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08 January 2008
Document Format Junky Alert - New Blogger On The Block
Gray Knowlton from the Office product team is now blogging, and it is interesting stuff for any document format junkie out there. I've known Gray for a few years now and have come to respect him for many reasons. He is patient and thoughtful in his approach Read More...
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18 November 2007
Music Consumption - Interop, Lock-in, Business Models
Before I write word one on this topic it is important to say that these are my personal observations - have nothing to do with my employer (Microsoft) or any particular industry expertise I may have. Also, this is something of a break from my ongoing Read More...
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12 September 2007
Locked-Up Data for Web 2.0?
I have not poked at a blog posting of Matt Asay's in quite some time, so no time like the present. This morning I ended up reading a post he wrote for CNET on August 20, " GPL is the new BSD in Web2.0, and why this matters ." As always Matt is pulling Read More...
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09 September 2007
Silverlight / Moonlight - Innovation and Interop
Last week Microsoft announced that Silverlight 1.0 was being released. For those of you who may not be aware of what Silverlight is, you should go check it out at Microsoft.com. To quote the marketing pitch - Silverlight is, "a cross-browser, cross-platform Read More...
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05 September 2007
Welcome To The Blogosphere Oliver
It is always good to see someone with deep industry experience, and a sharp mind decide to add his voice to the blogosphere . I have known Oliver Bell for a number of years and have always been impressed with his mix of technical acumen and common sense Read More...
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26 July 2007
Microsoft OSS Web Site
Today Microsoft launched its new open source web site . Starting in 2001, we began thinking long and hard about open source from the perspective of it as a dev model, a business model, a licensing model, and a philosophical approach to software. Like Read More...
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12 June 2007
Instructions For Insulting Me
Given that I tend to blog about contentious issues in the software industry, and that I work for Microsoft, it seems that I frequently draw the ire of some of my readers. To the extent that you wish to insult me, I now insist that you use this tool to Read More...
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13 February 2007
Schwartz Joins the Doc Format Discussion
I appreciate the fact that Jonathan Schwartz of SUN has jumped into the doc format discussion with a well thought out discussion. I think there are some important issues raised, control of your data, long-term archival of data, and most importantly, the Read More...
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12 February 2007
IPRs As Collaboration Framework
Sometimes you just have to write a response to a comment up here at the top level of the blog rather than down in the depths of the comments section. Matt Asay took my last posting and went to town on it (although he had a more thoughtful approach to Read More...
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12 February 2007
Intellectual Property - Protection vs. Collaboration
Lately I have been wondering about the relationship of IP to the ideas of protection vs. collaboration. I know that everyone is super clear that IP rights protect the IP-holder. In other words, the system grants a right and then provides an enforcement Read More...
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10 February 2007
Analysis of IBM's Intentions
If you haven't read this, it will be thought provoking at the very least. I've known Jonathan for a very long time and find this posting to be a good one. Read it here. Read More...
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01 November 2006
Interoperability Through Community - Zend/Microsoft Tech Collab
UPDATED 11/1 with links at bottom: Bill Hilf and his team have done another tech collab deal that makes a huge amount of sense to me. Zend and Microsoft announced yesterday that the two companies are going to work together to make the PHP scripting experience Read More...
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23 October 2006
Craig Kitterman Joins the Blogosphere
Craig is a colleague of mine who works on interoperability at Microsoft as a part of the Interoperability & XML Architecture team. He started blogging recently , and I am only now catching up with that. I think he is a very bright guy and I'm looking Read More...
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13 September 2006
David Rudin Enters The Blogosphere
David Rudin is one of the attorneys on the Corporate Standards Team at Microsoft (and who has been an unending source of wisdom and assistance to me) and posted his first blog posting as of today. David is an extremely smart guy and will be a great addition Read More...
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19 June 2006
Bloggers Update
I recently posted a link to Stephen McGibbon's blog and was hit with a number of complaints that his blog was stale. The good news is that he has be re-bitten by the blog bug and he is a smart guy with lots to say. Another good man who is new to the blogosphere Read More...
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