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I just read Tim Anderson’s “ Keeping track of Microsoft financials ” where he boils down Microsoft financial performance to a simple spreadsheet and summarizes based on that. I like that approach. Focus on the results. My key metric, overall, has always...
Yesterday I was in a meeting with the MultiPoint team here at Microsoft and I was very excited to hear that they helped release a new SKU for Windows Server called Windows MultiPoint Server 2010! See microsoft.com/windows/multipoint My vision was having...
I always enjoy understanding Don’s perspectives. This InfoQ interview is interesting as always. Touches on SOAP, XML, XML Schema, M, etc… InfoQ: Don Box Discusses SOAP, XML, REST and M Is XML as bad as Don is saying to you? We can explore other ways to...
Just watched Gary Flake’s PDC09 session about Pivot . (yes, I went to PDC, but I spent most of my time talking with attendees and preparing for my talk). Fascinating problem space and app! (Happy to see it built in WPF, too…) Explore more information...
Just ordered some new business cards…2 new things on this version of my card: On the front, the new .NET Framework logo: On the back, a Microsoft Tag linking to my contact information. Get the app, and capture the color tag below…and you’ll get...
The WPF team was just introduced to another application built on WPF from elsewhere inside of Microsoft. (I wasn’t aware of this until yesterday…apps like this often just pop up when they are released. :-) ) It was recently released...
Blogs.msdn.com/officewebapps posts: “ The Office Web Apps Love Your Browser ”
Ran into the office earlier today and installed: W indows 7 Ultimate (RTM) – which includes .NET Framework 3.5sp1. O ffice 2010 (Technical Preview) – my first try of Office 2010. L ive Essentials – Live Writer and more… V S 2010 (an internal build from...
I've been happy with the work that the search team has been doing. One little thing that I've enjoyed with their new version is their picture of the day on their home page ( http://bing.com ) Although most of my searches are usually done in the...
Very happy to see that we announced that Windows 7 is done! My wife has had this on her laptop for a month or so, and is very happy with it. My media center is running well at home with it. My work laptop likes it too. For those of you WPF developers...
Steve Ballmer just sent out a company wide email about Microsoft and our commitment to the environment. I’m glad to see a multifaceted approach here…I haven’t dug deeply, but he points us (and you) to http://www.microsoft.com/environment/ I’m happy to...
Was happy to see that Alex is back at MS. Alex was a PM Lead during most of Avalon’s creation. Now a dev lead in Sharepoint Grid…
CNN’s themoment is a great example of how to capture an important moment! The 3 scenes on the right are focused on Obama’s oath taking, the view from the mall, and the view from living rooms everywhere. Go full screen and walk around D.C. I like to navigate...
WPF Frameworks Brian Noyes: Prism: Composite WPF Guidance . Great summary of "Prism" from Brian. Must read! Basically Prism is looking to address most of the same concerns that led to the development of the Composite UI Application Block...
Windows XP SP3 (Service Pack 3 ) is coming soon. Users of WPF applications will find at least one fix there that improves the performance of Layered Windows on Windows XP. So soon, instead of pointing your users to the hotfix at KB937106 ...
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