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People are finally coming to their senses about the nature of Google.   A nice article over on Softpedia about how many internet and software companies are realizing that Google is trying to run the internet the way many people thought that Microsoft was trying to run the computer industry 10 years ago.

Can you remember the last time you actually thought that Microsoft was actually doing something cool? Well according to an article on SlashGear We might be seeing technology like this within the next year. Cool indeed! Imagine the practical implications and what this could to for the sex/porn/webcam business medical and healthcare fields.

Well this is pretty cool, I’ve just installed Windows Live Writer beta and am making this post using its nice WYSIWYG interface.   This is a winning app.   It allows posting to multiple blogs, automatically detected the blog software for each type, and displays your post using the style indicated by the blog.   If you change your theme, the interface changes to support it.  It also has built in spell checking support for image uploads and mapping. 

I highly recommend that anyone using other free blogging tools at least take a look at this software.

I’ve been using Vista Beta 2 and its interim CTP releases as my primary OS for about 2 months now.  It looks like MS is going to ship another beta a release candidate of Vista soon.  This despite the two post Beta 2 interim releases which were still not as baked (IMHO) as any previous OS’ beta 2 I’ve used.   I do have some perspective on this as I’ve been beta testing MS development tools and OS’s since NT 3.0.   I’m a big fan of Vista overall, but relative to what it is promising the product just isn’t ready yet.  I can’t help but think that the Windows group’s definition of Release candidate is somehow out of line with the industry.  Foisting a build that isn’t truly ready for real world apps Allowing us the privilege of using a complete more usable build is a something I am really looking forward to.  

Some blokes showed that they never let DEV320 Get in the way of football. World cup rules!

The convention center had about 10 TVs set up around the convention center showing FIFO World Cup.   Always a crowd and always a smile (or grimace) depending upon who scored…  Great to see the Convention Center showing this event!

I really like all the stuff I am hearing about BizTalk 2006R2 v.Next+1 and .Net framework 3.0.   As if the product wasn’t good enough already.   Integration with RFID and better EDI support should put this product clearly in the leader position in the next gartner quadrant.   Its nice that MS has a clear product strategy with brokers unlike IBM that is the most confusing marketing snafu I have ever seen.  The one area where they are still weak is in marketing HIS.   It is such a strong product, but there is no clear message they they can communicate on how to use it.   It almost requires a degree in rocket science.

Now I am off to the HIS Adapters session, or to the managing Windows Mobile in an enterprise environment (which sounds cooler but isn’t erally on my agenda).