Profile of J. Nicholas Hoover
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Articles by J. Nicholas Hoover
posted in September 2007
9/28/2007
The software lets people store, share, and collaborate on Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents online and share their desktop with one another.
9/26/2007
While some improvements are a bit of a catch-up with Google and Yahoo, others take Microsoft beyond what those search engines offer today.
9/25/2007
Microsoft's reportedly in talks to invest somewhere between $300 and $500 million for a stake in Facebook. Here's what Microsoft could do with it.
9/24/2007
Microsoft announced that the server OS update's first release candidate will be available for download Tuesday.
9/24/2007
The Globalisation Institute, a European think tank, wants all computers to be sold without operating systems. Here's why that's a bad idea.
9/21/2007
The next version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite appears to be on track to be released in the fall of 2009, with test releases coming as soon as early next year.
9/21/2007
New alternatives have some advantages, but may find it hard to dislodge Microsoft's deep-rooted software.
9/21/2007
As more social networks let users add applications as widgets to their home pages, we could see a more extensible and portable ecosystem of social networks.
9/19/2007
Is it possible that there are 2.2 million different types of computer components out there? Microsoft says so. Here's how.
9/18/2007
Security takes center stage including allowing users to control which macros run in legacy Excel files, potentially blocking malicious code.
9/17/2007
The outcome of the case could force players like Intel, Apple, and others to share or open their technology to outsiders.
9/13/2007
Three years after settling legal matters, Sun and Microsoft enter second stage of cooperation.
9/13/2007
Over the last few weeks, without user approval, Windows Update has updated nine small executable files in both Windows XP and Windows Vista.
9/12/2007
The former rivals will collaborate on IP television and interoperability between Windows Server and Sun's Solaris operating system.
9/12/2007
The two companies plan to focus initial energy on server-side issues like virtualization, directory and identity services, and management.
9/11/2007
As part of the partnership, BEA will bundle Adobe's Flex Builder, the development environment for Flash, with BEA's own Web app development tool, Workshop Studio.
9/11/2007
Changes include doing away with signature pages spread throughout the agreements and replacing them with a single page signature form that's all a customer needs to sign.
9/7/2007
Microsoft's Silverlight is among the new technologies that users will come to expect.
9/5/2007
Silverlight 1.0 will focus mostly on audio and video, but future versions will let developers program for the Web in .Net.
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