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I haven't been a real big fan of Microsoft's PR machine post-Allchin. It seems like as soon as Jim left and Windows Vista was released, the heavy-hitters at Microsoft went on vacation, and the second string PR people have been running the show ever since. For example, last week Microsoft stunned the...

Maybe I won't have to cancel my subscription to PC Magazine after all. Apparently my post last week raised quite a bit of hell inside the walls of Ziff Davis (which is exactly what I had intended it to do), and they swiftly came to their senses. A search on Microsoft-Watch for "Fiji" shows that Mary...

It's just not Joe Wilcox's week. On Thursday, I beat him down for extremely faulty logic regarding his post on the Windows Vista Family Discount. The this morning, Ed Bott calls him out for not fact-checking his post about IE7 woes. If the comments on the stories on Microsoft Watch are any indication...

Joris Evers from C|Net covers a Gartner report that says that HIPS solutions will not work on Vista x64 . But wait a second, didn't BetaNews.com just post an excellent article about how the Sophos antivirus product works like a charm on Vista x64, without interfering with PatchGuard? In an interview...

Joe Wilcox has a long and interesting post about Windows juxtaposed against the offerings of Web 2.0 companies, in respect to Microsoft's recently announced Software Protection Platform. He thinks that Web 2.0 companies have the better business model. Web 2.0 business models are great, but I don't...

Alright, I admit it. I knew what was going on all along . Mary Jo Foley dropped a bombshell this afternoon , announcing she was leaving MicrosoftWatch to branch out on her own after 11 years at ZiffDavis. What are her plans for the future? I have the exclusive Exit Interview. RWM: You’ve been covering...