Entries from June 2006

June 15, 2006

Microsoft signals end of Gates era

CNET: "In a press conference held Thursday after the stock markets had closed for regular trading, Gates announced that over the next two years he will gradually step away from his daily responsibilities at the company he co-founded some 30 years ago. Microsoft's Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie will immediately assume the title of chief [...]

June 11, 2006

The Scoble Era is dead. Long live the Scoble Era.

I woke up this morning to a wave of news about Scoble's departure. At first I saw the rumor on an internal distribution list here at Microsoft. Since I caught one of the mails in the middle of the thread on my phone, my first reaction was "misunderstanding". Two minutes later I was sitting on my couch [...]

June 3, 2006

Microsoft/Adobe Update- The customers lose again…

BetaNews: "Amid threats of a lawsuit from Adobe, Microsoft acknowledged Friday that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007, as well as dropping its own rival format XPS from the productivity suite and Windows Vista. The changes follow a breakdown of talks between the two technology giants after Microsoft announced [...]