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Hi… have you seen this http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_melds_game_show_with_video_game_in_bid_for_more_ads_53936297.html ?? This might be the biggest thing since the invention of TV some days ago. In the recent past TV suffered from its uni-directional
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Hi… Gestern war Damir Tomicic bei Microsoft in Unterschleißheim und hat dabei auch bei uns in N1.26 vorbeigesehen. Wir haben wieder – wie immer – ein wenig philosophiert und diskutiert. Dabei hat Damir in einem Nebensatz eine Aussage gemacht, die mich
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Hi… remember the “IT doesn’t matter” article of 2003 (see http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/articles/matter.html )?? That time it shocked the whole IT world. The real fear behind that was the guts feeling: it might be true somehow. Well, it is true somehow.
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Hi… i just had an interesting morning at IDC. They presented a study around cloud computing and just as IBM, T-Systems and RedHat, Microsoft was part of the game. During the session there was this idea that ??? cloud computing = Open Source ???
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Hi… I found an article – actually I have seen lots of those in the past few weeks – which compares hosts to what cloud computing is about today. Mostly the conclusion is “see, we already had that all and we should never have left host computing in the
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Hi… it is CeBIT ( www.cebit.de ) time again. Well, times are rough, budgets tight. Last but not least we all want to be more environment friendly than we have been in the past. Yes, here we go. Uwe Baumann, Product Manager Visual Studio Express here in
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Hi... my father is a civil engineer and I will always remember when he celebrated the 20th anniversary of his own shop quite a while ago. He started his speech with the words "We did not celebrate our first year because we did not know if we would
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Hi… since I was asked at a barcamp some time ago I kept an eye on a project called Community Clip within Microsoft. Now you can find the tool and the clips here http://communityclips.officelabs.com/default.aspx With the tool it is easy to record from
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Hi… I just did a talk of Server computing (as a replacement of my manager) and you can find the slides here: www.cu-0xff.de/downloads/Hpi_public.pptx The slides are a mixture of German and English… CU 0xff
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Hi... my title is "Manager Evangelism & Marketing Operations" and I am asked frequently what the reason is behind using this word: Evangelists!? Well, sometimes it is better to let others speak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_evangelist For
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Hi... this paper might contain some explosives: ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2007-167.pdf The basic idea is "The platform aims to enable selling digital content by any- one, anywhere, and anytime"... ??? The system works by having two trusted
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Hi... Microsoft Research and Microsoft adCenter recently announced the 20 winners in an Award called "Beyond Search – Semantic Computing and Internet Economics Awards" . The award had rewards around a million US$. (not that bad). http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/RFPs/beyondSearchAwards.aspx
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Hi... ever thought on buying a company to extend your capabilities?? Well, this is what larger corps like Microsoft, Cisco, IBM or others do all the time. I found a nice article on how Microsoft decides which on to acquire: http://www.news.com/beyond-binary/8301-13860_3-9824046-56.html
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Hi... Do you know HD-Photo aka Windows Media Photo?? Anyway, it will change its name again to JPEG XR. Wow, JPEG?? Yes, JPEG. I like this story because it shows the "new Microsoft", a Microsoft which is unknown (and almost unbelievable) to some guys out
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Hi... I just learned that there is a small country where Google does not own search. Remarkable that small country is China ;-) http://www.baidu.cn/ is the market leader in China. We can discuss if this is only a "China copies everything" bla-bla but
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