The jury that sat through eight weeks of complicated testimony and 600
exhibits over whether or not Microsoft broke the antitrust laws and tied a
can to WordPerfect's tail to maintain its monopoly after Novell bought the
software 17 years ago couldn't come to a unanimous decision Friday after
three days of deliberation.
The jury's foreman reportedly sent out a note to the judge late Friday
afternoon saying, "I'm sorry, very sorry we cannot come to one accord. I've
done the best I know how."
Novell asked for one more day. District Court Judge Frederick Motz - who
didn't think the case should be heard in the first place - reportedly asked
the five men and seven women on the jury to keep on trying, and take the
weekend to think about it, but when they insisted that resolution was
hopeless, he dismissed them and declared a mistrial.
They were split 11 to one in Novell'... (more)
I had a great time at ReMix and the Architect Forum in Belgium. I had a
chance to cover build an application end-to-end with Silverlight 3 and RIA
Services which was basically the this application. At the Architect Forum I
had a chance to talk in more depth about the general application pattern we
are thinking about for RIA applications. I shamelessly stole some slides from
Nikhil Kothari for this one. Check out the slides.
... (more)
Microsoft's Developer
Gist, a beta-phase e-mail start-up kicked off by Microsoft co-founder Paul
Allen’s Vulcan Capital, has raised a $6.75 million first round led by the
Foundry Group. Its widgetry combines e-mails with the latest news about
contacts taken from blog posts, social networking sires and Tweets sort of
like Xobni. Vulcan has also put money in Xiant, another e-mail start-up, this
one with an add-on that files Outlook mail based on previously preferences.
4th International Cloud Computing Expo Attracted More than 50 Sponsors and
Exhibitors Plus Over 2,200 Delegates in... (more)
In the past, Windows Workflow Foundation hasn't gotten a (deservedly so) bad
reputation for being full of needless bloat, overly complicated, and missing
a lot of key things that make workflow productive for developers. As a result
of that, Microsoft completely overhauled WF in the .NET Framework 4.0. One of
the new features of WF4 is the concept of a workflow service. A workflow
service is really nothing more than a workflow that is hosting WCF endpoints
within the activity. This allows the workflow to progress from start to
finish by communicating with external clients, such as... (more)
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Windows clustering gives a unique way to employ fail over support for
demanding applications and services. With clustering, applications and data
can be made available on different servers, which are linked together as
clusters. A clustered volume is a critical repository of data, which if lost
brings in data loss consequences. At this point, if the available backup
seems to be invalid, you need a powerful windows partition recovery utility
that could recover the lost data at a safe location.
To illustrate such scenarios, consider you use Windows S... (more)
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