UPDATE #2: Looks like this must have been just a test, as the new UI isn’t available anymore.  Since it only worked in IE7, and not IE8 or Firefox, probably a good indication that there’s still work left to do.…

We’ve been down for the last 20 hours or so – some kind of a hardware problem with our dedicated server – fixed now.  And yes we paid the bills 😉

Some interesting stuff around the interwebs about Ray Ozzie, …

Microsoft is betting heavily on Software + Services, the concept that all the power of the desktop will not go away when services are introduced, rather that storage and computing power, local to the user, will continue to play a …

I’m not a road warrior.  I’ve attended three Butterfly Tours, two MVP Summits, two Gnomedexes, and some various one day events (mostly in Redmond), but this is the first big tech conference I’ve attended outside of Seattle.  Just to get …

Well we’re here in Las Vegas (more on that later), getting ready for Mix to officially start with the keynote this morning, and it looks like we’re not the only ones getting ready.  Thanks to LiveSide member pikalu0530, we can …

Well the Softies are descending on Vegas, and tomorrow I’ll be there too – just in time to meet up with Long Zheng and company, who has a bit of a longer flight from Australia than I do from Seattle. …

Microsoft has just posted a press release announcing that IE8 will support standards by default, which is a change from what had been previously announced (that IE8 would support IE7 "mode" by default, and render to standards only with the …

Microsoft’s analytics piece of their adCenter product has just received an update, and a quick run-through shows some new features, significantly improved performance, and the end of the $5 sign-up fee (although I’m not finding a link to the free …

See, is this so hard?  The Email Support Space blog posts tonight, reporting that “nearly all customers are once again able to sign in”, with some specific information coming for customers who are still unable to login, “once you …

With Mix08 less than a week away, details of what’s coming are slowly creeping out: details of the IE8 beta, Scott Guthrie has posted details about Silverlight 2.0. And now the Windows Live Platform team is announcing today …