22 Days Ago - The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously earlier this week to outsource its e-mail system to Google Inc., according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The contract is worth $7.25 million and covers 30,000 employees. In June, Washington, D.C. made a similar decision, signing a contract... (Read More)

Sep 17th, 2009 - 11664I confess I'm not always kind to Microsoft. They stumble and bumble and often make bad decisions, and as such make a great target for a blogger like me, but looking back at the announcements they've made over the last couple of weeks, when you add it all up, they at least seem to be trying to... (Read More)

Jul 13th, 2009 - I read a blog post this morning on the Mini-Microsoft blog called Microsoft Has Turned the Corner and it got me wondering if they really have, or if it was merely wishful thinking on the part of the author. Then I saw that Microsoft had released Office 2010 videos and there was a lot of typical... (Read More)

Jun 28th, 2009 - How come I can't let go? I'm between two worlds ~Tom Petty, Between Two Worlds As I watched vendors navigate the changing software world last week at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, it struck me that the old companies are trying desperately to hold onto to the markets they have dominated for so... (Read More)

Jun 12th, 2009 - Sherri McLeish from Forrester reports that 80 percent of enterprise customers still use Microsoft Office. While this is down significantly from the 95 percent reported in this 2006 BusinessWeek article, it still makes me wonder why so many companies would continue to use Microsoft Office given the... (Read More)

Jun 7th, 2009 - Ah, Microsoft, that crazy company from Redmond, WA is at again. This time they want to rename the Netbook unilaterally to the...drum roll please..."low cost small notebook PC." As first reported in the Digitimes last week, Microsoft decided on their own that the name was not appropriate and... (Read More)

Mar 6th, 2009 - And I know I'm not the only one To ever spend my life sitting playing future games ~Fleetwood Mac, Future Games. When Microsoft released Microsoft Surface in 2007, it was easy to dismiss it, a PC the size of a table that cost $10,000. While everyone else was designing smaller and cheaper... (Read More)

Dec 4th, 2008 - Yesterday Adobe announced it would be laying off 600 employees worldwide, which represents, according to published accounts, 8 percent of the workforce. Reports suggested that Adobe was a victim of the overall economic slow down and the lower than expected earnings were due to selling fewer copies... (Read More)

Sep 29th, 2009 - What the heck is happening in Redmond? Is Microsoft really giving away antivirus software? Yes, friends, it appears that they are. Come on Microsoft, we really want to hate you. I've carried this Microsoft voodoo doll* around with me for years--stabbing it every time I have to pay money for one of... (Read More)

Oct 3rd, 2008 - I'm a fairly prominent member of the Linux Community as a writer, contributor, and longtime evangelist for the cause and there are a few things I'd like the Community-at-Large to consider on my behalf. These are five things that I wish Linux had. Consider this as my wish list for the 2009... (Read More)

Aug 24th, 2009 - It's always fun to stand and watch as two big names slug it out, and they don't come much bigger than Microsoft. Sophos, it has to be said, is no small fry either when it comes to the world of IT Security. So when a Sophos blog posting from it's Chief Technology Office, Richard Jacobs, started with... (Read More)

Aug 2nd, 2009 - It is either a clever bit of strategy or a shambolic u-turn depending upon your view of the company, but Microsoft has now formally abandoned plans to sell the controversial Windows 7 E edition in Europe. Windows 7 E was going to be the special edition, for European customers only, which would... (Read More)

May 19th, 2009 - Strange but true, usually the best of enemies it would seem that Microsoft and the Linux Foundation are in full agreement over something for a change. What is more, they are working together in order to find a solution as well. According to Horacio Gutierrez, the Microsoft Corporate Vice... (Read More)

May 7th, 2009 - With the Windows 7 release code out there and available for download right now, and free to use until 2010 for good measure, the last thing Microsoft will want to hear is bad news about potential security risks for users of the new flagship OS. But that's exactly what researchers over at security... (Read More)

Apr 26th, 2009 - There has certainly been enough speculation about when the Windows 7 Release Candidate code would actually be made available. Right here on DaniWeb we confidently predicted that the big day would be May 5th following a slip up, or more probably a deliberate leak for marketing purposes, on the... (Read More)

Apr 20th, 2009 - May 5th should prove to be an interesting day for tech fans, as it would appear that both the much hyped Windows 7 operating system and the HTC Magic Android mobile phone will be launched to the waiting public. Neowin spotted that a Microsoft Partners web page (now replaced with a bog standard... (Read More)

Apr 14th, 2009 - Will you be moving to Windows 7 during the next year, or will Vista disappointment, economic doom and gloom or compatibility concerns keep you away like 84 percent of business folks surveyed have said? The Windows 7 Release Candidate is nearly with us, complete with plenty of reported security... (Read More)

Feb 25th, 2009 - Alex Kochis is the Director of Product Marketing and Management in the 'Genuine Windows' bit of Microsoft. Which means he knows a thing or two about the 'product activation experience' when it comes to Windows 7. Specifically, he knows a thing or two about product activation for the Windows 7... (Read More)

Jan 23rd, 2009 - There has been much speculation regarding job losses at Microsoft of late, and now the truth is out. Thankfully the scale of the damage is not as great as at first feared, and nowhere near the 15,000 job losses talked about recently. It would seem that 1400 jobs are to be axed with immediate... (Read More)

Dec 27th, 2008 - Although most people do not pass their Microsoft Certified Professional exams until their twenties, maybe late teens if they are really good, some make the geek grade a little earlier. Indeed, one girl from Pakistan managed to do just that at the tender age of ten. However, now M. Lavinashree has... (Read More)

