Way back when , I wrote a couple of posts about ITIL and MOF (ITIL is an industry-standard set of best practices for running your IT department, and MOF describes how to apply those standards to Microsoft applications). Not much happened because, well...

Tomorrow’s New York Times is running an article by Steve Lohr entitled “ A Front-Runner at Microsoft, but There’s No Race Yet ” (registration required). The article is mostly about Eric Rudder, Senior VP of the Server and Tools division and about five...

I have an entire category about capacity planning , so it's probably time to define what capacity planning is. Here’s what current Microsoft literature has to say: “Developing a Capacity Plan, analyzing the current situation, and predicting the...

Raymond Chen (aka "fixed more Windows bugs than you've had hot dinners") and Rico Mariani (aka "Mr .NET Performance") have been running a great series of articles where they write and then optimize the same application in two different languages: native...

Major Nelson of XBox Live has just posted four articles comparing the XBox 360 to the Sony PS3: part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 . If you're tired of reading comparisons written by fanboys who've never taken a computer architecture class in their...

[I originally posted this two weeks ago, but it got lost when they had to roll back the servers, and it doesn't look like the original is coming back anytime soon] I’ve added a bunch of new links to the non-admin wiki , taken from various blog posts...

Only very short posts go through. Betsy is on the case. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible...

Several months ago I started writing a review of FeedDemon and NewsGator, together with an explanation of why I switched (twice). Now that FeedDemon has been bought out by NewsGator , it’s probably time to finish that review… Like Alex Barnett , I...

Larry Gregory has posted a great video from the Microsoft Management Summit — well worth watching, even if you were there in person! It's the "Management" episode of his ISV Show series, so as well as walking around the conference floor and interviewing...

The MSN Search team have just announced that their desktop search tool is out of beta. You can read more about it in this CNET article (via Scoble ), or go straight to the download page like I did. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve become reliant...

I’ve had a couple requests for a picture of the MMS 2005 conference bag that I enthused over :