Marco has commented on the article by one of the Microsoft folks about the failure of the Vista launch. After few minutes looking for the guy, I think I found the author for the article – Mark Russinovich, “Technical Fellow” and his Springboard series. There is my take on it. Read more…
Do we see an introduction of the Web 3.0? There were talks for a while that Web 2.0 is coming. We have seen astonishing growth of the Social network solutions, virtual offices, companies rushing into Virtual machines business (Virtual PC, VMWare, Virtual Box, Citrix, etc), remote desktops (Mac, Windows RDS), widget engines (Yahoo, Google, …), Read more…
This seems to be a week of announcements: HD-DVD and now Microsoft is in the news again. As it was announced Feb 21, 2008 Microsoft announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and Read more…
As it appeared Microsoft did not stopped at changing licensing for .Net source code. As it was reported by BetaNews this Friday Now developers no longer need to request access to the binary file format (for Office 2003) documentation in writing or by mail, the spokesperson said; they can now Read more…
Microsoft was accused for many years in their secrecy about internals of the Frameworks and being overprotective when it comes to the point of someone looking at it. No-one was allowed to look at the code for the purpose of to see how it works. I, as a Pascal/Delphi developer Read more…
This is follow up on Bill’s presentation at where he shown MS Surface (fast-forward to 27:00) which is now a commercial product. Buttons on the Surface are sluggish, but an idea is great!!!! Well, almost… Watch how it should be presented or how it could be advertised (Apple style). Or might be they just used Read more…
As it was announced earlier, 2008 is a last year for Bill Gates as a head of Microsoft. And it might be his last big speech for software community, so lets read or listen what he has to say… http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2008/01-062008CESBillGates.mspx Post note: Buttons on the MS Surface are slugish though, but Surface is Read more…