Jan 6th, 2009 - According to numerous reports that is exactly what is being suggested. If the axe does fall, then it will be the first time that the company has had to make any really major cuts in the workforce during it's 32 year history. Of course, there has been no official confirmation or indeed denial... (Read More)

Aug 3rd, 2009 - Skype might stop next year. The service's owner, eBay, has said that it is in dispute with the VoIP system's founders (see a report here but it doesn't say much more than I'm going to repeat here) and that if the new owners can't get the underlying technology from the old, then it's unlikely that... (Read More)

Jun 24th, 2009 - There's a new campaign on Twitter about fixing Microsoft's flagship email program, Outlook. Outlook 2010 will be coming out next year (just say if I'm going too quickly) and it renders emails oddly if they're in HTML. There are details here. Let's ignore the fact that the Fixoutlook page is one... (Read More)

Jun 25th, 2009 - I am probably showing my age here, but I can recall when relationships started as a result of face to face meetings. If those relationships came to an end, they ended the same way as a rule. OK, a few cowardly types might have resorted to a 'Dear John' letter or even a phone call, but only a few.... (Read More)

Apr 15th, 2009 - Microsoft today released the first public beta of MS Exchange Server 2010 which forms part of the Microsoft unified communications family. As the first of many products (Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 all to follow) which... (Read More)

Mar 20th, 2009 - I guess that it will be of little comfort to the developers who lost jobs when Ensemble Studios was closed down earlier this year, but the final game to come out of the Microsoft owned outfit has just become the biggest selling Real Time Strategy title ever to grace any of the current generation... (Read More)

Mar 12th, 2009 - The cost of an Xbox 360 is dropping like a brick, which is just as well considering so many things can go wrong with the Microsoft games console. In fact the whole Red Rings of Death thing has led to some frustrated users taking Microsoft to court. Jesse Maiman, a Yale University student, is... (Read More)

Feb 28th, 2009 - The Consumerist is currently running a story about how a gamer was first harassed by other players and then booted off Xbox Live by Microsoft. Her crime? Admitting she was a lesbian in her gamer profile. According to the report she was harassed online by other gamers and when she complained to... (Read More)

Feb 23rd, 2009 - Remember last month when DaniWeb reported how some 1400 jobs were to be lost at Microsoft? These losses forming the first part of a plan to trim costs which would see a total of 5000 Microsofties facing the axe. Well now, in the most bizarre of twists, it seems that the axe is not good enough and... (Read More)

Jun 15th, 2007 - The concept of a soldier with a battery powered radio hiding in the bushes and reporting back to base for enemy troop position information is, other than in the movies, long gone. Heck, even the days of email and email attachments being sent via satellite modem to provide this kind of in-the-field... (Read More)

Feb 14th, 2009 - When the Resident Evil 5 demo was released on Xbox Live and managed to get itself downloaded a staggering 1.8 million times in the first week, well everyone pretty much thought that was one Xbox record that was not going to be broken any time soon. But that was before someone went and decided to... (Read More)

Nov 13th, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. has today announced a new version of Windows Live. Think of it as Windows Live: The Next Generation if you will. Not that Microsoft is calling it that, or anything else for that matter. The press release just refers to "an integrated set of online services that make it easier and... (Read More)

Apr 15th, 2009 - So much for a “glimmer of hope”. Wall Street is looking more skeptically at claims from Washington that the economy is getting better. The stock market is down about 45 points in late morning trading, after more layoffs were announced by U.S. companies (Yahoo (YHOO) being one of them – see... (Read More)

Apr 13th, 2009 - President Obama – who only weeks ago warned of the greatest financial meltdown since the Great Depression if his $1.1 trillion stimulus package wasn’t passed by Congress - now says that he sees a “glimmer of hope” that the financial trauma is ending and that things could be stabilizing. Call me... (Read More)

Jan 26th, 2009 - It’s a big bag, if a mixed one, for the financial markets and for technology companies today. Overall, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 42 points, buoyed somewhat by (finally) some good economic news. Check out Monday’s housing sales numbers, which unexpectedly rose off of record lows.... (Read More)

Jan 7th, 2009 - Bloomberg is out with a story this week saying IBM will lay off 16,000 more employees, on top of the 15,000 the firm has already cut. Since economic recovery usually lags job losses, it’s another morbid sign that we’re still in the teeth of this economic hurricane. Note also that the IBM... (Read More)

Dec 27th, 2008 - The Street.com is out with its 2009 tech guide and it’s a good read. You can check out the whole thing at http://www.thestreet.com/story/10454493/4/the-tech-investors-guide-to-2009.html; but here are a few highlights on what tech insiders predict will happen in 2009. Cloud clearing – 2009 will... (Read More)

Feb 26th, 2009 - As part of my ongoing quest to bring you information on getting -- or keeping -- a job in the tech sector, I want to point you to a great blog post by the folks at the application security company Palamida. They've assembled a list of eight open source tools you can use to help find your next job.... (Read More)

Dec 30th, 2008 - Apparently the stinging failure of Windows Vista is a distant memory for Microsoft because they've cooked up yet another hair-brained idea to draw in customers: pay-as-you-go computing. Cnet has the details today of a patent application filed by the company and I'm having trouble believing it's not... (Read More)

Aug 22nd, 2008 - I can just hear Jerry Seinfeld’s monologue taking jabs at Redmond: “…and what’s with Microsoft Vista—Bob and Windows ME weren’t embarrassing enough?” Who knows, maybe he already has. But now all that must be put aside as he takes on the role of pitch man for Vista. Do the folks in Redmond realize... (Read More)