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Archive for April, 2005

Jim Allchin Interview

Posted by Karel Donk on Saturday, April 30th, 2005

An interview with Jim Allchin has been published at Channel 9. It’s a fun and interesting interview, you can watch Allchin being very honest about things not working in Windows XP for example, and you can also watch him talking about their holistic and consistent approach to implementing search in Longhorn. This last thing is […]

Longhorn at WinHEC

Posted by Karel Donk on Saturday, April 30th, 2005

I was surprised at how a lot of the people covering WinHEC were claiming they were underwhelmed with what they saw of Longhorn. Going in with the knowledge that you are going to look at pre-beta software you can’t possibly have high expectations. Maybe I understand this a little better because I’m a developer. I […]

Feedback on MS article and Stuff

Posted by Karel Donk on Monday, April 18th, 2005

I’ve been getting a lot of good feedback so far regarding my opinion on why Microsoft is winning and some negative feedback as well. The good feedback is…..good….while the negative feedback is mainly regarding the length of the article. “10 pages?” Yes 10 pages. “Couldn’t you split it up in like 4 parts?” I thought […]

Why Microsoft is winning

Posted by Karel Donk on Saturday, April 16th, 2005

I’ve been a bit busy lately with a lot of things and I finally have some time now to update my website. Today I’m publishing my opinion on why Microsoft is winning. I’ve been working on writing this in my free time for a while now. I hope you’ll find it an interesting read. If […]

Launching my Homepage!

Posted by Karel Donk on Sunday, April 10th, 2005

For a long while now my homepage was displaying a simple index page containing the “Coming soon!” text. Three weeks ago I decided I had to finally do something about that. I started looking for free content management systems online which I could use to easily be able to manage my homepage without having to […]

 
 

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