2009 and 2010 will be remembered as the time when the words "search" and "Microsoft" became closely associated in the minds of enterprise technology customers, vendors, and developers. In addition to the consumer-facing splash Microsoft has achieved with the innovative Bing, Microsoft has also been making major investments in its search offerings to businesses, government entities, and non-profits--both through internal R&D and a key acquisition. In this post, I will b ...

On September 1, 2009 Microsoft announced the availability of a preview release of Windows Embedded Standard 2011, the latest in Microsoft's line of embedded/compact editions of the Windows operating system. This allows manufacturers of devices such as point-of-sale kiosks, point-of-service handhelds, and other thin client devices to preview the latest Windows advances, including "hundreds of feature packages based on latest innovations for Windows 7."   Prior to adopting the " ...