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Microsoft DRM part 3

By Tom Barker
November 17, 2009

Next in my series describing my implementation of Microsoft DRM I will detail how I refined the work flow to a single process. This process is portable, can be run on any machine, so it negates the need to...

Four short links: 9 November 2009

By Nat Torkington
November 9, 2009

A Battery-Free Implantable Neural Sensor (MIT Tech Review) -- Electrical engineers at the University of Washington have developed an implantable neural sensing chip that needs less power. Uses RFID's induction technology which means the power source can be up to a meter away. Proof of concept was implanted in a moth to sense central nervous system activity. New Microsoft...

Microsoft DRM part 2

By Tom Barker
October 28, 2009

In my previous article I talked about setting up an installation of Microsoft DRM, and some of the pitfalls encountered with the base set up. In this article I will detail how I refined that process. As I described previously,...

William Stanek on Windows 7: The Definitive Guide

By Kathryn Barrett
October 26, 2009

We recently had the opportunity to hear from author William Stanek about his view of Windows 7 and his latest book, Windows 7: The Definitive Guide. Read on to see what he has to say.

Microsoft DRM part 1

By Tom Barker
October 26, 2009

When I worked at Music Choice - almost five years ago - one of my responsibilities was to architect our implementation of Microsoft DRM. In fact my very first day with the company my boss, Stu who was and still...

RIA Radio Episode 1 - Mike Downey

By Garth Braithwaite
October 23, 2009

Mike Downey joins us to discuss the competition between Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash. Prior to working for Microsoft as a Silverlight Evangelist he worked for Adobe for 9 years with the Flash Platform. Joining us on the panel...

Windows 7 is Here! - Win free Ebooks.

By Laurel Ackerman
October 21, 2009

Windows 7 becomes widely available today, and O'Reilly has 2 new books to help you make the most of it.

Why Google and Bing's Twitter Announcement is Big News

By James Turner
October 21, 2009

Lurking innocently on Google's blog this afternoon, like many of their big announcements, was the bombshell that they have reached an agreement with Twitter to make all tweets searchable. This followed an earlier announcement at the Web 2.0 conference by Microsoft that Bing has also arranged to make tweets searchable.

Four short links: 12 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 12, 2009

Snowball -- a small string processing language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval. (via straup on delicious) Insider Trades -- a Yahoo! Hack Day app that turned out to be worth continuing. Scans SEC systems every 30 seconds and alerts you if the stock you track has been traded by an insider. (via straup on...

Microsoft Press Enters Strategic Alliance with O'Reilly

By Tim O'Reilly
September 24, 2009

Today, Microsoft and O'Reilly Media announced an agreement to support and expand Microsoft Press. Under the terms of the strategic alliance, O'Reilly will be the exclusive distributor of Microsoft Press titles and co-publisher of all Microsoft Press titles, on Nov. 30, 2009. We'll be working with Microsoft to develop new books, as well as distributing both existing and new co-published books to bookstores, and, perhaps most importantly, to the emerging digital book channels that represent the future of book publishing.

Why is HTML Suddenly Interesting?

By Simon St. Laurent
August 26, 2009

After a decade of quiet, HTML is a hot topic once again. While there is pent-up demand for new features, the conversation reflects a more basic change in the Web's landscape.

Who's Winning the Smartphone Wars?

By Raven Zachary
August 24, 2009

The short answer - Microsoft and Nokia are slipping, RIM and Apple are gaining. It's too early to tell with Google. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

Four short links: 9 July 2009

By Nat Torkington
July 8, 2009

Ten Rules That Govern Groups -- valuable lessons for all who would create or use social software, each backed up with pointers to the social science study about that lesson. Groups breed competition: While co-operation within group members is generally not so much of a problem, co-operation between groups can be hellish. People may be individually co-operative, but once...

Four short links: 8 July 2009

By Nat Torkington
July 8, 2009

Stop Whining About Facebook's Redesign (Slate) -- How can I be so sure that you'll learn to like the redesign? Because you did the last two times Facebook did it. The conclusion is that sites don't say why they're redesigning, and that causes the resistance. C# and CLI under the Community Promise (Miguel de Icaza) -- Microsoft have announced...

REMIX09: Nice taste; lacks meat.

