Deborah Rothberg

Microsoft is revealing, piece by piece, some of the new features that will be in the next versions of the products that comprise the Office 12 family. Company officials are sharing a surprising amount, via their blogs, especially about the note-taking program, OneNote. One of the biggest changes that can be expected in OneNote 12 […]

Google announced earlier this week the release of Blogger for Word, a free add-in, downloadable from the Web, that allows users of the Weblog service Blogger to post directly to their sites from Microsoft Word. Once the add-in is installed, three additional buttons appear on a users Word toolbar: Publish, Open Post and Save As […]

Released today, the latest University of Michigan ACSI (American Customer Satisfaction Index) found that while overall customer satisfaction ratings within the PC industry are unchanged from a year ago, Dell suffered a sharp drop in customer satisfaction, and top-ranked Apple maintained its position. Dell Inc., of Round Rock, Texas, which a few years ago had […]

MSN is fleshing out its Weblogging and aggregator products by adding new features on a regular basis. MSN released its third refresh of the Start.com aggregator last month, adding tabbed search results, new style sheets and additional customization features. Users of Microsofts Start.com Web aggregator can now “roam” their Start.com settings by enlisting their Microsoft […]

Infospace announced Tuesday that it has added MSN Search results to its Dogpile metasearch engine. Infospace announced in April that it planned to add Microsoft support to Dogpile before the end of the summer. “MSN Search has only been live since December. That they have enough confidence in MSN Search is a great endorsement for […]

MSN released a first beta of its MSN Virtual Earth technology over the weekend. The beta integrates MSN local search results with satellite imagery provided by TerraServer-USA, which was developed by Microsoft Research, along with MSNs MapPoint functionality. Interested testers can access the beta version of the service at virtualearth.msn.com. MSN Virtual Earth features include: […]

Microsoft Corp. refreshed yet again last week its Start.com Web aggregator, to which the company is now referring as “My W3b.” The third version of Start.com was released in early June, following a Version 2 release in April, and the initial Start.com bits in March. The most recent batch of Start.com updates add tabbed search […]

MSNs revamped shopping portal is inching closer to its final release. MSN fully rolled out the second public beta refresh of its new shopping site on Monday, after quietly leaking news of the pending release Friday evening. With 60 times the number of stores, and five times the number of items offered, the new release […]

Microsoft is set to phase out mainstream support for its Windows 2000 client and server releases on June 30. Microsoft divides its support lifecycle into two phases: Mainstream and extended. Once a product enters the extended support period, Microsoft charges for support. Windows 2000 is still the operating system of choice for a number of […]

MSN is in the process of revamping the MSN shopping portal, hoping to better compete with Googles Froogle, eBay and Amazon.com, as well as comparison-shopping sites such as BizRate and Yahoos Shopping. Jim Barr, General Manager of MSN Shopping & Marketplaces, said Microsofts goal is to make its shopping site more convenient and complete. “Our […]