August 2008 - Posts
There is some exciting things going on with our Enterprise customers today. It started as a small trickle - Instant Messaging and portal collaboration. Peoples eyes began to open and the whole "Web 2.0 in the Enterprise" buzz began.
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Marketing 101 - if you can influence people's perception of something enough, it will become the reality of the situation for them regardless of the truth. Enter the Mojave Experiment . What happens when you take 140 people, 22 hidden cameras and show
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Check out this ABC News video on how the Democratic National Convention is using Silverlight to enable viewing on the web. Similar to what you saw with the NBC Olympic coverage . There is also as a Microsoft Surface application at the convention
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New music... I've been needing some for a while now. I am tired of rehashing the same stuff over and over while traveling. But how can I find music from bands I've never heard of without first being told of those bands? Enter the Music genome
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Steve Ssinofsky , haven't heard the name yet? You will. Steve is the Senior Vice President, for Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group in charge of the development of Windows 7. He's been making a lot of changes, changes for the
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If you remember I blogged about a Microsoft Labs experiment last year called Photosynth . Well the team has just released a client and it is creating quite the buzz. You can download the client yourself here . Best of all –
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As I mentioned previously, I am a fan of fully customizing the look and feel of my windows machines. One of the applications I have been using a lot recently is called Deskspace , from Otaku Software . Deskspace is a virtual desktop manager
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I blame my experiences with Facebook . More and more I have found myself looking at my friend status updates. No new e-mails? Nothing happening on the Information Super Highway? Well let’s go check out what our friends are doing?
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As you may have heard , we released Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM earlier this week. Even though I wear a Microsoft badge - I always like to wait a bit before I install any RTM release on my "production" machine. This isn't to say I
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I am been really impressed with the quality of video coming out of the NBC Olympics site. This is exactly what I had in mind when I talked about delivering Olympic content in new and exciting ways. By now you probably heard about the world
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Lots of stuff to talk about in this release – better scalability, concurrent workload management, new data encryption, and new policy based management. What has me excited? The new Business Intelligence (BI) features: “SQL Server 2008 BI—Is It for Your
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The Silverlight enabled Olympics site unveiled at Mix last year has now gone live. In this age of online community how do you take a well defined brand, like the Olympics, and make it relevant to that audience? After all, most of us spend
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