By Justin J. Moses
June 14, 2009

In fine tradition, Microsoft Australia hosted its version of the annual MIX event in Sydney. The conference, aptly named REMIX, featured the upcoming Silverlight 3, SketchFlow and Blend 3 products, though, much to my chagrin, somewhat superficially.

WebDU 2009: that geeky rock concert

By Justin J. Moses
May 23, 2009

It may surprise you to know that the Pacific region has its fair share of web talent. Having just been surrounded by most of them for the past couple of days, I can attest to the fact. This year was my first WebDU, and I'm still tingling.

The limits of standards in OOXML and ODF office suites

By Andy Oram
May 20, 2009

Nobody expected Microsoft to make its proprietary OOXML format really work with products that support ODF. But an office suite has to hook into a huge number of outside pieces in its environment. We're just going to have to live with a fuzz factor.

Velocity Preview - The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number at Microsoft

By James Turner
May 18, 2009

The psychology of engineering user experiences on the web can be difficult. How much rich content can you place up on a page before the load time drives away your visitors? Get the answer wrong, and you can end up with a ghost town; get it right and you're a star. Eric Schurman knows this well, since he is responsible for just those kind of trade-off decisions on some of Microsoft's highest traffic pages. He'll be speaking at O'Reilly's Velocity Conference in June, and he recently talked with us about how Microsoft tests different user experiences on small groups of visitors.

Four short links: 7 May 2009

By Nat Torkington
May 6, 2009

How To Use An iPhone To Fly RC Airplanes and Helicopters -- So I had my basic idea down. iPhone joins the Linksys router network. It gets an IP address. Then, I open up my pilot program. The pilot program interfaces with the router via SSH (I couldn’t think of a better way that has redundancy, and speed, and...

Dreaming of Rails as the Next Microsoft Access

By Simon St. Laurent
May 5, 2009

Rails? Microsoft Access? Aren't those from different planets? Well, they may have different origins, but their similarities give me hope.

Four short links: 1 May 2009

By Nat Torkington
May 1, 2009

A Little Give and Take On Electricity (NY Times) -- Dennis L. Arfmann, a lawyer at the Boulder office of Hogan & Hartson who specializes in environmental law, said he had no idea how much electricity he and his wife, Dr. Julie Brown, had used before he filled his roof with solar panels producing 4.5 kilowatts of power. During...

Windows 7 Starter Pushes the Web and IE

By Brady Forrest
April 23, 2009

I run XP on my netbook and I've been looking forward to running Windows 7 on it. So I've been watching news about Windows 7 with interest. There is much discussion this week that the low-priced Starter Edition will only let you run three apps at a time. If you want to run more then you'll have to pay...

The Varieties of Openness Worth Wanting in the Cloud

By George Reese
March 27, 2009

All of the vendors in the cloud space have paid lip service to the idea of Openness in the cloud; and most everyone believes that being "Open" is a "good thing". In an environment in which few people agree on the specifics of defining the term "cloud computing", what exactly does it mean to have an Open Cloud?

Silverlight Development for the Flex Developer

By Tom Lauck
March 25, 2009

The jets and sharks, Hatfields and McCoys, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants, Adobe and Microsoft. Now several years in the making, the Adobe - Microsoft rivalry is gearing up. Especially with the anticipated new release of Silverlight 3 and...

MIX09ers Head Home with Silverlight and Expression Betas in Hand and Design in Mind

By John Osborn
March 24, 2009

As they headed home from Las Vegas last Friday, the roughly 2000 designers and developers -- not to mention Microsoft employees -- returning from the three-day MIX09 web conference in Las Vegas had plenty to consider. For O'Reilly author and Silverlight MVP John Papa, the big news was the support for "out of browser" and line of business applications announced for Silverlight 3. For Vertigo developer Jon Galloway, the SketchFlow designer planned for Expression Blend 3 and demoed for the first time at MIX, promises to revolutionize the way designers prototype their user interactions. As for Scott Guthrie, VP of the Microsoft's Developer Division, reflecting on his keynote at an after hours reception, he was just pleased that MIX09 had come together without the "fire drill" of years past.

