Profile of Paul McDougall
Editor At Large, InformationWeek
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Paul McDougall is a former editor for InformationWeek.
Articles by Paul McDougall
posted in June 2008
6/30/2008
The follow-up to 2001's Diablo II features a 3-D graphics engine that renders environments that are interactive and destructible, allowing players to create traps and obstacles.
6/30/2008
Microsoft will no longer make Windows XP available to large computer makers, such as Dell, Lenovo, or Hewlett-Packard, or to software retailers.
6/30/2008
The question is whether Ballmer, as a solo act, is up to leading Microsoft through its next set of hurdles.
6/27/2008
The computing giant plans to sequence and analyze the cocoa genome, which lies at the heart of all the world's chocolaty goodness.
6/27/2008
Microsoft will mark the end of an era this weekend as Bill Gates and Windows XP -- two icons of the company at its zenith -- head for the sunset. Can Redmond survive this transitional moment, or will June 30 be the day Microsoft died?
6/26/2008
Emphasizing that the agreement does not rule out a Microsoft takeover will likely add to speculation that talks between the two companies are quietly ongoing.
6/26/2008
Intel will not be deploying the Windows Vista operating system internally for its 80,000 workers.
6/25/2008
Fixes included in the update cover all major components of the suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage.
6/25/2008
Microsoft is reaching out to programmers with Macintosh skills in an effort to beef up its Mac Business Unit to meet rising demand for Apple-related products. Parrothead experience preferred but not essential.
6/24/2008
The cell phone maker is buying the remaining shares of Symbian for $410 million and plans to open source the mobile operating system.
6/24/2008
Microsoft may have little choice but to support XP for an extended period since most of its business customers have not upgraded to Windows Vista.
6/23/2008
The computer maker will accept orders for PCs with the older Microsoft operating system until June 26.
6/23/2008
The Microsoft chairman will retire from full-time duties this week, but expects to remain busy with his foundation's work.
6/23/2008
The court-mandated committee overseeing Microsoft's compliance with a federal antitrust settlement said the software company broke a pact when it removed some information.
6/23/2008
A British tech magazine loves the software but won't recommend it because the version on sale in the United Kingdom costs much more than the U.S. version.
6/13/2008
Jeff Bell's departure has sparked a shakeup in the company's Xbox-related business groups.
6/13/2008
File this under, "How low can you go?" A Web site is trying to capitalize on hiker-programmer Eduard Burceag's tragic death on Mount Rainier on Tuesday to hawk malicious software.
6/13/2008
Google can kill the deal if Yahoo's board is replaced by Microsoft, Time Warner, News Corp., or others.
6/12/2008
Leaders share ideas on how to get employees to embrace social networking.
6/12/2008
The breakdown of talks between Microsoft and Yahoo has cleared the way for Yahoo to pursue a search alliance with Google.
6/12/2008
Conservative group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible today by "hosting a barbecue, going for a drive, watching television, leaving a few lights on, or even smoking a few cigars."
6/12/2008
Currently, foreign models who want to work in the United States require H-1B visas, which are normally used by computer programmers and other high-tech workers.
6/12/2008
Federal appeals court judge Alex Kozinski operated a site that included sexually explicit photos of men and women and farm animals, the LA Times reported.
6/11/2008
Workers at the company now routinely post articles to a wiki called Pfizerpedia that's grown to feature more than 10,000 articles and numerous how-to videos.
6/11/2008
The forthcoming apps from Oracle mirror the look and feel of Web 2.0 social networking services -- including MySpace and Facebook.
6/11/2008
To connect its 100,000-plus employees, the financial services company is rolling out a slew of new collaboration tools anchored by Microsoft's SharePoint Server.
6/10/2008
FedEx business customers want the convenience of accessing online tools and services without having to exit their applications and launch a new browser window.
6/10/2008
Google predicts that virtually all meaningful innovation in business applications over the next 10 years will occur within the cloud, driven by four distinct trends. What are they?
6/10/2008
Vendors at the Enterprise 2.0 conference tried to convince a group of seasoned IT pros that they should put all their data in the so-called cloud and leave it to outsiders to manage.
6/9/2008
Ubuntu's consumer-friendly features have made it the Linux distribution of choice for a growing number of IT vendors. Here's a quick-start visual tutorial.
6/9/2008
Microsoft says it has no plans to produce a phone-enabled version of its Zune mobile music player.
6/6/2008
Customers that don't deploy Windows Vista are missing out on proven benefits such as better security, productivity, search, mobility, and manageability, says a Microsoft executive.
6/6/2008
Corporate raider Carl Icahn also plans to replace Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang if he takes control of the company's board.
6/4/2008
The licensing policy for Windows Vista lets customers downgrade it to Windows XP, Ballmer notes.
6/4/2008
The head of the world's largest software maker says he will retire in nine or 10 years when his last kid goes away to college.
6/3/2008
The move would allow system vendors to preload the Home edition of Windows XP on nettops through June 2010, or about one year after Windows 7 becomes available.
6/2/2008
Among other things, IE8 promises default compatibility with Web standards such as CCS 2.1 and HTML 5.
6/2/2008
Hardware makers that don't comply with the edict won't qualify for Microsoft's Windows Logo certified compatibility program for Windows 7 or Windows Vista.
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