Microsoft Back to the Future Spoof
Dare posted links to a Back to the Future Spoof that was used in Bob Muglia’s TechEd keynote. Great stuff. I’m touched that Bob managed to include “web store” in the great list of failed integrated...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releasing Source Code for .NET
Microsoft is releasing the sources for the .NET frameworks including most of the base libraries, XML, and even stuff like WPF. This is great- it will make it a ton easier to debug things, understand...
View ArticleMicrosoft Mesh Second Impressions
I mentioned last week that I was going to have a hard time playing with Mesh because it won’t run with UAC disabled. First of all, Microsoft did post an explanation of why the current version requires...
View ArticleMicrosoft Velocity and Memcache
Just saw a post about Microsoft Velocity, Microsoft’s answer to memcache. I’m looking forward to checking this out soon- we have had a ton of success using memcache on the LAMP platform and it was a...
View ArticleProblems Installing Vista SP1
I’m having a problem installing Vista SP1 on my main workstation. Microsoft Update keeps throwing a Code 80070570 error which has no real description. The best hint I can find searching the net is that...
View ArticleInstalling Vista SP1 Follow Up
Yesterday I wrote about problems installing Vista SP1 on this machine. Running the “download and run it yourself” installer worked fine with one little glitch. The issue was that I first downloaded the...
View ArticleAlexhop is Back
I’ve been needing to finally get around to posting this. I’m back at Microsoft, working on the Sharepoint team to help deliver our grid (hosted cloud) service. Hopefully I’ll have lots more fun stuff...
View ArticleBPOS Review
Tom’s Hardware has a write up on BPOS (the Business Productivity Online Suite) that includes the SharePoint Online stuff that I’m working on.
View ArticleHandwriting, TabletPC and Win7
For someone with such crappy handwriting its surprising that I’ve always been so interested in using it as an interface to computers. Most of the time I don’t care at all about voice user interfaces-...
View ArticleFree Windows Server Memory for Hyper-V
So Windows (like most OSes) maintains a number of caches where it keeps in RAM frequently accessed disk contents (as well as a few other things). Normally these are not adjustable- it just uses extra...
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