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A quick compendium of Microsoft-related news from around the Web that I haven;t had time for you to blog in complete:
CEO Steve Ballmer is nonetheless not purchasing the idea that Microsoft ought to break itself up voluntarily to develop into far more agile. Ballmer didn;t such as the notion when Goldman Sachs recommended it not too long ago,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, and he nonetheless doesn;t, he advised people attending the Microsoft shareholders meeting on November sixteen. Ballmer made the situation that Microsoft;s main rivals all offer plays that span PCs, TVs and phones, and Microsoft wants to sustain its existing construction to continue on to give cross-group synergies. Ballmer also mentioned that some of Microsoft;s goods, like Office, are neither consumer-only nor enterprise-only (generating it tough to perform a split along consumer/business lines). Ballmer did notice that whenever the break-up suggestion arrives up,Microsoft Office 2010 Pro, he provides the concept a “proper, disciplined look.”
Microsoft is adding Windows Azure support to its Windows Server High Performance Computing (HPC) platform. Service pack (SP) 1 for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, due out before the end of calendar 2010, will add the capability to “burst” workloads to the Azure cloud. This seems to get Microsoft;s HPC cloud play. I;m thinking there will be extra coming along those lines once Microsoft announces officially its plan to make its Dryad distributed-computing stack available on top of Windows HPC Server. (A first test build of that capability was/is slated for November,Windows 7 64bit, last we heard.)
Here are much more details on how HPC Server users can connect with Windows Azure, courtesy of Microsoft developer division chief Soma Somasegar.
Microsoft is still advising Windows Phone 7 customers not to use microSD cards that aren;t supplied with their phones (even though some users have been trying like heck to do so). Here;s the latest official statement on the matter from a Microsoft spokesperson:
“Windows Phone 7 does not support swapping microSD cards in and out. SD cards inserted into a Windows Phone 7 device are integrated into the device’s file system and are intended to become a permanent modification to the device. Once an SD card has been integrated into a Windows Phone 7 device’s file system, it will no longer be readable or writable on any other device. This behavior is by design and is intended to ensure a consistently high-quality and secure end-user experience.”
There;s nonetheless no official word on which microSD cards can be swapped (as it seems some can be). Update: Sandisk is now listing Windows Phone 7 compatible microSD cards.
Microsoft has sold 1 million Kinects in the first 10 days it was available via retail. (Only four million to go before December 31,Genuine Windows 7, 2010, if Microsoft;s predictions of 5 million by year-end hold true.) While the Kinect is a sensor for the Xbox,Office 2007 Professional Key, it;s a great deal extra (to Microsoft, at least). It;s one of the first examples of a natural user interface (NUI) from the company that seems to resonate with the public. It;s also Microsoft;s latest favorite example of company innovation.
The Kinect also is going to be key to Microsoft;s Live and advertising strategies, going forward, as company execs informed Wall Street lately. I also tend to agree with Forbes; Oliver Chiang that Microsoft;s ultimate goal with Kinect is to cement the position of Xbox as an entertainment hub. I;m wondering whether we;ll see Microsoft supply different hubs (PC vs. Xbox) to different customer segments in the future… or whether it;ll be a contest between Windows Client and Entertainment & Devices as to which company unit becomes the main focus for Microsoft;s three-screens-and-a-cloud vision.