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Patrick Durusau has posted a couple of his now characteristic PDFs since the end of the IS29500 appeals process.
It is worth taking a moment to read both of them;
http://www.durusau.net/publications/listening.pdf
OOXML has been approved by a super-majority of those eligible to vote, appeals have been denied and yet the cry: “You’re Not LISTENING TO ME!” goes on. [...]
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The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. - Ronald Reagan
President Reagan had many talents, one of which was the innate ability to take very complex issues and sum them [...]
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Last October I shared a few thoughts on a study that we conduct with IDC every year looking at the net impact of Microsoft’s business on the ecosystem of partners,developers and other service companies around us. The headline is that we measure part of our relevance in markets where we do business in terms of [...]
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This story has appeared in several of my regular sets of reading materials this morning.
It seems that China will be breaking ground on a whole new city that will be built from the ground up with the environment in mind.
My move to Singapore almost two years ago gave me the opportunity to travel to China [...]
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I hadn’t realized it had been two years already!
S.Somasegar has a celebratory post up this morning discussing two years of Codeplex.
Since launching, CodePlex has grown steadily, recently achieving two major milestones: 1,000,000 unique visitors/month and 5,000 total projects. CodePlex projects appeal to many audiences and include the AJAX Control Toolkit, Rawr (a .NET tool for [...]
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Out National Technology Officer for New Zealand, Brett Roberts, has started blogging.
Brett has been a huge help to me as I have been finding my feet here in Asia Pacific over the last eighteen months. He has a really clear view on issues that the industry faces today, coupled with a healthy sense of Kiwi [...]
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Assuming you have not spend the last two weeks living in a sealed box under a bridge (or in a hotel in Portland with an almost non existent internet connection) then you will probably have noticed that the journalist behind the Fake Steve blog has started writing again, this time under his real name Dan [...]
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I’ve been attending Microsoft’s annual global sales meeting in Atlanta this week and now find myself in a painful situation where I now have only a week before I need to be in Redmond for several other meetings, including the DII Workshop on SP2 and ODF.
My colleague Bryan Kirschner, Microsoft’s Director of Platform Community Strategy, [...]
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I have a question that one of my readers might be able to answer, nothing whatsoever to do with technology or technology policy, just something that I have been curious about for a while.
I’ve been traveling to the USA on a pretty regular basis since the late 1980s and apart from the eight years I [...]
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One of the more enlightening panel discussions in Seoul earlier this week was a discussion between a couple of well known telcos on the issue of Net Neutrality.
The arguments against Net Neutrality have never really been clear to me. Microsoft’s position is to support the drive for continued neutrality of services provided on the Internet, [...]
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Yesterday I shared the outline of a presentation that I made at the OECD Ministerial stakeholder side meeting that is being held in Seoul this week. I thought that it would be worthwhile sharing with you some of the higher level goals of the BIAC day that I participated in.
The goal of the session was [...]
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Earlier today I had the honor of participating in the Business Stakeholder meetings being held in Seoul preparing for the OECD Ministerial Meeting on “The Future of the Internet Economy” that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
My input to the meeting was pretty straight forwards, the goal was to demonstrate that [...]
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I meant to talk a little about this last week, but got wrapped up in a customer event in Korea for a few days.
Two weeks ago the World Congress on Information Technology was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was a huge event bringing together technology and policy folks from all around the world to [...]
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As I travel around Asia the term “Creative Economy” is one that comes up more and more frequently, it is a concept that has been around for a while but only recently seems to have earned a place in discussions around information and communication technology here in the region.
The concept of the Creative Economy [...]
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A couple of posts caught my eye this morning, representing very closely related discussions from opposite sides of the globe.
One from New Zealand, and a second from the United Kingdom.
Rod Drury, CEO of Xero, shares some insight into discussions taking place in New Zealand around how to encourage increased growth in the local IT [...]
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