There’s a huge interest in widgets latelly. But are regular widgets (or Gadgets) we use at home the same as ones we would use at our enterprise?
What is the gap between the current widget technologies and the requirements from the so called “Enterprise Widgets”?

200 team members

200,000 users in 3 months

more than 20$

Duet

Check out the new press release from Microsoft TechEd Barcelona at https://www.sap.com/company/press/press.epx?pressid=7003

I’m currently at the Bombay domestic airport after a (very) long flight from Tel-Aviv.
I’ll be working with the Duet team at Bangalore for the next 10 days and it should be an interesting
expiriencebecause I’ve been workin with these guys for almost 2 years without meeting them in person.
It’s also my first time in India which also makes this a special expirience.

The following video on YouTube shows the concept for Longhorn as it was presented on 2003.

The .NET Framework 3.0 has officially been released! You can download the .NET Framework 3.0 components here:

• Here is an interesting list of 30 Lessons From an Early-Stage Startup. I fond the following gem kinda funny:

I’ve been trying to find a decent source control system to use for some time now without real success.

From https://www.projectglidepath.net/ :

The release of Windows Vista is creating a new wave of demand for applications. Combining the hundreds of new features and thousands of new APIs added to Windows Vista with starting and keeping a MicroISV business running is a formidable challenge. We at Microsoft want to help make it easier for you to be successful. Project Glidepath, an Microsoft evangelism initiative, provides you the step-by-step instructions for everything from how to get started with Windows Presentation Foundation to how to write and publish a press release. Project Glidepath delivers the workflow-based guidance, sample code, content and custom tools you need to create successful applications for Windows Vista including .Net 3.0 right inside Visual Studio 2005.

Ms Dewey is a promotional, Flash driven, search engine from Microsoft. The guys at channel9 seems to like it…
Microsoft hired this actress sexy up your searches. She has an attitude.
Although this is well done and fun to use, it is very clear that searching isn’t the point here…

• What did we learn from Windows Vista?
  MJF sits down with Jim Allchin to find out and we get a very open, honest and frank insight in to the building of Vista.
• Jeffrey Stewart lists180 Useful Questions for Launching a Business
• I’ve posted before about the fact that layered windows are rendered via software on Windows XP.
  This post at MSDN explains some more on the subject and shows that software rendering, in some cases, can be faster than hardware…
• S. Somasegar posted about WPF and the Vista user experience comparing the work on a successful software application to the work on the Taj Mahal.
• Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0 has been released to the web. You can download it from one of the following links (depending on your OS version):
• • Windows Desktop Search 3.0 RTW for Windows XP (KB917013)
  • Windows Desktop Search 3.0 RTW for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB917013)
  • Windows Desktop Search 3.0 RTW for Windows Server 2003 (KB917013)
  • Windows Desktop Search 3.0 RTW for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB917013)