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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Paddy Srinivasan's WebLog : random thoughts</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/archive/tags/random+thoughts/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: random thoughts</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Smart Clients contd...</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/archive/2004/05/06/127667.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2004 05:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:127667</guid><dc:creator>paddys</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/comments/127667.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/commentrss.aspx?PostID=127667</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;Now you can work on your Siebel Data without leaving Outlook - from the Siebel user week last month... &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;...... extending Siebel 7.7 functionality to the Microsoft Office System, allowing Siebel customers to seamlessly leverage the capabilities of Microsoft Office Outlook&amp;#174; and providing transparent access to customer relationship management (CRM) data to users of Microsoft Outlook. Siebel 7.7 supports native use of the Outlook calendar within Siebel .........&amp;nbsp; &lt;A href="http://www.siebel.com/about/news_events/press_releases/2004/040421_microsoft.shtm"&gt;http://www.siebel.com/about/news_events/press_releases/2004/040421_microsoft.shtm&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;This is a huge win for showing the power of SC and will go a long way in prving the feasibility of this technical integration&lt;BR&gt;Also check out the wiki for .net interop - &lt;A href="http://www.pinvoke.net/"&gt;http://www.pinvoke.net/&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;. awesome if you you want indepth pincoke questions answered. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=127667" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/archive/tags/random+thoughts/default.aspx">random thoughts</category></item><item><title>64 bit info</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/archive/2004/03/24/95643.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:95643</guid><dc:creator>paddys</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/comments/95643.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/commentrss.aspx?PostID=95643</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.route64.net/"&gt;http://www.route64.net/&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;was launched earlier this week. &lt;BR&gt;There is a free 1 day seminar also &lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=95643" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/archive/tags/random+thoughts/default.aspx">random thoughts</category></item><item><title>Blogger's version 1.4444.1.4</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/archive/2004/03/09/86375.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:50:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:86375</guid><dc:creator>paddys</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/comments/86375.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/commentrss.aspx?PostID=86375</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;No, this is not the version of&amp;nbsp;an assembly in my GAC but instead is&amp;nbsp;my&amp;nbsp;n-th &amp;nbsp;try at tryign to blog here. I wonder if it takes me an entire evening to get this damn thing straight what I might be able to contribute to the forum :) But it took me even more tries to install the latest build of Longhorn and when I got it to work it spews magic ... so it must be worth it. &lt;BR&gt;I am goign to be blogging mostly about my&amp;nbsp; current assignment at MS which is to create an industry vision around the next gen Line of Business apps. I will be trying to make sense of the endless list of products that seem to be coming of Redmond these days and how they relate to the LOB app vendors. It seems like we will soon need RFIDs to manage our own products out in the maket. ok, that was a lame one- the next one will be better. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;On a lighter note, today was the frst day of Spring and the Redmond-ites were all out of hibernation, swarming the open today to enjoy the 60 deg weather... &lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=86375" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/paddys/archive/tags/random+thoughts/default.aspx">random thoughts</category></item></channel></rss>