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• Intellectual Property and the Internet

  Yesterday and today I have been following a story that a contractor for Microsoft China ripped off a lot of code from another microblogging service. ZDNet has a short synopsis of the issue. This got me thinking about the problems of intellectual property... Posted Dec 15 2009, 04:55 PM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• 19 Reasons Why Microsoft is Huge with Developers (and 1 Reason Why Not)

  The title of my blog post is the same as a article from Darryl Taft at eweek. In the article (in the form of a slideshow) we see a list of people, products, and technologies that make Microsoft important to the developer. I agree with all of them. Things... Posted Jun 01 2009, 05:24 PM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• Oracle to Buy Sun – A New Platform Contender

  The news came out earlier this week that Oracle is going to purchase Sun. At first I thought that was an interesting combination as I think of Oracle as being a database and turnkey solutions company and Sun as being Java and hardware. With almost no... Posted Apr 22 2009, 04:43 PM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• Zune 3.0

  When I fired up the Zune client this morning to listen to my podcasts I was told that there is a newer version. I updated the client software first on my machine and then upgraded my Zune. There were several things that I liked: I think the new interface... Posted Sep 19 2008, 06:27 PM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• Update to Live Search

  Sometime over the weekend the home page for Live Search at http://www.live.com has been updated. It is a lot cleaner and loads a lot faster. I have only done a few searches with the new page and don't have any feel for changes to the search results... Posted May 12 2008, 11:03 AM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• Microsoft to Give Up Buying Yahoo! --- For Now

  I just saw that Microsoft is not going to sweeten the deal for Yahoo! any more than it has and has decided against a hostile takeover . I am not sure what Microsoft would have expected to gain but with all the moves that Yahoo! has made lateley to make... Posted May 03 2008, 09:08 PM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• Everyone Loves to Hate Spam

  I saw a piece in the RISKS digest at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.13.html#subj4 that says spam (unsolicited e-mail) has hit its 30 year anniversary. I also saw an article this morning off the MSN home page http://tech.msn.com/security/article.aspx... Posted May 02 2008, 08:45 AM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• Expression 2 Released

  Yesterday Microsoft released version 2 of Expression Studio. You can find a lot more information at http://www.microsoft.com/expression but some of the key new features include Silverlight support Importing Adobe Photoshop files Support for ASP.NET AJAX... Posted May 02 2008, 08:30 AM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• Microsoft Live Mesh Tech Preview now Live

  Last night Microsoft announced that the technology preview of Live Mesh is available to a limited number of beta testers. Live Mesh is a way for me to sign up all of my devices (mobile and Mac coming soon) and designate libraries (files) on each one to... Posted Apr 23 2008, 09:30 AM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology, Tech Preview, Cloud

• Flash does HD

  I got back from vacation and got a few prompts this morning to update software installed on my machine. This one for Flash player caught my eye since the biggest sale point of Microsoft's Silverlight over Adobe's Flash has been that Silverlight... Posted Apr 21 2008, 01:16 PM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• PayPal to Reject "Unsafe" Browsers

  I saw an article on the BBC News technology web site that said PayPal would start warning users who have older, less secure browsers and eventually would block them from accessing their site. My first reaction when I read that there are users using IE... Posted Apr 18 2008, 03:38 PM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• If You Know That Why Didn't You Tell Me Sooner?

  I heard the other day that the difference between ranting and constructive criticsm is the offering of a solution so let me rant first and then I will offer a possible solution. So first the problem. I sent out an e-mail with a Microsoft Project 2007... Posted Apr 12 2008, 10:38 PM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• NCAA and OOXML Part 2

  This is a followup to my post last week. I just checked and I moved up in the NCAA rankings. I guessed half of the teams in the final 4 correctly. Next week I guess I will finally find out if I was lucky or one of the teams I didn't pick wins. On... Posted Mar 31 2008, 10:53 PM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• NCAA and OOXML

  While you are watching the NCAA basketball tournament and wondering if Davidson is going to win again or end their Cinderella story there is another "contest" going on. Actually it is a vote and not maybe not as dramatic as the NCAA tournament... Posted Mar 28 2008, 07:33 PM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology

• Should Microsoft still be trying to buy Yahoo!?

  After the considerable amount of press over Microsofts bid to buy Yahoo, the rejection by Yahoo, and then the announcement that Microsoft was going to continue to try to take over Yahoo it seems that Yahoo has been doing everything in its power to be... Posted Mar 26 2008, 10:54 PM by Scott Golightly's Blog Filed under: Technology