MicrosoftWatch: Is Autoblogging the Next Big Thing?

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Microsoft Research is trying to bring it back, but as a blogging aid, this time around. Could autoblogging, a k a automatic weblogging, be the next big thing?

Marc Smith seems to think so. The Microsoft researcher and his team have developed a tool called Aura that is designed to help users automatically blog anything with a barcode label.

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Microsoft's un-grand design

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CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos explains why the software company is scaling down its ambitions when it comes to convincing the rest of the computer industry to adopt design changes.

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MicrosoftWatch: Why Panther May Tear Up Longhorn

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Who will emerge as the king of the desktop OS jungle: Apple's Panther or Microsoft's Longhorn?

Sorry, Linux desktop fans: When it comes to desktop operating systems, it's currently a two-way race between Windows and the Mac OS. While Microsoft's market share dwarfs Apple's, the GUI diehards have keep each other busy for nearly two decades-and end users have regularly reaped the benefits of that competition, thanks to upgrades designed to top the competition's features and performance.

This week, the cross-platform debate's been hot and heavy. Is Microsoft racing to catch up to Panther, the Mac OS X upgrade due to roll out at June's Worldwide Developers Conference? Should Apple be running scared after Microsoft's demos of its Longhorn OS at last week's Windows Hardware Engineering conference?

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PC Mag: Securing the Next Generation of Computing?

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We've all seen the utilities designed to monitor what's running on your PC-startup managers, firewalls, antivirus packages, and the like. They work to varying degrees, protecting users from malware, but are far from foolproof. You have to be able to trust the safety of what you put on your PC, though.

At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC 2003) in New Orleans, Microsoft is trying to garner support for its proposed solution, the Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB). With NGSCB, your computer always ensures the safety of data and applications you deem critical.

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Microsoft seeks compelling PCs

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Microsoft seeks to enable development of PCs with advanced graphics and sleeker, smaller designs that will entice users, said Will Poole, senior vice president of the Windows Client Division at Microsoft, in Redmond, Wash. Poole discussed the company’s goals during a keynote presentation here at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) on Wednesday morning.

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Software giant thinks hardware

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At the WinHEC confab, Microsoft talks up future versions of Windows, its Longhorn OS and Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, formerly known as Palladium. Also at the hardware convention: To InfiniBand and beyond.

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ExtremeTech: Gates To Unify Windows Around Mouse Wheel

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Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates is expected to show off on Tuesday a method to unify the Windows "look and feel" on several platforms, based upon the humble mouse wheel.

In his keynote address here at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, Gates will also show off "Athens", a prototype PC based on the Agora PC prototype, show off the Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, introduce the concept of the "dynamic data center", and a cut-rate deal on Windows CE .Net.

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