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• Microsoft Goes Yahoo!

  Eileen beat me to the punch on this one.  I am excited by this announcement because some of my favorite sites on the Internet are Yahoo properties such as Flickr and Upcoming.  I also hope that that certain technologies die off like Yahoo messenger... Posted Feb 01 2008, 09:13 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, Microsoft, Platform, Live.com, Cool, Op-Ed, CoolLikeFonzie, LAMP, software+services, GoogleCompete, capitalism, ThingsThatCanGetMeFired, New Job

• Microsoft's New Year is Gonna Bring a lot of Change

  Bink.nu has an extensive list of new software that Microsoft will be unleashing in the marketplace.  It is amazing to be part of this company during a time where there has been just dramatic change product life-cycles.  This is in stark contrast... Posted Dec 25 2007, 04:44 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, SharePoint, Office, Search, blogging, Windows, Microsoft, Xbox, Zune, Platform, OS, IT, Silverlight, Laundry List, ServicePack, software+services

• Tafiti Brightens Up SharePoint Enterprise Search

  Microsoft announced yesterday that Tafiti , the experimental Silverlight front-end for Live Search, has been released under the Microsoft Shared Source Permissive License *it's like BSD*.  Here is the announcement.   Internally this caused a... Posted Dec 19 2007, 10:01 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Search, Windows, Microsoft, Platform, Tools, Accessibility, Live.com, Cool, resources, Silverlight, academic, OpenSource, FreeAsInBeer, MSS

• Connectors and Investing in Open Technologies

  So I presented at Falkirk to an awesome audience about Search Server 2008 and had some interesting questions.  I've learned in my travels that geography plays a huge part in the sophistication of an audience.  Don't get me wrong, I am not insulting... Posted Nov 29 2007, 02:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Office, Search, Windows, Platform, rant, resources, ocs, Laundry List, Unified Communcations, Op-Ed, OpenSource, FreeAsInBeer

• Couple of big announcements

  These last two weeks have been busy with announcements, and I have not had a chance to talk about any of them. So Ill be brief... For Enterprise Search we just announced two new products, Search Server 2008 and Server Server 2008 Express . Search Server... Posted Nov 13 2007, 11:43 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, Platform, HPC

• Use Outlook Natively with Hotmail

  The new Hotmail Connector for Outlook was released a few weeks back, oddly I haven't seen anything written about, hence this post. The connector gives the ability to use Outlook 2003 or 2007 with LiveMail/Hotmail natively. For those of you who were big... Posted Sep 10 2007, 06:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Office, Search, Windows, Microsoft, Platform, Backup, Live.com, Cool