We are demoing Windows 7 Direct Access and Windows 7 Branch Cache at the PDC08 pavillion. We are the second booth to the left when you come in to the Big Room, shaing space with the Windows 7 Sensor folks. Come check it out at talk to us.
— Ari
I’ve been pretty busy Engineering Windows 7 with the rest of the windows networking team and we are really excited to start showing the world some of the work we’ve done at PDC. One of the things we’ve been working on has it’s own session: “Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code” presented by
... read more
Apple
is getting grief for
what appears to be an underwhelming launch of the iPhone in China.
It is not really a surprise – China is awash in fake and gray market iPhones. When you walk down the street, the street hawkers greet you with “Watch, DVD, iPhone”.
Why settle for the WiFi-less plain
... read more
I
find myself perplexed by this inexplicable award. Has the Nobel prize selection
committee completely lost its senses?
I mean, what exactly is “the landscape of the dispossessed” and how do you win the
Nobel prize in literature for writing about it? Why isn’t there more discussion
of this bizarre
... read more
I have a theory that
companies peak soon after they make big, bold, public and very round revenue forecasts
of fifty billion or more. Basically, they’re so busy trying to grow to the sky
they miss important changes in the market and/or hubris gets the better of them.
In some cases, the wheels come off the bus in spectacular fashion (see
... read more
Appareo decet nihil munditia?
Ad absurdum?
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.
Luke sum ipse patrem te.
So
I am looking up Korea on Wikipedia
and some things are amiss. I can only assume it is a North Korean plot:
Korea was united until 1998; at that time it was split into South Korea and North Korea.
Since the
... read more
Devices from science fiction are becoming real at
a prodigious pace. Makes the phone-based augmented reality stuff look clunky.
Platformonomics does not usually do monetary economics (except maybe the virtual kind), but I just happened to be thinking about the Federal Reserve yesterday (admit it, so were you…) shortly before the news broke of Bernanke’s renomination. I was hoping for a more radical announcement:
Software Bot To Be Nominated Chairman of
Federal Reserve System
Cutting edge technology tapped to bring stability and
consistency
... read more
Attention Mozilla: less lobbying, more bug fixing.
Is Safari worth trying on Windows?
Just a geek who loves to make his computer run extremely fast and reliably :-)