Microsoft Releases IE8 RC1

By Andrew Trice
March 19, 2009

Microsoft has released a new beta of IE8. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/. It is supposed to be faster, easier and more secure. I'm downloading it at this very moment to test it out.

O'Reilly Week in Review for March 16th, 2009

By James Turner
March 18, 2009

This week's roundup include discussion of the Sun/IBM rumors, the future of newspapers, Microsoft and Science Commons teaming up, and the weekly podcast quiz....

Microsoft and Science Commons Team Up To Add Semantic Content to Online Science

By James Turner
March 11, 2009

John Wilbanks, VP of Science for Creative Commons, gave O'Reilly Media an exclusive sneak preview of a joint announcement that they will be making with Microsoft later today at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. According to John, who talked to us shortly after getting off a plane from Brazil, Microsoft will be releasing, under an open source license, Word plugins that will allow scientists to mark up their papers with scientific entities directly.

Kodu: Visual Programming on the Xbox with P2P Level-sharing

By Brady Forrest
February 24, 2009

How do you make programming fun? How do you make it fun enough for kids to want to spend hours learning how to make loops and if/then statements? Simple you give them simple visual commands that let them control robots on the Xbox -- or at least this is the thesis of Microsoft Research's Kodu (formerly Boku). Kodu (Boku)...

O'Reilly Week in Review for February 16th, 2009

By James Turner
February 17, 2009

This week's podcast includes a roundtable discussion by the editors of Microsoft's new retail initiative, excerpts of an interview with Andrew "bunnie" Huang about product design in China, as well as the weekly podquiz, your chance to score a free...

Answer: Windows Vista, iMovie 08, Windows Live Movie Maker beta - Name 3 Things People Want to Downgrade From

By Todd Ogasawara
February 11, 2009

iMovie 08 confused me after moving to it from 06. Windows Live Movie Maker beta just seemed useless compared to the older Movie Maker 2.7. Apparently, my evaluation of this beta is not a singular one. Microsoft's on On10.net points to Movie Maker 2.7 for use with Windows 7 beta. And, check out the comments to the On10 blog entry. Very interesting stuff.

Four short links: 2 Feb 2009

By Nat Torkington
February 2, 2009

Songs off the Charts -- Johannes Kreidler's audio visualizations using Microsoft Songsmith. Reminds me of Douglas Adams in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency where the amazing spreadsheet program could produce happy jingles or funereal dirges based on a company's revenues. (via Ben Fry) PWN! YouTube -- elegant URL hack: replace "www." with "pwn" in a YouTube movie URL and...

Microsoft's Cloud Tax

By George Reese
December 24, 2008

The importance of the differences among web application platforms like .NET, JSP, PHP, etc. drops dramatically under the cloud computing paradigm. Which architecture you choose really comes down to one question: what kind of programming and support resources do you have? If the answer is "Microsoft technologies", however, you should be aware of the Microsoft cloud tax.

Daddy, Where's Your Phone?

By Tim O'Reilly
November 16, 2008

I met recently with Vic Gundotra, formerly Microsoft's head of platform evangelism, and now VP of Engineering at Google, responsible for all their mobile efforts outside of Android. We were talking about Google's mobile strategy and the insanely cool new voice-activated Google search in the Google Mobile Application for iPhone. But what I really want to share is Vic's story...

Why Jerry Seinfeld Probably Cost Microsoft a Lot More than $10 Million

By Nitesh Dhanjani
November 10, 2008

In this article, I want put forth a case study to demonstrate how capturing feelings on the social web can allow companies to measure the reputation of their brand.

Microsoft Live Mesh for Mac

By Todd Ogasawara
November 5, 2008

Microsoft Live Mesh is a free (so far) online storage service. Microsoft recently released a beta client for Mac OS X Leopard. I installed it on my MacBook and took it for a spin. You can find nearly a dozen screenshots illustrating the installation procedure and initial configuration.

Fake real-time blog from Document Interoperability Initiative 2 at Redmond

By Rick Jelliffe
October 29, 2008

Can Microsoft's idea of "document archetypes" and "interoperable templates" be ramped up to provide a fresh new approach to both better document interoperability and better descriptive markup?

Microsoft Releases a Technology Preview of OpenID for Windows Live

By David Recordon
October 27, 2008

This morning at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, the Windows Live ID team announced that Windows Live ID will support OpenID 2.0 with a Community Technology Preview today and production support sometime next year.

