Steve Ballmer Admits Vista is a “Work In Progress”

June 21st, 2006 Martin Taylor, a 13-year Microsoft veteran and advisor to chief executive Steve Ballmer, who coordinated Microsoft's anti-Linux campaign has suddenly quit the company less than three months after moving to a new position revamping MSN's marketing. He was credited with helping Microsoft beat back the threat posed by the free Linux operating system when he was head of platform strategy for the Windows group.

October 28th, 2008 I have read and read through Gizmodo & Lifehacker's enthusiastic posts to find out what's so great about Windows 7. It appears we were mostly right about the features of Windows 7.

July 28th, 2005 I know "The Vole" is so The Inquirerish. However I couldn't resist the intended pun.

April 5th, 2008 Yahoo has three weeks to accept Microsoft's $31 per share combined cash and stock offer or Microsoft may lower its bid and also take its offer directly to Yahoo investors, Microsoft said on Saturday. Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said in a letter addressed to Yahoo's board of directors that "now is the time" to negotiate final terms of a deal.

September 9th, 2004 I would like to point to a very readable and thoughtful article - How Microsoft lost the API war. Be warned however that the article is a bit too long.

May 19th, 2009 The wait for new Windows Mobile 6.5 is over. Microsoft developers working on Windows Mobile 6.5 have divulged the news that the work on Windows latest mobile operating system has finally finished.

February 3rd, 2007 Effectively this means that any retail upgrade DVD can be used as a fully functioning full retail copy of Vista. You can pay the price of an upgrade DVD version to get a clean Vista installation! The steps have been confirmed.

April 21st, 2009 Windows Vista creates problems and comes out with failures every ten minute you use. Anything above normal and you can expect Windows Explorer in Vista to hang up invariably.

January 30th, 2007 In India several households and even companies are looking at PC's in the price range of Rs. 10,000 (~ 227 USD).

November 7th, 2008 Windows 7 has been the next most discussed topic after Barack Obama in the last 1 month or so it seems. With our detailed article on Windows 7 we gave you a first feel of Windows 7.

October 9th, 2006 Microsoft is making the last trial version (Release Candidate 2) of Vista operating system available to developers and beta testers before it releases the finished product. RC2 version of Vista can only be downloaded by TechNet and Microsoft developer network members.

March 20th, 2008 Editing boot configuration in Windows Vista is complicated for most users. You have to manually edit the BCEdit file using bcdedit.exe.

March 30th, 2007 I am minimally back online. The office renovation is in full progress.

May 5th, 2009 Microsoft moves forward on plan to lay off 5,000 SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it is pulling the trigger on thousands of the 5,000 job cuts it announced earlier this year.

March 3rd, 2009 While Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was bragging the release of the 7th version of Windows in a CES keynote speech on 9 Jan, those struggling with VIsta bugs were certainly looking up with penance. It was something of what Garrison Keillor once expressed, I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.