Tag: Microsoft

  • New Microsoft Longhorn chief is indigestion expert

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    Microsoft has a new star hire to head up its Longhorn project, Mike Sievert. And he brings a deeper and richer personal experience to the job than many of his marketing counterparts in the technology industry. Sievert took up the post of Corporate VP for Windows Product Management, to give him his full title, at…

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  • MS-DOS paternity dispute goes to court

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    The parentage of the MS-DOS operating system is to be decided in court. Tim Paterson, who sold the Intel-compatible operating system 86-DOS (aka QDOS) to Microsoft in 1980 is suing author and former Times editor Harold Evans, and his publisher Time Warner, for defamation. Paterson’s work became Microsoft’s first operating system – it subsequently rebadged QDOS as…

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  • Key Windows man leaves Redmond

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    One of the most important figures in Microsoft’s history, David Weise, is to leave Redmond after an illustrious career with the software giant. Weise was one of the developers responsible for a technical breakthrough upon which much of Microsoft’s success today is founded. In 1987 IBM and Microsoft were pouring vast resources into OS/2, the…

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  • Tablet PC bug ‘fills computer with ink’

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    A major bug in the Tablet PC version of Windows eats up all the memory in your computer until it crashes. Redmond has yet to acknowledge the problem with a public disclosure about the issue – or even offer a feeble blogshrug [*]. The culprit is the application Tabtip.exe, the site Tablet PC Talk confirms – “The…

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  • All at sea, Microsoft axes flying car project

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    It’s official: Microsoft’s flying car project is in peril, the company’s US PR agency Waggener Edstrom told us today. The mysterious vehicle that’s thrilled so many readers this week now faces the axe. The good news is that we finally have official confirmation of these strange sightings of amphibious craft making sometimes very slow, and…

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