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Senior VP at the Intern Party?

kevinbri — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:27:00 GMT

Steven Sinofsky, a senior vice president at Microsoft in the Office group, has a blog. In his latest entry he talks about a party the Office group throws for their summer interns. I think it is interesting that Microsoft VPs believe that interns are important enough to show up at parties to talk to them. OK maybe it is that the parties are fun but still ...

In actual fact I have found that the VPs I have wanted to contact have all been very approachable. That's one of the things that makes Microsoft a great company to work for.

- Alfred (Microsoft)

TechEd

kevinbri — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:49:00 GMT

Over at theSpoke, Brian Scarbeau is blogging about TechEd. Sounds like he was impressed with the opening keynote.

- Alfred Thompson

MSN Newsbot

kevinbri — Fri, 13 May 2005 06:20:00 GMT

MSN Newsbot uses search and MSNBC to gather news from over 4,000 sources on the internet. Read all about it at the MSN Sandbox. Try the US version at http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com But if you live some place else visit the Sandbox site for direct links to well over 20 custom bots for different languages, countries and parts of the world.

- Alfred Thompson

Xbox power cords recalled

kevinbri — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:51:00 GMT

MSNBC reports that Microsoft is recalling 14.1 million power cords for its Xbox video game console. Order your free replacement today from http://replacements.webprogram.com/index.asp.

-James (California State Univ., Long Beach)

Tsunami assistance just by changing your avatar

kevinbri — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:04:00 GMT

Mario Jobbe says that from now until the end of February, theSpoke will donate $5 to the Red Cross for every avatar that is changed on theSpoke to one of three icons:

Blue Avatar (tsunami_help_blue.gif)
Green Avatar (tsunami_help_green.gif)
Red Avatar (tsunami_help_red.gif)

When you change your avatar, please name the picture file one of the three names in parenthesis above.

All donations will go to help those affected by the tsunami tragedy in late December. At the end of February they will count the number of changed avatars across theSpoke community and will donate up to $5,000 to the Red Cross in early March.

-James (California State Univ., Long Beach)

Who is your MSA?

kevinbri — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:56:00 GMT

For those attending a school in the United States you can now find out if there is a Microsoft Student Ambassador on your campus. Check out the Student Ambassador site and learn how you can become a Microsoft Student Ambassador!

-James (California State Univ., Long Beach)

Up for the ChallengE?

kevinbri — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 03:23:00 GMT

Alfred Thompson says the sign up for Windows Challenge has been extended until February 6th. This is a great contest for Computer Engineering students. Sign up today!

-James (California State Univ., Long Beach)

Linux Vulnerabilities Creep Toward the Desktop

kevinbri — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:13:00 GMT

As Linux increasingly hits the enterprise and consumer mainstream, a growing number of security threats are emerging which prey on holes in applications and files managed by desktop users. Read more...

-James (California State Univ., Long Beach)

Get your search results as RSS Feeds

kevinbri — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:56:00 GMT

Ever wanted your search results as an RSS feed? Now you can as msnsearch's WebLog explains.

Here is an example for Imagine Cup: http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=Imagine+Cup&format=rss

-James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)

Need a Good Laugh?

kevinbri — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:17:00 GMT

Check out Conan O'Brien talk about technology. Well enjoying Conan you can also get a glipse into Bill Gates vision of consumer electronics.

View the Pre International Consumer Electronics Show Keynote 100k(dial-up) 300k(broadband)

--Eric (Grand Valley State University)

Inside story on SP2

kevinbri — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:55:00 GMT

Paul Thurrott has an interesting interview with Todd Wanke, Ryan Burkhardt, and Jon Murchinson about the creation of Windows XP SP2. If you are wondering why SP2 is so big, Rebecca Norlander answered that question on Channel 9 as well as gave a demo of SP2. While you are with friends and family during the holidays, how about making sure their computers have been updated?

-James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)

The power of grad students...

kevinbri — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:41:00 GMT

Students at University of Illinois Chicago dug under the covers of various UNIX applications and claim to have discovered 44 bugs.

-Kevin

Bill Gates on the secret of success

kevinbri — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:18:00 GMT

Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect, answers the questions he is asked most frequently, including the secret to his success.

-James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)

Ever wonder how people actually use cameraphones?

kevinbri — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:11:00 GMT

Kevin Schofield, from Microsoft Research, points to an interesting study.

Researchers claim Linux has fewer bugs

kevinbri — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:51:00 GMT

From Slashdot:

Wired has an article stating that according to a four-year analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code conducted by five Stanford University computer science researchers, the Linux kernel programming code is better and more secure than the programming code of most proprietary software.