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The Cell Phone Wars

Slate has an interesting comparison of Apple’s very closed model with the iPhone and Google’s very open model with Android: In the two months since the App Store's launch, Apple has rejected several programs for seemingly arbitrary reasons that it won't disclose. Developers havegrumbled about...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-26-2008
Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1

Microsoft is updating its Expression Blend product to support Silverlight 2. Here’s the info: Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1 will directly and seamlessly patch the previously installed version of Expression Blend 2 to utilize the newest designer/developer technology and enhance overall user experience...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-26-2008
Microsoft announces PDC details

PDC 2008 is going to be awesome. The latest example of why comes courtesy of Microsoft’s Channel 9, which notes that PDC attendees are getting a 160 GB hard drive full of software: Okay, okay, maybe we’ve been a little too tight lipped about what we’re going to announce at the PDC this year. We...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-23-2008
Welcome to Chromium

I'm surprised that there isn't a Google Chrome Blog. After all, the company has about 1100 different blogs, and seems to have one for just about every product and service it makes. That said, Google does have a Chromium Blog , which is about the open source project behind Chrome. It's a start...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-02-2008
PDC 2008: New keynoters, early bird registration extended

Looks like Microsoft added a few more keynoters to PDC 2008: Today, Microsoft announced that architects Don Box and Chris Anderson were both added to the lineup for the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) as the newest keynoters. Don and Chris will present an energetic and exiting presentation...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-19-2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is coming in Q3 2008

Nick MacKechnie of Microsoft New Zealand says we can expect the next IE 8 beta in the third quarter of 2008. As previously announced this beta will be aimed at end users, unlike Beta 1, which targeted developers: Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-26-2008
Live Mesh

Penton's vaunted Web publishing system is hosed this morning, meaning I can't publish my WinInfo article about Live Mesh yet. But this is important. So I'm going to post it here (unedited) for now and then mention a few changes I see coming for this site as a result. With Live Mesh, Microsoft...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-23-2008
Google eases email migration to Gmail/Google Apps

This is interesting, though it's obviously geared only towards enterprises at the moment: Not long ago, we launched an email migration tool that lets administrators move email from their existing IMAP mail systems to Google Apps, so users didn't have to leave their old mail behind. Since then...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-19-2007

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