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Thursday, October 01, 2009 4:31 PM

Microsoft Gets Top Marks in SAML 2.0 Interoperability

Microsoft security experts have never really been fans of SAML, a markup language, that is crucial to many e-government initiatives and SSO models.  The problem with SAML is that it is obese and almost no one had a full implementation of it until
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Friday, May 08, 2009 7:09 PM

Fora.TV Features Steve Ballmer’s Stanford Presentation on Difficult Economy

I love Fora.TV and I’ve been figuring out a way to take some of Microsoft’s product content and abstract it out to neutral technology discussions that are more closely related to policy and vision.  So while browsing, I was greatly surprised to see
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:30 PM

London Blogger Meetup

Since my boy James Senior has been living the good life in Seattle as the Live Services Evangelist, he’s kindly setup a great blogger meet-up with an all case of Microsoft technologists, managers and bloggers.   If you want to come, put your name
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Friday, November 21, 2008 4:26 PM

New Plug-ins for Live Photo Gallery

Thanks James for the heads up on the new plug-ins! LiveUpload to Facebook - Created by Will Duff .  LiveUpload to Facebook is a plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta that makes it easy for anyone to upload their photos to Facebook. The plug-in
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:56 AM

Get Ready for Windows “Cloud”

There has been a lot of buzz in the blogosphere around some of Ballmer’s statements while on his ‘good will’ tour of the UK.  Ballmer’s mentioning of Microsoft’s “cloud” services soon to be announced at PDC has put all web companies on alert. 
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:42 PM

Microsoft Relaxes Virtualization Licensing Rules - VMWare Stock Still Tumbles

Microsoft is taking virtualization extremely seriously.  Microsoft is now the only company that provides the full suite of virtualization technologies allowing businesses to consolidate servers, isolate legacy OS environments securely, centralize
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Friday, May 09, 2008 2:46 PM

It’s Not About Backup, It’s About Sync

In the last year or so, there has been a wave of activity in the storage service space. Companies new and old have been entering into the fray to tout their friendly, automated consumer backup solutions. Many names may ring a bell and are in the process
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Monday, April 07, 2008 11:50 AM

Spoon Feed Your Geek Brain With April Webcasts

Here are a list of interesting Webcasts in April!    TechNet 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008 Windows Mobile: Delivering Advanced Communications and Mobile Applications Securing Your Environment by Collaborating Effectively
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 7:48 PM

Sony Ericsson Hooks Up With Windows Mobile 6...That's Hot

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
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Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:22 AM

Burton Group Responds to ODF Alliance's Critique

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
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Friday, February 01, 2008 2:13 PM

Microsoft Goes Yahoo!

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
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Monday, January 21, 2008 11:39 AM

I Love The Passion, But Seriously, What An Idiot

This has got to be the most absurd comment about Windows or Linux I've ever read.  Clearly the commenter holds Microsoft in high regard.  I just wish he wasn't so completely retarded misinformed. "You are kidding arent you ? Are you saying
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:35 AM

Live At BETT 2008 - Day 1

Hello Everyone, For the next three days I will be talking with customers at the Microsoft booth. For those that do not know what BETT is, it is the largest Education-focused tradeshow in the UK. There are a lot of exciting technologies on showcase here
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007 9:44 PM

Microsoft's New Year is Gonna Bring a lot of Change

Bink.nu has an extensive list of new software that Microsoft will be unleashing in the marketplace. It is amazing to be part of this company during a time where there has been just a dramatic change in product life-cycles. This is in stark contrast to
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:01 PM

Tafiti Brightens Up SharePoint Enterprise Search

Microsoft announced yesterday that Tafiti , the experimental Silverlight front-end for Live Search, has been released under the Microsoft Shared Source Permissive License *it's like BSD*.  Here is the announcement.   Internally this caused a
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