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How to contradict yourself in two easy steps: Step 1. Dare Obasajno (a PM at Microsoft) argues that anyone comparing Adobe's Apollo and Microsoft's Silverlight by mentioning them in "the same sentence as if they are similar products" is proof that [ ...
Korby Parnell , Ted and I me met up and talked about Claimspace . This is what Ted thought ...here's a taster: "From what Korby showed me, over time Claimspace could solve many of the needs that Alex and I have identified for Bungee Lab’s community infrastructure...
Nice... "A frame nested in a frame nested in a frame nested in a web page. SEVEN SCROLLBARS! Someone redesign this, for god’s sake." Sadly, this is referring to an MSDN page.
A tribute to Jim Gray . Via Assaf .
I caught up with Pablo Castro, who announced Codename Astoria - Data Services for the Web earlier today at MIX07 . Here's the video of our chat together. In the meantime, there have been a number of blog posts commenting on the Astoria announcement via...
Pablo Castro has announced a very cool project , Microsoft Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web. So, if: You build data-aware web applications (are there web devs that don't?) You are interested in data access over the web (data over the web...
I've just sat through Ray Ozzie keynote here at MIX07 , his first public speaking engagement to a dev audeince since joining Microsoft, where he made a few interesting announcements relating to Silverlight . I won't repeat all the details here since Ryan...
I'll be heading down to MIX07 tomorrow. Let me know if you want to hook up (ping me at ) There will be a torrent of Microsoft product announcements over the next few days - Sam Sethi has made a number of predictions on what some of these will be....
Good thing I held on to those MSFT stocks - Microsoft grew more than a whole of Google's sales this last quarter : "Of course, even Microsoft's growth pales in comparison to Google's, which posted a 66% rise in sales in the quarter, from...
On Monday night I met up with some colleagues from my old Microsoft team (Data Programmability) for a Software Design Review (SDR) on Tuesday along with a few others external to Microsoft - Dion Hinchcliffe , Phil Wainewright , John Musser , Michael Coté...
I've not seen this Channel 9 video yet, but plan to - it's a interview (part 2 of 2) with MSDN team members discussing Korby's baby, the MSDN Wiki: "Don't know about you people, but I look at community involvement as being a great...
Apparently, Microsoft is dead . Again. Don doesn't think so . And, you know, he's got a point: "For the record, Microsoft is growing revenues at over $4 Billion a year and is on track for $50 Billion this year. If that is dead I know a lot...
Scott, I'm sorry, but this looks like old skool FUD dressed up as transparency. Tell me how I'm wrong :-)
Josh Ledgard, a program manager in Microsoft's Developer Division, has posted some details on the challenges in supporting the large number of Microsoft developers. What strikes me here is the 'transparency' of Josh's post in terms of...
Today's my last day at Microsoft , ending with an exit interview. That should be fun... Last night I had the chance to catch up with a few Softies over a few margaritas. Thanks for the send-off guys!
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