twentieth Century Fox. Although advertising is ubiquitous in modern society, PC users' perceptions of their devices as intensely personal objects may impede certain advertisers from occupying massive amounts of user-interface real estate.
Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:50 AM/EST
A Microsoft employee said in an interview with a British publication that the designers of Windows 7 drew inspiration from Apple's Mac OS X, throwing Microsoft into damage-control mode. In addition to dismissing the employee's comments as "inaccurate," Microsoft took pains in a blog post to insist that Windows 7 was wholly a product of Redmond's internal design processes.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:50 PM/EST
Microsoft's share of the U.S. search-engine market gained incrementally in October, reaching 9.57 percent, according to new figures released by Experian Hitwise. Google maintained 70.60 percent, while Yahoo stood at 16.14 percent. New Bing features, including local weather, a boosted video page of Wolfram Alpha search results, could allow Microsoft to maintain or gain its share before the end of 2009.
Monday, November 09, 2009 12:27 PM/EST
Microsoft continued the "New Efficiency" theme, originally voiced by CEO Steve Ballmer, during the company's TechEd Europe conference. During the keynote address, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop suggested that Exchange Server 2010 would help businesses improve efficiency and increase productivity on the way to fueling growth. Microsoft also displayed a few whimsical videos during the conference that proved, well, rather eccentric.
Friday, November 06, 2009 4:57 PM/EST
Microsoft's much-rumored Courier tablet, slides and video of which leaked online this week, suggests that Redmond could be preparing a robust competitor in the tablet PC market. Scuttlebutt suggests that the Courier will run on Windows 7 and Microsoft-engineered hardware. Microsoft could potentially intend the Courier as a competitor to Apple's own (alleged) Tablet PC, which some analysts have predicted will roll out sometime in 2010.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 5:27 PM/EST
Microsoft rolled out a revised version of its MSN home page on Nov. 4, embracing in the process the same ethos of personalization and streamlining that governed Yahoo's own home page redesign in September. Microsoft also cut down on the number of hyperlinks and seeded the interface with in-line connections to Twitter and Facebook.
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