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Microsoft Big Brains: Wael Bahaa-El-Din

Microsoft Big Brains: Wael Bahaa-El-DinThanks,For another enjoyable interview!

Tags: Wael Bahaa-El-Din, Microsoft Big Brains, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Microsoft Big Brains: Burton Smith

Microsoft Big Brains: Burton SmithA dual core CPU has two coresIn Task Manager>Processes>R click a process>Set Affinity>select CPU numbers.I'm thinking that this is what dual core means,two CPU like things.There seems to be room for a total of 32.This function can be seen working in Task Manager>Performance>CPU History.Parallel processing might...

Tags: Processors, CPU, Burton, Microsoft Big Brains, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Microsoft Big Brains: Patrick Dussud

Microsoft Big Brains: Patrick DussudI SAW AN INTERSTING QUESTION IN WWW.PREDICTIONET.COM ABOUT INTERNETWHAT WILL BE THE PART OF VIDIO'ES INFOAMATION FROM THE INTERNET'S TRAFFIC IN THE YEAR 2012 ?THE ANSWER IS IN PERCENTS .THE ANSWER IS FRON 0% TO 100% .PREDICT THE ANSWER AND PREDICT WHAT THE PEOPLE WILL THINK...

Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Corp., Patrick Dussud, Microsoft Big Brains

Discussion threads 2009-04-04

Microsoft Big Brains: Mark Russinovich

Microsoft Big Brains: Mark RussinovichWindows 8 major NT Revision coming?He mentions major work for Windows 8. Is this suggesting another case of disruption again? What about Microsoft's position on making application hard code checks be within the 6.1 or higher 6.x range? If this is the case, I hope every...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Big Brains

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Microsoft Big Brains: Chuck Thacker

Microsoft Big Brains: Chuck ThackerOne of the creators and influencers of the modern computerI read "Bottlers of Lightning", the book about Xerox Palo Alto Research Center PARC where so much of the current computer landscape originated: Ethernet, Windows with Mouse control, WYSIWIG, Laser Printers, etc. etc. and where Thacker contributed...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., Chuck Thacker, Microsoft Big Brains

Discussion threads 2009-01-16

Microsoft Big Brains: Anders Hejlsberg

Microsoft Big Brains: Anders HejlsbergInteresting, who's next?Thank you MJ.Who's going to be next?RE: Microsoft Big Brains: Anders HejlsbergAnders is my hero! I've used his dev tools all my life - I learned to program in Turbo Pascal quickly jumped to delphi, and I do C# work all the time now.

Tags: C#, .NET, Programming languages, Microsoft Big Brains, Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft Corp., Anders

Discussion threads 2008-12-17

Microsoft Big Brains: John Shewchuk

Microsoft Big Brains: John ShewchukMicrosoft Big BrainsIsn't that an oxymoron?

Tags: Microsoft Big Brains, John Shewchuk, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Microsoft Big Brains: Brad Lovering

Microsoft Big Brains: Brad LoveringHe's very sexy! WOWHe's very sexy! WOWand...brains too!! can you beat that?

Tags: Brad Lovering, Microsoft Big Brains, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Microsoft Big Brains: Brian Harry

Microsoft Big Brains: Brian HarryMore Microsoft Sagacious ThinkingHeh. The Big Brains name had to be thought of by one of Microsoft's many overpaid adolescent gamers.Great, until .Net goes out of fashion.Microsoft's past is strewn with several hundred technologies which seem to have been forgotten about. And like ".Net" most of...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Microsoft Corp., Brian Harry, Microsoft Big Brains

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake

Microsoft Big Brains: Gary FlakeThe Live products keep getting betterI am a Microsoft programmer who does web and normal programming. The web programming tools are getting better and better. But, Popfly is an example of the way that the web can be used for both programming and for...

Tags: Channel management, PRODUCTIVITY, Web, Popfly, tool, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

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Microsoft Big Brains: Terry Crowley

Include Access with all Office versionsMicrosoft should include Microsoft Access with all versions of Office. I'm outa work and I would probably be doing more consulting if more people had Access. AND Microsoft would be seeding the market for SQL Server.

Tags: Microsoft Office, Databases, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

News to know: Oracle OpenWorld; Google Wave; Intel; Windows 7; WiFi

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more Paul Greenberg: Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Wi-Fi, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Microsoft Big Brains: Terry Crowley

The All About Microsoft "Big Brains" series resumes with a Technical Fellow who also happens to be the Director of Development for Microsoft Office: Terry Crowley. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Macs and PCs found shacking up

A very interesting study. This confirms what we have known for a long time.Mac users are much cooler that PC users.Confirms Apple numbers continue to grow:PI can't argue with that...Pagan jimRE: Macs and PCs found shacking upIt's a widely accepted fact that Mac users are much cooler than PC users.Much...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Windows only user, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., MAC USERS, Microsoft Windows, gen, Microsoft Corp., PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Who's developing Linux?

A few questionsI'm not very surprised, but I do have a few questions.1. With Academia you mean not a company, but universities all over the world? Linguistically, it would appeal to the classical Latinist in me... :-)However, in that case, I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of kernel input...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux Kernel Development, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Taking the 'PC' out of the Chrome OS equation

Taking the 'PC' out of the Chrome OS equationMJ, have you read this?http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/07/chrome-os-netbooks-and-smartbooks.arsRE: Taking the 'PC' out of the Chrome OS equationI would have to agree with you. I certainly didn't like the idea of Windows 7 limiting the amount of apps I could run on a netbook. But, why...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Web browsers, Operating systems, Desktops, PC, operating system, netbook, Google Inc., Web browser, Chrome OS, Chrome OS equation, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

Google ChromeOS: have people given leave of their senses?

Google ChromeOS: have people given leave of their senses?Thankyou...This is the first well reasoned and thought out post I have read on ZDNet in a long time. I have just read Adrians post and he has decided it is a game changer already even after saying there is little...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., Google ChromeOS, Linux, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

News to know: Apple vs. Palm; Windows 7; Adobe; Twitter and Iran

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Apple: Third party read Palm Pre iTunes sync can work for now Jason O'Grady: A fix for Mail...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Twitter, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Mice, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Sales

Blog posts 2009-06-17

News to know: $99 iPhone; AMD; Bing; Firefox 3.5; Data Domain

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Jason Perlow: $99 iPhones Will Not Improve the Wireless Customer Experience Jason D. O'Grady: AT&T's $200 early upgrade fee...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox, Andrew Nusca, Domain, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Verdiem, Piracy, Web Browsers, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Microsoft Big Brains: Wael Bahaa-El-Din

At Microsoft, it takes a lot of people to develop and deliver an operating system. So it's not surprising that many of these individuals -- even ones with serious pedigrees and far-reaching contributions -- are behind-the-scenes types. Meet one such individual: Technical Fellow Wael Bahaa-El-Din. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-09