发帖数: 1 | 1 Why did IBM's OS/2 project lose to Microsoft, given that IBM had much more
resources than Microsoft at that time?
Great question. I'm the founder of Team OS/2 and IBM's first OS/2 Evangelist
, so I lived through the answer to your question for a decade. There's just
no easy answer - it's like asking what makes any given startup a success or
failure - but I'm happy to share the way I see it.
First a few facts - from memory - you might find relevant that support your
question.
IBM spent more than ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3838 | 2 By Daniel Eran Dilger
Published: 05:35 PM EST (02:35 PM PST)
New Metro-style apps designed to run on Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8
for tablets will copy Apple's App Store business model of charging a 30
percent fee from developers, allowing the potential for Microsoft to regain
control over software in segments it has lost to Apple's iTunes and Google
search.
At its BUILD conference with developers, Microsoft has made it clear that
while existing Windows 7 desktop apps will continue to move ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 Microsoft warns of IE zero day in the wild, all IE versions vulnerable
By Ms. Smith
Microsoft is warning of a zero-day exploit targeting Internet Explorer. On
Tuesday, the company posted a security advisory [1] stating "Microsoft is
investigating public reports of a vulnerability in all supported versions of
Internet Explorer. Microsoft is aware of targeted attacks that attempt to
exploit this vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9."
Microsoft issues Fix It workaround for n... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
标 题: Microsoft warns of all IE versions vulnerable
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 18 16:48:16 2013, 美东)
Microsoft warns of IE zero day in the wild, all IE versions vulnerable
By Ms. Smith
Microsoft is warning of a zero-day exploit targeting Internet Explorer. On
Tuesday, the company posted a security advisory [1] stating "Microsoft is
investigating public reports of a vulnerability in all supported versions of
Internet Explorer. Microsoft is aware... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 By GINA CHON And SHIRA OVIDE
Microsoft Corp. MSFT +0.11% is investing at least $605 million in Barnes &
Noble Inc.'s BKS +51.75% Nook digital-book business, as the software giant
pushes deeper into the e-books business and props up a rival to the iPad and
Amazon's Kindle.
Barnes & Noble's stock jumped around 100% in pretrading on news that
Microsoft was investing $300 million in their Nook e-reader. Gina Chon
reports on Markets Hub.
From humble beginnings to a bookselling behemoth, Barnes & Nob... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 357 | 8 By Dina Bass
March 7 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. will pay Nokia Oyj
more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based
handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement,
according to two people with knowledge of the terms.
Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows used
in its phones, costs that will be offset as Nokia curtails its
own budget for software research and development, said one of
the people, who declined to be identified because the final
contrac... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21240 | 9 【 以下文字转载自 JobHunting 讨论区 】
发信人: peking2 (myfacebook), 信区: JobHunting
标 题: Got a 4? You Were Just Fired from Microsoft
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Sep 2 11:33:06 2012, 美东)
The way Microsoft’s review system works, a whole bunch of Microsoft
employees just got their annual performance reviews. The September 15
paystub will reflect their new “numbers”. If they got a merit increase
the paystub will show it. If they got a bonus, it will show up there too.
This post is for those Microsoft employees who are... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 20965 | 10 http://www.thestreet.com/story/11976168/1/ballmer-will-drive-mi
Ballmer Will Drive Microsoft to Its Death
BY Rocco Pendola | 07/11/13 - 03:34 PM EDT
Stock quotes in this article: MSFT, GOOG, AAPL
Find out if (MSFT) is in Cramer's Portfolio.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- With Steve Ballmer's reorganization of Microsoft (
MSFT_) now public, it's probably appropriate to, uncharacteristically, give
the wild man some credit.
it's brilliant that he wrote: We will see our product line holistically, not
as a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21240 | 11 The way Microsoft’s review system works, a whole bunch of Microsoft
employees just got their annual performance reviews. The September 15
paystub will reflect their new “numbers”. If they got a merit increase
the paystub will show it. If they got a bonus, it will show up there too.
