A shout out to Steve Clayton's post last week, looking at " What’s hot at Microsoft’s Science Fair? " as he covered The Microsoft Garage Science Fair … "It’s fair time at Microsoft – Tech Fest is on the horizon and our Product Fair follows...

Fresh from the Microsoft Windows Phone Newsroom today, the details on the deal with Nokia… "Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new...

Here's a link to my post last year on some helpful hints on Surviving TechReady in Seattle, from 2010 . Many of the links and info points are still relevant… Going to TechReady next week in Seattle?  It seems from what I read on Twitter that we will...

News today: we have a new president in the Server & Tools Business: Satya Nadella , a respected technical leader here at the company (as noted here: http://bit.ly/i5ovIb ). Satya moved from MBS to the Online Services Division to head up the engineering...

Just showcased today from Dell, their new prototype of a 10-inch Windows 7-based tablet, due out later this year. This from engadget today . On a side note, there's also this on Dell's new Streak 7 . Nice form factor.

W00t! Microsoft's Bing bites Google back, jumps 6% as noted by Brier Dudley today in the Seattle Times... "Microsoft's underdog search engine saw a jump in market share over the last month, increasing its U.S. market share 6 percent, according to an...

Congrats to ex Microsoft-ie @ brad_lovering , as he just joined @ Splunk , as noted at http://t.co/zfMrUPn by the Seattle Times' own Brier Dudley ... Brad Lovering, one of Microsoft's top engineers until he left last year, is heading a new Seattle...

Of interest is Rand Morimoto post today on IPv6 Static Addressing and DNSv6 , with details on configuring IPv6 addresses on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. In this blog post, Rand covers… How to statically address a Windows 2008 / Windows 2008 R2 Server...

A little humour today, just before Superbowl Sunday: this commercial from Volkswagen featuring a diminutive Darth Vader on a seemingly normal Saturday afternoon. I have seen our own son pull the same head fake at the end of the commercial when faced with...

As noted in my post "The Transition to IPv6 is not the End of the World. No, Really. " the way numbering and identifying Internet connected devices – or IP addresses – is done is changing from the current IPv4, and we will soon be adding more...

Today we were discussing the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 that I noted yesterday . To me, one of the amazing numbers in this effort are the number of IP addresses that IPv6 enables, as I noted in the post... Realizing that eventually these IPv4 addresses...

Today is my tenth anniversary of joining Microsoft, and in that time I have seen my share of interesting headlines. Today I add another one, from the article in the Wall Street Journal that notes that the "Web is running out of addresses… " (video...