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[~LeoTheMaster~] Microsoft Releases Windows Mobile 5.0: LAS VEGAS -- May 10, 2005 -- In a packed hall of developers and industry partners at Microsoft® Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2005, Microsoft Corp.'s annual mobile and embedded developers conference, Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft, announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Mobile (TM) 5.0. This new version of the Windows Mobile software platform delivers on partner requests, including more platform flexibility to customize devices and solutions; productivity enhancements that include updated Microsoft Office software and persistent memory storage for more efficient data management; and a powerful multimedia experience with Windows Media® Player 10 Mobile and support for hard drives.

[Shaftek.org] The Internet Standards Blog » Blog Archive » Microsoft’s Metro vs ...: There’s no way Microsoft is going to allow DHTML to get any better than it already is: it’s just too dangerous to their core business, the rich client. The big meme at Microsoft these days is: “Microsoft is betting the company on the rich client.” You’ll see that somewhere in every slide presentation about Longhorn. Joe Beda, from the Avalon team, says that “Avalon, and Longhorn in general, is Microsoft’s stake in the ground, saying that we believe power on your desktop, locally sitting there doing cool stuff, is here to stay. We’re investing on the desktop, we think it’s a good place to be, and we hope we’re going to start a wave of excitement…”

 [Howtoweb.com] HowToWeb.com Blog: Microsoft: Google still has a big lead but search engines provided by Yahoo and Microsoft (MSN Search) are starting to narrow the gap. A recent Wall Street Journal article cited a study that showed many web users find Yahoo and Microsoft's search engines to be comparable to Google's. 61% of those surveyed said they would likely make Yahoo their primary search engine -- an 11% increase over last year's 50% result. Google did do better with 84% saying they would make Google their primary search tool -- however 86% had said this about Google in last year's survey.

[Blog.u2u.info] Patrick Tisseghem's Blog [MVP SharePoint]: Yesterday during the training here in Budapest, we talked about the relationship between SAP and Microsoft. One of the evolutions we see is that SAP is working closely now with Microsoft on a project called Mendocino. SAP is very aware of the fact that their front-ends are not suited for the daily business operations of information workers. We have seen some technologies coming from Microsoft such as the Information Bridge Framework (IBF) which aims at pushing information from that back-end in the Office environment.

[Blogs.msdn.com] Michael Swanson's Blog :: I've been spending quite a bit of time with some Avalon team members in my new position as Technical Evangelist, and one of the Avalon topics that often comes up is Data (or Information) Visualization. If you're unfamiliar with the term, it might help to read Grokking the infoviz, an older””but still relevant””article from Economist.com. I'm certainly not the person to look to for an official definition, but my own short description would be: "a method of graphically visualizing and navigating through large amounts of data." Most of the compelling demonstrations that I've seen involve some kind of animation that helps illustrate relationships and patterns in the data.

[Blogs.msdn.com] .net <i>DE</i>lirium :: Funny you should ask...it's not every week that I get to launch two new sites, but such is the power of ASP.NET (and the apps built on top of it) that doing so was possible even with planning and working on Code Camp. At MAD Code Camp, I officially launched the Mid-Atlantic User Group Portal (kudos to Eric Meier of Charlottesville .net for getting the site hosting set up), where developers can find local user groups in the Mid-Atlantic district, and user group leaders can post their group information and events.

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