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05 Jan, 2008

Wordpress 2.3 Tagging Support with Windows Live Writer

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Wordpress

From Joe Cheng - Microsoft Live Writer Team: Note that the manifest file is included out of the box with WordPress 2.3.1 and above.

Out of the box, using the tag feature in Wordpress doesn’t implement the native Wordpress tags. If you use it, it will add some Technorati tags at the bottom of the post. [...]

16 Dec, 2007

Review: Microsoft Zune

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Electronics

I had some real reservations with Dawngrrl handed me this little gift bag with a new 8GB Microsoft Zune in it. I had been wanting one for quite awhile, but being the guy with 3 iPods (2 now, I sold one!) I wasn’t sure if this little gadget would find it’s way into the [...]

09 Dec, 2007

Even The Good Linux Evangelists Are Delusional

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Linux

I found a fantastic article on apcmag.com by Ashton Mills tonight about using Linux as your OS completely and how it fares against Windows. While I have to say that this is one of the most complete and honest evaluations I have ever read, it still falls way short in the reality department, for example:

After [...]

05 Dec, 2007

I am still OS Agnostic, but I have to mention….

Posted by: Jason Burns In: News

This has been a big week, lots of thinking, coordinating, and ultimately making life changing decisions. Yesterday I signed and accepted an offer to join the Microsoft team working with Business Intelligence products. I will be starting there on December 31st and could not be more excited to do so.
I don’t really have any more [...]

28 Nov, 2007

Microsoft adds Accessibility Features to SharePoint

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Web Authoring

From the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog:

I’m very pleased to announce that the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) 1.0 is now available at http://www.codeplex.com/AKS. The AKS, pre-announced a few months ago, provides templates, master pages, controls, and web parts along with technical documentation that enable designers and developers to advance the accessibility of [...]

19 Nov, 2007

90% of Bloggers use hating Vista as link bait!

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Windows

Ok, so that is an entirely made up number. I have read so many article like this one lately. Talk about beating a dead horse. We get it, a lot of people don’t like Windows Vista. A lot of people have been caught up in the whirlwind of negative energy the blogosphere has created about [...]

06 Nov, 2007

Microsoft To Offer Free Business Search Tools

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Computing

In the next year, Microsoft is intending to give away a new product dubbed “Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.” If you are not familiar with the Express strategies at Microsoft, look into the Visual Studio initiative and be sure to listen to my Podcast with Dan Fernandez, Product Manager for Visual Studio Express.
The product will [...]



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