Use technology to make life better – for your family, friends, neighbors, customers, suppliers, partners, and yourself. Sounds obvious, and yet sometimes it’s not. Take the so called “mobile web”, which excels primarily in sucking. So often people try...

Jim Nakashima has a handy little post here on an easy way to get all the Windows Azure tools and SDK pre-requites installed.  The secret is to use the Web Platform Installer, which you can get here .  But read Jim’s post for the step-by-step...

Was thinking about posting a response to the recent McKinsey report on cloud computing for large enterprises, but then came across Nick Carr’s post and he’s spared me the task.  :-)  Nick’s analysis is spot on, and is worth quoting a full paragraph...

(NOTE: Removed links as the Thumbtack experiment has ended... the service is no longer available. -JohnM, October 27, 2009). Thumbtack is a handy little resource for organizing and sharing information you find on the web into collections. Of course...

Did I just hear Kara Swisher from All Things Digital’s BoomTown blog let it slip that she agrees with Microsoft on “Software-plus-services”?     Kara interviewed Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft’s Business Division, about 10 days back...

Patric McElroy, Group Program Manager of SQL Data Services team talks with Michael Cote of RedMonk about what’s coming with the new SDS, and where there will be symmetry with SQL Server.  Really nice interview!  This was recorded a few weeks...

Just saw this fun video from a post over at Live Side … funny thing, they hone in on whether or not one of the device interfaces is a preview of Windows Mobile 7 with a Zune app.  To me, the the far more interesting thing is the qualitatively new...