I just accepted an invitation to participate in a new BETA program. As the name would generally imply, it’s a sort of maintenance and error checking program that continuously runs in the background of Windows.
Here’s Microsoft’s own words about the program:
Windows Advisor is an easy-to-use self-help tool that notifies users about problems on their […]
I’ve been spending more and more time in the Web 2.0 world and immersing myself in more social networking applications. One of the most popular right now is twitter.
I got to thinking recently though about why it is Microsoft couldn’t develop an application like twitter?
I don’t think it’s because Microsoft doesn’t have any really […]
There’s a new Microsoft employee in town and he comes to campus by way of the Adobe parking lot.
Former Adobe Photoshop developer Mark Hamburg has been hired at Microsoft and will be spending his time working on a new Microsoft product “SmartFlow“.
Mary Jo Foley reports that SmartFlow is a new graphics program that, with […]
I’m currently attending an IndyNDA event, a local .NET developer’s group meeting in Indianapolis. The speaker, Paul Hacker is talking about Windows Server 2008.
Initial benefits he’s talking about is:
less involved (babysitting) on the install
no features enabled by default (allowing complete development and customization at the point of install)
new server management […]
Dan Rigsby (@danrigsby) shared some slides of information including his Top 10 Features of SQL Server 2008 at the IndyNDA meeting in Indianapolis, IN.
LINQ
Intellisense for SQL Server
FileStream Datatype
Date & Time Datatype
DateTime2 & DateTimeOffset Datatype
Hierarchical Datatype: i.e. org charts
Spatial Datatype: geography, geometry
T-SQL […]
Has anyone else been hearing information about a new product entering beta (or is it alpha) testing?
A recent article by Mary Jo Foley shared a few different options of what it could be:
the latest version of Microsoft Works that may or may not be advertisement funded
a new package of “Authoring” components that would include Word, […]
I just got invited to participate in a new beta for some kind of Microsoft produce. Can’t tell you anything about it at this point because I don’t know anything. I wonder what it is.
I can’t tell you anything about it until it releases, but by then maybe I’ll be well-versed in it.
We’ll see.
Interesting […]
I just got notification from the Apple Software Update application that Safari is available from Apple for me to install.
I was expecting yet another update to iTunes and Quicktime. Not this time though.
So, when did Safari become available for Windows? Is this new?
There it is folks. Safari running on my Windows XP Pro laptop.
[…]
I just received a beta invite to Xobni (which is “Inbox” backwards if you didn’t notice), which is a e-mail management add-on for Microsoft Outlook.
Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments.
After a quick install, you’ll see the new Xobni toolbar appear in Outlook - […]
Maybe I’m just missing something but news about the functionality of Office 14 is coming out and aren’t we still on Office 12? See, one of the first blogs I wrote for b5media was called Office 12 Watch and it was all about Office 2007 before it was released and named Office 2007. Now we’re […]
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