Friday, October 26, 2007

Microsoft weds Facebook

In just about 3 years time, like many other IT companies reaching appreciable height of success in short span, Facebook has become a popular name in social networking environment. With the news of Facebook being evaluated at $15 billion and Microsoft benefiting from a $240 million stake, things are going to be more challenging for Google. For IT people around the world, it has always been a fun to watch the catfight between Google and Microsoft. There have been comparatively fewer times Microsoft has gained advantage over Google than the vice...

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Windows stripped naked

"So that's kind of proof that there is actually a pretty nice little core inside of Windows." This was a pretty cool statement. Have you had a chance to watch Eric Taut's presentation on the concepts of Windows 7 and virtualization strengthening into Windows? If you missed, watch it here. Eric Traut is the right person to hear about Windows kernel from, not only because he leads the core team of about 200 engineers which is primarily responsible...