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Great quote from Steve Ballmer on Apple’s “Cult Following”
I attended a TechNet event today called “Technologies to Change Your Business: How Customers Are Implementing Tomorrow’s Strategies Today”. It was primarily geared around Microsoft’s virtualization stories and SQL Server 2008, but I attended to see if Steve Ballmer was going to drop any news about Microsoft’s Cloud Services. After his keynote, there was a question and answer session where a question was asked that led to the presenter talking about Apple’s “cult like following” for its products such as iPhone. This was Steve Ballmer’s reply:
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Happy To Be... An MVP.. Again...Again!!!
I am once again honored to announce that I have received a Microsoft MVP (Visual Developer - Visual Basic) award for 2008. Much thanks to Akim and Vicki my new MVP Leads here in the UK.
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Tech-Ed (Developer) Barcelona Bound
An observant reader looking at my blog directly and not in their favorite feed reader may have noticed that several months ago the image at the top changed from the skyline of Chicago to that of London. That's because in July my wife and I threw all expectations of decent customer service to the wind and relocated to scenic London England.
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CKS:Internet/Extranet Edition - SharePoint 2007 Forms Based Authentication Solution Released
I'm very happy to announce that our first pre-Beta release of the SharePoint Forms Based Authentication features that the Community Kit for SharePoint Internet/Extranet edition has been working on is available for download on CodePlex. This solution builds on many of the things I created for the version on my website but adds significant improvents in management of users and roles. This solution also gives administrators the ability to approve/deny membership before the user is added to the MembershipProvider database. We still have more to do but we wanted to get this work out into the hands of the public so we can get any feedback you might have as early as possible.
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.NET Humor
In my prevous life as Editor for TheServerSide.NET, one of my favorite duties was to come up with ideas for .NET humor. This took the form of several cartoons, "Top 10" lists, and one April Fool's news post that got MASSIVE linkage. Unfortunately though, when a new humor item came out it tended to replace what was there and so prior cartoons where gone forever.
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Vista and Office 2007 Launch Happenings...
While Windows Vista and Office 2007 are generally available to the public now, Microsoft is hosting launch events all of the USA over the next month. But last week several MVPs got the opportunity to visit local retailers and give demos and offer advice on Windows and Vista to customers at major retail outlets like Best Buy, Circuit City, Fry's Electronics, etc. I volunteered to work at Best Buy #167 in The Woodlands, TX (Just north of Houston). They had some nice Vista end cap displays including an early look at the new HP TouchSmartPC which drew a lot of attention. While traffic was light the evenings I worked (the weather in Houston has sucked lately) I am happy to say that I was able to show off Office 2007 to several customers who then decided to buy it.
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5 Things About Me...
Many of you may have seen the recent game of blog tag going on called "5 Things...". I got tagged by David Walker from Tulsa and so here are some things about me that you probaby don't already know.
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.NET Predictions for 2007 - The Magic 8-Ball Rides Again
While I was editor for TheServerSide.NET, one of the more fun things I got to do was to write up humorous (hopefully) articles and cartoons. I've been missing that lately so I've decided to cut loose here in blogland. So here now are my predictions for 2007. Read and be amazed.
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Happy to Be... An MVP... Again!!!
I am honored to say that I have received the Microsoft MVP (Visual Developer - Visual Basic) award for 2007. I want to thank Ed Hickey, my MVP lead, for once again considering my efforts in the community worthy of recognition.
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Attending VSLive Dallas? Win Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition with Premium Subscription
If you are planning to attend VSLive in Dallas, stop by the Rochester Consulting booth for a chance to win a fully licensed copy of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition with a 1 year Premium subscription. That's a $10,000+ prize for some lucky developer. And don't forget to check out my presentations on Office 2007 for Developers and Mutlithreading in Smart Client apps! See you there!