Hi… ich hatte gerade in der U-Bahn von der Discuss&Discover ein interessantes Gespräch. Wieder mal jemand, der nix gutes zu Vista zu sagen hatte, obwohl er es nie wirklich benutzt hatte. Armes, Vista! Das war dein Schicksal. Für mich war Vista ein Developer-Release von Windows. So viele Neuigkeiten...

Hi… OK, we all need to like Twitter because we want to be Web 2.0, right?? But Twitter can be such a valuable channel to connect to your audience. But you have to respect three simple rules: 1. Offer value. Nobody will consume your Twitter feed when you simply repeat advertising messages. You need to...

Hi…   i just had an interesting morning at IDC. They presented a study around cloud computing and just as IBM, T-Systems and RedHat, Microsoft was part of the game. During the session there was this idea that ??? cloud computing = Open Source ??? at least the RedHat evangelist put it that way. His...

Hi… I found an article – actually I have seen lots of those in the past few weeks – which compares hosts to what cloud computing is about today. Mostly the conclusion is “see, we already had that all and we should never have left host computing in the first place”. Well, this is true and wrong at the...

Hi... my father is a civil engineer and I will always remember when he celebrated the 20th anniversary of his own shop quite a while ago. He started his speech with the words "We did not celebrate our first year because we did not know if we would make the second. Now - twenty years later - I think...

Hi... you all are still aware of the bug that had been introduced into Debian random key generation two years before it has been discovered. The whole IT world was victim since not only the code was used in different systems all over the place, the week keys generated spread also. In an issue of the...

…Yes, I work for Microsoft and I am proud of it. To be very honest he was one of the reasons I joined this company. The people working here are my personal reason to stay… Microsoft – Change the world or go home!!! We just started… CU 0xff

Hi… I just saw an article on WebOSes. To give a short definition: Browser based “OS” which provides basic OS functionality as reading/writing data to a simulated file system, allows multiple windows on the screen and such alike. First I was really impressed. Then I thought a bit longer … ;-) What this...

Hi... my title is "Manager Evangelism & Marketing Operations" and I am asked frequently what the reason is behind using this word: Evangelists!? Well, sometimes it is better to let others speak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_evangelist For me the idea behind Evangelism is that evangelism...

Hi... Do you know HD-Photo aka Windows Media Photo?? Anyway, it will change its name again to JPEG XR. Wow, JPEG?? Yes, JPEG. I like this story because it shows the "new Microsoft", a Microsoft which is unknown (and almost unbelievable) to some guys out there. So, let's assume we would gather a group...

HI... as usual I am listening audio books when jogging through the woods. One model really struck me (I nearly bumped into a tree while thinking about it): Think about most animals or robots: There is a direct reaction to a stimulus. Think about humans (or some higher mammals): There is a box of freedom...

Hi... in my last posting I was bit harsh to Apple because of the security of its iPhone. OK, now I learned that they even block out 3rd party software. If you try to mess around with it, it will simply block itself for ever. Anyway, this is not on me to comment... think about the guy using a three year...

HI... to make it short: Yes, you absolutely can... for a few days at least. Maybe you saw this "APPLE-SA-2007-09-27 iPhone v1.1.1 Update" announcement by Apple. It fixes (or at least tries to... who knows in the end) to fix 6 bugs in Safari, two in the mail client, and one in the Bluetooth Subsystem...

Hi... Do you now " System Administrator from Hell "?? (See here for example) I have to add the Universal Explanation: Microsoft is patching the whole planet at once and that's why the stars stop moving until all machine have rebooted. if you ever have problems with your software blame it on Microsoft...

Hi... <My-Opinion Disclaimer="This is just my personal opinion and has nothing to do with what my employer does or states. If you want to blame somebody, blame me."> I just saw an article on patents. The key messages were... "... that patents alone will not make a society an innovation...