This post is for those Microsoft employees who are not happy with their
review…
That September 15 date is what motivates managers to finally get busy
delivering the bad news to employees who didn’t fare so well in s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3464 | 12 This morning, Microsoft announced that its adCenter paid search platform is
now powering 100% of search advertisements on Yahoo search results in the
United States and Canada.
This is where the money starts to hit the road in the partnership the
companies announced last year, in which Yahoo basically turned its search
business over to Microsoft.
For Yahoo, outsourcing Yahoo Search results to Microsoft's Bing technology
was a cost-saver, as Yahoo no longer has to invest in the insanely expensive
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发帖数: 1034 | 13 After acquiring mobile email startup Acompli, Microsoft launches Outlook for
Android and iOS
microsoft_outlook
January 29, 2015 12:00 AM
Emil Protalinski
Microsoft today launched Outlook for Android and iOS. The former is
available (in preview) for download now on Google Play and the latter will
arrive on Apple’s App Store later today.
The debut comes less than two months after Microsoft acquired email startup
Acompli for $200 million. In fact, Julia White, general manager of Microsoft
Office, t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 901 | 14 How to rob big companies.....
The European Union fined Microsoft Corp 561 million euros ($733 million) on
Wednesday for failing to offer consumers a choice of web browser, a charge
that will act as a warning to other technology firms involved in antitrust
disputes with the EU.
It said the U.S. company had broken a legally binding commitment made in
2009 to ensure consumers had a choice of browser, rather than defaulting to
Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Advertise | AdChoices
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发帖数: 32122 | 16 Microsoft increased five percent in revenue with their licensing of Windows
to third-party manufacturers. On the contrary, Apple's Mac falls down to the
fifth spot when it comes to sales of premium devices.
The premium devices are those costing $900 and above. This market is
traditionally dominated by Apple's MacBook or iMac, but third-party
manufacturers of Windows-based PC earned significant increase in sales last
year.
Microsoft vs Apple: Mac Drops to 5th Spot as Microsoft Gains Upper Hand
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发帖数: 1434 | 17 我在用citi卡之前改过地址，然后用的是虚拟卡号
citi最初把所有用新地址付款申请全部pending了，没有批准。
Microsoft store的order已经收到，通过查询citi账单历史，我发现Microsoft store
还没有收到货款，Microsoft store不停在常识charge我的卡，charge全部被citi拒绝
。我之所以发现这个，是由于citi最近可以显示pending了，我发现大量Microsoft
store的pending。每天Microsoft store都在尝试
我打电话给Microsoft store，客服告诉我，订单已经完成，一切良好，没有任何问题
，至于为啥Microsoft store在不停试图charge我的卡，他们不知道。让我找citi
我找citi，citi告诉我上述原因，让我去找Microsoft store更改付款信息。而我的
citi虚拟卡号已经过期，Microsoft store无论如何尝试，他们都不可能收到钱。
咋办？Microsoft store会不会收不到钱，最后干我？就300刀的东西 |
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发帖数: 700 | 18 随便查了一下，这是几个 h1B. 其中的 lead, senior 都不过 12w. How could this
be?
