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Four years ago a wonderful application called Sideshow came out of Microsoft Research. It was the standard docking-bar-full-of-applets-on-the-side-of-your-screen (way before Apple Widgets and Konfabulator), but the part they really nailed was how natural Read More...
The Visual Studio 2005 evangelists have created a new community marketing experiment: High Five Wikisheets . Microsoft marketing has taken some flak in the past (ahem), but this wiki seems to be pure Cluetrain Manifesto material. Risky, radical, and all Read More...
We've done the " silly Microsoft product names " thing before, but in an internal discussion Larry Osterman upped the stakes with the following contender: " Microsoft Windows Server Base Operating Systems Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager Read More...
It's no secret that there's been an increasing amount of cheating on Halo 2. Evidently when Bungie released the new downloadable maps they weren't far enough ahead in the developer-vs-cracker arms race, and modded versions started showing up on XBox Live Read More...
In an anonymous comment on “ Patch for tcserver.exe memory leak on Tablet PC - at last! ”, zzz asks: What was the point in “keeping quiet”? Is there some kind of NDA that stops from stating the obvious thing (holy cow we have a bug in our perfect product!) Read More...
I've ranted before about Microsoft product names, so it's nice to see that I'm in good company : CNET Interviewer : “You made a comment this morning poking fun at a Microsoft product name. Do you think Microsoft is good at marketing?” Steve Ballmer : Read More...
Charles and the gang just showed off a new feature for the first birthday of the Channel 9 community site - readers can now post handwritten comments using a Tablet PC! Or a mouse, plus sufficient determination :-) Here's the first of many ink posts in Read More...
Jim Glass just announced Microsoft Forums , the next links in the Microsoft developer division’s “ virtuous feedback loop ”. The idea is pretty simple – “hey, why don’t we give our users web forums in which to talk, as well as newsgroups” – but Jim does Read More...
As Josh Ledgard and Brian Johnson have noted, the upgrade of blogs.msdn.com to Community Server 1.0 changed the URL format for all of our category feeds. If you were subscribed to any of my individual categories, those feeds are now failing with no redirects Read More...
Congrats to Betsy and her team on completing the second half of the March Blog Massacre : blogs.msdn.com is now happily ensconced on shinier servers running much shinier software (in case you missed it, the first half was the migration of some IT Pro-focused Read More...
This has been a bad time for a couple of bloggers that I read. First Jeremy Wright was refused entry into the US by a customs agent who couldn’t believe that blogging is a paying job (and didn’t believe any of that newfangled Skype stuff, either). This Read More...
Not enough blogging this month - I've been getting back into coding. And, as those of you who read Channel 9 might have spotted, breaking the build . In fact, the dev team didn't even get their bagels for another week after that post, which shows just Read More...
No sooner did I mention Blogjet than Dmitry Chestnykh announced a new version . So if you're looking for a great WYSIWYG blogging tool, go grab the beta of version 1.2 from his downloads page . And this post isn't really about Halo 2 multiplayer tactics, Read More...
This was one of those games where you immediately realize, based on long and hard-won knowledge, that you should quit right afterwards. Because that's as good as you're gonna get all night, and if you play even ONE MORE ROUND, you'll be there for hours Read More...
It's official - I'm a WikiGnome Read More...
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