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Microsoft Technical Fellow Chuck Thacker wins the distinguished John von Neumann medal in recognition of his pioneering role in the personal computing industry.

All of the consolidation in the world of online advertising has gotten the attention of the Federal Trade Commission, which has announced an investigation of recent purchases by Microsoft and Yahoo.Read More...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The Federal Trade Commission will review three of the major internet ad acquisitions of late, according to a person with knowledge of the deals. The FTC will handle Microsoft's proposed $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive and Yahoo's $680 million purchase of the 80% of Right Media it didn't already own.

Windows Live Writer from Microsoft (especially <a href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-this-new-windows-live-writer-is.html">version 2</a>) is probably one of the best and&nbsp;most popular blog editing software around for Windows platform. [<a title="Poll for Bloggers: Where Do You Compose Blog Posts ?" href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/05/poll-for-bloggers-where-do-you-compose.html">poll results</a>] <p>Have you explored all the wonderful features, tips and tricks&nbsp;of using Windows Live Writer ? If not, here's a comprehensive Windows Live Writer tutorial cum guide to help you become a power blogger:</p> <p><strong>Embed Video Clips from YouTube, Google Video, etc<...

Microsoft said Google's acquisition of DoubleClick went over the line, while Google claims Vista went over the line...

Blog: Commission plans to expand its probe beyond Google-DoubleClick to also review Microsoft and Yahoo bids, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.

Internet search leader Google Inc. said Microsoft Corp.'s Vista operating system is stifling competition as the high-tech heavyweights struggle for the allegiance of personal computer users. Michael Liedtke, AP business writer, reports: In a 49-page document filed April 18... Continue.

I’ve been getting emails from buddies who use MSN Messenger telling me that they never see me online any more. This is strange since I am online everyday and I could see some of them using Trillian Basic. So, what gives? Why could I see them and they could not see me? Turns out you need to [...]

Microsoft Research has released source code for software tools to advance AIDS vaccine research, with the company's spam filter playing a role in the effort. Available for free download on Microsoft's CodePlex site, Microsoft is hoping to entice other scientists to use and build upon the tools to expedite development of a vaccine. The tools are intended to help researchers harness computing power to more quickly identify crucial elements of an effective cellular vaccine, Microsoft said. Microsoft researchers began work in AIDS research in February 2005 after discovering that machine-learning technology, including methods for spam-filtering, had applications for vaccine research. The vaccine work combines technologies including graphical...

Last Friday night, while at the movies, I happened to see a preview for the new Fantastic Four movie - Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. While marveling (no pun intended) at the special effects on the theater's recently installed digital movie screen, I, being the Internet geek that I am, thought about the Fantastic Four in terms of search engine optimization and the four major search engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. Since I enjoy finding similarities in things that one wouldn't necessarily expect, I figured that it might be fun to figure out which search engine would...

After two years of pioneering work and collaboration in AIDS research, Microsoft openly shares its software source code with the greater scientific community to help expedite global research.

I read an interesting article today by, of all people, a venture partner discussing Microsoft’s evolving brand strategy. The article, by James Joaquin, juxtaposes the renaming of MSN Search to “Microsoft Windows Live Search” versus the simple brand structure of Google Search. Joaquin points out that as Microsoft has grown, it has faced the problem many growing companies face — growing the brand and creating a brand naming structure that supports the parent brand (Microsoft) while allow new products to have their own sub-brands (Windows). By renaming MSN search to “Microsoft Windows Live Search”, Microsoft has created a brand that is three sub-brands deep (Windows, Live, Search), as illustrated in his Micr...

Nearly a decade after the government began its landmark effort to break up Microsoft, the Bush administration has sharply changed course by repeatedly defending the company both in the United States and abroad against accusations of anticompetitive conduct, including the recent rejection of a complaint by Google. The retrenchment reflects a substantially different view of antitrust policy, as well as a recognition of major changes in the marketplace.<br /><li>Read the article: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/business/10microsoft.html" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>

The antitrust complaint from Google with regards to Desktop Search on Windows Vista is “heating up” as Barry Schwartz puts it. According to Google, Microsoft has an unfair advantage over the competition when it comes to their Google Desktop product. Google complained to federal and state prosecutors that consumers who try to use its search [...]

I am toooo tired to process a reader question tonight, so I'll leave you with the latest eye-opener circulated by the rumor mill: Rumors Fly on Microsoft and Yahoo. A choice quote: "Microsoft officials said Friday that they would not comment on speculation about an acquisition of Yahoo. But a person briefed on the companies’ discussions said one option that had been considered was the linking of

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Windows Live has new beta releases of <a href="http://get.live.com/betas/writer_betas" target="_blank">Windows Live Writer</a>, <a href="http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas" target="_blank">Windows Live Mail</a>, and <a href="http://get.live.com/betas/messenger_betas" target="_blank">Windows Live Messenger</a>.&nbsp; I have been using all three for a while now, and they are all rock solid and ready for prime time. In fact, I am using Windows Live Writer to write this blog post.</p> <p><a href="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/WindowsLiveWriter/writer_screenshot.jpg" atomicselection="true"><img style="...

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=322,height=91,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://internetoutsider.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/30/where_20.gif"><img title="Where_20" height="28" alt="Where_20" src="http://www.internetoutsider.com/images/2007/05/30/where_20.gif" width="100" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> At the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose--which, like every other web-related conference these days, is jammed.&nbsp; &quot;Geospatial&quot; content and tool companies have develo...

John Battelle <a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/003661.php">reports</a> that Microsoft continues to lose ground against Google:<blockquote><i>According to comScore ... in April 07 .... MSN posted 60bps share loss facing Google's strong share gain and came in at 10.3%.</i></blockquote>See also my Nov 2006 post, "<a href="http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/google-dominates-msn-search-sinks.html">Google dominates, MSN Search sinks</a>".

The new adCenter is out of Beta - but still not out of the dark ages yet! Even with new and improved ad management abilities we are still not seeing some of the functionality we would expect.  Out of the other traffic centers the adwords system has incorporated the most improvements and taken on board most of our suggestions, MSN and the new Panama platform are following suit & using adwords as their benchmark, in MSN's case migrating from orders to campaigns. With the effort and time taken to create these new platforms nothing radical or improved has come to light yet which is a bit disappointing.  - One function that we do like from MSN is the ability to run one report for multiple clients in one go which is useful. Rest ass...