9 microsoft corporation software development engineer ii
$104,040
2010-01-13
10 microsoft corporation lead software development engineer in test
$105,001
2010-01-13
11 microsoft corporation technical support engineer
$79,900
2010-01-13
12 microsoft corporation principal program manager
$145,600
2010-01-15
13 microsoft corporation senior software development engineer
$112,796... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8232 | 19 Microsoft and Amazon Are Threatening Tableau’s Growth
Market Realist By Anne Shields
November 10, 2015 1:08 PM
Teradata Falters, Tableau Software Reports Growth in 3Q15
(Continued from Prior Part)
Microsoft and Amazon have greater scale and presence than Tableau Software
In the prior part of this series, we looked at Tableau Software’s (DATA)
earnings performance in fiscal 3Q15 and the impact on the company’s share
price. We also looked at big technology players such as Microsoft (MSFT),
Amazon ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1100 | 20 When Microsoft MSFT +0.28% acquired LinkedIn LNKD +% for $26 billion, it
didn't just buy a professional network. It also bought top technical talent.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it has named LinkedIn's most senior
engineering executive Kevin Scott as Microsoft's CTO. Scott will join
Microsoft's senior leadership team and will report directly to Microsoft CEO
Satya Nadella. Scott will continue to hold a role within LinkedIn as senior
vice president of infrastructure and will remain on the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 23938 | 21 Tech giant Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) recently considered acquiring
Nokia but decided against it. It was reported that Nokia allowed Microsoft
to take a look inside their books and that’s when the company decided not
to buy them after all.
This is a very smart move on Microsoft’s behalf. Nokia Corporation (NYSE:
NOK) is failing fast as their sales have plummeted significantly in the last
few years. Just over the last five years, Nokia’s share sales decreased by
ninety percent to just $2... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3464 | 22 The Wall Street Journal reported earlier tonight that Microsoft–in what
would be its most aggressive acquisition in the digital space–was zeroing
in on buying Skype for $8.5 billion all in with an assumption of the
Luxembourg-based company’s debt.
Sources told BoomTown tonight that the deal for the online telephony and
video communications giant is actually done and will be announced early
tomorrow morning.
The purchase–which has been spearheaded in a closely held negotiations by
Microsoft CEO S... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3838 | 23 http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/14/microsoft_abandon
html
Microsoft's direct effort to challenge Apple's iPod, introduced in 2006
under the Zune brand, is being
abandoned after a failure to gain traction in the market.
According to a report by Bloomberg, Microsoft will stop making any new Zune
models and shift its focus
toward incorporating its music store and subscription software into mobile
phones.
The report cited sources who "declined to be identified because the decision
hasn’t ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 54598 | 24 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: zhaoce (米高蜥蜴), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: Bloomberg: Microsoft's new CEO will be Satya Nadella, Gates may be out as chairman
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 30 19:27:12 2014, 美东)
By Dante D'Orazio on January 30, 2014 05:02 pm Email @dantedorazio
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发帖数: 3978 | 25 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: zhaoce (米高蜥蜴), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: Bloomberg: Microsoft's new CEO will be Satya Nadella, Gates may be
out as chairman
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 30 19:27:12 2014, 美东)
By Dante D'Orazio on January 30, 2014 05:02 pm Email @dantedorazio
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发帖数: 168 | 26 美女啊，可惜。。
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/30/microsoft-mich-mathews/
Microsoft has had its share of executive departures lately. The latest one
to exit the software giant is Mich Mathews, senior vice president for
Microsoft’s Central Marketing Group and one out of only two women on the
company’s senior leadership team, reports AdAge.
Here’s why this is rather big news: Mathews has been with Microsoft for 22
years and currently oversees more than $1 billion in ad spending and
marketing efforts for c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 54598 | 27 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: zhaoce (米高蜥蜴), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: Bloomberg: Microsoft's new CEO will be Satya Nadella, Gates may be out as chairman
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 30 19:27:12 2014, 美东)
By Dante D'Orazio on January 30, 2014 05:02 pm Email @dantedorazio
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发帖数: 1685 | 28 John Dvorak's Second Opinion
Jan. 11, 2013, 3:25 p.m. EST
BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Microsoft Corp. has released a new
version of its Windows software. It’s a situation we’ve seen before with
Windows Vista, an operating system that only its mother could love, except
Windows 8 is worse.
