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Microsoft Profits Up 5% On Xbox, Database Sales
"Sales of SQL Server increased more than 20%, outpacing the overall database market, and adoption of the new product has been faster than the company expected."
Album Art Finder!
Looks up album art from your iTunes XML file. This a good example of desktop/webapp integration, if only on a small scale.
New Live.com Services Shown at SearchChamps
See the part about MSFT Widgets ("gadgets") that you can drag-n-drop between the web and your desktop. It'd be tragic if it was IE only: the alpha-geeks would pan it.
Engineering Vs Marketing
"Engineers could be more helpful by helping the marketeers instead of complaining that all those messy aspects of getting humans to willingly cooperate 'shouldn't exist.'"
ExtremeProductsWontSell
Good discussion about marketing agile development software. As I've said, I'm suspicious of feature YAGNI. Code level, of course, but story-level: does it work at GOOG?
SAP Sketches Out Plans for the Long Haul
"On the technical front, in 2006 SAP plans to introduce one central repository where enterprise services are contained." A CMDB?
Moving from Books to Topic-oriented Writing — TalkBMC
"[M]anuals are not books—users don’t “read” them from the first page to the last like we usually think of reading a book. They use manuals to look up necessary information. Users are not readers!"
White joins effort to keep workers at home
"Productivity jumped by 12 percent, turnover is nil, and the employees who assign the codes critical for insurance reimbursement and medical research report that they're exercising more and suffer less stress."
Computer Associates forecast disappoints
"The company attributed the disappointing guidance to lackluster performance in two key areas -- sales of programs that manage mainframe business computers and lukewarm results in five key overseas markets."
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