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Notes of the Microsoft-Yahoo analyst call
29 July 09 02:40 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   
Found some good minute-by-minute summary notes of the Microsoft-Yahoo conference call with analysts on the new partnership here .  Update: You can also go here to see videos of Ballmer and Bartz talking about the deal, as well as sign up for news Read More...
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Thumbtack improving on bookmarks + A Thumbtack collection on Microsoft's Data Centers
17 April 09 12:08 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
(NOTE: Removed links as the Thumbtack experiment has ended... the service is no longer available. -JohnM, October 27, 2009). Thumbtack is a handy little resource for organizing and sharing information you find on the web into collections. Of course, bookmarks Read More...
The Next Next Next Big Thing
02 March 09 01:02 PM | john.mullinax | 3 Comments   
Stephen Elop is an interesting guy.  He’s President of Microsoft’s Business Division, but he’s also been a leader at Juniper, Lotus, Macromedia, and Adobe.  He spoke recently to Wharton students about the future of business technology. Most Read More...
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So bad, it’s good?
03 October 08 08:46 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
Ok, so you may or may not have been a fan of the Bill and Jerry ads.  Either way, Jon and Neil point to something surely far worse – so bad, in fact, it’s absurdly funny!  Don’t believe me?  Think boy band singing about computers – and Read More...
The purpose of Chrome, and how it may be good for Microsoft
05 September 08 07:43 PM | john.mullinax | 7 Comments   
Started this as a comment on Larry Digan's blog here , but it ended up so darn long I decided to make it a post on its own right here. A few more thoughts on Chrome. Just my 2 cents. -John ... More than anything else, Chrome strikes me as a "trojan horse" Read More...
Tech Tracks | Microsoft launching Windows ad campaign at 5:15 p.m. with spot on NFL season opener tonight
05 September 08 04:00 AM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   
Here's the ad, courtesy of a Seattle Times.  So what do you think?  Tech Tracks | Microsoft launching Windows ad campaign at 5:15 p.m. with spot on NFL season opener tonight | Seattle Times Newspaper Blog Technorati Tags: Advertising , Microsof Read More...
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Brian Jones: Open XML Formats
02 April 08 09:38 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
In case you missed it, ISO has approved Open XML as a standard.  Brian Jones has more here .   What does this mean?  Well, among other things it means that the next version of Office ("Office 14" is the inspiring code name) Read More...
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Microsoft to give out development tools to students | Markets | Markets News | Reuters
19 February 08 07:02 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
Historically, Microsoft's free development tool software program for students has been controlled by computer science departments.  This has probably been one of multiple reasons that comp sci students have disproportionately taken advantage of Microsoft's Read More...
S+S Example #1: Ford Work Solutions
08 February 08 08:01 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
Computers and software can do lots of interesting things, and more every day. While I love websites -- I don't want to be completely constrained to them. For example, i like having things like Zune , my smartphone , Windows Live Writer , etc. as part Read More...
Filling the Boomer Gap in Automotive, post-SYNC what comes next?
11 January 08 05:11 PM | john.mullinax | 3 Comments   
Ed Wallace has a great article in Business Week about the impact of mass demographics on the auto industry -- fun to read, and insightful. Years ago, I remember walking through Ford WHQ and seeing a distinct focus on Gen Y . Gen X isn't big enough to Read More...
High quality music streaming over the Internet to your car stereo
10 January 08 03:57 PM | john.mullinax | 3 Comments   
You may have heard that Ford SYNC (based on Microsoft's Windows Automotive ) will play music from your mp3 player, or even from a USB drive, as the video here shows. Turns out you can also stream music from either a phone or a laptop via a mobile phone Read More...
Miss your chance to see BillG keynote CES? See him keynote the Office Developers Conference 2008!
08 January 08 06:01 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   
The Office Developers Conference (ODC) is coming up quick, starting 10-Feb-2008 in San Jose this year. Should be an awesome event! Office 2007 is by far the best Office yet to build solutions on, and now that it's got a year on the market under it's belt Read More...
A Guide to the BillG Keynote at CES
07 January 08 08:39 PM | john.mullinax | 8 Comments   
Bill Gates gave the opening keynote at CES the other day. You can see a video of it here. I didn't think the press and blog coverage that I saw this morning did a very good job exposing the ton of cool stuff he covered, so I whipped together this guide Read More...
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Microsoft's Software + Services strategy in 10 minutes or less...
16 November 07 10:00 AM | john.mullinax | 5 Comments   
I got an email recently asking me to present Microsoft's Software + Services strategy at an internal Microsoft meeting recently. The challenge: keep it under 10 minutes. After the session it occurred to me that a lot of folks might get something out of Read More...
Now available for your review: .NET Source Code!
05 October 07 12:48 AM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   
Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Silverlight , source code Is Microsoft changing?  Releasing .NET source code as shared source (using the MS-RL -- Microsoft Reference License) would've been unthinkable a few years back.  It's not open source in Read More...
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