Imagine that! Microsoft adds RSS feeds for its Microsoft Developer Network. Only one development language noticably missing from the list: Visual FoxPro. Hope they address that one soon!
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/tewald/default.aspx#nn2003-04-01T06:03:44Z
Got the link from Dan Gillmor who was linked to Dave Winer. Dave also mentions new RSS feeds from Cisco, Fast Company, and Apple. Why, if I wasn’t mistaken, I’d say we’re seeing a movement!
Jon also reports on his first close-up examination of InfoPath, Microsoft’s Office 11 tool for manipulating XML. This is a vast step forward for Microsoft. It will be interesting to see where this tool leads. It looks like you can do better and easier XML manipulation in Office than in Visual Studio.NET. What does that say?
… where I will be the guest MC tonight as chairman Rick Zach is off in Redmond, Washington, getting wined and dined by some software company.
Tonight, we’ll have a presentation by Microsoft on “Collaborative Servies in Windows Server 2003.” More details, directions to the meeting, etc, are available on the group web site at http://www.windowsboston.com/.
yahoo! News has this story: Most IT Experts Do Not Trust Microsoft. Hard to believe, but this isn’t an April Fool’s joke.
Gartner’s opinion of Microsoft’s strategies against the open source movement are in this ZDNet article. Bear in mind that Gartner does not have a 100% batting record. Of course, neither do I :).
Enterprises will see major changes in Microsoft’s competitive strategy as Linux and other open-source software continue to erode Microsoft’s traditional sources of income. Don’t expect Microsoft’s bundling strategies to continue as before, and don’t expect it to support Linux before 2006 at least — if ever.
That’s the last dime Office Depot gets from me. Forcing their vendors to raise their costs by signing up for a logo certification! It’s not only outrageous, I suspect that it’s collusion, too. Well, Staples and Best Buy will get more of my business from here on out. Lets’ see…. we’ve got six machines in the home office, and only one runs XP. Hmmm.
Why Not to Shop at Office Depot. The Inquirer: Microsoft logo scheme means Office Depot won’t sell non-compliant XP products. Only products that conform to Microsoft’s Designed… [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]
Ars Technica features a discussion that Microsoft server release schedule uncertain (from Ars Technica). I attended a Windows User Group meeting last month where Steve Carbone, a local Microsoft rep, explained that Windows server OSes needed to change on a longer cycle to accomodate admins in large shops with muilt-year rollout plans, while client OSes could change more rapidly. With Win NT, they rolled them out separately, and people complained they got one without the other. With Win2K, they released them together, and people complained there was too much to change at once, Win XP, they released the workstation separate from Windows Server 2003, and people complained. What’s the constant here? You’re not going to satisfy all of the people all of the time.
I guess ads need to be true in order to run there. Good thing we’re protected from such restrictions to our free enterprise here in the U.S. Details at http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2003/0303201315.asp?A=SFT&S=Software&T=Section&O=FPSH
In what could be considered a major compatibility milestone for the Wine project, support for file locking was introduced into the product. File locking is essential for ISAM-style database applications like Access, Visual FoxPro, dBASE and Paradox, and is also used in products like Microsoft Office. This vastly increases the utility of those tools on the Wine platform. Exciting progress!
“There are only twenty-three problems in computing and we solve them again and again.”
I heard the quote from Larry Barnes, then of the “Bob and Larry Show” at the local Microsoft office, now with Accenture, last I checked. He didn’t claim the quote as original and I, as well as he, may have paraphrased it. Does anyone know the original source?
It does certainly ring true. I have coded the linked lists, the tree traversal, the parent-child-grandchild, the move-the-program-pointer and pop-the-stack, etcetera, etcetera. There only only a finite catalog of problem patterns and we solve them over and over again. But I would like to give the original author some credit. Any leads?