Michael Miller

Coming off a summer of widespread virus attacks, a year without a significant Windows update, and new attacks on Microsofts multimedia plans, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates sat down with PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Michael J. Miller late last year to set the record straight and talk about some of the bigger issues facing the […]

If you want your watch to deliver the news headlines, local weather, and stock prices, youll like Microsofts new MSN Direct watches. Bill Gates first showed off his SPOT technology at last years Consumer Electronics Show a year ago. Its now a year later, and the first watches are here. Over the last few weeks, […]

If ever a month proved the law of unintended consequences, August did. From the blackout that left millions of people in the northeastern and Midwestern US as well as parts of Canada out of power, to the Blaster worm that brought down hundreds of thousands (reports put the number at or near 300,000) of Windows […]

With the summer upon us, I cant help but see the parallels between the weed problem that plagues those of us with lawns and the spam problem. I keep trying new solutions, from pulling them out to spraying them with a variety of weed killers, but they keep coming back. Like spam, weeds are just […]

Digital Rights Management may be the most important computing issue of the decade; its one that is stirring up no shortage of controversy. DRM is defined as software that lets a content owner set specific policies for determining how the content is used, by whom, and for how long. Microsoft recently debuted its strategy called […]