Windows 8 is a scaled-up OS for mobile devices. It’s not really comfortable
running on a desktop computer, and now we learn that for the first time in
five years PC sales are below the previous year’s level... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 60932 | 29 Free ebooks: Great content from Microsoft Press that won't cost you a penny
the following page contains links to individual titles:
Link:
http://iway.org/9601251
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2
Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, From the Desktop to the
Datacenter
Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime
First Look Microsoft Office 2010
Security and Privacy for Microso... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 438 | 30 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-05/why-microsoft-and-ever
Why Microsoft and Everyone Else Loves Indian CEOs
from Bloomberg
列出的有：MICROSOFT，Pepsi, Deutsche Bank, MasterCard, Adobe Systems, Diageo
，Reckitt Benckiser，GlobalFoundries，M没列出的还有mckinsey，CITI。
总结一下，和大家平时的观察基本一致，不过都是很正面的评价。老中真的落后许多了
，真心感觉对老中应该很有启发。
１，人际关系，能够上下级通吃，处理事情圆滑，会表现也会收拢人心。
２，社交关系网，感情交流，传帮带。
３，志向远大，想做管理。
４，坚持在一个公司持续发展。
想想自己，特别不会和上级SOCIAL。不是不想，是那种特意的感觉令自己非常不舒服，
就不去做了。不过，我就是这种性格，留在国内也一样，和语言无关。
虽然对我们的孩子们，我们希望他们健健康康，快快乐乐就好了。但对一个总族... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 54598 | 31 By Dante D'Orazio on January 30, 2014 05:02 pm Email @dantedorazio
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Reports say that Microsoft is considering Satya Nadella to step in as the
company's new CEO after a months-long search. He has been near the top of
the list of expected candidates to take Steve Ballmer's role, and now
Bloomberg and other outlets report that he is likely the next to take the
job. Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw declined to ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1372 | 32 http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/10/microsoft-doesnt-want-to-admit
Microsoft is in a tough spot. Windows RT is all but dead in the water. But
Microsoft has approximately a zillion and a half Surface RT tablets
collecting dust in warehouses. And so Ballmer and Co. continued its ignorant
fight against Apple and the far more successful iPad with another TV spot
that pits the two against each other.
Spoiler: The Surface RT is declared the winner.
Like in previous commercials, the Surface RT’s legitimat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16371 | 33 June 1, 2012, 1:40 P.M. ET
Tablets: Microsoft Rising, Morgan Stanley Says; Cannibalization Spreads
The equity research team at Morgan Stanley late yesterday published a long (
37 pages) update to their “Blue Paper” on tablet computers, writing that
2011 sales of the devices turned out being 26% higher than they predicted in
February a year ago, and cannibalization of PCs higher than predicted as
well.
“The market is even bigger and growing faster than we initially forecast,”
writes the team,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3492 | 34 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:12:40 PDT
Microsoft today unveiled a major tablet initiative to compete with Apple's
iPad, Google's Android, and its own PC hardware partners.
The Microsoft Surface is a 10.6" tablet powered by Windows 8, coming in two
distinct versions -- both equipped with touch screens. One will be powered
by an ARM processor and will be more like a traditional tablet running
Windows RT. The other will be powered by Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge chips
running the desktop version of Windows 8.
As... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1034 | 35 Microsoft is working to repair its public image and change course by
addressing the damage that CEO Satya Nadella caused last week by saying that
women should, perhaps, not ask for raises. His comments immediately became
an international high water mark for tone-deafness — and being flat wrong
— and he continues to apologize and promise change.
The executive quickly followed his initial comments with a tweet, and later
a formal retraction. Today Nadella went further in an internal memo that
incl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 60932 | 36 I found this on FB. Thursday, February 3 at 12:00am - February 20 at 11:30pm
Link:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196679210359162
Microsoft Store Locations:
Scottsdale, AZ
Costa Mesa, CA
Mission Viejo, CA
San Diego, CA
Lone Tree, CO
Oak Brook, IL
Bloomington, MN
Bellevue, WA
Bring your old phone to your local Microsoft Store and well recycle it and
reward you for it with a $25 gift card.
