At an early morning session of Day 2 of the SpeechTEK conference, which is focused on speech recognition technologies, Microsoft demonstrated more of the integrated speech recognition features that t
Tuesday, August 08, 2006 16:05
In the final of three galleries from the Office 2007 demonstration at TechEd 2006, see how a change one user makes to a PowerPoint slide can be reflected in different presentations that use, or "re-u
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 19:55
Though the company had plans to unveil its first in a series of so-called "Windows Live Services" last Tuesday at TechEd 2006, today, Microsoft proceeded with the rollout of Windows Live Messenger, t
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 01:32
When he took the stage in Boston to give the keynote address at Microsoft TechEd 2006, Ray Ozzie may have known he was ascending to a throne whose warm-up act was Bill Gates. His attitude up there se
Monday, June 19, 2006 15:27
At a demonstration of new features in the latest beta edition of Windows Server "Longhorn", Microsoft revealed that the new version of Terminal Services will enable client computers to run full appli
Friday, June 16, 2006 14:39
In a session Wednesday afternoon on ten classes of benefits administrators will see from Windows Server "Longhorn," Microsoft technical program manager Ward Ralston revealed that one installation opt
Thursday, June 15, 2006 17:24
Microsoft provided some more details on what may become one of Vista's most popular features - the performance accelerator "SuperFetch." According to first public demonstrations, the technologies can
Thursday, June 15, 2006 15:10
Microsoft today demonstrated the first release candidate of the Windows command line shell now called PowerShell. Software architect Jeffrey Snover revealed that it is a design goal for PowerShell to
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 18:49
Microsoft's giving it a try just one more time, this time with a lot of effort, enthusiasm, and, of course, nomenclature: It's making another try at selling the idea of letting enterprises extend the
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 18:27
In perhaps the clearest indication at TechEd 2006 that everything old is new again, yesterday, Microsoft demonstrated a new set of APIs that will be compatible with the company's Windows Live Messeng
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 15:24
Windows' reliability has improved dramatically with Windows XP and will take another step forward with its successor: Among the new features of Windows Vista is the Restart Manager, which will enable
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 02:51
At an early morning session of TechEd 2006, representatives of the Windows Live development team showed off a new set of open developers' tools and SDKs available now from Microsoft's new Web develop
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 14:24
We are wrapping up day 1 of Microsoft's 2006 TechEd Conference as Microsoft has provided surprisingly few details so far about its packed roadmaps for Windows Vista, its server variant and the upcomi
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 04:19
Microsoft is working on a trio of technologies that will utilize flash memory as supplemental memory rather than as storage devices. Collectively referred to as "PC performance accelerators," Microso
Monday, June 12, 2006 19:43
This morning's key announcement at TechEd 2006 may be Microsoft's introduction of server-based application customization tools for Office Enterprise 2007, the high-end distribution of the company's a
Monday, June 12, 2006 14:01
The "Day Zero" keynote speeches from Microsoft's Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia on Sunday night were full of promises, including four that may become company mantras as the year progresses. But there was l
Monday, June 12, 2006 13:35
During the first unofficial day of Microsoft's TechEd 2006 conference in Boston, we got a first idea how programmers will be able to embed their own .NET functions, such as from Visual C#, directly i
Sunday, June 11, 2006 22:04