Cody Taylor

An anonymous reader writes “When is an Intel PC not an Intel PC? When it moves applications such as Internet browsing and email on to an ARM processor because it can get longer battery life. And according to a story at EE Times, this hybrid Intel-ARM processor approach is being taken by PC makers as prominent as Dell. The problem for Intel: Why would you switch out of ‘all-day’ mode and use the Intel processor? The problem for ARM: lacking support from Microsoft for Windows; the applications it runs for the PC have to do so under Linux.”

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By now you’ve heard the wacky way Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates tried last night to illustrate his point about impoverished people around the world trying to deal with the lethal problem of malaria, by opening a jar filled with mosquitoes on stage.

Last week Facebook and Meebo made an announcement to team up. The announcement was latest in a series of policy changes that indicate that IM is finally starting to open up, representing a paradigm shift could potentially lead to a slew of innovations. That is, as soon as the largest remaining holdouts – Yahoo and Microsoft – follow suit.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says companies need to ditch XP for Vista. Don Reisinger is wondering what he has against XP.

Insight into Microsoft’s fight against Intel’s GNU/Linux on the desktop

Microsoft’s answer to portions of Apple’s MobileMe service was expected to be called SkyBox, but the company is now rebranding the mobile data sync service as My Phone, according to pages posted to the company’s Windows Mobile website.

Linux is different, you see. Open source, as Microsoft is starting to recognize, is just another part of its ecosystem, one that it must support if it wants Windows to continue to be a first-class computing citizen.

Are you interested in taking the job of Director of Open Source Desktop Strategy at Microsoft? If so, here’s the LinkedIn job description. Matt Aslett at The 451 Group notes that Microsoft is looking for “a strong team member to lead Microsoft’s global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors.”