First, there was John Topley's post earlier in the week. I particularly enjoyed it as it was from a third party, disassociated with Microsoft and from a declared platform neutral guy. Then today, I read Chris Pratley's excellent post on Word. While Chris...

John Topley has an excellent post on his blob regarding the pathology of Microsoft bashing.

Here's a very useful compatibility matrix of Microsoft product and their support for both Itanium and x64. What is x64 you ask? It is the “64-bit extensions“ technology pioneered by AMD which is in use in some of their Athlon products and...

I learned about the Smart Device Framework project today. It looks quite interesting. A lot of this functionality will ship in Compact Framework 2.0, but this is available today. It supports things like working with the Registry and programmatically adding...

Sony unveils its new “Blu-ray” laser . Say hello to 25GB per disc! The article claims 2 hours of hi-def video, but this has got to be using a really inefficient compression algorithm. It should be able to do MUCH more than that on 25 GB!

Wow, what an interesting way to fold clothes . Thanks Geeklife!

Harry Pierson raises the question, “ Is the middle tier dead .“ He goes on to say: “ Why do we distribute applications across multiple systems today? Is it because we like managing multiple systems? No! It's for scalability. We...