Randy Holloway at Microsoft

Microsoft has an uncanny ability to make you want to spend money on their products. I'll admit it, my judgement is a little cloudy after receiving this gift at the summit today. I'll try to get this out of my system before blogging more on the event.

Presenter- Rob Relyea, Lead Program Manager Rob is providing an overview of "Xaml" declarative programming model and how this ties into the Longhorn model. Carl covered this earlier today. The presentation framework for Avalon, currently under the MSAvalon...

I ran across this story on Slashdot, but I'll link straight to the source . This is unfortunate, but I'm sure there is a more complete story to be told here. In the words of one Microsoft person who shall remain nameless, this is a "PR nightmare" as Microsoft...

The keynote on Yukon and WinFS was delivered by Gordon Mangione . Gordon pushed the .NET integration with Yukon and strongly emphasized the flexibility that comes with the .NET platform. One interesting note was Gordon's claim that Reporting Services...

I finally had a chance to meet Scoble in person. He and I have IM'ed and have talked on the phone before, but it is always more fun to meet face to face. We talked about a number of things including market opportunities in the technology arena, the impact...

I have a few questions that should be pretty easy. Anyone who knows the answers, please post a comment. What will be on the PDC DVD? If you attended the conference, will it be free or do you have to order it? If the DVD does NOT include video of the talks...

UPDATE- Fixed some typos here, forgive the errors in my notes. Presenter- Srik Raghavan The following are notes from the talk: This talk started with the goals for web services in SQL Server. The goals for the implementation are outreach and interoperability...

First off, let me say that this is a tough event to blog. The reason for that is that if you're invited to this event as a partner or as a customer, the expectation is that you're going to be marketed to. That's the purpose of the event. Microsoft is...

I got here a little bit early, but already in the meeting room were Clemens and Chris . More than anything, I'm hoping to get to put together some faces with some names from all of the sites that I've been reading over the past year and a half or so....

I'm going to start posting Yukon content on a weekly basis, if not more often, starting at the PDC. Now for the questions. Should I segregate that content into a separate weblog, or would you like to see it here? If I create a new blog for that content...

I've had trouble posting to this .Text site with NewsGator as of about two weeks ago, and filed a bug report here . Prior to that, it always worked. I'm not aware of anything having changed, has anyone else experienced this problem?

Don was talking about implementing transaction support in Indigo, and had a funny comment. He said that all of this has to work for VB programmers, because it is their world "and the rest of us are just visiting." It was said in jest, but it reminded...

When I had the chance to ask Steve Ballmer a question, the thing that was on my mind was the recent product liability case against Microsoft that has received some publicity. So I asked Steve the following questions. "What's your vision of how software...

Another insightful article from Techweb . If you don't have time to read it I'll sum it up for you- if you want to buy Microsoft's upcoming offerings that will further integrate Office with enterprise software, it will probably cost you money . Gee, I...

This is old to many of you I'm sure, but this article is referenced in Bill Joy's recent Fortune magazine interview . For those new to it, enjoy.

Dare recently wrote up some of his thoughts on SOA . I thought Clemens' post on this a while back was pretty thoughtful as well. He also responded to reader comments here . Microsoft is talking a lot about SOA as well recently, and a fairly recent MSDN...

I get e-mails requesting my advice on writing for periodicals from time to time. I'm sure other people get many more requests than I do. But the best advice I can giving on writing and taking input on your writing can be summarized in previous posts from...

I'm attending Microsoft's CIO Summit today. The trip out here was really a grind, but now that I'm here I'm enjoying it. As usual, Redmond is a lovely change of scenery for those coming from the midwest. Too bad the Pacific Northwest is so far away from...

Right out of the gate at the CIO Summit, Microsoft assumed the role of being their own worst critic. In light of the security concerns over the past year, this makes a lot of sense. I have an appreciation for the approach that they took in communicating...

Mike Gunderloy posted a comment today on Joel Spolsky's recent article on unicode and character sets , and I had to link to it. Basically, if you're trying to commit large blocks of information about software development to memory you're going down the...

There is an article recently published on Scoble's impact on corporate blogging . It has an "insider" feel to it, but the premise of the article is quite valid. And having met Scoble recently, he is definitely the genuine article. Let's hope that his...

I'm leaving on Sunday morning to make the trip out LA. For those that I haven't met in person yet, here's a picture. Feel free to come up and say hello- and I'll try to do the same.

Thurrott is blogging, er, reporting from the PDC this week . I'll be interested to see if has anything to add over what is reported in the weblog world.

According to this InfoWorld article , DB2 will deliver .NET development capabilities and CLR integration for server-side application logic in DB2. And the product will also ship prior to Yukon.