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Microsoft FAM 2010, Part 1: Microsoft’s Consumer Initiatives
If you don't follow Microsoft closely, you may be surprised to discover that its annual one-day meeting with financial analysts, called the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting, or FAM, has traditionally been a day of interesting revelations. This year's event happened yesterday, and while you could pour over all the speech transcripts and videos... »
Microsoft Security Essentials vNext Now in Beta
Microsoft sends word that it is now offering a public beta version of the next Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) product. »
Xbox Live: Over $1.2 Billion in Revenues This Year, Half of Subscribers Now Pay
So this is arguably big news. In the past, Microsoft was pretty cagey about the percentage of Xbox Live subscribers that were paying, "Gold"-level members. (The free version is called Xbox Live Silver.) The consensus was that the vast majority were, in fact, not paying »
Microsoft Announces Long-Awaited Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta
Since posting my review of the new Windows Live Essentials a few weeks back, I've gotten a lot of email from people wondering when they could get their hands on it too. I've been wondering myself, but it's here now, or will be tomorrow »
Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3
Today, Microsoft is announcing the third Platform Preview (PP3) release of Internet Explorer 9, the company's next web browser version. IE 9 PP3 follows the previous release, PP2 , by about seven weeks; PP1 was released during MIX'10 in March, at which time Microsoft said it would update the pre-release browser on a... »
Apple, It’s Not A Standard If It Only Works In Your Browser, And On The Mac
Apple today posted an interesting new HTML 5 and Web Standards section to its web site, a counterpoint of sorts to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive site (and yet another assault on Adobe Flash). There's just one problem: Unlike the Microsoft effort, Apple's site only works properly in its own Safari web... »
United to Offer Microsoft’s Zune Audio on Flights
Microsoft takes another step in positioning Zune as a service: AP: United Airlines said Thursday it has equipped all of its planes with Microsoft Corp.'s Zune digital audio service. The airline said passengers can listen to up to 21 different playlists programmed by Zune, from classic rock to classical music and soundtracks. »
Can You Save Money with the New AT&T Tiered Pricing Plans?
AT&T Wireless announced this week that they will soon stop offering unlimited data plans to new smart phone customers. »
Another Follow-up on HTML5 Video in IE9
An interesting blog post from Microsoft with regards to video support in IE 9: In previous posts , we described why IE9 will support H.264-encoded HTML5 video. Microsoft and other browser providers see hardware support, customer and partner readiness , and intellectual property rights as key factors making H.264 an excellent choice for... »
Hotmail Numbers, Facts, and Figures
In prepping my review of the new Hotmail over the past week, I started noticing that there were a lot of interesting numbers being tossed around in the meetings I had with Microsoft and in the materials they provided. So I created a simple document to collect them »