I'm watching the Obama Town Meeting at http://www.whitehouse.gov - he is talking to a teacher, and said he just talked to Bill Gates yesterday about how to use video technology to assist with teacher coaching and development. Glad Bill has a seat at the...

A couple of thoughts on "leaning" people-based processes. This is an interesting problem whether you are coming at it from a lean or a six sigma perspective. I believe that the key issues are: 1) identifying the major areas of waste and addressing the...

On Monday, Microsoft and Federated Media launched the ExecTweets site, a Twitter aggregator that allows you to easily follow the tweets of leading executives in many industries.  Check it out at http://www.exectweets.com There's a good article on...

Earlier this week Cisco announced its Unified Computing System datacenter architecture, and Microsoft was part of that announcement. This is great news on the server virtualization front. Robert Scoble has an interesting post of some inside access to...

Interesting summary of an interview this morning by the editor of BusinessWeek with Steve Ballmer . Bullish on cloud computing , Smartphones, XBOX, even Zune. Great perspective that although the markets will be in turmoil for an unknown period, when the...

New InformationWeek article offers interesting insight and analysis on Microsoft's strategy in the Oil and Gas industry, following on the heels of the recent Global Energy Forum. It mention's Ali Ferling's perspective on our strategy to enable more...