Archive for March, 2007
MTS07 – Day 3
Expectations Here's what we are going to talk about today:
The Local Software Economy – I am hoping we talk about the ISV and what Microsoft is doing to facilitate this crowd.
Windows Power Shell – I have looked at this a bit but don't know that much about it. I just hope I [...]
MTS07 – Day 2
Morning
Today was a drop off from yesterday. I am not quite sure. I think maybe I am waiting for IIS 7.0 and XBOX. The discussions of "How we suck" have continued… I see they (Microsoft) are struggling with how to communicate with this crowd. They seem to understand the Enterprise crowd, and the [...]
MTS07 – Day 1
Speaker #1 – Bill Hilf, General Manager Platform Strategy
The main topic here was that Microsoft is in the business of selling software, open source is a means to an end.
Speaker #2 – Kevin Schofield, General Manager Microsoft Research The most memorable topic here was a vision recognition program, that failed [...]
MTS07 – Day 0
Hi,
The only thing I have to say about Day 0 was that travel on Delta still sucks, I had to sit next to 2 fat guys for about 6 hours of my trip. Secondly, my newly updated laptop, Vista Business, would not play the DVD's I rented… Funny, they worked fine on XP last week… [...]
Vista Upgrade…
Well, I am upgrading my Dell Latitude D820. I installed the upgrade assistant which asked me to remove about 10 pieces of software. One of which I did and then got a wxvault.dll not found error. I replaced this .dll in the system32 directory from i386 and this seemed to solve the first problem…
Funny Note [...]
Back From South Africa…
Our trip was AWESOME, though too short. We missed Paul & Ange, but Magda was able to make it down and we were able to visit Neil & Anna-Marie on the farm.
The rest of our time was spent on the stoop, shopping, or at John's restraunt (Meeurots Restaurant).