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Released

By Andrew Trice
October 14, 2008

Microsoft Silverlight 2 has been officially released. You can download the latest at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/.

Live Stream of MSR's Social Computing Symposium

By Brady Forrest
October 13, 2008

Microsoft Research is holding their annual Social Computing Symposium for the next two days. During the event their will be a number of speakers and discussion groups. The goal of the event is to bring together people from industry and academia. The four areas that are being discussed this year are Location (Monday morning), Boundaries (Monday afternoon), Play (Tuesday...

Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server Coming to EC2 this Fall

By John Osborn
October 1, 2008

Late yesterday, Amazon announced that coming this fall, developers will be able to run Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server instances on its EC2 cloud services. The implications are many, especially given the anticipated rollout of Microsoft's own cloud computing...

The Ever-Dynamic John Lam on Iron Ruby, Open Source and Microsoft

By James Turner
September 29, 2008

John Lam, who heads the Iron Ruby effort at Microsoft, stopped by to tell O'Reilly News all the exciting work going on with dynamic languages at Redmond. John spent some time discussing what makes a language dynamic, what the benefits of dynamic languages are, and how Microsoft is trying to leverage the power of lanaguages such as Ruby inside their CLR framework.

Is Adobe Still Sleeping Well?

By Mike Hendrickson
September 27, 2008

Is Adobe worried about the new threat to their dominance in the RIA space by the introduction of Silverlight from Microsoft.

Microsoft Research offers a sampling in Cambridge, Massachusetts

By Andy Oram
September 23, 2008

The opening of Microsoft Research's latest facility was celebrated today with a free one-day symposium here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I think the symposium succeeded in its goals of showing that the research facility is an independent entity that plays by the rules of open scientific debate and funds basic research of value to society.

Microsoft Missing the Boat on Mobile?

By Tim O'Reilly
September 6, 2008

Yesterday's Microsoft Watch had an incisive article about Microsoft's failure to compete in the mobile phone marketplace. Echoing my own assertions that Microsoft's obsessive focus on competition with Google in search is a massive distraction, while open mobile is Google's most strategic initiative, Joe Wilcox notes: Microsoft must change its priorities. The company has wasted too much time chasing...

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Released

By Andre Charland
August 28, 2008

Yesterday Microsoft released IE 8 Beta 2. It's likely the most anticipated release of the browser to date, for developers anyway. This is because they've done a lot to support CSS 2.1 and HTML 5 standards, which is everyone agrees is a good thing. It might not be perfect yet but they seem to be making good progress.

GooHoo Makes Microsoft Go Boohoo

By Kurt Cagle
August 25, 2008

While the advertising deal between Google and Yahoo! does not announce a formal "merger" of the two companies, it nonetheless signals a profound shift in the online search world, and certainly increases the likelihood that the two companies will begin a more active partnership across a broad front of activities, to the significant detriment of the company that needed a partnership most desperately with Yahoo! ... Microsoft.

David Chappell's Taxonomy of Cloud Platforms and Microsoft

By John Osborn
August 25, 2008

Microsoft's response to the emerging cloud computing platforms of Amazon, Google, and Yahoo has been spotty to say the least. Now a new white paper from distributed computing maven David Chappell proposes a taxonomy for classifying what's available today and offers a map of where Microsoft may be headed.

Adobe CS3 Plug-Ins: Giving JavaFX the Adobe Advantage

By Richard Monson-Haefel
August 22, 2008

The folks developing JavaFX have taken the rather pragmatic approach of writing plug-ins to Adobe's CS3 products rather than create their own design tools ... does that neutralize one of Adobe's and Microsoft's most important competitive advantages?

Harmony comes to JavaScript, but Not Everyone's Singing

By Kurt Cagle
August 19, 2008

A long and contentious struggle came to an end this week as ECMA Technical Committee 39, responsible for the development and maintenance of ECMAScript (known universally everywhere else as JavaScript), voted to establish ECMAScript 3.1 as the next "trunk" branch for the venerable web browser language, rather than the more ambitious (and contentious ECMAScript 4.0). While the breaking of the deadlock is a momentous achievement, not everyone is happy with it.

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