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Hailstorm May Mean End Of Free Email
News Microsoft's Hailstorm could be the deathknell for free services such as email and messaging, say analysts. The software company unveiled details of HailStorm on Monday, calling it a cornerstone of its software-as-a-service initiative known as .Net.
[March 23, 2001, 7:53]
Messenger Woes Cast Cloud Over Hailstorm
News Fitzgerald also said that Microsoft has no plans to mine, sell, target or publish people's data stored in HailStorm. In the HailStorm plan, Microsoft becomes the conduit for a wide range of consumer information, from addresses and schedules to...
[July 10, 2001, 9:42]
Microsoft Blinded By HailStorm
News Microsoft's HailStorm initiative has been described as everything from a weapon aimed at America Online to a crucial component of the software giant's move to a subscription-based business model. But how, exactly, will HailStorm work, and where...
[August 31, 2001, 8:10]
Microsoft Hailstorm Rains On AOL
News Microsoft on Monday launched a set of software building blocks, grouped under the code name HailStorm, for its .Net software-as-a-service strategy. Along with HailStorm, Microsoft marshaled out new versions of its Web-based Hotmail e-mail service...
[March 20, 2001, 7:26]
MS Brewing A 'HailStorm' To Battle AOL
News But privately, Microsoft is pushing equally hard, if not harder, to sell developers on an upcoming set of Web services building blocks codenamed Hailstorm that could be used as part of a new offensive against America Online and its dominance in...
[February 15, 2001, 12:21]
Building User-Centric Experiences: An Introduction To Microsoft HailStorm
White Papers Over the past 25 years, information technology has provided incredible value for users and businesses. Even so, there is room for significant improvement. Individual applications and devices are narrowly focused and ignore the rest of our world.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
McNealy Scoffs At .Net
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Monday that the company's software-as-service strategy will not generate significant profits for several years -- a position that drew a hailstorm of criticism from the company's chief rival.
[July 24, 2001, 14:54]
Microsoft To Open Passport To Competition
News HailStorm has a large piece that is consumer-oriented," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in a recent interview with CNET News.com. In addition, Microsoft is renaming its HailStorm Web services initiative as .Net My Services.
[September 20, 2001, 13:10]
Controls Eased On MS Passport
News The company is facing scrutiny over a major new software initiative dubbed "HailStorm" that will build on 2-year-old Passport and other Microsoft technologies to create a new method of delivering software applications over the Internet.
[April 5, 2001, 8:03]
Allchin: Microsoft Sticking To Its Guns
News If you use Windows Messenger in XP -- and you can choose not to -- you will have to use the HailStorm Passport and the Rendezvous services. Attorneys general such as Iowa's Tom Miller, in Des Moines, are already concerned about HailStorm and XP.
[August 7, 2001, 9:05]
Gates Says .Net On Track
News The company envisions linking content delivery, shopping, banking and entertainment through a variety of devices -- including mobile phones, PCs and handhelds -- through HailStorm, which relies on Microsoft's Passport authentication system.
[July 27, 2001, 10:13]
Bill Gates: Designing Your Future
News In an exclusive interview, Gates explained why he thinks HailStorm is worth paying for, why Microsoft has attacked open source development, and where the company is spending its $5bn-per-year research and development budget.
[June 20, 2001, 13:25]
Court Ruling Could Make Microsoft Bolder Than Ever
News But this year, Microsoft will blitz the market with new products, such as the HailStorm Internet service, the Windows XP operating system and the Xbox video game console. Microsoft's most ambitious project this year may be HailStorm, one of the...
[June 29, 2001, 9:04]
Windows XP Needs Passport To Travel
News The first .Net building block, HailStorm, relies heavily on Passport, which Microsoft has used for some time for its MSN Messenger and Hotmail services. There are very real consumer issues with Passport, HailStorm and .Net taking away consumer...
[June 22, 2001, 9:26]
Microsoft: Ready For Open Source Threat?
News Microsoft needs to control the server operating-system market if HailStorm and all the .Net services and subscriptions associated with it are to succeed, analysts say. Microsoft.Net and HailStorm make use of XML (Extensible Markup Language) to pass...
[June 19, 2001, 11:29]
E-commerce: Familiarity Breeds Content
News Storing personal information online has become a hot topic as Microsoft works to develop its HailStorm service, which is central to its strategy of conjoining its applications with Internet services. The software giant envisions tying content...
[August 14, 2001, 10:42]
Privacy Advocates Take Aim At Windows XP
News Through HailStorm, which relies on Microsoft's Passport authentication system, the company envisions connecting content delivery, shopping, banking and entertainment, through a variety of devices, including cell phones, personal computers and...
[July 26, 2001, 10:28]
MS Messaging Tactics Recall Browser Wars
News Analysts said Microsoft views instant messaging -- a key element of Windows Messenger -- as glue for its new Internet services such as Passport and HailStorm. It's also a carrier of the screen name, and Microsoft wants people to use Passport and...
[June 7, 2001, 16:02]
Microsoft Outlines .Net Plans For Mac
News As for where Microsoft currently stands in its road to .Net, Browne said that the project was perhaps approaching the end of its first stage, which would be the implementation of Hailstorm, Microsoft's initiative for providing a single log-in for...
[July 20, 2001, 9:10]
Microsoft Takes Passport To Washington
News HailStorm is part of Microsoft's forthcoming .Net software-as-a-service strategy. Passport also is the authentication for HailStorm, which has been billed as a way for subscribers to access their email, personal contact list, schedule and other Web...
[August 23, 2001, 8:48]
