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Gone fishin'
I'm a little late getting this post out - like a year and a half late - but in case there is any...
Date: 03/06/2012
Ford, UofMichigan, and Microsoft kick off the American Journey 2.0 Road Trip to Maker Faire today
The American Journey 2.0 road trip to from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Maker Faire in San Mateo,...
Date: 05/14/2010
American Journey 2.0 – and Ford’s app platform for Car + Cloud apps built on Windows 7 and MS Robotics
If you were at SxSWi this past March, you might have gotten a peek at one of my projects with Ford...
Date: 05/12/2010
More Free Windows Azure Training!
I posted a little while back about how to get free Windows Azure Training at an Azure Boot...
Date: 04/22/2010
Co-authoring: How two people can edit one Word 2010 doc at the same time
I’ve been hearing about co-authoring in Office 2010 for quite a while now inside of Microsoft. ...
Date: 04/19/2010
New animated video shows vision for Microsoft Hohm – Ford partnership to manage electric vehicle charging
New animated “vision-style” video released today illustrates the ideas for managing electric vehicle...
Date: 04/06/2010
Nvidia shows off IE9 GPU accleration
Neowin.net picked up on a video today from Nvidia showing the huge performance advantage IE9 gives...
Date: 04/01/2010
Ford and Microsoft team up to enable mass market electric vehicle ownership
Microsoft and Ford Motor Company today announced at the New York Auto Show a partnership around...
Date: 03/31/2010
Beautiful McLaren MP4 12-C supercar runs on Windows
Interesting to see Steve Clayton's post on the McLaren MP4 12-C running not one but two Microsoft...
Date: 03/30/2010
Get FREE Windows Azure training at the Azure Boot Camp!
This is a really fantastic opportunity to learn how to build your own apps for Microsoft’s cloud...
Date: 03/24/2010
Why I like sharing photos on Windows Live SkyDrive
There are a ton of places to share photos online, but for the most part I use Windows Live...
Date: 03/23/2010
How to get Silverlight for Nokia Symbian S60 phones
Now that Silverlight beta is available for Nokia Symbian phones like the N97 and 5800 XpressMusic...
Date: 03/18/2010
Endangered Species: Out of Many, One
If you’ve ever wondered what a single composite picture of all 180,000 endangered species on the...
Date: 03/10/2010
Wow – Microsoft Courier looks awesome
A new rev of the Microsoft Courier prototype is out, and it looks simply awesome! (See here for info...
Date: 03/05/2010
Checking in on augmented reality
I’m a big fan of Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ work (and those he works with) :) . Blaise is part of...
Date: 03/04/2010
Apple “pulls a Toyota” – Stops selling iMacs due to poor quality
Alex over at The Next Web actually goes so far as to call the 27” iMacs “iLemons”…. A little...
Date: 02/01/2010
3D view inside the US State of the Union
Ok, this is cool regardless of political views. MSN has created a photosynth giving a 3D view...
Date: 01/28/2010
Ballmer keynoting free training on Microsoft technologies in Nashville
Codemash is still going and it’s been a great event this year – as in years’ past. If you’re...
Date: 01/15/2010
Ford unveils fledgling developer network for SYNC
Really enjoyed the Ford’s Keynote at CES today. Too much to talk about, really. A couple...
Date: 01/07/2010
From CES: Pioneer’s play to be your in-car platform, and the most expensive way to get Pandora Radio
Can Pioneer successfully set itself up as the platform provider for consumer device and internet...
Date: 01/06/2010
Ford CEO Alan Mulally’s “Most Important Thing”
Interesting interview of Alan Mullaly here and also here. Mulally is Ford’s CEO, and ran...
Date: 12/29/2009
Microsoft Codename Dallas: The “Big D” is a Big Deal
Roger Jennings over at Oakleaf systems published a handy, illustrated walk through of Codename...
Date: 12/16/2009
Microsoft creates a “Server and Cloud Division”
The Windows Server Division weblog announced yesterday that the people who build Windows Server,...
Date: 12/09/2009
SSD Odyssey, Part 3: Problems, Resolutions, and Performance Results
(Note: See this is the third and final post in the series. See these links for SSD Odyssey, Part 1...
Date: 12/02/2009
An SSD Odyssey, Part 1: The Quest for Extreme Windows 7 Speed
If you’re like me, you always want your computer to be faster. Speed is something you can never get...
Date: 11/25/2009
Can you run Java, do ecommerce in Azure? Dominos leads the way
At the PDC09 yesterday, Dominos Pizza showed up in a short video in the keynote talking about their...
Date: 11/18/2009
Facebook, Microsoft, AOL putting spammers’ “heads on spikes”
Ok, they’re just prosecuting spammers for multi-million dollar judgements, that likely will never be...
Date: 10/30/2009
Celebrate Halloween with the Archetype Virtual Pumpkin Carver!
Check out this cool pumpkin carver from the good folks at Archetype! Here’s mine: A fun...
Date: 10/29/2009
The Windows 7 Whopper (Really!)
Seven patties and 2120 calories. Wow! Read about the Windows 7 Whopper, or see the video...
Date: 10/28/2009
New Type of Cloud Computing Vulnerability?
The MIT Technology Review magazine recently reported that next month Eran Tromer, a postdoctoral...
Date: 10/27/2009
New Microsoft ads better than Bill and Jerry?
Well, no secret I’m one of the few who actually liked Microsoft’s Seinfeld ads. Always...
Date: 10/22/2009
Windows 7 best selling Amazon pre-order of all time
Amazon (UK) announced today that Windows 7 is the best selling pre-order product of all time,...
Date: 10/21/2009
Searching Twitter with Bing
Ok, this is very cool. I just tried it, and I’m impressed. Fast, relevent results...
Date: 10/21/2009
The end of Moore’s law and the way forward
It’s no secret that Moore’s law is breaking down. It will be great if the geniuses at Intel...
Date: 10/20/2009
Dungeons & Dragons, meet Multi-Touch and Machine Vision
Most the folks likely to stumble across this blog have heard of Microsoft Surface by now. It’s...
Date: 10/19/2009
Speed up Windows 7 boot times with… Microsoft Security Essentials?
If you’re planning to re-pave your machine and add Windows 7 sometime in the next few weeks, don’t...
Date: 10/16/2009
Microsoft <3 RedHat? Microsoft and RedHat cross-certify hypervisors, cooperate on technical support
Well, maybe that’s pushing it, but some very good news this week on hypervisor interoperability and...
Date: 10/09/2009
Jon Box on Windows Phones and Windows Mobile 6.5 – and my quick take on the HTC Pure
Check out what my teammate, Jon Box, had to say about the new Windows Mobile 6.5 release...
Date: 10/07/2009
PhotoSketch is very cool
Five computer science students in China have created a great little utility called PhotoSketch....
Date: 10/06/2009
Top 5 Windows 7 features according to Forrester
There’s a free Forrester webcast from on Windows 7 coming up tomorrow (register here) that runs...
Date: 10/05/2009
Windows Azure Service Managment API now in CTP
The Windows Azure team released a Community Technology Preview of the Windows Azure Service...
Date: 09/18/2009
FedEx QuickShip Revisited
Jon Box has short post today talking about our partnership with FedEx a while back to help them...
Date: 09/17/2009
How to get a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate!
Get a special “Signature Edition” of Windows 7 Ultimate absolutely free! Just apply to host a...
Date: 09/03/2009