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Three of Microsoft's biggest investors are petitioning the company's board members, asking for the resignation of Bill Gates as chairman. First they came for Ballmer, and I did nothing...
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I’m excited to announce the September 2013 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit, which now supports building new Ajax Control Toolkit controls with jQuery. Have your jCake, and eat it too
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Microsoft Research, the central research arm of that tech giant of the northwest, was founded in September 1991. This is the prehistory. "Once upon a time..."
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Did you find this blog post through Bing? Probably not—67% of worldwide searches go through Google, 18% through Bing. But Microsoft has advertised in a substantial TV campaign that — in the cyber analog to blind taste testing — people prefer Bing “nearly 2:1.” A year ago, when I first saw these ads, the 2-1 claim seemed implausible. I would have thought the search results of these competitors would be largely identical, and that it would be hard for people to distinguish between the two sets of results, much less prefer one kind 2:1. Even the economists are piling on Microsoft
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Freakonimics wrote: The upshot: several of Microsoft’s claims are a little fishy.
No kidding. They are often fishier than the Pacific Ocean.
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Getting the right license for your open source project can mean the difference between success and failure for your software. IANAL
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Ten years of surveys show an influx of younger developers, more women, and personality profiles at odds with traditional stereotypes. "Because one of its legs is both the same?"
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A software developer is a person in your neighborhood...
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D'oh. How did I miss that one? grumble grumble
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TTFN - Kent
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Spacecraft detects propylene, an ingredient use to make car bumpers and storage containers, in Titan's atmosphere People! That stuff goes in the blue box
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Kent Sharkey wrote: People! That stuff goes in the blue box
Goes to show that not every alien civilization is an advanced one. There's hope for mankind still.
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Smart files, but not so smart about letting you know what it's doing Well... smart-ish?
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Microsoft just announced it's backing off a Windows 8 policy that made no sense: limiting Windows accounts to five devices Just a few more to go (like Windows 8 itself)
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Microsoft will be rolling out its latest Visual Studio development-tool suite starting in mid-October. Pricing will remain in line with that of the current VS 2012 suite. Coming soon to an MSDN download near you
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Windows 7 generated more growth in share in the past month than Windows 8, amid warnings on continued poor PC sales and a weak "back to school" season during the third quarter. News flash!
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The world is moving to 64-bit computing even though it isn’t always faster or more efficient than 32-bit. A lot of programs run faster on 32-bit than on 64-bit, for a variety of reasons. One example of this is the 64-bit JIT compiler in .NET. It does a great job of making your program run fast, but it’s not a fast program itself. All that’s about to change: a new, next-generation x64 JIT compiler that compiles code twice as fast is ready to change your impressions of 64-bit .NET code. "Hadouken!"
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Project Katana lets you compose a modern Web application from a wide range of different Web technologies and then host that application wherever you wish. Howard Dierking presents a sample application to get you started. "You must have big rats if you need Hattori Hanzo's steel."
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Browser makers had been settling down on one way to pick the best images for everything from tiny mobile phones to Apple Retina displays, but a new proposal has muddied the waters again. When in doubt, create a new 'standard'
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Caspar Bowden says he was unaware of the PRISM data-sharing program when he worked at the software company. He has joined a very exclusive group now
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Kent Sharkey wrote: He has joined a very exclusive group now
... otherwise known as The Entire Internet?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That’s what he told the gathered tech heads at the recent XOXO conference in Portland, Oregon, and while he may have said this with tongue partly in cheek, he spent the next 30 minutes unloading his unified theory of the global computer network, an interpretation formed after 20 years of hard thinking — to say nothing of his experience creating seminal internet companies Blogger and Twitter. Step 1: Collect underpants
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We don't need no stinking underpants.
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Then don't make them stinky 
But that's the first step to profit! (Step 3 is profit)
Or was that a "Britches? We don't need no stinking britches"?
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3.Appropriation: To take to one's self in exclusion of others
I don't sleep with stinking britches!
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John McAfee lived up to his reputation Saturday as tech's most popular wild child, electrifying an audience with new details of his plan to thwart the NSA's surveillance of ordinary Americans with an inexpensive, pocket-size gadget. And by "reveals details", they mean "pre-announced something that might never be built"
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