Powers Unfiltered

Not posting much lately because I’m on vacation with my family in Washington, DC. It’s the kids’ first trip Back East (time to see some REAL American history), and we’ve been having a great (exhausting) time. For me, one of the unexpected highlights was seeing SpaceShipOne in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum (where I […]

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OK, I promise to stop posting about the WWPC soon, but it was a very productive event for us. In addition to the many sessions I’ve already described, I had a chance to sit down with Darryl Taft of eWeek.  While he was in Boston covering the Microsoft event, he took the time to interview […]

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Apparently, Buzz Bruggeman was at the Microsoft WPC in Boston, blogging away, and I missed him again.  I am in danger of becoming the last person on earth he has not met.  Anyway, he has good posts about the event, including one about the presentation by Andy Lees I attended. Not surprisingly, he liked the […]

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Thank you, Margo Day! Margo is moving on, from VP of US Partners to Western Region VP of Sales.  She’ll be missed by the US Partner community, but as a Western Region partner, we’ll continue to work with her.  Last night, she (and the Microsoft US Partner team) threw an awesome party.  I hope this tradition of good […]

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I attended the keynote sessions again this morning at the Microsoft WWPC.  The highlight of the morning, for me, was Andy Lees, who talked extensively about the progress Microsoft had made in the server market.  He was quite clear about how he sees the high-performance computing (HPC) market, and the opportunity for Microsoft and its […]

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(Composed Tuesday, 7/11/2006 at Microsoft WWPC) I always enjoy Steve Ballmer’s presentations – he’s enthusiastic and loud, insightful and funny, and that works well with a big, supportive crowd.  He did well today, but I’ve seen him before, and I have to say he was not fully on his game today.  He hit on the […]

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(Composed Monday 7/10/2006 en route to Boston for Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.)  I’ve mentioned my happy relationship with my Dell Latitude 610 laptop, and that relationship continues today on the plane to Boston.  If I choose my tasks appropriately, I’m just as productive in an aisle seat on JetBlue as I am in the office (maybe more […]

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Don Canning describes “how a startup becomes an industry success,” providing his own take on our recent demonstration of the Digipede Network running on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference.  When Don says: Microsoft as a team is working closely with Digipede Technologies to enable seamless […]

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