Yahoo! News Search Results for Microsoft OSLeave it to Microsoft to spend $300 million on an advertising campaign founded on a historical inaccuracy. This morning the company rolled out the first phase of its new "Microsoft: Stop Making Fun of Us" campaign, an ad that aims to correct what Microsoft believes are misconceptions about its Windows Vista OS.
New CEO gets retaliation in first. VMware is to offer the small-footprint version of its ESX virtualisation software free, responding to pressure from Microsoft and other companies that are threatening VMware's market lead.
Microsoft's next version of DirectX will have its own alternative to the OpenCL standard proposed by Apple, the company revealed yesterday at its GamesFest conference. DirectX 11 will have support for "compute shader technology" that allows modern, more generalized video cards' effects processors to perform tasks other than rendering video, includ...
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...
CTO explains how Microsoft will help market XNA titles, what's possible for the Zune, and more.
At Windows Vista lab in Redmond before the release of Beta 2, Microsoft developers showed off the new OS to a room full of MVPs and enthusiasts. But even the company's most loyal fan base turned ugly when User Account Control took the stage.
Microsoft rights wrongs, talks about tomorrow's OS and DirectX 11 graphics.
Opinion - Vista is to Microsoft as heart bypass surgery is to the old. Yes, it will keep you alive, but it’ll suck the life out of you in the process. There was a time when there were people who knew how to make a personal computer. You would have thought that Microsoft would know, but Vista proves that they don’t get it. On the other hand, nature abhors a vacuum, unless it is a Dyson, so where ...
Microsoft is ready to launch its campaign to save Vista's reputation, which has been formed by the software giant's miscues as well as Apple's funny ads. The big question: Is this a mess that Microsoft can market its way out of? Ed Bott found the first hints...
Maybe it's just me and the fact that my head has been warped by watching too many MST3K episodes, but Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad just doesn't work for me, and I use Vista! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes