There is a fight underway and it was very clear to me on the floor of the MVP Summit expo hall yesterday.

I’m here with Don Dodge, he works here at Microsoft now, but he used to be director of Engineering at AltaVista.

I keep hearing this question: Does Vista matter? Preston Gralla, over on O’Reilly blogs, is the latest to ask.

The newly implemented modularity in IIS 7 seems to indicate how Microsoft will develop software in the future.

Microsoft and Canon have been working together to develop a new color management system for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Vista operating system.

Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference formally opened in Los Angeles Tuesday morning.

A top ten list from the home office in Redmond, Washington, presented at PDC 2005 in Los Angeles, urges developers to take advantage of RSS.

Bill, you have got to be kidding us all. The always-excellent Signal vs. Noise blog says that Microsoft has seven versions planned for its next Windows release, Vista (the OS formerly known as Longhorn)…

Microsoft announced in Australia that a component of the Vista operating system will help the patch process.

Google has launched version 2.0 of Google Desktop, the free software that lets you do a load of things from your PC in addition to searching for files.

The previously unknown presence of a beta peer-to-peer networking application in Microsoft Windows Vista caused some alarm for testers.

So, I’ve been trying out the various features of the new Google Desktop 2, and one thing that grabs me is the Deskbar. Since I find the Sidebar takes up too much space without doing enough, I’ve been running the Deskbar instead.

Sorry for the blog slowdown. I just sent Shel my changes on the last chapter on our book.

The Monad command shell won’t be shipped with the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.

An Austrian hacker has written the first Windows Vista virus, taking advantage of the new command shell in the platform.

The Vista name for Microsoft’s next-generation operating system has drawn the ire of groups supporting Veterans Administration software.

Microsoft has released some pretty pictures as part of its Windows Vista virtual press kit. Check em out (and click to enlarge)…

The Windows formerly known as Longhorn landed in the laps of developers today in a beta format. August 3rd was the date they announced last week when the named this beast Vista but Microsoft got so excited they couldn’t contain themselves and sent it out today.

Microsoft Sends 10,000 people the Beta 1 version of its next-generation operating system a few days early.

Microsoft’s named their new version of Windows something other than the code name of Longhorn. Vista’s the name of the new Windows, due out sometime in late 2006. I think liked Longhorn better.

Microsoft announced on Friday the name of its newest version of Windows best known as Longhorn. The new name, Vista, is the official name of Microsoft’s newest operating system, due out in late 2006, probably around the holidays and a server version will be out in 2007.