August 2003 - Posts
This article from eWeek isn't news per se, but it does include some analysis on the impact to customers under different licensing programs. Basically, people who bought licenses recently under the Software Assurance program and expected to have access
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News.com has an article on Microsoft's Web Services strategy. I don't agree with it, but it is always good to get other points of view.
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First Scoble blogged about Microsoft's concerns about revealing the Longhorn UI prematurely. Now MacDaily reveals that the Longhorn UI was already uncovered by Apple (well, not really).
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Microsoft is getting ISVs involved with Yukon, according to this article from eWeek . Smart move. There are tons of possibilities for building great applications for Yukon now that CLR hosting is supported.
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News.com: Developers to get first taste of 'Longhorn' . It appears that this is based on Brad Abrams' weblog entry , and Brad didn't seem to be 100% certain on this. I'm hoping to see a preliminary release of Longhorn though, just to get a feel for what
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Frans and Paschal don't like the idea of auto-updates, and both raise legitimate concerns about the idea. Robert and I both like this idea. Discussion has ensued, and it has helped me to develop my thoughts on this subject. Let me explain a little bit
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Python on Windows is complete enough to be a real alternative to Visual Basic... [ Nelson's Weblog ] Nelson Minar from Google blogs about his experiment with developing a Python application for Windows. Someone should point him towards the research work
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This idea is something that I can get behind. Vulnerability in your database servers can be very dangerous to your business, and I think that if you run enterprise software like Microsoft's SQL Server and rely on their platform, it may be a good idea
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So, most of you have probably heard James Brown be referred to as the "hardest working man in showbusiness." Well, in this business I think the hardest working man may be Mike Gunderloy . When Mike isn't acting as a part-time rancher/farmer/thistle sprayer/kid
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According to this article from TechWeb , Jupiter Research is predicting that Longhorn won't see the light of day until 2006. I'm sure we'll hear/see/read hundreds of different predictions on this subject over the next couple of years. I'll weigh in with
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BetaNews : " Robert Scoble , technology evangelist for Longhorn at Microsoft, has called into question several purported screenshots of the next-generation Longhorn interface code-named 'Aero'."
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According to this piece in yesterday's Washington Post, Microsoft is "looking very seriously" at implementing automatic updates in a "mandatory" fashion. Interesting. I'm not sure where I stand on this, but I think that this may be a good idea at this
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Mary Jo is commenting on the perceived delays in the Windows development cycle. XP SP2 has slipped by a year. Longhorn's a moving target. What's going with Microsoft's cash cow? [ Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley ] I'm not sure that I see a problem
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WEB 2.0 ( Personal Broadcast Networks ) is starting to get some traction. Adam Bosworth (the CTO of BEA) is writing extensively about the Web Services Browser and Kevin Lynch (Sr. VP at Macromedia) has written a white paper on rich Flash applications
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Thurrott : Nvidia says X-Box deal doesn't make financial sense, and security experts call MSBlaster "amateurish". On the Nvidia comments, I wouldn't be surprised. With the current X-Box price structure and business model (don't laugh!), it is hard to
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This is the first entry to actually describe how a web services browser might work, at least as I imagine it. Remember, in this dream, a web services browser is primarily interacting with information, not user interface. It does have "pages" but it also
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According to Thurrott, WinFS is not a file system . WinFS is a service that sits on top of NTFS, and NTFS is a "requirement". It is weird that all of this discussion of WinFS has been so confusing, with so many disjointed explanations for something that
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This article in EETimes points out that the new X-Box deal inked by ATI will translate to a loss of $350 million to Nvidia in 2005. With Longhorn coming I think Nvidia will likely be able to offset a lot of this loss, but it is still fairly significant.
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CRN: Microsoft Reportedly Testing Security Technologies.
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I have three graphics in a *.TIFF format that I'd like to convert to Windows Journal Template files (*.jnt). Unfortunately, I don't have access to my Tablet PCs at work right now but would like to create these files and send them out in the next day or
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I recenty set up a new weblog , hosted on the SixApart product TypePad . The purpose of this new weblog is simple- I'd like to have a place to post more on matters unrelated to Microsoft development technologies. I'd like to make my asp.net weblog more
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Finally somebody has done a good job with text-to-speech (everyone seems to be concentrating on the other direction these days). I *so* want to hook this up to Project Gutenberg [1] and my mp3 player. [1] http://gutenberg.net/ Posted by Chris Sells on
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Ah, just in time to replace the Gnomedex "sticker" is the PDC 2003 "sticker" from Jeff Sandquist . Thanks, Jeff! [ The .NET Guy ] I'll be there too, looking forward to meeting a number of people and getting a lot of things done.
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CNN.com: Wikipedia: The know-it-all Web site This article provides an overview of Wiki, and explains some of the potential applications. It also touches on one of my key problems with a Wiki, which is the uncontrolled nature of the content editing. While
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ComputerWorld: Eric Rudder outlines Longhorn Server Plans . [ The Scobleizer Weblog ] Interesting quote here from Rudder : " We're more quality, performance, security, dependability and ecosystem driven. It would be fantastic if the [Longhorn] server
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Mike Gunderloy commented today on the recent Microsoft beta programs: Boy howdy, there are a lot of people talking about the Whidbey (Visual Studio .NET 2004) and Yukon (SQL Server 2004) betas. I'm sure I've ranted about this before, but remember, only
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