Everyone knows the basic Microsoft drill when products are announced.  step 1 - build a website step 2 - invite important people and press step 3 - parade around senior executives step 4 - make vague statements about innovation, productivity, and...

My colleague James O'Neill has a really simple step by step blog post on how to use the new deployment tools that come with Vista to create an SP1 Vista image.  He makes it sound so easy!  * it actually is*  The coolest part of the entire...

As a Microsoft guy, I live in Outlook as most businesses do.  Lately though, Outlook has been frustrating because it just doesn't work the way I, a geeky, intellectually superior 25 year old, want it to work.  As a personal GMail user, the biggest...

The decades long wait is finally at an end.  Nazis, monkey brains, arks, snakes, and all.  Did I mention it's been enhanced with wrinkles? http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/indianajones.html?showVideo=1 "OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG...

Scoble has a pretty interesting writing up about Microsoft Research and some of the projects they are working on!  Also there are a lot of pretty pictures of the new building! Interesting Comments About: Stuff covered in the tour: Microsoft Surface...

Eileen beat me to the punch on this one. I am excited by this announcement because some of my favorite sites on the Internet are Yahoo properties such as Flickr and Upcoming. I also hope that that certain technologies die off like Yahoo messenger. Here...

  This is going to be one of those months.  Most of you all knew it was coming with the announcement a few months ago.  Be aware this only applies to WSUS customers who have changed the default setting.  What does this mean for your...

I won't get into this whole SP1 mine field as I think there has been enough back and forth on the blogs.  The interesting blogs I've read have been Mike Nash's Windows Vista blog that has been showered with customer feedback to some of our popular...

Engadget has a great article on a new next-generation device coming out of Sony Ericsson called XPERIA X1.  I have to admit the tile view looks very impressive, not at all like the HTC devices.  Its finally time some of our mobile partners start...

My colleague and friend, James Senior, has had a unique opportunity to spend 45 seconds in the close presence of Bill Gates.  My first question to him was, "how in the hell did you pull that off?"  As it turns out, James was one of...

This is what I call a healthy and civilized debate unlike much of the garbage and FUD being released by the blogosphere and press. If you aren't aware, Burton Group recently released a document outlining the business implications of ODF vs. OpenXML Although...

James Senior busts two interesting myths that uninformed IT guys seem to harbor. Vista Myth #1: I don't want to upgrade to Vista because I can't manage Exchange 2007 from it Answer: Why would we, Microsoft, so blatantly shoot ourselves in the foot...

I plan to vote Obama after much practical reservation and after having listened to every candidate's speech tonight. Staying up and watching the news 'till 6:20am in London has been a rollercoaster of patriotic emotion and critical analysis. It has been...

TED has a great 6 minute video showing off the WorldWide Telescope's interface!  Dr. Roy Gould presents the technology and relates it to the humanistic elements of science, exploration, and societal optimism. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view...

Finally what the open-source community has been asking from Microsoft has come to fruition, we've released the Office Binary Format in it's entirety and put it under our IRREVOCABLE, GPL-compatible, legally binding Open Specification Promise .  This...

Well at long last this pathetic formats war is over.  Toshiba today finally threw in the towel after weeks of endless posturing and innuendo not unlike that found in the epic battle above from The Quest for the Holy Grail. It is really a shame because...

The 27th of February 2008 will be a day ingrained into the head of every man, woman, and child *2/27???* .  No, it is not because of the momentous launch of Windows Server 2008, although a great achievement in its own right.  Today Microsoft...