The Web and Microsoft

Mark Hamburg, who had been Chief Architect of Adobe Photoshop has left Adobe after 17 years to join Microsoft. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Content-Creation/Microsoft-Hires-Adobe-Design-Tool-Leader/

I came across a New York Times article from February that talks about mashups and Microsoft's Popfly.  It talks about John Montgomery and his team that develops Popfly and how they somewhat break the Microsoft Mold.  It refers to Microsoft as...

I wrote a blog a few days ago about how much I love Windows Live Writer the tool I use to post blogs: Check out this video. Start your own blog with Windows Live Writer

Zune Journey, http://www.zunejourney.net/ has been nominated for a 2008 Webby award. The site was developed by T.A.G. congrats on the nomination.

There is a buzz in the "blogosphere" that Sun will close source certain features in the Enterprise version of MySQL.  It seems that the fact is that they plan to develop new features that will be created with a closed source methodology...

This week I am at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas.  The NAB show has evolved over 8 decades (yes I could not believe its been that long either) to largest trade show dedicated to broadcasting.  Anyone who plays a role...

My last couple of blog post were down with Windows Live Writer.  Windows Live Writer is a great example of Software and Services working together.  It allows to me to write my blog posts offline with full error and spell checking and then publish...

The first full day of the Microsoft Hosting Summit opened with a keynote from Martha Bejar the Vice President of Microsoft Communications Sector Worldwide.  Martha provided a welcome and overview of the event, but perhaps the person that really set...

This is a question for Hosting Companies. If you could choose any service that you offer your customers today and have a third party provide those services to your customer instead of yourself. What service would that be? Would it be mail? Would it be...

Last night the Microsoft Hosting Summit kicked out off with a really fun networking event at Lucky Strike Bowling. It was a night of food, fun, and fellowship oh yeah and of course drink. It was an opportunity for many of our hosting partners around...

Recently at South By Southwest my Colleague Michael Scherotter sat down at talked to Web 2.0 TV. Really great interview. Check out the video below:

This week I am at the Microsoft Hosting Summit.  The Hosting Summit is a two day event for hosting executives that are investing in the Microsoft platform.  It's a chance to learn and network and hear the Microsoft Software + Services Vision.  It's an...

Google is allowing users to edit documents offline now. This means more competition for Microsoft in both the online and Office World. The offline capability is currently limited to word processing documents but they do plan to add capablilities to edit...