GeekSmack has an update from the mouths of Microsoft: Office 2010 has not hit the RTM milestone yet. And it’s pretty certain that they will announce it when they do. So much for a great track record for a couple sites! They are usually spot on.
Furthermore, Brandon LeBlanc, the guy behind Microsoft
For those that still enjoy going online with your older XBox system, the time to shelve the online games is here. Microsoft officially is shutting down the XBox Live service for the original XBox system tomorrow. Some old games, and a lot of memories are with that old machine. You can still play offline, or system link, or use a third-party system like XLink Kai to play online.
Today marks the last day that the Xbox Live service will be available for those who are still clinging to their original Xbox consoles. Microsoft announced back in February that as of April 15, all active servers for original Xbox Live subscribers will be shut off. This means that all multiplayer components of original Xbox games, including those available through the Xbox 360
The latest reports say that Microsoft Office 2010 has been signed off, and is in RTM stage. This means that it is going to the printing press, so to say. The final version is done. WZOR has a great track record of being right on these rumors, so there is little doubt that this is report is accurate.
However, Wzor notes that Office 2010 RTM should be expected any day now, and it was the Russian website that pointed to April 12 as the RTM development milestone for the productivity suite. According to what little information is available, two assemblies of Office 2010 are considered for the RTM Build. Wzor claims to have additional information related to the potential Office 2010 RTM Builds, but that it will only publish it after Microsoft decides which of the releases will be offered to customers.
In a move that a lot of IT professionals in the USA are a bit upset about, Microsoft is outsourcing it’s internal IT department to India based Infosys. The people in Redmond develop and market the applications, but when they go down, they call to the other side of the world to fix it. When, it used to be just next door? Very efficient. Although, I guess Indian workers are a much better economic choice. No sense in boosting the US economy, anymore, right Microsoft?
The pact will involve the transition of work now performed by other partners and is not intended at displacing work done by Microsoft, according to Nataraj. “There is no job loss for Microsoft per se,” he said. Microsoft for years has used offshore service providers to manage its infrastructure, applications, help desk and desktop support.
The new Kin phone from Microsoft is aimed at the younger, social networking type of people. It’s definitely not something I’d use, myself. Gigaom takes a look at what to expect with the phone.
Unfortunately all this goodness doesn
While I don’t talk about Apple products on this site, this was too good to pass up. The iPad finally has multitasking ability! However, it is only done through the help with Microsoft. Not to mention using a 15 year old operating system. This guy got his iPad to run Windows 95, although slowly. Not bad at all. The more I see the iPad in action, the less I feel I need one. Maybe I’m missing the point?
With the economic slump in the US right now, it’s nice to know that Microsoft is contributing to 13.6% of the gross state product for the State of Washington. Great job, Microsoft. That’s a pretty large sum for a single company.
Additionally, according to a 2009 study by the Milken Institute, 23.4 of North America’s software jobs are in the Seattle area, thanks to Microsoft and its affiliated companies. That gives Jet City “a decisive lead in this category,” the study states.
We’ve all seen the Seinfeld and Gates commercials, some have seen the Family Guy promo’s. I’m not sure if you were as confused as I was as to where they were trying to go with them. I thought it was a joke, or possibly a Mac ad with a Bill Gates look a like at first. But, I have to admit: it did get our attention. May not have had the attention that Microsoft wanted, but they definitely got us to perk our ears up a bit. TechFlash tries to answer the question with an interview with David Webster, from Microsoft.
Well, mystery solved, I guess. Today I sat down for a surprisingly entertaining discussion with David Webster, the chief strategy officer in Microsoft’s central marketing group. We talked about lots of interesting and wonky tech business stuff, such as how the company is attempting to make its advertising more persistent and true-to-life, and how it’s trying to shape its overall brand image not through a broader corporate campaign but instead by aiming to project a consistent personality through the advertising for its individual products.
A few people, and a lot of businesses notoriously wait for the first service pack to upgrade to a new operating system. eWeek has compiled a list of 10 reasons why you don’t need to wait for the upcoming (and already leaked on torrents) service pack to upgrade to Windows 7.
But Windows 7 is a different story altogether. It doesn’t have the kind of issues that XP and Vista did when they first hit store shelves. It’s a robust operating system that can be relied on even before the first service pack is released. Simply put, users who are on the fence about Windows 7 shouldn’t wait for Service Pack 1.
GeekSmack has released screenshots and information on the upcoming Service Pack 1 for Windows 7. While this is a leaked version, it is a recent build, from March 27th. Fast install, hopefully a few fixes not available yet. SP1 is also supposed to support USB3, and a better Bluetooth and WLAN stack. No word on those, though.
The install process is much of what you would expect from a service pack installer, but one thing I noticed is the installation is MUCH faster than the install process for service packs on Vista was, which is a very welcome change.
