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May 8 2008   3:16PM GMT

Evolving the user experience through a cloud service and web-centric operating environment



Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Microsoft

Comprehensive, simple, open, devices working together, greater sharing, anywhere access, staying connected, staying informed; these are a few of the promises of Live Mesh. If you’ve had your first look, feel free to share your related thoughts or recommendations (e.g., about the device in the cloud, Live Desktop). Thank you for doing so.

Apr 2 2008   7:11AM GMT

How to: Set an IIS Application or AppPool to use ASP.Net 3.5



Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Zen, Microsoft

Good post over at Scott Hanselman’s ComputerZen.Com on how to set an IIS Application or AppPool to use ASP.NET 3.5 rather than 2.0.

Among other the post includes these comments:

WOW! That is alot of text just to say: To Run .Net 3.0 / .Net 3.5 ASP.Net apps, select the .Net 2.0 runtime in IIS! — Bob Archer

I agree with Bob that your tip for running .NET 3.0 and 3.5 apps in IIS could have been summed up in a single sentence, but I really enjoy hearing the why and how of things. Thank you for taking the time to lay it out so simply! — Kevin Babcock

If it takes a 4 page post to explain why you don’t need to set a dropdown to 3.5, then something went wrong somewhere. — sjohnson

Some people have commented that this post was pointless but I was just happy to finally read this blog and find something I already knew! I usually glaze over when trying to keep up with Scott’s mind haha — Matthew Harris


Mar 14 2008   9:20AM GMT

Shared prior, watch it again; think of our children’s children, 100 years from now



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IT, Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Fellowship, Alliance, Internet Evolution, ITKE, CIO, ACS, BCS, Bell, Business, CATA, CIPS, CPSR, CSSA, Culminis, Dr. Dobb's, Edge, EU, Forrester, GanttHead, Gartner, Google, IFIP, Government, Nortel, Sun, IBM, Yahoo, Cisco, HP, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Unification, Zen, United Way


Mar 12 2008   10:10AM GMT

A new Internet record



Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Internet Evolution, United Way, Nortel, IBM, Microsoft, Unification, Alliance, Networking, Cisco, Interoperability

Did Oprah’s first webcast class of “A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose”, set a new World Wide Web record? 1,860,000 streamed or downloaded it within 1 week. Have you listened to the Flavor of Life? Many likely have not; however click the link and look at the numbers reported by Wikipedia about the Flavor of Life, and then imagine the potential of the Internet and the new records and improvements to quality of life that could be related before, by and beyond 2020. For example, imagine how the United Way is and can be increasingly enabled by software, technology, information, the Internet, and pros and public coming together increasingly as one to be of help to others. This way, this unified hand, could potentially increasingly enable harmonization around initiatives of high purpose. In general a united way is a good way. It can increasingly enable a helping unified hand with far positive reach. In any event, some good news reported today by Tony Bradley (see: Microsoft and Nortel Strengthen UC Partnership; IBM Pledges $1 Billion Investment in Unified Communications). A positive open unified interoperability of people and machines is on the rise and may even lead to unimagined goodness from various perspectives.


Mar 8 2008   2:20PM GMT

Global IT Profession Comes Nearer, Canadian Information Processing Society Updates



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CIPS, IBM, Microsoft, Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Bell, Gartner, CGI, HP, IFIP, CSSA, BCS, ACS

A few bits of news that may interest you:

Note:

CIPS National is seeking nominations for positions that become vacant on the National Board of Directors at the AGM on May 7, 2008. The AGM will be held in Ottawa, Ontario in conjunction with Summit 2008. All nominations must be received in the National office by 5:00 p.m. EST on March 28, 2008.  

PS: Mr. President, Thank you for being a Friend


Feb 29 2008   10:10AM GMT

Leap years with collaboration (Microsoft, Cisco, Gore, and more, you)



Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Microsoft, Fun

Peace is value. Joy is quality. The world needs more of both with lots of love and fun included. An increasingly collaborative global society must continually emerge.

Collaboration can help to enable intrinsic and pervasive peace and joy. While there has been a fair amount of collaboration in the past (e.g., P-Cube acquired by Cisco), it is time to deepen, widen and elevate it within the global IT community and relative to all that are and will increasingly be interconnected by software, technology and information.

Start thinking about 2020 and increased collaboration between pros and public, and of the peace and joy that can be driven continually upwards and inwards for the benefit of all.

Never underestimate the power of your customers, their my most valuable designers.—Sean Adams, in third video here.

As a bit more news to go with this post:

Thank you for all you do to help enable leap years before, by and beyond 2020.


Feb 28 2008   6:12PM GMT

Microsoft acquisitions and the latest coverage on bid for Yahoo



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Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Microsoft, Yahoo, Fellowship, Unification

There’s a nice page of retail detail at News.com. 

From various perspectives convergence, unification and simplification will increasingly occur. From various perspectives this will increase fellowship and innate continual improvements.


