The next phase of Windows Azure will enable enterprises to build private clouds and enable hybrid clouds with a new set of deliverables that will evolve through 2010 and beyond
- Jigar Mehta
from Mento
Microsoft Statement on European Commission Decision: Brad Smith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, on the European Commission’s decision in favor of formal adoption of measures Microsoft has offered to address competition law issues. - http://www.microsoft.com/Presspa...
"The second measure is a “public undertaking” that covers interoperability with Microsoft’s products—the way our high-share products work with non-Microsoft technologies. This applies to an important set of Microsoft’s products—our Windows, Windows Server, Office, Exchange, and SharePoint products. We believe it represents the most comprehensive commitment to the promotion of interoperability in the history of the software industry. Under this undertaking, Microsoft will ensure that developers throughout the industry, including in the open source community, will have access to technical documentation to assist them in building products that work well with Microsoft products. Microsoft will also support certain industry standards in its products and fully document how these standards are supported. Microsoft will make available legally-binding warranties that will be offered to third parties. Our interoperability undertaking reflects the policy outlined by the European Commission in a...
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- Jigar Mehta
from Mento
Waseem Sadiq, CTO (left) and Khuram Hussain are showing me how you can send emails and messages to Twitter, Facebook, and others. It is in private beta now, will launch later this year. http://www.inbox2.com Does all sorts of useful stuff like forwarding, copying, etc. "It is really hard to build a good email client," says Sadiq. They nailed it, must try it.
- Robert Scoble
Very cool. I can imagine this being something to tie me over until Google Wave is released. I presume the transition to Google Wave from Inbox2 will be a ease?
- Vinko
How long does it take for them to send the invite?
- Kevin Whalen
from email
Robert, thx for the plug! Everybody that wants an invite just leave your email address on the website (www.inbox2.com), will take a few weeks before you get one tho, due to the infrastructure we're setting up to serve u all :-)
- Waseem Sadiq
'a few weeks'!! we'll have all forgotten about it by then! -- you've got our interest now (it's about 20 people, how much infrastructure would be required?)
- Paul
Hehe that is true, but if I let you guys in now I might end up spoiling the zen like email experience once its good enough. I'll tell you what, if you are willing to try out the product and tell us how we can improve it, or blog about it, Í will get you an invite (waseem at inbox2 dot com)
- Waseem Sadiq
"In order to facilitate interoperability and enable customers and vendors to access the data in .pst files on a variety of platforms, we will be releasing documentation for the .pst file format."
- Jigar Mehta
from Mento
"Many investors will see the surprising strength of MSFT in the Q3 combined with the inevitable success of Windows 7 (based on great critical reception so far) as reason enough to jump on for the ride."
- Jigar Mehta
from Mento
"A hard drive that is left in the freezer for 24 hours and then quickly inserted back into your machine can make a recovery. Or at least long enough to back things up before it says adios forever."
- Jigar Mehta
from Mento
Amazing tool to quickly capture portion of screen (or a window) and save it to jpg/png. Love it! bye bye onenote for taking screen captures for now!
- Jigar Mehta
from Mento
I dint know about this feature! This is really cool! I could use this even for personal use! It describes the problem very nicely!
- Jigar Mehta
from Mento