This article from ADT is disjointed and really muddies the waters on Whitehorse. This modeling angle and focus doesn't seem core to the product that I've been hearing about for a while, but every Whitehorse article I've seen is slightly different. What...

"Sorry Microsoft haters, but this time RealNetworks is out of line."

Sun is resorting to cheap stunts (pun intended) to gain market share with the Java Desktop System.

Here is a cool link from Stanford that demonstrates the processes used to manufacture various items. This reminds me of the "How Things Work" CD's that were so popular for kids a number of years ago. If you stop and think about it, this world we live...

Here's another .NET-based blog tool ( PowerBlog ). This one looks pretty good. [ The Scobleizer Weblog ] I'm planning to take a look at this tool as well. I'm going to test it out for my new site that will launch by the end of the year. I'll post some...

Motley Fool: " Many industry observers were quick to ask, with a mixture of snarkiness and justifiable incredulity, 'Shouldn't Microsoft already have had a division like this?'"

I've been spending time this week with an exciting piece of software related to the digital imaging industry. The software is made by Kodak , and is targeted at photo processing labs that do significant volumes of digital photo production. So I thought...

I've seen some material recently on some of the changes that Fawcette is making to its VSLive conference line up, and I'm wondering if anyone will be convinced to attend based on the expanded scope. Many of the folks that I know that used to present at...

Although I'm sure this is much more complicated than it seems to a casual observer, this story strikes me as pathetic and sad. Let's hope they get it up soon.

As Robert posted recently , he and I have had a number of discussions about writing a Longhorn book and there is quite a bit of interest from some of the major publishers. I've been pretty surprised at how well some of the ideas have been received. And...

I gave up on theSpoke.net after about a week. I didn't post much there, but I watched what was going on and decided that I agree with some of the recent comments about weblog communities. Too many of them are unfocused and don't end up leading to any...

What kinds of books are you interested to see for Longhorn? What types of developer books would you like to see? Also, what types of "power user" books would you like to see? What do you think of Brent Rector's book if you've seen it? There is a lot of...

I'm a little late to this discussion, but Scoble's comments on RSS directed to Harvard were provocative and I wanted to comment. Although I don't think his comments were very well received (perhaps with good reason), I think Scoble has a great point that...

Mike Gunderloy on Developer.com: " It's time to start thinking about what you could do with this, not time to start writing code for production."

Having compared notes with some architects that have worked on both platforms and having consulted with some people on some fairly complex application requirements where J2EE and .NET were both being considered, I would tend to agree that J2EE is "more...

PC World: "Microsoft is creating a new central engineering division that will work on the core of the Windows OS."

I decided to start a weblog at theSpoke.net to try it out and see if I like it. If I write something on technology or the industry in general, it will be posted here or on LonghornBlogs.com. If it is "politics or religion", I might try theSpoke for a...

Sam has some great comments on SOA that relate to need to evolve the analysis and design processes that many of us are accustomed to in order to effectively design and implemented message oriented applications. He also points to Shadowfax , which is a...