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Microsoft submits code to Linux, and Linus talks OSS Hypocrisy

Background On July 20th, Microsoft announced and submitted 20K lines of code to the Linux source machine. Here’s a quote in PressPass from Tom Hanrahan, Director, Open Source Technology Center (OSTC): Today we’re releasing Linux device driver code to Read More...
Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 12:45 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

What are the Microsoft codenames “Oslo” and “Dublin”?

What is "Oslo"? (from the “Oslo” developer site ,) "Oslo" is the code name for our platform for model-driven applications. The goal of "Oslo" is to provide a 10x productivity gain by making model-driven applications mainstream. Read More...
Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 12:36 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Microsoft’s Battle Against Conficker includes Bounty of $250K

Many folks have asked me about Microsoft’s reward program to find the authors of the Conficker/Downadup worm. So, I did a little checking into this and here’s the scoop. Back in the fall (2008), Microsoft was made aware of the Conficker virus and provided Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 14, 2009 9:27 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

The Interoperability Principles

Working in a competitive environment for a successful company, one often hears perceptions of different leaders. Some are intelligent issues, and some are of a different category – myths, lies, FUD, etc. Since I heard one today that was incomprehensible Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:31 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

LAMP, WAMP, and WIMP

I have had several of my Linux friends lately come to me about their unhappiness with their world, and if they could move their apps to Windows. I keep telling folks that this is possible, but I haven’t tried it myself. But now, here’s a resource. Keith Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:53 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V RTM

The Hyper-V team has been working hard on the product, as well as working with customers to get an early BANG with Hyper-V. For example, on June 25, Rob Emanuel posted about his usage of Hyper-V on Microsoft.com . This is a good read due to the background Read More...
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 2:52 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments
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Case Study: Bargainland builds Bidtopia.Com

Last year, John and I ran across a new company that had moved to town (thanks Diana for the intro). Several things caught my attention about them. First, they were hard at work with .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 Beta, and second, their business model of "reverse Read More...
Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 2:11 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

TechEd Announcements and Sessions hitting the Internet

Tech Ed 2008 site Tech·Ed NA Developers Keynote delivered by Bill Gates Also, check out Denny Boynton and other DPE folks doing Tech Interviews . There's quite a who's-who list of folks, interviewers and interviewees. Microsoft PressPass TechEd Virtual Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:54 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

.NET StockTrader 2.0 and Configuration Service 2.0 now live on MSDN!

As you may have seen a year ago, Microsoft released .NET StockTrader 1.0 to show how .NET 3.0 could work in the context of the IBM WebSphere's Trade 6.1 reference application. We've now upgraded ours to reflect the enhancements in .NET 3.5 and Windows Read More...
Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 4:28 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Compare Windows vs Linux

For years, Linux has been formidable competitor to Windows - for some good reasons, but sometimes from folks who speak out of un-education (typically religious positions). In years past, I've pointed out resources to clarify this (from my first blog pushing Read More...
Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 10:56 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

My Next Few Weeks

They are going to be some busy ones - but I'm looking forward to them. Metro Mobility Hands-On Lab in Memphis - May 13-15. A 3 day event where we cover the fundamentals of building applications on Windows Mobile. We have a couple of seats left. Contact Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:09 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Huge web attack blamed on IIS?

Don't know if you saw this, but it's certainly scary . There are several articles out about a massive web server attack, and these articles are blaming this on a vulnerability in IIS. Reportedly, this has impacted 100K+ servers. The Microsoft Security Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:24 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Windows Media Services 2008 is RTW'd

RTW - "Released to Web", very similar to "Released to Manufacturing". RTW is for bits downloaded via the Internet. This week, Microsoft released the media services update for Windows Server 2008. And update is the wrong word here, Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:39 AM by jonbox | 1 Comments

DreamSpark, for students

Wow, what a great idea. I think it is cool that a student can choose from a expensive list of software. And it's not just any list, it's a set of products that could allow for some industrious student to get their feet really wet. It's hard to not get Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 2:43 PM by jonbox | 2 Comments

Videos: Life At Microsoft, and Hanselman's Home Office

Here's a video (4.5 min's) about some misperceptions about our world inside of Microsoft, thanks to Channel 10 . Sorta funny. I also found another interesting video, Show Us Your Home: Scott Hanselman Edition (20 min's). Well worth the watch as Scott Read More...
Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 9:25 AM by jonbox | 2 Comments
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