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Jon DeVaan: The mystery man behind Windows 7

The public face of the Windows development-chief duo is Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky, who runs Windows and Windows Live Engineering. The private face is Jon DeVaan, the head of Microsoft's Core Operating System Division COSD. I had a chance to interview DeVaan by phone this week on his role...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Team, Idea, Microsoft Corp., Jon DeVaan, MJF, JD, Engineering Excellence, Microsoft Office, Office Suites

Blog posts 2008-11-06

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What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?

As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...

Tags: E-learning, training and certification, Sol, education, Dawson, online learning, Harvard

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

On SocGen and spreadsheets: the similarities

On SocGen and spreadsheets: the similaritiesSpreadsheet risk conference in the city of KervielThe European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group EuSpRIG is holding its 2009 conference "The Role of Spreadsheets in Organisational Excellence" on the 2nd ? 3rd July 2009 at the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Cachan, Paris, France. The keynote speakers...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, spreadsheet, SocGen, keynote speaker

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?

Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product. Or is it service? As far as I can gather, those commenting in detail...

Tags: Team, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, BYD, Engineers, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-22

AMD CIO: Key to success is fusion of business acumen and tech innovation

The intersection and fusion of business insight and technological innovation is the key to creating successful new business models, said AMD Chief Information Officer Ahmed Mahmoud today in the keynote of Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. In a "fireside chat"...

Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, IT Professional, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Technology, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Steve's Apple: 35,000 "wicked smart" people will keep things humming

Back in 1997, Apple was a company in turmoil. It was losing money. Its stock was at an all-time low. And it had experienced several failed attempts to improve the Mac operating system. Fast-forward to today and Apple is a brand name recognized around the globe for...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Steve, Digital Music, Digital Media, Desktops, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-22

pjnmr 3.0.4 (Mac)

Successor to MacNMR (1984). Written by Paul Jean Letourneau as a joint project with NANUC Canadian National NMR Centre and PENCE Protein Engineering Centres of Excellence in java (PureJavaNMR, PJNMR) to run on multiple platforms. Includes vector graphic display of up to 3 coupled spins including up to three different...

Tags: Gradient, Apple Macintosh, University Of Alberta, Programming Languages, Desktops, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-11-03

Transforming More Than 100 Years of Excellence

When the global leader in engineering and construction decided to transform its business processes, it knew it needed some help along the way. It also knew it needed an experienced partner who could help solve problems - not just sell them products. It found that partner in HP. Bechtel Corporation...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Bechtel Corp., Operational Planning, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Channel Management, Leadership, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Marketing

Case studies 2008-11-01

Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Apple seeking engineers with the right touch

A sign that multi-touch input could be moving across Apple's product lines are its many job postings for touch engineers and managers. From my search of Apple's Job Opportunities site, I could see a growing team to handle the company's touch technology. There were postings for hardware...

Tags: Job, Team, Apple Inc., Hardware, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-15

'Requirements Critic' checks documents for problems

Requirements Critic ("RC") is a joint project out of our Silicon Valley and Bangalore labs (time difference: An almost perfect 11.5 hours) that's looking for ways to aid the process of requirements development. Its current prototype is a Microsoft Word plug-in that acts sort of like a grammar checker-except it's...

Tags: Requirement, Requirements Critic, Real Estate, Productivity, Business Operations, Ed Gottsman

Blog posts 2008-03-10

Announcing Symantec Backup Exec 12 - New Levels of Data Protection and Enhanced Best-in-Class Features!

Symantec Backup Exec has been delivering leading Windows data protection for over two decades. The latest release of Symantec Backup Exec 12 builds on Symantec's engineering excellence, providing companies with optimized backup and recovery for Microsoft Windows Server 2008, enhanced granular recovery of Microsoft applications, continuous data protection and new...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Symantec Backup Exec, Security

Webcasts 2008-02-26

Skype appoints new CEO: "I want to learn." Well, duh

Former Evite co-founder (well, I guess he will always be a co-founder), and eBay marketing exec and current Shopping.com CEO Josh Silverman has just been named the new CEO of Skype. As Jim Courtney of Skype Journal notes, Josh is already blogging. In...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., CEO, Social Networking, Blogging, Corporate Governance, Biotechnology, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Seven antidotes to the caustic politics of IT failure

Seven antidotes to the caustic politics of IT failureQuality Circles Rah, rah, Team Building Rah, rahSorry, but I've read all this, 30 years ago.Point being that I again say this is an effort to re-invent the wheel.People have paid for the obvious for years.Seen reviews of self-help books? For...

Tags: Strategy, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

Siemens PLM Software Validated to Easily Support 5,000 Users With SQL Server 2008

With nearly 4 million licensed seats of Teamcenter at 47,000 customers worldwide, the company prides itself in providing the world's most widely used PLM system. Though Teamcenter can run on a number of operating systems and database management systems, the company sees increasing demand for deploying Teamcenter using the Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, Siemens AG, Microsoft Corp., Teamcenter, Databases, 64-Bit, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2008-02-01

Veteran Windows architect resigns from Microsoft

On the heels of a week of news of a number of Microsoft executive departures and reshufflings, another has come to light. Rob Short, Corporate Vice President for Windows Core, has resigned from the company. While Short's departure won't make anywhere near the headlines that Microsoft President...

Tags: Team, I/O, Microsoft Corp., Core Operating System Division, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-14

ADSL at 250 megabits per second?

Some of you are old enough to remember that it was usual to catch a conversation between complete strangers when you were calling someone on the phone. This phenomenon, called cross-talk, also affects ADSL broadband connections today. But according to the Sydney Morning Herald, an Australian researcher, John Papandriopoulos, has...

Tags: Algorithm, Phone, Network, University Of Melbourne, ADSL, John Cioffi, DSL, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Apple's new kick-butt file system pushes on

Apple's new kick-butt file system pushes onSounds similarto ReiserFS 4... ]:)FINALLY!Competition in a MEANINGFUL way, not just bells and whistles!Open source seems to be good.Sun being sued for ZFS?Isn't Sun being sued by NetApp over patented idea/technology infringement in the ZFS?Article sounds a bit over-hypedalmost to the point where it...

Tags: NetApp, open source, patent office, Beryl, ZFS, file system, Apple Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-05

LG Cable & Machinery Pulls Into the Lead With NX

LG Cable & Machinery LGCM, located in Kyounggi-Do, Korea, manufactures air conditioning systems, injection molding systems, agricultural machinery, air compressors, paper machinery and energy/environment systems. The company wanted to increase engineering process excellence. Based on success of their initial project with solids, LGCM is using NX I-deas software to help...

Tags: Siemens AG, LG Electronics Inc., Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking

Case studies 2007-09-01

Creative charging $9.99 for Vista drivers?

Creative charging $9.99 for Vista drivers?Message has been deleted.F* up, man...I'd charge you $10 for a Linux driver!Doesn't matter which OS you use, you p*.There is absolutely nothing stopping themCreative can charge $10 for Linux, Unix, Mac OS, or any other operating system drivers.You make Linux users look bad with...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux Drivers, Creative Labs Inc., Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-07-05