Quoted: Another day, another report of a possible Google acquisition with potential implications for Microsoft.

Initial review look very positive.

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Quoted: Google sees HTML5 as a more logical future for Web improvements than its own Gears software. No surprise, given its work on the standard and dislike for plug-ins. Read this blog post by Stephen Shankland on Webware.

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Quoted: I, along with Tushar Shanbhag, recently gave a talk at PDC09 on using PHP, memcached, and MySQL to build applications with Windows Azure. We used these technologies to reinforce some key Windows Azure principles, specifically how it is easy to:

Quoted: Content restrictions rarely get more liberal, which is what made a joint announcement from Microsoft and the cable industry so interesting. Users will now be allowed to drop their own CableCARD tuning hardware into Windows 7 boxes, and can more freely move recorded TV to portable devices and other machines.

Quoted: Hardware manufacturers may also choose to do new Windows 7 drivers to take advantage of under-the-hood improvements in the new version. But Microsoft claims the Vista drivers will work in the vast majority of cases.

Quoted: Learn more about Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 a set of tools for photographers to perform various tasks with their images—including RAW captures.

Quoted: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. — Sun Tzu from “The Ancient Art of War”