I just got done browsing the globe with someone via an IM conversation. This is freekin’ awesome! From MSN Messenger, start a conversation with someone. Then, “Actions”–>”Start an Activity”, and then “Virtual Earth”.
Excellent description of the decision process that led to Microsoft backing Toshiba’s new DVD format. But I have to say I’m puzzled at the level of attention devoted to this by the tech press. Everyone seems to think we’re still arguing about betamax versus VHS.
When people argued about VHS versus betamax, it’s because […]
Derek Denny-Brown has left Microsoft. I was fortunate to be able to PM for Derek for about a year, and I learned a ton. Derek worked on the very first XML stack at Microsoft, and touched pretty much every XML product we shipped, from the time it was unknown to all but SGML-heads […]
One of the fun things I got to do for this year’s PDC was to help organize a panel on “The Future of RSS”. I am sitting in the front row right now.
Summary: great audience interaction. The audience was a mix of people who were relatively new to RSS, people implementing in LOB […]
Last night, Kirk Evans invited me up to his WS-Cocktails party on the roof of The Standard, a redux of WS-Sushi (aka Rorygate). Rory wasn’t there (although there have been sightings here), but I got to talk with a bunch of WS-* and Indigo people.
One of the things that came up in my discussions […]