Stuart J. Johnston

Microsoft announced another stellar quarter on Thursday — at least in terms of breaking its old record for revenues in the third fiscal quarter of 2008, which ended on March 31. However, the quarterly tap dance that the company’s CFO typically performs for financial analysts didn’t impress many of them this time around. One of […]

UPDATED: Microsoft may appear to be under fire from a lot of quadrants these days, but that doesn’t appear to have harmed the company’s ability to print money. Despite a fairly strong showing, however, financial analysts were not impressed. The company announced Thursday another record for its fiscal third quarter in terms of gross revenues, […]

For Windows XP users, the wait is nearly over. As predicted last week, Microsoft announced Monday that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and is available to OEMs and enterprise customers. Meanwhile, downloads of XP SP3 will begin next Tuesday on April 29, also as expected. Chris Keroack, release […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has taken the wraps off an early version of its new Live Mesh online connectivity and synchronization service. The announcement, which includes the release of a “limited” technology preview of Live Mesh, was made in a blog post by Amit Mital, general manager of Live Mesh Tuesday night. Mital is also scheduled […]

The rumored Microsoft Mesh logo Source: Microsoft launch event invite After weeks of little more than broad hints and rampant speculation, Microsoft is preparing to show off its new Mesh initiative — signaling that the company is poised to jump in and get its feet wet with a potentially far-ranging data synchronization technology. Company officials […]

Microsoft Friday announced the beginning of the private beta test of an upcoming subscription software service for consumers built around the company’s Office 2007 productivity suite. Codenamed “Albany,” the service and product bundle will provide subscribers with a copy of the Office Home and Student 2007 suite along with Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Live OneCare […]

The office pool for Windows XP Service Pack 3’s (SP3) release date is starting to run out. Some pundits had picked XP SP3 to begin shipping by the middle of April – but the final service pack for XP has yet to arrive. Now the betting crowd is putting its chips on April 29, thanks […]

A year ago, Microsoft first showcased its Silverlight cross-browser, cross-platform streaming media technology at the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) confab. This year at NAB, the company is celebrating a year of progress since Silverlight’s debut by announcing updates to developers’ tools that tie it to Microsoft’s popular collaboration server, and plans to blow […]

Better late than never. That could be the ad slogan for Microsoft’s Surface computer. The table top, multi-touch, screen-based device that the company demonstrated last May has been wildly popular as “demo-ware” – garnering lots of attention in its public outings. However, so far there have been none of the deployments initially planned by Microsoft’s […]

Despite a heated campaign to defeat International Organization for Standardization (ISO) status for Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML), over the weekend, even some staunch critics acknowledged that the company has likely garnered enough votes to win. However, that doesn’t mean that they’ve given up the fight. At least three Web pages set up to track […]