You can trade in any type of mobile phone, regardless of brand, service
provider or date of purchase.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 37 http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-windows-10-needs-to-improve-2016-10
Microsoft is set to unveil a bunch of new hardware on Wednesday, with the
star attraction likely to be a new Surface PC to compete with Apple's all-in
-one iMac.
Microsoft is billing this event as the future of Windows 10. That's not
surprising: The reason Microsoft got into the Surface business in the first
place was to push Windows forward into a touchscreen future, whether PC
manufacturers wanted it or not.
But we're... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9872 | 38 With Chief Executive Steve Ballmer retiring within the year, Microsoft Corp.
(MSFT) said it also will consider external candidates for the spot, in
addition to those inside the company.
Some analysts think it's more likely the company will choose an outside
choice.
"We think the company is in need of a cultural change to increase
collaboration between different product lines and foster faster innovations,
which is the key focus of its recently announced reorganization," Janney
analysts Yun Kim a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3464 | 39 Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen tells all about his
relationship with Bill Gates and starting Microsoft in a new book, "Idea Man
," that was excerpted in Vanity Fair Wednesday.
Here are some quick, juicy bits:
On Bill Gates' ambitions at age 13 when the two met at Lakeside high school:
"One day he showed me the (Fortune) magazine’s special annual issue and
asked me, 'What do you think it’s like to run a Fortune 500 company?' I
said I had no idea. And Bill said, 'Maybe we’ll have ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2 | 40 With Microsoft having confirmed its acquisition of Skype,
sources tell TechCrunch Europe that Redmond outbid its closest
rival, Google, by almost two-to-one. Meanwhile, Facebook is said
to have never been in the running.
According to a source who claims knowledge of talks held between
all parties, Google came in second at a price of $4B, while
Microsoft will be paying $8.5B. This suggests that Redmond is
paying significantly over the odds for Skype, although only time
will tell if it turns out t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 34 | 41 【 以下文字转载自 CivilSociety 讨论区 】
发信人: nwe (行知), 信区: CivilSociety
标 题: 给Microsoft的信
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 17 16:19:59 2013, 美东)
Subject: Please stop advertising Microsoft Surface during ABC Network's
Jimmy Kimmel Live show
Dear Sir or Madam,
On October 16, 2013, ABC Network’s late night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live"
aired a sketch in which a child suggested “kill everyone in China” to
solve the U.S. debt problem and Jimmy Kimmel later asked the children "
should we allow the Chinese people to live?" Th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4431 | 42 China investigating Microsoft in monopoly case
By JOE McDONALD
AP Business Writer
China's anti-monopoly agency announced an investigation Tuesday of Microsoft
Corp., stepping up regulatory pressure on foreign technology companies.
The State Administration for Industry and Commerce said it opened a case in
June after complaints Microsoft improperly failed to publish all
documentation for its Windows operating system and Office software. It said
investigators visited Microsoft's China headquarters... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19309 | 43 Xbox Co-Creator and Current Xbox Head Leave Microsoft [Update]Sources have
confirmed to Kotaku that both Robbie Bach, the current head of all things
entertainment for Microsoft, and J. Allard, one of the top men behind the
Xbox and Xbox 360, are leaving Microsoft.
In a memo this morning to Microsoft employees obtained by Kotaku, Microsoft
CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the two were "retiring" from the company.
Ballmer says that after 22 years with Microsoft, Bach, the president, of
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发帖数: 208 | 44 http://www.infoworld.com/print/203737
Microsoft augments JavaScript for large-scale development
By IDG News Service staff
Created 2012-10-01 01:53PM
Equipping JavaScript to build more complex applications, Microsoft has
augmented JavaScript with a set of advanced development capabilities
typically found in more mature programming languages, such as C++ and Java.
These new capabilities, packaged as a JavaScript superset called TypeScript,
offers static typing, classes and modularization.
"Over th... 阅读全帖 |
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