Feb 28 2008   9:35AM GMT

What made Scobleizer cry? The official Microsoft site is now up…



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Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Microsoft

Microsoft Research… WorldWide Telescope


Feb 27 2008   4:20PM GMT

Update today on Visual Studio Gallery on Channel 9



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Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Microsoft

Video and info here.

One example of intrinsic and pervasive quality may increasingly be Visual Studio Extensibility.


Feb 27 2008   12:12PM GMT

Trust and Sharing = Good; EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn



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Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Microsoft, EU

EU message, share key code with rivals.

Trust and sharing will increasingly grow, resulting in continually better innovation and positive results.


Feb 26 2008   11:07AM GMT

Launch 2008, the space elevator, the future of our children’s children



Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, IBM, Microsoft, Fun

Launch 2008 (February 27, 2008) ideally goes well and in some way further unifies IT so increasingly it becomes easier for IT to work together on high purposes.

In time who knows what can be enabled for the children of the future. Perhaps all children of the future will be as intelligent as today’s rocket scientists, thanks to an amplified intelligence largely enabled by software, technology and information and related advances of applied imagination and innovation. Perhaps like rockets the children of the future will burst forth new innovations at incredible speeds. Perhaps in the process the children of the future will further show that rockets are inefficient, and that there are less expensive, faster, safer and better ways than what is known in or by the current generation. In a future generation perhaps adults and children will travel out of this world using a space elevator. Perhaps for fun the value-inherent fascinating content of video research libraries will beam knowledge and skills quickly within all people like a movie. Perhaps readers of VIIP will browse the one noted below, perhaps learning about the space elevator and our future, or about various works by PhD students, or about “The promise, the limits, and the beauty of software” by Grady Booch, Scientist, IBM.  

Research Channel 

Microsoft Research

In 1991, Microsoft Corp. became the first software company to create its own computer science research organization. Microsoft Research (MSR) has developed into a unique entity among corporate research labs, balancing an open academic model with an effective process for transferring its research to product development teams. Microsoft recognizes that to create the foundation for future technology breakthroughs, it is necessary to support long-term computer science research that is not bound by product cycles. Today, the world-renowned scientists of Microsoft Research make up one of the largest, fastest-growing and most highly respected software research organizations in the world — one that will help define and redefine the computing experience for millions of people for decades to come.


Feb 20 2008   10:10PM GMT

Bungie.net and Bungeelabs.com sound like fun sites to keep an eye on



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Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Microsoft, Fun

As this IQS101 post noted, the X-Play winner for best game of the year 2007 was BioShock. When the time comes to announce the winner for 2008, perhaps it will be Halo 3, particularly given the millions it made in the first 24 hours. As a bit of history, the related company (after having concentrated in the nineties on Macintosh games) was acquired in 2000 by Microsoft. According to this piece in Wikipedia, days after the release of Halo 3 a new arrangement was formed. For interaction between company staff and the community surrounding their games visit Bungie.net. The company prides itself first and foremost on the strengths and abilities of its people, adding that they use the best technology in the best place to create compelling games, stories and worlds.

With respect to Bungeelabs.com, this ZDNet Feb 18 article shared that they launched a public beta of a new version of their BungeeConnect (an on demand application development platform for professional programmers).

Although unrelated and from different perspectives, both Bungie.net and Bungeelabs.com sound like fun sites to keep an eye on. Although viewing from afar, both seem to strive to ensure quality is innately within their organizations and products. 


Feb 18 2008   10:10PM GMT

World’s Premier Technology Competition



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Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Microsoft

Imagine the pure potentiality of the individual, team and collective passion around a premier worldwide technology competition, for students. This year’s theme is the environment.

                               You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.


Feb 13 2008   3:13AM GMT

Open Innovation: A New Paradigm for Understanding Industrial Innovation



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Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Microsoft

Some new paradigms are old for some. As more awaken to them however there will be corresponding increases relative to change and net benefits for all. This will largely be as a result of the collective wisdom and lighter loads generated from continual progressive mergers of unity and diversity, as well as complexity and simplicity. The document linked to above was mentioned way back on Feb 7, 2008, in this post on Port25: Microsoft, Open Innovation and Open Source (Part 1)


Feb 3 2008   4:11PM GMT

A universal community and profession



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Inherent Quality, Software Quality, IFIP, IBM, Microsoft, CIPS, Culminis, ITKE

Will news within 2008 bulletins elevate a knowledge sharing culture? A cohesive global community and profession can achieve great things by 2020. IBM (e.g., Rudin, Spainhower, Camenisch, etc.), Microsoft, and other major organizations, individuals and forces (e.g., Culminis, ITKE, CIPS, and so on) make what is now a large universe of software, technology and information professionals. Ideally competitors increasingly interconnect and work together to make significant advances into matters of high purpose. Thanks to all that eventually do or will work in this positive direction.