Quoted: Hardware manufacturers may also choose to do new Windows 7 drivers to take advantage of under-the-hood improvements in the new version. But Microsoft claims the Vista drivers will work in the vast majority of cases.

Quoted: Learn more about Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 a set of tools for photographers to perform various tasks with their images—including RAW captures.

Quoted: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. — Sun Tzu from “The Ancient Art of War”

Another insightful post from SmoothSpan, this time on Microsoft and search.

The Virtual Earth guys sit next to me, and I can overhear them assessing their new brand.

Quoted: Microsoft Virtual Earth was our enterprise mapping platform. This was the set of APIs you would leverage to embed maps into your web site along with overlay data in the form of pushpins, polygons, polylines, raster overlays, etc. etc. Microsoft Virtual Earth is now called “Bing Maps for Enterprise.”

Quoted: "That was the most astounding software demo I've every seen," Wozniak tells Tech Ticker after seeing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Bing at the All Things Digital Conference here.

Quoted: Windows 7's Release Candidate is free and available for download, but what's all that different from the beta version? Quite a bit, it turns out, and we've got the screenshots to prove it.

Quoted: MThat's in addition to the 872 jobs eliminated in the state as part of the initial round of layoffs, bringing the company's total job cuts in the state to more than 2,000 since the January announcement. Microsoft isn't saying which divisions or units are affected by the latest round, but anonymous employee posts indicate that worldwide sales, marketing and services are getting hit particularly hard.