Bing Maps steps up

While watching a recent Steve Ballmer's presentation regarding "the cloud", the new version of bing maps was shown (+- min 30). Interesting? well, SHURE! At last you can experience a serious integration of a set of tools that are coming together (maps, search, flickr, world wide telescope, photosynth, etc.). Just take a look at it and judge for …

Windows 7 Release Candidate

It is out! The release candidate for Windows7 operating System. I've been using the beta for some time now and I'm quite happy with the performance and funcionalities. Give it a try. You can get here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx. Improved taskbar: Jump Lists: Desktop enhancements: Improved device management Homegroup Get more details here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx.

Offtopic: Mind broadening presentations

I have recently been shown by a colleague, to a huge presentation application that publish TED contents to everyone. TED is a cross segment forum with ~20 min presentations on topics that go from robotics to how to survive to an atom bomb. This is a chance to listen to excellent presentation skills on some …

this.Dispose();

A couple of days ago a fellow Sharepointer entered the non existence phase. In his memory I leave a profound scream: ask for help if you need it; Always be there for those who do so! RIP Miguel...

WorldWide Telescope

Being astronomy one of my hobbies, I was very excited to read that Microsoft was launching the Worldwide Telescope project. This will allow to travel the sky based on the images of the best/largest telescopes. I don't know if you ever peeked through a telescope before, but anything beyond our solar system are simple black …

Why the @£$% can’t a deployment go smoothly, just for once…?

Sorry about this, but I had to spill out my anger... For the Nth time I was part of a deployment team. This time of a Moss solution; and for the same number o times, if was a living hell... Does this happens only to me and the ones I work with? Is this some …

Radios.pt has launched

I couldn't resist to post a message to wellcome a great project to life: ROLI  a huge radio broadcasting community with streamming. This is the first of its kind portal for radio stations (all radios from a country anyway), running CMS & Microsoft platform solutions. I won't get much into detail, before confirming with the …