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InfoPath makes developing XML forms much easier than ever before. But how do you quickly make those forms available to people external to your organisation who may not be running InfoPath on their desktop yet? Enter InfoView . A partner of ours in...

I resigned from Microsoft today after six great years. I hope some of you will subscribe to my new blog (see URL below). I know this blog has been very quiet over the last couple of months and I intend to blog a lot more frequently from now on! cheers...

A few months ago I linked to an article in a local paper which mentioned that one of Australia's largest e-tailers was still running on Microsoft ASP and SQL 7. Nothing at all wrong with that, as far as I'm concerned - plenty of businesses out there are...

I love essays like this that stretch my thinking and give me new conceptual models for understanding what I see happening each day. According to Pat Helland's “Metropolis“ article , “we are at approximately the early 1880's in urban...

This article on Skype for Pocket PC mentions that Skype was founded by the two guys who in vented Kazaa! That's news to me. Wow, talk about two guys changing paradigms...

Great to see ZDnet Australia giving Channel9 some early coverage!

I'm all excited reading miscoranda's drill-down into Gmail . This is big. As big as OutlookMT, Scoble? I dunno. But it's big. Oh, I know, web mail is old hat. Yeah but so was “search” when Google jumped into the pond. Also laughing at Kevin...

I might actually figure out how to make this scripting stuff work! AW have recently released a guide in PDF format . Source: Marc

Been reading Warren Buffett's Letter to Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders in their 2003 Annual Report . It contains a great anecdote about how a group of students from the University of Tennessee helped him decide to purchase Clayton Homes. Really worth...

McNealy (about why the deal came about): “What I think is happening, is that the customer is getting more in charge. I challenge you to find large enterprise customers who are unhappy with this deal”. What do customer's think of the Sun...

Revealing a brand synergy unprecedented in next generation gaming, Bungie today announced a list of vendors to be featured in-game in "Halo 2" the exciting sci-fi adventure heading to Xbox game systems this fall. Gee, I can’t seem to find “...

Here's a shout out to AAMI! This week we received the full payout from the recent burglary. Today we picked up the replacement video camera and I pushed in the only video cassette left behind, one I thought was blank. I pressed play and guess what? It...

Thanks to Buzz who introduced me tonight to Anagram . Anagram instantly and intelligently translates the meaningful text from any application into Outlook Contact, Calendar, Task and Note items. Great app! Just what I've needed for YEARS. The amount of...

Yesterday I had the distinct pleasure of meeting a living legend - Clive Finkelstein . Clive Finkelstein is acknowledged worldwide as the "Father" of Information Engineering (IE), having developed its concepts from 1976 - 1980 based on original work carried...

I had a laugh to myself reading this article today about a study conducted by the Online Publishers Association which analyzes the Internet habits of 18-to-34-year-olds, and guess what it found?? Gen X and Y have embraced the Web in a big way. Wow. No...

I was very impressed recently with the customer service I received from ResultsWare, the vendor of Taskline, and I want to share the story. A week or so ago, I was reading some blog, I can't remember which, but someone mentioned an application called...

What would the 12 steps look like for a recovering blogaholic? (with apologies to BillW). The Twelve Steps of Blogaholics Anonymous 01 We admitted we were powerless over blogging - that our lives had become unmanageable. 02 Came to believe that only pulling...

I'm a big fan of Wolfram's work in "A New Kind Of Science". Of course, I don't pretend to understand anything he's saying, but I do love the pretty pictures... Anyways... he's released the entire contents of the book online . Not only is the book up there...

Mitch Denny asks : I wonder what would happen if we encouraged school students to keep an open log of their thoughts about their studies that was accessible to teachers and parents where they could ask questions. Parents and teachers could then read the...

I recently finished reading "The Tipping Point" and I came away from it wondering if Scoble is a connector? The ability of a popular blogger to create a memetic epidemic seems plausible. Especially if they are connected to other connectors. Are bloggers...

Dylan talks about some of the things he discovered during his recent visit to Redmond. Among the things he found out were that none of his friends at Microsoft blogged, had heard of Scoble or used RSS aggregators. This doesn't surprise me. I talk to colleagues...

The Inquirer has this article on “the IT industry is moving away from Microsoft” (by way of Slashdot ). While it contains a lot of typically vague and vehement Inquirer/Slashdot statements, it IS worth a read, especially by MSFT folks. I do...

To find out why, jump over to the Blog Epidemic Analyzer FAQ at hp.com . And just to prove I'm not a "Blog Vampire"... source: Word Soup

As anyone who reads my blog can probably tell, I’m not a developer. Neither am I a technical evangelist. I don’t write books. I don’t write code. I don’t speak at many events. I’m not a MCSE , MCP or MVP. I’m what Microsoft internally calls a “solution...

A colleague of mine, who recently joined Microsoft from Sun, was explaining to me yesterday something known as "S.I. Compensation". This is where a Systems Integrator (S.I.) is compensated financially by a technology vendor whose products they sell. It...