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Microsoft is boosting its research budget 8%, to $6.8 billion, and will increase that spending "every year that we can" according to CEO Steve Ballmer. Total Microsoft employment could rise as much as 5,000 this year.

It's surely good news and it has probably something to do with the latest announcements (LongHorn, Whidbey, Yukon, etc...)

Well this is going to inflame the debate on web services. I am not agree anyway with this post, but I let you judge it yourself.

ERCIM News is a quarterly publication from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. The July 2003 issue is dedicated to research about applications and service platforms for the mobile user. All of the 30 articles are available online.

In "The merging of GPS and the Web," Kurt Cagle raises interesting issues. Right now, there are not enough standards to really integrate global positioning system (GPS) and Web applications, but they are emerging.

Reality check: Jupiter Research has published some interesting figures on blogging. Somewhere between 2.4 and 2.9 million active blogs exist, but they remain a tiny slice of web life. Only 2% of web users have created a blog, and only an estimated 4% read them (which is a good reminder to bloggers and media people to always explain the word weblog and blog and not assume your audience has any idea whatsoever of what you're talking about :^) ...). Blogging is split fairly evenly between genders, but more men than women read them (a 60/40 split). Nearly 3/4ths (73%) of blog readers have been online for 5 years or more, suggesting (to me) they are either fairly young or the more techie crowd that first jumped online.

I hate being negative on .Net, but there I feel I have to a little bit.

I experience something since few days regarding the assemblies.

Randomly on different web projects , I have the same annoying error returned by .Net regarding something wrong in machine.config.

It's always reported as a problem with the Freetext assembly I use, but I really believe that this is not really the cause of the problem.

It's really annoying, because this not happens all the time.
After some investigations, it seems that for an unknown reason, some temporary files, like some dll, are locked by the framework in the .Net temporary project folder.

The different things I test are:

Kudos Scott, the editor is superb and open wide on my screen !

I didn't tried yet, but is this editor works from a PocketPC ? I know for sure the last one not.

It's cool to blog on the move !