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Ray Ozzie’s October 2010 Memo
News ·Five years ago, Ray Ozzie, newly arrived at Microsoft, released his famous memo. In his vision, he showed a transformational path for his company: Software + Services.
Despite Ray leaving Microsoft, he just wrote a new memo: dawn of a new day.
In this new memo he once again conjure a vision for his company: continuous services &...
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BPOS is dead, long live Office 365
Solution ·Starting in early 2010, what was previously known as BPOS version 2 or Union will be available as Office 365. The name should reflect the availability of the platform (which suffered some reputation step back this summer). Today the beta is released, available to a 1000+ customers worldwide.
Among...
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The end the Chief Software Architect title @ Microsoft?
News ·Ray Ozzy is stepping down the Chief Software Architect role at Microsoft.
He’s going to leave Microsoft in the short future.
Steve Balmer isn’t naming a new Chief Software Architect for the moment.
Since Bill Gates left Microsoft, the company has been running from one re-org to the other. For instance,...
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Microsoft’s jQuery contributions as official plug-ins
Solution ·A quick note about Microsoft’s contributions to jQuery (namely XYZ): they are now official plug-ins!
We’ve read several months ago about the contributions of Microsoft to jQuery, that is, Globalization, Templates and Data Linking.
Those plug-ins bring a programming model relatively close to Microsoft WPF (or Silverlight) but quite in line with jQuery. It also shows the...
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Internet Explorer 9 Beta-1
Gadget ·<p>I finally got around installing the first beta preview of Internet Explorer 9. So far, I’m pretty impressed!</p> <p>It is pretty fast. Is it the fastest browser? I got no idea, but it’s fast enough: I don’t have the feeling of slow browser experience I...