If, like me, you'd just assumed that Software + Services (S+S) was Microsoft's way of trying to take over and re-brand an existing concept – namely Software as a Service (SaaS) – then the following diagram is a helpful corrective. It's taken from page 18 of Issue 13 of the Architecture Journal (download here), and is a nice overview of how S+S and SaaS relate to each other...
I didn't realise there was a whole bunch of free stuff that you got when registering an Express product. Telerik, DevComponents, etc. Almost makes me want to ditch the full version :-)
(Thanks to Dan Fernandez for pointing this out at point 10).
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A great post by Rand (from SEOmoz) on the how Wikipedia is manipulated (and how it is protected). Interesting reading.
Note: Wiki-hacking is his term.
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From Google Blogoscoped comes this gem on what GMail would look like if Microsoft had designed it. It's too close to reality to be funny… :-)
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Thanks to Grant Holliday for alerting me to this – a great collection of labs, presentations, and demo projects for understanding VS2008.
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Amazon has announced their new electronic reader, named Kindle.
What can I say? I want one.
Newsweek talks about it, as does Guy Kawasaki.
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Just a few hours after Visual Studio 2008 was made available, up comes the latest SQL Server 2008 CTP.
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Yep, it's here. Adam Cogan IMed me to let me know that VS2008 Team Edition is now available on MSDN for download. All 3921 golden MBs. I'm currently downloading it, and am surprised that I'm getting over 600KB/s – pretty good for a download site that is no doubt getting hammered at the moment.
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Brian Harry and Jeff Beehler outline the new TFS-to-TFS migration tool.
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Jason Yip eloquently captures the easiest way to derail a project.
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