David M Smith

After I just posted my previous entry titled Silverlight Steals the Show! I realized i had also buried the XRM non-news. So I was guilty of burying it almost as much as Microsoft is. So below is the last paragraph from the post, highlighting the non-news. Don’t get too non-excited about the non-news…
XRM is the [...]

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At day 2 of Microsoft PDC09 in Los Angeles today. Time for a quick set of highlights. More to come in a lot of research in the coming days.
The overachieving announcement: Silverlight 4
The big news today is Silverlight, Specifically the beta of version 4. Siverlight continues its march towards providing moreand more of the [...]

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At Microsoft PDC09 in Los Angeles today. Lots of big news and interesting things to write about but the big word is fabric.The introduction of the AppFabric brand by Microsoft for its appserver is the tip of the iceberg. First of all, the idea of a fabric for running distributed applications is not new, but [...]

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Consumerization has long been a good thing and a not so good thing for Microsoft. As one of very few companies with a significant presence in both consumer and enterprise markets, it is positioned to take advantage of that crossover.  However, as it has gained the trust of IT, it is reluctant to be seen [...]

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Controversial issues tend to attract the lunatic fringe to the poles of those issues. We see it all the time in politics. We also see it in cloud computing.    In the cloud case, the poles are public cloud and private cloud.  And the extremes bring out the lunatic fringes on both sides.
First the public [...]

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Yesterday I blogged about this and I had a couple of further thoughts.
First, my colleague Nick Gall brought to my attention that I may have implied accidentally about the capabilities of GCF (Google Chrome Frame).
GCF does not replace the IE renderer as the default renderer, it merely adds GCF as an optional renderer that [...]

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Well, it really depends on what you think the “IE problem” is. If you haven’t heard about Google’s Chrome Frame, it’s a plugin for IE (6, 7, and that basically replaces the IE rendering engine with Google’s Chrome.  It has gotten a lot of attention as an “IE killer”. It allows IE users (especially [...]

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Not that there isn’t already too much in this world, but hey its a cool headline…
Recently there was another short gmail outage. and it sparked the usual outrage over how unreliable cloud computing is and how OMG nobody should use it etc., etc. Of course people wasted more time complaining about the outage that [...]

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According to one of my favorite philosophers, Yogi Berra, Its hard to predict, especially the future”. He’s right but it doesn’t stop many people from trying. In fact predicting the future is essential to many aspects of our lives – in business, and beyond. Many professionals have the need to accurately predict outcomes [...]

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I’ve come to view “software upgrade” as a term that meant, yes, “a software upgrade, but you will really need a hardware upgrade if you hope to actually use it even for what you used to use it for”. Especially with new OS versions. It has been a given that new versions of OSes [...]

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