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Nokia changes its CEO and its tune

The machinations at Nokia are fascinating: When the previous CEO was regularly coming out with put downs targeting the Android platform, I was thinking “What planet is this guy on?”.

mobile industry-trends disruption
February 9, 2011
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Office 2007 UI Licensing Bull

I just upgraded to the Infragistics 2007 Volume 1 release which includes support for a ribbon based user interface. It was annoying to come across this dialog during the installation: !Infragistics...

licensing microsoft office patents
March 7, 2007
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ADO.NET Video Followup

Yesterday's post contained an excerpt from the What's coming in ADO.NET video that I thought was great. In particular it was the thought that SOA is great technology but in the end is just plumbing.

ado-net soa object-oriented video database
May 12, 2006
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WPF/E and IL Code

When I first heard about WPF/E (WPF/Everywhere) it sounded like a waste of time. My interpretation was that it was just a XAML display engine with no support for .NET code.

wpf silverlight dotnet clr xbox
March 27, 2006
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Xbox 360 CLR Possibility

It looks like there's a possibility of the .NET CLR being available for XBox 360 development. Check out these Microsoft blogger posts from Mike Zintel and David Weller.

xbox clr dotnet cross-platform gaming scada
March 19, 2006
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Audible not authorized WTF?

I've been aware of the "Getting things done" approach to time management from mentions on various blogs and podcasts. Today I came across the reference again and decided to maybe buy a book on the...

audio licensing business-analysis
January 15, 2006
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