Joe Egan's Blog: Microsoft (MSFT)

Microsoft's Linux love affair leads it to join The Linux Foundation https://t.co/1DZ7G3yQk7 via @ZDNet & @sjvn

MS strengths + Linux = Woot!
— Joe Egan (@J0e3gan) November 16, 2016

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20140115

Wonder Twins: Bing and Amazon Prime

http://binged.it/1hZyCNj

Here I started searching with Bing more than Google simply because it worked better for me day-to-day: now I get paid for it in Amazon.com gift cards. :} Booyah!

Between Amazon gift cards for using Bing and Amazon Prime "free" shipping, can we say, "Wonder Twin powers, activate!?"

20110405

MS Events Crash Android

I wonder why msevents.microsoft.com consistently forces my Android phone's browser to close. I just wanted to register for a May 3 webcast on the go. :P

20070413

End of the Innocence?

Now that Google has agreed to buy DoubleClick, I wonder how many knee-jerk zealots in clubs Micro$ux and M$ will leave club Google for club Googl€. Their reflexes may be slow (and require more taps), but knees will surely jerk. Thankfully I find such chapters in the Angry Geek Saga hilarious.

As if this wasn't already (heck, inherently) obvious, it's abundantly clear that Google's brainiacs are bloodthirsty for profit just like Evil Bill and his cronies. Forget the cover of OSS and being the underdog that rose to the top. This is how enterprise works. Get it, über angsters?

I say God bless 'em! DoubleClick is a smart move for Google; their shareholders are well served; and, hey, there's always Internet Junkbuster. ;->

20070320

Holy Fox!

Timing in life is bizarre. I haven't thought (never mind spoken) of FoxPro in years - until last week.

A conversation about naming controls made me think of FoxPro because a VFP 6 project happens to be the worst example of controls naming (try none) I've ever encountered. For months after said project, I had nightmares about Text31. ;) (Its meaning is as obvious to you as it was to me I'm sure!)

This led me to briefly define VFP, or rather its forgotten role in Microsoft's portfolio. Wikipedia does a better job providing all the details; but I essentially explained that VFP's role is (was) to slowly bleed features into other Microsoft tools, look alive by absorbing occasional hand-me-downs, and retain its loyal developer base.

Well, the charade is finally over after all these years. As irony would have it, I learned Monday that Microsoft announced it will release VFP to CodePlex, making VFP 9 the last Microsoft release. Amen. Long may ye run, FoxPro!