MS Tech·Ed North Ameria has been running this week in New Orleans…
Watch the Tech·Ed videos online - The keynotes (1 and 2) have great insight into Microsoft’s vision; how their 7-year old promise of “Dynamic IT” is just beginning to be realized this past year and even more so with their Azure cloud computing platform, System Center 2010, and [...]
You either love or hate “Local Service”, “Network Service”, and “Local System”. Have you ever avoided setting up individual Service Accounts for SQL Server, IIS, SharePoint, or other enterprise applications and simply defaulted these built-in accounts? Perhaps you didn’t know that it’s “best practice” to use domain accounts for these services. Or, perhaps you knew [...]
Most of us use Forrester, Gartner, and any number of other aggregated information hubs for reducing the communication clutter to make effective decisions. Forrester recently revamped their blogging strategy and platform to improve information access and updates. Inevitably, this social aspect of Forrester’s research will provide insight that wasn’t possible through the standard email alerts, [...]
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I am personally looking forward to the release of Microsoft Expression Studio v4 on Monday. Expression Blend is [...]
How a product goes from first release in September 2008 supporting Microsoft Windows to version 5 supporting Mac, Linux, and Windows in a little more than one year tastes like marketing to me. Not the release, but the version number.
Regardless, Google shipped its first stable version of Chrome to support Mac and Linux. New features like support for browser settings [...]
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Read Robert Scobles’ post questioning whether Enterprise social software packages are being bundled strategicially to box-in MS SharePoint. He discusses a number of software companies and applications in the marketplace that seek to provide similar features as SharePoint, like SocialWok, Box.net, OffiSync, Yammer, SocialCast, SocialText, Jive, Zoho, and SalesForce Chatter. Read more…
Microsoft recently did a community release event around the BizTalk 2010 Beta and Windows Server AppFabric Release Candidate. Read the overview of BizTalk 2010 features (PowerPoint). See the Introduction to Windows Server AppFabric Whitepaper (Word document) or watch the Application Server Technologies - Past/Present/Future presentation (PowerPoint).
Update 2010-05-24: The RescueTime Blog posted a more detailed analysis of these numbers which was featured on Gizmodo.
If you haven’t already, Play Pacman using the Google Logo for the next 48 hours! Google is publically celebrating the Pacman 30 year anniversary.
My conservative guesstimates suggest a company with 1,000 employees will lose nearly 33 hours of productivity in their company due [...]
For the 7th year in a row, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s Corporate VP of the Developer Division, took time out from his busy schedule to visit Arizona in Scottsdale for a technical presentation around the Microsoft 2010 product releases for developers. The event had an all-star cast including Scott Hanselman, Jeffrey Palermo, and local celebrity Tim Heuer presenting [...]
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