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Is Microsoft cool to students?

Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:54 PM by Daryll McDade
Apparently not. The Saturday after PDC some of my colleagues on the Academic team met with a group students to discuss “digital lifestyle”. Chris Avis was there and took some good notes. A couple of things strike me about this; 1) Windows Read More...
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Spammer to pay Microsoft $7 million

Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 7:47 AM by Daryll McDade
The fact that a Spammer has to pay Microsoft $7 million is big news IMO. In the scheme of things, $7 million isn't a lot of money to Microsoft--this is clearly about the principle. It's great that $5 million of this will go directly to Microsoft's efforts Read More...
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Convergence

Posted Friday, June 24, 2005 10:02 AM by Daryll McDade
Most people hear a word like convergence coming from a marketing guy and think "oh boy, hear comes the fluff..." But I'm gonna use it in a different context at the moment. In the case I mean when two giant black holes converge to suck up every bit of Read More...
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OMG--blogger starves to death!

Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:36 AM by Daryll McDade
I have to agree with Alex on this one-- this is easily one of the saddest things that I've ever heard . I can't imagine being so obsessed by blogging, forums and online community to the point of starving to death. Full article here . Be careful out there.. Read More...
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Kevin asks where are the marketers?

Posted Friday, April 29, 2005 2:12 PM by Daryll McDade
Big thanks to my teammate, Kevin Briody for the airtime on his personal blog. At the end of the post, Kevin asks why more Microsoft marketers don't blog. Here's my take on what's in the mind of the marketer on blogs; 1) Developers are harsh . "So what!?!" Read More...
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Can Johnny still program?

Posted Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:08 AM by Daryll McDade
Saw this article on CNET from David Patterson(President on ACM) about the showing of the US entries in the ACM student coding competition. <rant> IMO, this problem starts with high school. I have visited a TON of US high schools since starting in Read More...
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