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Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:25 PM

Ray Ozzie on Software-plus-Services Strategy

I always find Ray Ozzie's memos an interesting read. His most recent memo is about Microsoft's Software-plus-Services strategy where he talks about the guiding principles informing the design and development of Microsoft products for consumers and businesses...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:05 AM

OpenXML ISO Standardization

Great news: ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML) has received the necessary votes for approval as an ISO standard. This decision was made by the national bodies in the Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva during the week 25-29 Feb 2008. In order to be approved...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:38 PM

Expanded Interoperability Initiatives at Microsoft

Microsoft will apply changes to its technology and business practices, which will cover high-volume business products including Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and all...
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Monday, January 07, 2008 4:28 PM

Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft

Courtesy of Will ... Very cool video . Starring: Brian Williams, Lisa Brummell, Steve Ballmer, Matthew McConaughey, Robbie Bach, Jay-Z, Bono, Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Jon Stewart, Kevin Turner, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore, Ray Ozzie...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:29 PM

Oslo: Practical Software Plus Services and SOA

Oslo is the code name for a set of technical investments from Microsoft that will help customers and developers in realising the full potential of SOA and software plus services. Oslo is not a single product. It is a multiprodct and multiyear effort and...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:35 AM

The MX Record for mehranikoo.net Now Pointing to Windows Live Mail

As I wrote in an earlier post , I had a plan for migrating from my web host's email service to Windows Live Mail . I had some spare time yesterday morning just before an internal training course so I made the migration happen. Configuring Windows...
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Friday, October 26, 2007 5:55 PM

Launch vs. Release To Manufacturing

We had an announcement earlier this year about the combined launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, which is scheduled for 27th Feb 2008. It is important to know that the launch date is not necessarily the same as the release...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:33 AM

Facebook and Microsoft

Facebook and Microsoft have announced that they are going to expand their advertising partnership and Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in Facebook and this values the start-up company at $15bn.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 8:20 AM

Microsoft Shared Source Licenses and the OSI Approval

Something that I missed in the news was the approval of two of Microsoft's Shared Source Licenses by the OSI (Open Source Initiative) on 12th Oct 2007: Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) formerly known as Microsoft Permissive License. Microsoft Reciprocal...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:11 PM

Popfly in Public Beta

Popfly has entered the public Beta phase so you no longer need an invitation to join the Popfly community. You can start using it straight away by logging in using your Windows Live ID and completing your profile before the first use.
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