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There's been a lot of fuss about the User Account Control (UAC) feature in Windows Vista. A recent story even made headlines when a Microsoft manager was quoted as saying Microsoft deliberately deigned UAC to "annoy users". I've
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If you read my blog via its actual web site, you probably noticed some changes yesterday. After a while of planning and slowly putting the pieces into place behind the scenes, I finally completed an upgrade to the look-n-feel of my blog. For
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When folks hear that I work for Microsoft, the first question I'm often asked is, "What do you do for them?" When I tell them that I am a Developer Evangelist, it leads to even more questions. "Evangelist?! What type of
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How do you know when you're addicted to something? Twitter is quickly becoming the new crack cocaine! (Not that I've ever tried that before. Despite that scandalous NY Post headline , I haven't.) It's been six weeks now since I
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Thank you Live Search for Mobile! (<- yes, the name is a mouthful, but it gets the job done.) Yesterday was Easter Sunday here in the US. In the morning, my 2 year-old son had tough congestion and was wheezing, a sure sign of croup . He's had this
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Twitter is the popular online service that asks you to answer the simple question " What are you doing? " in 140 characters or less. Your answers (as well as others) can be subscribed to via RSS on your computer or SMS text messages on
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Social Networking: Everyone wants a piece of the action. Users want to be where the cool people are and feel part of a community. Businesses want to make money off of it. The 44 billion dollar question is: How? I don't know the
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About two weeks ago, Scoble blogged that he saw something from Microsoft that made him cry. Now some might think he was being a big crybaby, or worse... probably over-hyping something. It didn't take long before others were speculating
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In August 2007, a major highway bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, Minnesota . Since then, the media has been filled with lots of reports of bridges in bad shape around the country . It forced virtually every state in the nation to evaluate the conditions
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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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