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Interesting interview of Alan Mullaly here and also here .  Mulally is Ford’s CEO, and ran Boeing’s commercial airplane business until 2006 when he replaced Bill Ford in that role (Bill Ford is still Chairman).  In my mind, hiring Mulally may...

Roger Jennings over at Oakleaf systems published a handy, illustrated walk through of Codename “Dallas” today .  Definitely check it out.  Dallas was unveiled at PDC09 , and is huge evolutionary step… not just for Microsoft or the tech industry...

The Windows Server Division weblog announced yesterday that the people who build Windows Server, Windows Azure, SQL Server, SQL Azure, Visual Studio and System Center will all now be part of the same organization, Server and Cloud Division (SCD).  ...

My colleague Jon Box did an interview on IE8 a while back with Keith and Woody for Deep Fried Bytes that was just posted.  Good, fun, educational conversation!  A few of the topics Jon covers: Design objectives behind IE8 IE8 Security IE8 performance...

It’s been a crazy week, so a few minutes ago I just felt the need to see some innovative and cool technology to re-charge the mental batteries.  I went to bing and searched for “cool new technology”.  What caught my attention was actually a...

(Note: See this is the third and final post in the series. See these links for SSD Odyssey, Part 1 and SSD Odyssey, Part 2 ) I started this series with the quest for “Extreme Windows 7 Speed”. With the results of the clean install, I knew I was on...

(Note: Continued from Part 1, here .) I purchased an OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD for $499 .  (Did I mention they were expensive?).  Even though I’m using this in my work laptop, this expense did not fit in my hardware budget so I thought hard about...