In a few weeks my colleagues Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus will he heading out across Canada to connect with IT Professionals on the TechNet Canada Winter Tour 2005. As the events get closer, keep an eye on their blogs for more information specific to your...

In a previous post we talked about whether 2005 was the year for Linux, in this post we'll discuss whether this is the year that 64-bit computing really takes off both in the enterprise and on the desktop. I have spent the last week sitting in sessions...

I have just noticed the following on the Microsoft website. If you have a passion for technology and want to make a difference for your company and for SQL Server users around the world, sign up to participate in a SQL Server beta testing program. The...

In my last post we talked about comparing Linux and Windows on the basis of bugs and/or vulnerabilities. Not surprisingly this generated lots of discussion. One of the comments that caught my attention was a one-liner that said "No matter. 2005 is the...

Now that you're wondering what a headline like that is doing on a Microsoft site, let me explain. I joined Microsoft in Nov 2004 after working for both a large Database vendor and an Enterprise Linux vendor. Now that I have been here for a couple of months...