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Sunday, March 20, 2005 6:45 PM

Stunning PDC details revealed!

Okay, maybe not so stunning, but in response to several requests that have come in from commenters and private email, I’m happy to be able to share a few key details that might help those of you trying to figure out your conference plans and budget for
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:21 PM

PDC planning and your input

Back in January, my manager ( Steve Cellini ) mentioned that he’d kindly volunteered me to be Content Owner for PDC . I haven’t blogged about that yet, as I’ve been spending the past 6 weeks trying to get my head wrapped around what exactly it is that
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:51 AM

Recent statements on WinFS, "Project Green"

Here are a couple pointers to the latest info we've made public on some ongoing development projects. I don't have any more insight to add, just wanted to make sure the links were out there in the world. WinFS: Comments from Product Manager Tom Rizzo
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Sunday, August 29, 2004 8:55 PM

What happened to WinFS?

Friday’s announcement has left a lot of people asking what happened to WinFS? The short answer is: nothing. But a lot happened to Windows. As I explained in my previous post, the customer and developer feedback we’ve been getting was consistent on two
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:49 AM

Jon Udell's blogs turn into a cover story

Jon Udell has turned his series of blog entries on Longhorn into an InfoWorld cover story . His editor makes the point that the blogging drove some great discussion and contributions to the final article. It’s cool to see that discussions I took
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Monday, June 14, 2004 10:37 PM

Did I misunderstand Udell's argument against WinFS?

Several responses to my last post on Jon Udell’s entries on WinFS suggest that I didn’t get the Jon's point at all. Dare wrote “ You missed his point almost completely .” And David (no blog link provided) said “ Next time,
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Monday, June 07, 2004 11:06 PM

Jon Udell questions the value and direction of WinFS

Jon Udell at InfoWorld is doing a series of blog entries on Longhorn. Feedster just discovered his first one, from Wednesday on the justifcation for WinFS defining a new way to manage metadata . It's a well written entry, and deserves a well thought out
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:07 PM

What? They cut WinFS??

There has been a great deal of hubub about what Jay Greene’s BusinessWeek article means for Longhorn, and WinFS in particular. I’ve been surprised by the general silence on MS blogs on this topic – which is perhaps an indication that
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Monday, March 15, 2004 3:22 PM

A WinFS scenario from someone other than me...

...and he's a real developer, even! Dan Crevier, an architect on the People & Groups team on Longhorn, has posted a write up of how WinFS would have helped him on his last software project.
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Sunday, March 07, 2004 10:53 PM

WinFS Scenario #3: focusing your dev time on what really matters

Wikis seem to be catching on some at Microsoft. Several product teams are using Wikis to brainstorm features and product design, or even more mundane things like recording meeting notes. I love the simple collaborative nature of a Wiki, the openness that
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Monday, February 23, 2004 10:51 PM

WinFS designers on .NET show -- what would you ask?

Robert Hess tells me the next episode of The .NET Show on MSDN will cover WinFS. He's interested in feedback on what topics you'd like to see covered. His guests will be: Mike Deem , Quentin Clark , and Anil Nori . What would you ask these guys about
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Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:18 PM

WinFS Scenario #2: event planning

For my second not-bad WinFS scenario , I’m going to again avoid anything that requires a bunch of new work entering or editing meta-data. We’ll get to those eventually, but I want to emphasize that WinFS can be useful without requiring the
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Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:31 PM

Feedback on scenario #1 and the meta-crap challenge

Before going on to my next scenario, I wanted to address feedback I’ve gotten so far. On the general usefulness of WinFS, Stephane Rodriquez commented that “It's not about information, it's about MESSAGE.” You can quibble with my language,
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004 5:48 PM

WinFS Senario #1: adding music to movies

For my first not-bad WinFS scenario , I wanted to pick something simple. No big behavior shifts to start adding new metadata, no huge rewriting of applications, etc. I settled on adding background music to home movies. I’ve been editing together
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Monday, February 16, 2004 11:05 PM

The condensed version

That was a long post back there, so here are my quick high level points countering the notion of meta-crap, which I hope to demonstrate with some scenarios over the next couple days: 1) meta-data on a local, individual scale is interesting enough 2) in
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