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Office Starter 2010 private beta, with 'Office to GO,' goes to testers

There’s one new feature in Office Starter 2010 that I had not heard about previously. It’s called “Office to GO,” according to testers with whom I spoke, who asked not to be named. Office to GO is installed using the Click-to-Run setup that is part of ...

From MARY JO FOLEY, ZDNet,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?

First, as others have noted, Google’s Chrome OS is a new windowing system layered on top of Linux that is being customized to run on netbooks. Chrome OS is an “extension to Chrome,” the company’s browser, in Google execs’ own words. Google officials ...

From MARY JO FOLEY, ZDNet,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.

Microsoft still working on an Adobe LightRoom competitor, but with a social twist

It’s been almost two years since I first got tips about Microsoft “SmartFlow,” a product which allegedly was going to be a competitor with Adobe’s PhotoShop LightRoom post-production software for professional photographers. I had thought that ...

From MARY JO FOLEY, ZDNet,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Ray Ozzie

Pivot: Microsoft's experiment to 'view the Web as a web'

Microsoft’s Live Labs — its Research and MSN mash-up — fielded a new test project on November 18 known as “Pivot.” Pivot (not to be confused with Microsoft’s recently renamed PowerPivot) is meant to combine search, browsing and recommendations to ...

From MARY JO FOLEY, ZDNet,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Intel

Microsoft shares a few tidbits on IE9 and (lots) more on Silverlight 4

Microsoft shared some information about what’s coming in Internet Explorer 9 and Silverlight 4 during its November 18 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) keynotes. If you want to see a real example of the difference in disclosure policies between ...

From MARY JO FOLEY, ZDNet,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download

Microsoft released on November 18 the public beta of Office 2010. It can be downloaded by anyone for free, as of 1 pm ET today. Microsoft is making available several different versions of Office, as well as a beta of SharePoint Server 2010 to ...

From MARY JO FOLEY, ZDNet,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: LinkedIn Corp

So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?

One noticeable no-show at this week’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is Live Mesh. Live Mesh, Microsoft’s synchronization service that is the pet project of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, was one of the main attractions at previous ...

From MARY JO FOLEY, ZDNet,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Ray Ozzie,  Twitter Inc

Microsoft PDC Live Blog Day Two: IE, Silverlight 4.0 and more

The second day of keynotes at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is about to begin, and expectations are running high that MIcrosoft might share some details on what’s coming with Internet Explorer 9, Silverlight 4 and Office 2010 Beta 2 ...

From MARY JO FOLEY, ZDNet,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Twitter Inc

What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?

In the past year, customers and developers testing Windows Azure have been running primarily brand-new (and largely Web 2.0 style) apps on Microsoft’s cloud operating system. But when will Azure be tuned to handle host legacy enterprise apps? And when ...

From MARY JO FOLEY, ZDNet,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Three new codenames and how they fit into Microsoft's cloud vision

Any Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) wouldn’t be complete without a few new codenames. On November 17, Microsoft introduced three new ones that all are related to Microsoft’s evolving cloud-computing vision and infrastructure. During ...

From MARY JO FOLEY, ZDNet,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

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