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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:00 AM

How do I join BizSpark?

We officially launched BizSpark last week . Since then, we've seen a surge of startups and network partners requesting access to the program. There are two types of entities that can join the program: Startups - In BizSpark speak, a startup is a company
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:32 PM

Ballmer at VC Summit

Dan''l Lewin kicked off Microsoft's Annual Venture Capital Summit at our campus in Mountain View, CA today. Dan'l spoke about the Strategic and Emerging Business Team (SEBT), our Innovation Centers worldwide and our work with Students with programs like
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:58 PM

Do you like apples?

Will : Do you like apples? Clark : Yeah. How do you like them apples ? “ ai ”
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:16 PM

The Commercials – let’s call a spade a spade

I’m just as perplexed as anyone else about the commercials . I’ve been following our advertising story closely for the last couple of months right up to our launch on 9/4. But this cartoon nails the way I (and most of my friends seem to) feel:  
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Friday, September 12, 2008 6:29 PM

TechCrunch50 – crème de la crème

This week, TechCrunch reinforced itself as the most powerful tech blog on the planet. TechCrunch50 was everything it was made out to be. Startups, press, speakers – these guys were the crème de la crème of their respective contingents. The TechCrunch50
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:20 PM

Ashton Kutcher doesn’t think the Surface is just blah blah (blah)

Ashton Kutcher launched his new startup, Blah Girls , at TechCrunch50 in San Francisco this week. Ashton walked by the Microsoft lounge several times, in and out of interviews as you can imagine. From Ashton’s most recent blog post , I think he liked
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Sunday, September 07, 2008 1:30 AM

Qik announces support for more Windows Mobile devices

The mobile-based video streaming company, Qik , has announced support for even more Windows Mobile devices. Over the last few days, Bhaskar and Jackie announced support for the following devices: AT&T Tilt HTC Touch Dual HTC Touch Diamond HTC Touch
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:29 PM

Windows Server support for Amazon EC2 - coming soon

At Amazon Web Services’s Startup-Tour here in San Francisco, Jeff Barr just announced the AWS roadmap and it included “support for Windows Server”. Jeff says that Amazon has received “several requests” for Windows Server support for EC2 and while he couldn’t
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 1:04 PM

Live twittering from TechStars Investor and Demo Day

I’m in Boulder today at TechStars ’ annual Investor and Demo Day. The energy level is high, the startup teams are knocking their demos out of the park, and the who’s who from VC-land is here. And I’m sitting next to one of the most prolific bloggers,
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:28 PM

PHP on Windows Server 2008

I stumbled upon this article that I thought developers running PHP based web sites may be interested in. The authors write: A significant percentage of web sites utilize PHP as a platform for dynamic content. During the development of Windows 2008, Microsoft
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Friday, July 25, 2008 9:31 AM

Announcing support for the Apache Software Foundation

Today at OSCON , Sam Ramji announced that Microsoft will become an official sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The ASF provides support for the Apache community of open source projects. There are over 60 top-level projects at the ASF that
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Monday, July 21, 2008 7:00 AM

The Startup Meme – Phase 1, the Prototype

I’ve worked with several funded and non-funded startups during my time here at Microsoft. Having seen what works and doesn’t, I thought I’d throw together a series of posts on how to startup a software company. First and foremost, you need to have an
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Friday, June 06, 2008 6:00 AM

Breaking : Qik announces support for Windows Mobile Phones, Motorola Q and Samsung Blackjack

Citizen journalism is a growing phenomenon. The ability for us to use our phones to take pictures or shoot video using devices such as our mobile phones, and to instantly share them with the world is really quite something else. The Mars landing recorded
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Friday, April 11, 2008 10:19 AM

Jeff Atwood : Donating $5K to a .NET Open Source Project

Last year, Jeff Atwood and I had spoken about ways in which we can encourage development of Open Source projects in the Microsoft Ecosystem. At that point, Jeff decided to throw ads on his blog and to graciously donate a portion of his ad revenue to an
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 8:00 AM

what would you do if you were a Microsoft Evangelist?

I've been a Microsoft Evangelist for a few years now. From an inside-out perspective, it seems like things are going well. We spend a lot of time before a fiscal year begins laying out our goals. And typically, we do the best job we can to execute. But
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