VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth

Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth — seems like a buying opportunity to me, it is hard to imagine a better systems software CEO than Paul Maritz. Read more..

Yahoo, MSFT

Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Talking Business - Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby - NYTimes.com — agree with all of this, very glad I am not a yahoo stockholder — Besides, even if ... Read more..

New Zunes

Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Microsoft One-Ups Apple’s IPod Engraving — oh well that will hurt Apple share big time. I don’t really understand what MSFT is doing. Anyone who gets a Zune instead of ... Read more..

Rick Thompson, Mr. Zune

Monday, October 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Microsoft Taps Thompson to Run Zune — good luck Rick. Tough job but a great guy. Read more..

Congrats to Walter Smith Et Al

Sunday, July 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

When three ex-MSFTies partner: They’re Beautiful! - istartedsomething — I’d been meaning to notice these guys, looks like they are up to some cool stuff. Not sure how they ... Read more..

Microsoft Alumni Network renewal?

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Apparently it is time to renew my Microsoft Alumni Network membership. $130. The only value I get is employee discounts on software. It is increasingly hard to ... Read more..

Congrats Craig.

Monday, June 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

BetaNews | Microsoft Names New Mac BU Manager Read more..

Microsoft riding on our coattails

Monday, June 4th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Microsoft Ignition Revs Up Tomorrow — clearly trying to leverage our brand success. Wait til we strike back with our big Vista initiative. Read more..

Hey Blake, good luck!

Friday, March 2nd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Report: Windows Live exec plans to leave Microsoft Read more..

Logitech g5 mouse and g15 keyboard

Friday, February 24th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

To match my new sli pc, i updated to gaming-optimized input devices — the g5 mouse and g15 keyboard. The keyboard is cool — the little lcd display during ... Read more..

MSFT Historical Notes

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The return of the spaceship. Alex St John was just 10 years or so ahead of his time. LarryO on beeping death — who can forget beeping death? I ... Read more..

CharlesF Blogging

Monday, October 31st, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Via scoble, charles’ blog. Brilliant guy. One of the people at MSFT I really miss working with. Wish your blog didn’t look like crap in firefox, charles. ... Read more..

Ignition Blog roundup

Monday, September 19th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

First a non-Ignition blog, but one that ought to be in all our aggregators: Mini Microsoft. A constant fountain of great stuff. Don’t just read the posts, dip into ... Read more..