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Tonight: Live blogging the Steve Ballmer CES keynote

I'll be live blogging the Steve Ballmer 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote address this evening with Mary Jo Foley and Tom Warren. Right now, the event page is down but we'll open it up a little bit after 9 pm EST and get things rolling around 9:30 pm when the keynote actually starts...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-07-2009
Potential Windows Live Writer competitor

thenitetechs over on Twitter linked me to an interesting competitor for Windows Live Writer called Zoundry Raven , which I'm using to write this post: Zoundry Raven is our next generation WYSIWYG blog editor that makes posting to your blogs easier and faster. It's as easy to use as a word processor...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-26-2008
A great Google article, the difference between 'easy' and 'simple,' and why this is a problem for Windows 7

The New York Times' David Carr wrote something that made me really sit up and take notice this morning, and for so many reasons that it's actually kind of hard to explain. First, the basic premise of his article , which I agree with totally, is that Google's Web applications have taken hold...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-24-2008
I’m a PC - Messenger Theme Pack

Microsoft has released a Theme Pack for Windows Live Messenger that lets you celebrate your computing diversity and strike back at the Cupertino Haters. And really, God bless ‘em for that. On the flipside, you have to use IE to download. And really, that’s pretty lame. :) Ah well. Thanks to Bruce for...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-14-2008
Windows Strata?

Long Zheng is reporting that Microsoft added 8 sessions for something called Windows Strata to their public PDC 2008 sessions list . Interesting. But I don’t see it there now, suggesting that Microsoft inadvertently let the cat out of the bag: Is Windows Strata the name of Microsoft’s upcoming cloud...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-08-2008
Picking a Microsoft document sync solution

Obviously this is fodder for a future article, but here's a mile-high view of Microsoft's three document sync solutions. Right now, the company makes three: Live Mesh (pre-beta "technical preview") Windows Live FolderShare Beta SyncToy 2.0 For starters, they're all free. The first...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-14-2008
FY09 Strategic Update

Only Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer could send such an important message out and give it a subject line that boring. But you'll want to read this one. I've highlighted some bits I feel are particularly interesting. From: Steve Ballmer Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:30 PM To: Microsoft–All Employees...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-25-2008
Microsoft to load HP PCs with crapware

So… Let me see if I’m parsing this one correctly. In the buildup to Windows Vista, Microsoft complained that PC makers were putting too much crapware on their PCs, thereby ruining the "user experience" of Windows for new users. "We can't do anything about it because it would be illegal...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-03-2008
Bill Gates talks Windows 7 ... Again

I want to qualify what I'm about to describe here with the following: Bill Gates is leaving (full-time) Microsoft. Soon. I get the feeling he doesn't necessarily ever accurately describe what's going on at the company. For example, he was recently (mis)quoted as saying that Windows 7 would...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-14-2008
What might have been: A look back at Microsoft/Yahoo! coverage in WinInfo

Well, it looks like Microsoft's attempt at a hostile takeover of Yahoo! is over. And really, thank God for that one: Yahoo! is the tech equivalent of a bad loan, something that would have come back to bite Microsoft sooner rather than later. So while it's unclear what the future holds--I'm...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-04-2008

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