October 2003 - Posts

• Linfox and BizTalk

  Trucker ready to roll with Office Chris Jenkins over at the Australian has written a story on Linfox's deployment of Microsoft's Office System 2003. Their use of BizTalk also gets a quick plug: "Microsoft's Biztalk is being used to move information Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:38 PM by Removed=342783 | (Comments Off)

• Announcing Microsoft's Indigo

  At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003 in LA we publicly announced  "Indigo", the service-oriented framework layer of the next release of Windows (aka "Longhorn"). CRN Infoworld Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:37 AM by Removed=342783 | (Comments Off)

• Inside the IBM-Microsoft spin zoneNews.com:

  An entertaining piece from Bill Robins over at News.com : "Bill Gates and Steve Mills, who runs IBM's software business, demonstrated progress on Web services standards. For the first time in 12 years (gasp!), Gates shared a stage with an IBM executive Read More... Posted Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:37 PM by Removed=342783 | (Comments Off)

• Want to know what Microsoft Research is working on?

  Here's another interesting article from David Kirkpatrick  over at Fortune.com. He interviews Rick Rashid, who runs Microsoft Research. Glad to hear we have someone in our R&D labs who's worked on teleportation !   Read More... Posted Thursday, October 23, 2003 7:47 PM by Removed=342783 | (Comments Off)

• food for thought

  Some great quotes from BillG here  given recently at the ETRE conference in Berlin... for example: ...developing the next version of Windows (aka Longhorn) "costs as much as putting a man on the moon." ... he predicted that in three years a Read More... Posted Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:56 PM by Removed=342783 | (Comments Off)

• Microsoft beats the street!

  SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday said its quarterly profit rose on strong consumer sales of Windows and other products and raised its outlook for personal computer demand, but said corporate technology spending was lagging consumer demand. Read More... Posted Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:55 PM by Removed=342783 | (Comments Off)

• BizDex - Australian National B2B Registry

  Bizdex is a project that I am beginning to get my head around. It is essentially a collaboration between government (eg NOIE), standards bodies (eg Standards Australia), and industry (eg Aust Post, AWB, Microsoft, Red Wahoo, SAP, Sun, Tradegate, Quicken, Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:41 PM by Removed=342783 | (Comments Off)

• the old blog... the new blog

  Even though the old blog only ran for something like a week, I can't be bothered copying all of the old posts over to this (the new new blog), but if you care, you can reference them here ... for a while at least. Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:39 PM by Removed=342783 | (Comments Off)