Microsoft: Silverlight still has a future in an HTML 5 world

Should Web developers target Internet Explorer 9 or Silverlight when creating new Web and mobile applications? One Microsoft exec takes a new stab at an answer.

Microsoft, Intel deliver new distributed/parallel tools

Microsoft execs haven’t been beating the parallel-computing drum as loudly as they were a year or two ago, but that doesn’t mean nothing is happening in this space.

Microsoft BPOS down for 90 minutes; second outage in a month

Microsoft’s hosted suite of enterprise applications — the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) went down for 90 minutes on September 3 for a number of customers in North America.

Aircell Unwires 1,000th Plane

Aircell has unwired its 1,000th aircraft: It’s a Delta DC9 flying out of Detroit; lucky passengers will get free Wi-Fi access. Aircell says one-third of mainline aircraft flying each day in the US have its service onboard, for nearly 4,000 flights each day. Aircell’s contracts should push it to 2,000 craft in 2011.

The question is, however, whether Gogo Inflight Internet will grow large enough to be profitable, for airlines to continue to want it, and for Aircell to thrive. It’s impossible to know. None of the parties involved release enough numbers to perform a real analysis, and my estimates based on the limited data released indicate that the revenue is good but not great.

Aircell’s service becomes most useful when it’s predictably available for the routine flights of regular businesspeople. Then a fixed monthly subscription will make sense, companies will cover it for increased productivity–and there will be one more inescapable workplace in which you will toil. Excuse me: save time in the air.

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Microsoft to add ActiveSync support for all Hotmail users

Microsoft officials are acknowledging that they are planning to add ActiveSync support to Hotmail on August 30.

A billion to launch Windows Phone 7? I bet Microsoft is paying a lot more

Combining guesswork with analyst estimates, TechCrunch is reporting that Microsoft may spend as much as a billion dollars to launch and develop Windows Phone 7 in its first year. I bet that number is low, if anything.

Windows Live whiplash: Live Sync reverts back to Live Mesh

Hold onto your hats, Windows Live fans. Microsoft is making a bunch of changes to what was going to be known as Windows Live Sync, its competitor to DropBox, that is slated to be part of Windows Live Essentials 2011.

Microsoft adds new printing, charting features to Office Web Apps

Microsoft has added some of missing and requested features to its Webified version of Office, known as Office Web Apps.

Is this Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 9 interface?

Microsoft Russia’s press site, on August 25, posted information and a photo that seem to be connected to the coming IE 9 beta. (The site has since pulled their post, but I grabbed the information and screen shot in the nick of time.)

Microsoft Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 ships

Microsoft announced general availability of the final version of Exchange 2010 Service Pack (SP) 1 on August 25.