Jul 16 2009

WPC Day 3 Summary

Tag: OtherMark Becker @ 5:32 pm

 

Day 3, like the others, started with some excellent keynotes.  Here are some highlights:

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Jul 16 2009

WPC Day 2 Summary

Tag: OtherMark Becker @ 2:38 pm

 

Ok – I have been taking notes prodigiously using my Netbook PC (I bought one for my wife – possibly - and I upgraded it to Windows :))  I have dumped these notes into this summary and am cleaning them up.  If it seems sort of scrambled that is why. Continue reading “WPC Day 2 Summary”


Jul 14 2009

WPC Day 1 Summary and Thoughts

Tag: OtherMark Becker @ 1:38 pm

 

This has been a very exciting conference for me (and the approximately 9000 others) because we are in a “wave” year!  In fact, they had a cool video of a surfer getting towed behind a wave runner to catch a tsunami size wave – that was a metaphor for the impact of the amount of new releases coming from MS this year.

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May 28 2009

Windows 7: Seven Things I Like About You!

Tag: InfrastructureMark Becker @ 1:06 pm

Windows 7 just crossed another milestone – it was released to MSDN as a Release Candidate.  I have been running it since a fellow consultant shared Beta Build 7000 with me in December.  Thanks Jason Sharp!  Windows 7 has been a great operating system for me – much better than Vista!  So I just had to write up a blog about the 7 things I like most about it. These are listed in order of their value to me.

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Aug 28 2008

Windows Mobile 6 and My AT&T Tilt

Tag: CollaborationMark Becker @ 2:45 pm

 

I have been a fan of Windows Mobile (WM) devices for years – since the Windows CE days.  I have owned other phones, like the Palm Treo, but I keep coming back to the Windows Mobile platform.  My son thinks iPhone is hip with its slick interface, but I find that my AT&T Tilt running WM 6.1 has more practical uses (6.1 is an unofficial ROM from HTC).  My wife is tired of hearing me say how much I love this phone, but it’s truly the best phone / PDA I have owned yet!    

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