Windows Now

Monday Night "They won't line up", my a$$. The Phoenix launch had over 100 people show up. When the doors opened up at 10pm, the line was all the way down the front of the building. It wasn't as many people as I had hoped, but it wasn't the Xbox 360 launch

On Tuesday, Mary Jo broke the news about the Windows Vista Family Discount . Today, Microsoft made the formal announcement , and Joe Wilcox immediately lambasted it as a bad idea (no surprise there). The problem is that Joe based his analysis on incomplete

I'm headed to Colorado to visit my family for Christmas (was supposed to go on the 20th, but the blizzard screwed with those plans), so I'll be Off The Grid for most of the rest of the year. Before I leave, I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christahanukwanzakah

As Ina Fried reports , Microsoft's free Vista & Office giveaway at PowerTogether.com is over. Apparently, 30,000 copies was the limit. And Microsoft outdid themselves this time . With the average retail price being $399 (Vista Biz @ $299 + Office

I swear I'm not trying to pick on Joe lately. He's a great guy. I'm just not sure what the heck he's talking about here . He says that he tried reproducing the searches in the Launch demo when he got home, and he couldn't. He then draws the conclusion

I think Hell just froze over. And no, I'm not referring to the Vista launch in New York. Nor am I referring to the 30+ degree temperature drop in Phoenix the last few days. I'm referring to BetaNews Ed's article covering today's Vista Launch in New York

Microsoft wants you to experience the Zen of Vista & Office together . So, if you watch three webcasts each for Windows Vista and Office 2007 within 30 days of registering, 6-8 weeks later you'll get shiny new DVD cases at your front door. Only one

Listen up! Are you building cool things with Vista, Office 2007, or Exchange 2007? Do you live and work in the Southwest US? Then Microsoft wants to hear from you! Microsoft is looking for customers who are building great solutions on top of the Launch

Microsoft just posted Office 2007 to MSDN & TechNet . There are two new nodes under the "Applications" section, as shown below. You can also get your keys now... they're towards the end of the key list. Let the fun begin!

WOO HOO! Jim Allchin announced today that Windows Vista's FINALLY in the can! In a video posted to the WindowsVistaBlog , he also announced that general availability (launch) will be on January 30th 2007. So Amazon really did leak the launch dates after

Office UI Guru Jensen Harris lets us know that Office 2007 has indeed gone gold. He says he's proud of the product, and he should be; Office 2007 arguably the sexiest product to come out of Microsoft in a long time. The build string is 12.0.4518.1014

Have you heard the new IE7 radio ads ? Well, I think they're cheesy, and not in a good way. The don't talk about any of the features, like it being easier to print, or using RSS to make your websites come to you... they're just stupid skits that don't

Well, the big to-do for the day has been Vista pricing. Apparently Microsoft Canada's not the only company that's going to have someone fired today. Amazon.com has all prices online for pre-order. They've also listed a launch date, which apparently is