Andy Patrizio

Mac fanatics are never happy to hear this, but outside of Apple (Quote, Chart), the biggest Macintosh developer is none other than Microsoft. Granted, the 180 developers in the Macintosh Business Unit, or Mac BU as Microsoft (Quote, Chart) likes to call it, is a pittance compared to the 5,000 working on Vista. But Microsoft’s continued […]

LOS ANGELES –- The CTIA Wireless & Entertainment conference and expo kicked off this week with a little touch of California’s “governator” and a panel discussion California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about the movies. Specifically, he discussed his 1990 film “Total Recall” and the fact that he and director James Cameron didn’t think the futuristic […]

*UPDATED: If you weren’t feeling like an unhired beta tester before, Microsoft is going to make you feel like one now. In an audio blog posting, the coordinator of Vista’s development cycle implored testers to be “aggressive” in testing Release Candidate 1, issued on September 1. A release candidate is typically software in the final […]

Intel won’t comment on published reports it plans to announce the layoff of as much as ten percent of its workforce next Tuesday, the day after Labor Day. Intel (Quote, Chart) had said earlier this year that it hoped to avoid layoffs. Chief Financial Officer Andy Bryant said in April he didn’t the planned review of […]

Microsoft has posted the first release candidate for Internet Explorer 7, adding a number of improvements under the hood along with the usual bug squashing from the last beta. The main goal of the release candidate is to assist developers in ensuring that their Web sites are compatible with this impending final release. Microsoft (Quote, […]

It may be August, but they’re having a snowball fight in Hell right about now. The head of Microsoft’s (Quote, Chart) open source lab extended a very public offer to the Mozilla community to work to insure Mozilla software will run properly on Windows Vista. Sam Ramji, director of the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft, […]

The antivirus community is crying foul over a consumer magazine’s tests of their products, which included creating 5,500 dummy viruses to see how well the AV programs handle the unknown. Consumers Union, the well-respected consumer product testing organization and publisher of Consumer Reports, decided it was pointless to test antivirus programs against already known viruses. […]

Sometimes, it’s possible to be too popular, especially when it comes to big beta downloads. That helps explain why Microsoft will charge $1.50 for anyone wishing to download Office 2007 beta 2, starting this Wednesday. The company said the buck-fifty is a way to make up for the costs of bandwidth. The fee change is […]

Ray Ozzie made his first major appearance in the role of Chief Software Architect of Microsoft before the company’s annual financial analyst meeting. His speech centered around software as a service, but perhaps more notable was who wasn’t at the day-long meeting: the man he replaced, Bill Gates. CEO Steve Ballmer said Gates was “someplace […]

Microsoft has announced yet another delay in the release of Office 2007 based on feedback from beta testing, but has not said just when the application suite will be released. The company’s statement was brief and to the point: “Based on internal testing and beta 2 feedback around product performance, we are revising our development […]