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Microsoft SharePoint thrives in recession

The NY Times reports that Microsoft SharePoint is thriving during the recession. While Microsoft doesn't reveal actual revenue numbers, they were willing to share that it broke the $1 billion revenue mark last year.

I don't know anything about SharePoint, but that's certainly great news for Microsoft. When it first came out I heard it compared to many open source wiki tools, but this article describes it as having more features than a wiki.

By Alvin Alexander on August 10, 2009

Twitter service spotty as DDoS attacks continue

The NY Times reports that the massive denial-of-service attack continues against Twitter today. Twitter continues to fight against the attack(s), but some users are still having problems accessing Twitter services.

By Alvin Alexander on August 10, 2009

Should design be held back by a tyranny of data?

When Doug Bowman left the Google design team, he didn't leave quietly. He wrote two blog entries about his reasons for leaving (Goodbye, Google, and Hello, Twitter).

By Alvin Alexander on August 10, 2009

Microsoft Vista - trouble, turmoil (Fri, Mar 24, 2006)

Wow, if only 10% of the comments on this page are accurate, there is a huge amount of trouble and turmoil at Microsoft on the Vista project. This blog posting makes me feel even better that I just made the switch to the Mac world.

This post is terrific:

What's the difference between OS X and Vista?
Microsoft employees are excited about OS X...

Ouch.

 

By Alvin Alexander on August 6, 2011

Homeland Security says don't use Internet Explorer (Fri, July 2, 2004)

I guess it's pretty serious when the Department of Homeland Security says "Don't use Internet Explorer":

By Alvin Alexander on September 15, 2009

Borland buys Together, who bought WebGain (Fri, Dec 27, 2002)

Too busy with work, I missed the news that Borland purchased TogetherSoft, and that TogetherSoft had earlier purchased WebGain. Doing a little simple math, this seems to mean that Borland now owns the rights to their own product, JBuilder, as well as their former competitor, VisualCafe. While this means little to the rest of the world, I find it amusing, in that I officially started my Java career writing for two Ziff-Davis publications, Inside JBuilder and Inside VisualCafe.

By Alvin Alexander on August 8, 2011

HTML Validation Service (Wed, Apr 24, 2002)

If you haven't seen it, w3.org offers an HTML Validation Service for free that is pretty cool. Give it a URL, and it calls the URL and checks the document for errors and HTML validity. Of course this page bombed the big one, but I'm still in a major rebuild process here, so I'm not sweating too much as long as it renders in IE and Mozilla. They also offer a CSS Validator that I haven't had a chance to test yet. That one also appears to offer a download.

By Alvin Alexander on August 6, 2011
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