Came accross thisdocument today. Provides a detailed history of MS since it started back in the late seventies. Ialso found it interesting that MS is only about 1 month away from its 30th anniversary! They’ll probably have a big celebration then……
read more...Just noticed that my 3 of my blog posts have been tackback spammed today. I guess I should consider not displaying trackbacks or referals on my blog, to avoid displaying spam.…
read more...Interesting article in Computer World today, see it here Here’s the bit I find most interesting. *“Speaking with his usual gusto to a gathering of Microsoft resellers and solutions provider partners, Ballmer took direct aim at IBM in his morning keynote, identifying Big Blue as Microsoft’s Number one competitor and criticising every aspect of IBM’s three-pronged strategy to provide hardware, software and services to customers. “Does IBM have the best hardware most of the time? Ask yourself that question, I say,” Ballmer said, eliciting laughter from the audience. “Does IBM have the best software? They don’t…
read more...I finally decided to change the Look of the blog a little, this is just an initial start, if you’ve got any comments on this current change or would like to make some suggestions, drop me a comment or email! 🙂…
read more...Chris Auld announced today that he is a MSDN Regional Director. Congrats Chris, well deserved. See his post here. The ‘Red Shoe’ is getting bigger! If you’re wondering what the story is with the ‘Red Shoe’ read his blog for info 🙂…
read more...I’ve just finished updating my blog to dasblog 1.7 More posts are coming soon 🙂…
read more...So, if you happen to see this post, then the mail to blog feature is working!…
read more...It appears to me these days, that in industry people use software tools such as VS.NET and others to create software, while in many academic instutions in the fields of Computer Science and equivalent. Students learn hardcore programming and use tools such as emacs …etc. As well as lecturers emphasising that we need to know how to program …etc and have good low level technical knowledge and so on. However tools like VS.NET …etc help make people more productive. My conclusion from all of this. I think today’s people in the technology industry that use IDE’s…
read more...OK, so I had a few issues with setting up the blog and the images appearing, but now everything should be fine. I also added an initial blog roll, will add more soon 🙂…
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