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Thank you Microsoft, Hello Bungee Labs
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain...
Adobe on Apollo Compeitors
Very interesting post by Andrew Shebanow (senior computer scientist at Adobe), reflecting on some of the reactions and comments he's heard since Apollo went alpha , including comparisons made with other offerings (Microsoft's WPF , Dekoh , Joyent...
Microsoft and Google join OpenAjaxAlliance
I missed this yesterday, but biggish news in the Ajax-o-sphere - Brad Abrams and Brandon Le Roy announced Microsoft is joining the OpenAjaxAlliance . From the press release : ""Microsoft is joining the OpenAJAX Alliance to collaborate with other...
Now my wife will become a Cisco customer instead.
More acquisitions news: this time Cisco will acquire WebEx . I find this particularly interesting as my wife has been WebEx WebOffice customer for some years now. She runs a small business and in 2001 she was looking for her own intranet-type workgroup...
Getting the Microsoft / TellMe deal done
Following yesterday's confirmation that TellMe Networks will be acquired by Microsoft, this morning I read an article by Ina Fried based on an interview with the Mike McCue CEO of TellMe, an ex-Netscape exec ( via Dan Farber ). I'm highlighting...
Posted: Mar 15 2007, 08:43 AM by alexbarnett | with no comments
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Confirmed: Microsoft to Acquire Tellme Networks
The were rumours flying around earlier this week (and before that ), but now Microsoft has confirmed this morning it will acquire Tellme Networks : "Microsoft Corp. today announced it will acquire Tellme Networks, Inc., a leading provider of voice...
MSXML4 will be kill bit-ed in IE
The Microsoft XML team has announced MSXML4 will be kill bit-ed in IE in the October - December 2007 timeframe. The team is also *strongly recommending* developers who use MSXML to program with MSXML6 and upgrade apps using older versions to MSXML6 ....
Posted: Mar 13 2007, 08:19 AM by alexbarnett | with no comments
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Microsoft Research TechFest
Duncan Mackenzie (on the Channel 9 team), provides a pointer to the first of a number of video interviews by Rory Blythe with some MSR folk covering the Microsoft TechFest event happening this week at the Redmond Campus: "Every year at Microsoft...
Posted: Mar 06 2007, 02:48 PM by alexbarnett | with no comments
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(Hints of) The Future of Windows Live as a platform
This story at Redmond Developer News discusses the future of Windows Live as a platform and includes an interview with Adam Sohn, director of worldwide sales and marketing in Microsoft's online services group. Main points of the article (plus additional...
Dr. Peter Chen - the ER Model and ADO.NET Entity Framework - Podcast
A couple of weeks ago Dr Peter Chen , inventor of the Entity-Relationship model (ER model), visited the Microsoft Campus to provide a lecture sharing his thoughts on the ADO.NET Entity Framework . As we were planning his visit, he was very keen to make...
Voices for sale?
Congratulations to Michael Gartenberg who's moving from an analyst role at Jupiter to an evangelist role in Jeff Sandquist's group at Microsoft (the same Jeff who nabbed Jon Udell recently ). Within the comments of Michael's announcement,...
Posted: Feb 15 2007, 10:31 PM by alexbarnett | with 1 comment(s)
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Sign up for Windows Home Server Beta 2
Via the Windows Home Server blog : "While previous releases have been tested by 1000+ Microsoft employees and some of our hardware and software partners, we are now starting to invite a broader group of external testers to participate in Beta 2."...
Posted: Feb 13 2007, 09:11 AM by alexbarnett
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Create a Mashup and win $25K
Microsoft, BT and Top Coder have launched a competition encouraging developers to build 'managed network mashups' using BT's Connected Services Sandbox (an implementation of Microsoft's Connected Services Framework - CSF ). From Top Coder's...
Live Search SOAP API - Out of Beta
Nathan Buggia has announced news that the Live Search SOAP API is now out of beta. Interesting question Nathan asks at the end of his post - " I know the SOAP API is all fine and dandy for the Java or ASP.Net developers out there, but what about...
Help find Jim Gray
Werner Vogel has the details on how you can join in the herculean efforts being made to help find Jim Gray.
Posted: Feb 04 2007, 03:20 AM by alexbarnett | with no comments
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