Slow news day for Valleywag? Woefully ignorant of the difference between a bit of internal morale-building humor and a marketing campaign? Just randomly desperate to rip on Microsoft? What else can explain this bit: Marketing effort or helping Apple ... Read more...

Someone on the Search team just pointed me to this, an OSX widget for Live Search: From the looks of it, this is an effort out of our counterparts in the French office (got to love big companies sometimes!), and I applaud the initiative. In fact, I ... Read more...

I really like this ad for Visual Studio Express Edition from Microsoft – and Joe Wilcox sums up the sentiment nicely: The young Gates could be any programmer trying to get a start. Behind the image is a link to the Visual Studio Beginner Develo... Read more...

Sad for Microsoft, but wonderful for Alex and his new company – Alex Barnett is leaving MSFT after 5 years to join a start-up based in Utah. I worked with Alex on a few occasions though mostly knew him from his blog and online activities, and I... Read more...

I’m shying away from talking about work on this blog going forward, but I couldn’t resist this – one of the more entertaining descriptions of a BillG keynote I have seen yet. Courtesy of Jack Dalhgren at his blog called Project: Thi... Read more...