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A dear friend of mine who likes to tease and criticize my company sent me an e-mail over the weekend with the subject line of “Same Old Microsoft”. In his message was a link to an article at PC World: Make Firefox the Default Browser (Again) After Installing
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No... I'm not talking about the most influential folks in the Microsoft developer community. (Although, I consider myself fortunate to work with many of them.) I'm not talking about the experts or anything like that. I'm just picking up on the blog meme
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For those of you who missed the last Visual Studio 2008 install-fest in our area last month, you missed a good time! Right before the holidays, on December 20th, the NYC .NET Developers group hosted a Visual Studio 2008 installfest. This was the biggest
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Via Tim ... This one nearly made me @%#$ my pants laughing! It's 15 minutes, but worth the laugh. Chris Pirillo gets a telemarketing call from an IT consulting company offering to sell him some Web 2.0 services ... but no one there can explain to Chris
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Oh my! While walking the expo floor at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, I actually spotted a prototype of the new Microsoft oPhone! I wrote about the oPhone announcement yesterday . I was surprised to see one in public so quickly!
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Forget the Zune phone. Check out the OPhone that Microsoft announced at Mix 07 last week. I missed this session, so that's why I didn't include it in my earlier posts on Mix. This thing is going to make you say "Oh!"
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This week in Redmond, my team hosted a summit of approximately 50 tech buffs who don't normally use Microsoft technologies. It was an attempt to brainwa-- to give them a chance to learn more about what Microsoft is up to these days. The hope was that
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This may be my first "Andy Rooney moment" on this blog, but I feel like a crusty old man today. Growing up in the 80s, I was a huge fan of the cartoon show The Transformers, as well as the complete line of toys that the show hawked. Yes, "hawked". I never
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Yesterday was Jim Alchin's last day at Microsoft. Jim has been one of the executives who has led the Windows team for quite some time now. Now that Vista is out the door, he's looking forward to spending some time off. In a "good-bye" post on the Windows
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This is the week of the year the geeks go nuts salivating over all of the gadgets and other things showed off at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas and MacWorld in San Francisco. I'm sure most folks either saw or heard about Apple's iPhone announcement.
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