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Catherine Holahan at Business Week online reviews the Internet search wannabes (including Microsoft) trying to steal Google’s crown with new search technologies. Meanwhile, Danny Sullivan has a little fun with another wannabe that has rediscovered “natural language search” for the nth time.
Jupiter Research’s Michael Gartenberg got a sneak preview of Crossbow and Photon (the next versions of Windows Mobile previously mentioned here) and he’s impressed:
I can’t really tell you all that much about then except that Microsoft is totally changing the way they’re thinking about mobility and it shows.
LiveSide’s Harrison Hoffman has the buzz on Windows Live Marketplace (codenamed Agora) which seems to be a tool for “Internet based retailers/sellers to add catalogs of their available products to the Windows Live Product Search database.”
Even further out is Nemo (work on which is on hold):
Codename Nemo is designed to be an add-on for Windows Vista (Home Premium and Vista Ultimate editions), that integrates Spaces, Messenger and Live Call into a UI designed for large monitors and TVs. Nemo essentially creates a Windows Live Media Center, and is optimized for use by Microsoft Media Center remote, as well as keyboard.
The Windows Live Mail team is rolling out the “M8″ enhancement to their beta.
Brier Dudley has some fun with Windows Media Player 11 beta 2:
Apparently there’s a glitch that makes some recorded TV shows vanish after three days, degrading the TiVo-like experience of Media Center.
I wonder if there’s some link to the copy prevention software used in the Zune media player…
October 10th, 2006 at 1:02 PM
[...] Back in September, Microsoft released Windows CE 6.0 to manufacturing and shortly thereafter there was a teaser sighting of the next version of Windows Mobile codenamed “Crossbow” which is based on it and is supposed to RTM in 4Q2006. Now there’s another sighting as MS Mobile News provides some Crossbow screenshots in New Windows Mobile OS “Crossbow” shows its face. If you are confused about the distinction between Windows CE and Windows Mobile, Microsoft’s Mike Hall explains it here. [...]
October 12th, 2006 at 11:31 PM
[...] As for WMP 11 it does have a slick new interface, but we haven’t heard much good about it lately ([1], [2]) and one wonders about its place in the scheme of things since Microsoft’s Zune has seems to have a completely separate media organizer and DRM. Filed under Alliances, Coopetition, Digital Media, Internet Explorer, IE7, Technologies, DRM, Media Player, MTV, Microsoft, Argo, Zune [...]
October 21st, 2006 at 4:44 PM
[...] The Windows Live Mail beta “M8″ version is now generally available to testers after a gradual start earlier in the month. [...]
January 5th, 2007 at 5:30 PM
[...] Update Dec. 5: This is the project codenamed Nemo that was rumored to be on hold back in October. Filed under Beta and CTP, General Business, Windows Live, Marketing, Microsoft, Windows Live for TV [...]