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As an employee, I am glad to see our stock price made new high today, while most other IT stocks went lower. The recent strong uptrend of MSFT shows the recognition on the value of Microsoft, at least by Wall Street. Anyway, we just announced Bing and
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Excited about upcoming Summer Olympics? Microsoft brings you a great digital coverage. Extracted from a promotional email : On the eve of 08.08.08 and the excitement around the XXIX Olympiad, Microsoft and NBC Sports have teamed to deliver event coverage
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Log Parser is a great Microsoft tool for processing text-based data. Its scriptable COM components can be easily consumed by .NET applications. Recently I ran into an interesting error when using the COM components with C#. The data input for the parser
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I got an email this morning saying the LIve Maps China was live today. According to the email, this first public release supports most basic map and local search features across China with details for 114 cities, plus a Public Transit feature for 11 cities,
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1,000+ participants at 30+ project sites added up to nearly 4,000 hours of service in a single day. Seattle Works Day is a fun and easy way to green up Seattle. Microsoft also broke Seattle Works Day records. We had three projects this year with over
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After working in SQL for more than 19 months, I have decided to pursue a new opportunity in Office Live. On June 1, I’ll begin my Office Live adventure.
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Cool product, cool name, cool website. I saw the demo in our company meeting and I really like it. http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Executive Q&A: What the new surface computing category means for Microsoft and consumers http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/may07/05-29Surface.mspx
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I'd like to share an interesting article on Microsoft's profits published a while ago: 10 Reinvigorating Facts About Microsoft's Profits ... Microsoft last week announced quarterly revenue of $14.4 billion and net income of $4.93 billion. In other words,
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My mentor James at Microsoft recently started a blog with the name "Progressive Development". It talks about best and worst practices of software engineering in the format of entertaining conversations between two figures Motley and Maven. I knew James
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If you don't know what Bedlam DL3 means, I encourage you to read this blog entry You Had Me At EHLO... : Me Too! Yesterday, a similar event happened, in a smaller scale though. Someone sent an announcement email to the Bluehat Alert DL with more than
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Today Bill Gates announced his transition plans: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13348456/ Essentially in two years, Bill Gates will transition away from a daily role at Microsoft to focus on the charitable work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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It’s not easy for me to start out the first blog entry so I’ll make it succinct. My name is Bill Lin and I’m a developer on the ADO.NET team. As a dev, I’ve worked on the team for 8 months. I currently am working for SqlClient. Moving forward, topics
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