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Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art

Microsoft has been quietly building a platform to help its own product teams -- and ultimately, those from other companies -- turn product planning more of a science and less of a black art. Microsoft calls the test bed the Microsoft Experimentation Platform ExP. Here is how...

Tags: Software, Team, Experiment, Platform, Experimentation, Microsoft Corp., ExP, EXP Team, MJF, Human Intuition, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-16

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Microsoft Bing cashback: 'splendid commercial bribery'

Great Google in the sky?you should say, disgusting google in the hell!RE: Microsoft Bing cashback: 'splendid commercial bribery'Yes, I agree its a smart move,it also enables partner sites and affiliattes to offer greater incentives.If he wanted to sound like a child...he may have opted for that route. If he...

Tags: Sales force management, Now Let, Bing, Microsoft Bing cashback, commercial bribery, cashback, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Bing, incentive, bribery

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Teflon: is it safe?

Teflon: is it safe?And? If it does much more good then harmthen we have to live with it. CRT monitors and cell phones "may" cause tumors, but they are both used in the process of saving lives. Should they disapear, too? It is like saying that some heart medication that...

Tags: teflon, Teflon, plastics

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?IBM made the same claim 25 years ago with MRPMRP Material Resource Planning and MRP II were going to solve all the problems with inventory in manufacturing. Not only would it track and order materials for a manufacture, it would do so for...

Tags: Engineering, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, IBM Corp., algorithm

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?

IBM outlined a vision---and of course a new services unit to go with it---that takes a little time to grok. Big Blue talked about the "information journey," fact-based enterprises and nudging out gut calls in everyday management for decisions based on hard, cold facts. But when you boil it all...

Tags: Algorithm, Fact, Vision, Risk Management, IBM Corp., William Pulleyblank, Game Plan, Engineering, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-15

CES 2009: Liveblogging Palm's press conference [day 3]

Scroll down for newest info -- wireless is spotty! PALM IS ALIVE AND WELL Here's the whole press conference, from start to finish: 1:36PM EST: I'm sitting in the second row of Palm's very crowded press conference in a large ballroom...

Tags: Card, Facebook, Phone, Palm Inc., Ed Colligan, Sheryl Sandberg, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Trust the doctor or a computer analysis

Trust the doctor or a computer analysisI'll go with the DoctorDoctors can make an error, just like software can have a bug.The difference is that a good doctor has spent years in training, gathering not only the scientific information, but also gaining experience in direct patient contact while in training....

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Workforce management, analysis, computer

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP

21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPMy takeI don't count security patches, but I regularly have to clean malware from our XP machines but have yet to find anything on our Vista systems.RE: 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPFile this in the "no...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Patches, Microsoft Windows Vista, secure, Microsoft Windows XP, VISTA IS

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art

Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than artlol...And this comes from the king of delayed releases and features axed....just see vista's history.OSS does not need this kind of lame tools, because we always deliver all the features on time and....for free!Gives the impression that future software from themmight...

Tags: Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, OPEN SOURCE, MICROSOFT LOOKS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-16

Greetings...you're infected

Greetings...you're infectedFeature RequestI'd like to have a Unix/Linux port of this virus please!!! Don't leave us out!RE: Greetings...you're infected"socially engineered to look like electronic greeting cards" -- did a human being actually write that? What drivel!Simple FixScrub Web-2.0 and go back to plain old HTML 3.0. Disallow everything more...

Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, operating system, Greetings, vulnerability, e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-10-08

Encyclopedia of Sociology (Mobile)

Boost Your grades with this illustrated comprehensive quick-study guide. Navigate from TOC or search for words or phrases. FREE 3 chapters in the trial version.AudienceIntended for everyone interested in Sociology, particularly undergraduate and graduate students.Features Clear and concise explanations. Search for words or phrases. Add Bookmarks Text annotation and mark-up...

Tags: Periodic Table, Mobile, Biology

Software downloads 2007-04-30

Maturation of application development requires better insight into what works in practice

Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: 6th Sense Analytics.Some 9.5 million developers around the world are toiling away, and their bosses -- either individually or collectively -- have rather small insight and limited information about what they do and how they do it. We see requirements go in...

Tags: .NET, Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, developer, Developer Tools, DSO, Eclipse, Enterprise Java, IDEs, Java, Microsoft, Open Source, Podcasts, SaaS, Software Development, Testing Tools, tool

Blog posts 2007-01-12

New molecules for a faster Internet

New molecules for a faster InternetThey are one step away from the technology of the future.It could of happen now, but unfortunately it won't happen sooner than a decade. Why? Because of typical human mentality. Precisely: typical guys with money as a rule are mind-limited (they replace logic with intuition,...

Tags: Internet, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-01-04

Machine learning ain't all input/output

There's a paper in the journal PLoS Computational Biology that is incredibly significant to folks thinking through the intersection of human-computer interaction and learning or entertainment. Published by Max Lungarella and Olaf Sporns, Mapping Information Flow in Sensimotor Networks explains the relationship between the body (the system of sensory perception...

Tags: I/O

Blog posts 2006-10-27

Taming the data tidal wave

Taming the data tidal waveWas there a point? Other than selling IBMGee, we need better systems. Well friggin DUH!Yeah, let's do it!What company has the strategy: let's ignore the data and go by the CEO's hunch?Well, okay, most companies.But that's not what they put in the annual...

Tags: Business intelligence, Pricing, Knowledge management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, historical data

Discussion threads 2004-05-25