Shai Agassi, former SAP executive, shares details from the keynotes presentation he was supposed to give in SAPPHIRE.
It also turns out Shai has a new blog at https://shaiagassi.typepad.com (also known as https://www.thelongtailpipe.com)

Stefan Schwing posted 2 new blog posts that describe how to track the process of a leave request and report creation throughout the Duet landscape.

In Beijing this morning, Bill Gates announced Microsoft’s plans to offer a package of Windows, Office and other software for $3 to government programs that subsidize PCs for students to use at homeschool. The “Student Innovation Suite,” to be released later this year, is part of a new push by the company to increase access to computers around the world, and in developing nations in particular. (See full story).

Google is just another big (Evil?) cooperate entity like the rest of them.

Check out this post from the founders of Dodgeball that was acquired by Google.

Dial-in numbers and passcodes for company meetings are just one example of what is now available on Google thanks to the Search Google Calendar feature, added to Google’s Web-based calendar service last November.

Microsoft recently replaced the “WPF/E” codename with the name “Silverlight”.
I don’t get it… It sounds like the opposite to me…

The Windows Media Player team announced a new plugin that enabled watching Windows Media Player content on Firefox:

Microsoft used the National Association of Broadcasters conference this week to announce the new name for WPF/E – Silverlight.

Fresh off the press – we recently launched the new Duet community page on SDN at https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/duet (or expand the “Emerging and UI Technologies” navigation tree to see the new Duet link).

C# PM Luke Hoban has posted a simple C# Ray Tracer code that utilizes the new C# 3.0 language capabilities.