Microsoft

I’m a fan of auto-updates. I like being up to date, hell, I like being overly up to date and skating out on the bleeding edge of software. I also like security. This is why I’m a fan of Microsoft’s decision to put a better auto-update into Windows XP Service Pack 2. Basically when security […]

Any Visual Studio .NET gurus out there that can help my buddy Dana out? He’s run up against a wall with Microsoft (apparently if you have that evil, cancerous Open Source stuff in your code they won’t help, even if you pay), so he’s put out a call for help with an AxWebBrowser exception. Help

Sean blogs that his latest project at Microsoft is the Windows Sidebar… it was there, then it wasn’t, now it’s back. Not sure how I feel about this, it looks kinda funky, however I do my best to keep as much desktop space as possible. Can you imagine a serious photoshop user with the sidebar

<drum roll> Mr Robert Scoble or making the most idiotic statement of the year! His “letter to Bill Gates” (his employer) on how to make a cool music player (with which to crush the iPod), included this statement. Open source has become a metaphor for things done in public view with public input. Actually, you’re

Ok, this is a serious entry now. I know that a lot of my pokes at microsoft have been tongue in cheek and more for rant factor than serious argument (though there are plenty of those). Anyway… yesterday I was talking with $newboss about making our jobs easier. Read on for more…