From The Northern Edge Of MicrosoftMark Relph - Director - Developer & Platform - Microsoft CanadaMicrosoft's Phil Sorgen on social responsibility- June 25, 2008 On the Globe & Mail site today. Should a corporation answer only to its shareholders, or should it have a social conscience as well Not all executives are convinced they can afford to pour time and money into such things as community projects. But according to recent studies, an extraordinarily high number of their employees want to be involved in a company's social responsibilities, would prefer to work for a company with a strong commitment to community, and believe companies...http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/archive/2008/06/25/microsoft-s-phil-sorgen-on-social-resp... Watching The Red Gadget.- June 9, 2008 &160; Our good friends over at The Weather Network provide a great Windows Vista gadget called Weather Eye.&160; I often like to tell them that my favourite feature of the gadget is when the red warning bar shows up.&160; The gadget gets a slice of my day since its always there on my desktop, but when that red colour appears I always give it a second look.&160; Now, normally red=snow or rain.&160; Today red=tornado!&160; Ive lived in Toronto a long time and I cant remember too many other...http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/archive/2008/06/09/watching-the-red-gadget.aspx Vintage The TRS-80 Model 100- June 9, 2008 Thanks to David Crow for spotting this article about the classic TRS-80. I actually have one of these in my office.&160; It used to belong to my father and I have kept it for all these years.&160; Interesting note about the TRS-80 is that it is the last production code BillG ever directly wrote. PCWorld: Inside A Classic &160; Bill's Last Hurrah A quarter-century ago, Bill Gates was still getting his hands dirty with tasks that, today would be left to entry-level Microsoft...http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/archive/2008/06/08/vintage-the-trs-80-model-100.aspx In The Press: BlueSky Award Winner- June 6, 2008 From CRN: Sitemasher wins inaugural Blue Sky Award Posted Thursday , June 5, 2008 by Robert Dutt Vancouver-based Sitemasher has won the first-ever Blue Sky Award for ISV innovation from Microsoft Canada. The award, which was kicked off in March, was presented Thursday at Microsoft Canadas ISV Leadership Summit at its Mississauga, ON headquarters. To win the award, Sitemasher was selected from a first class of more than 40 solutions produced by ISVs around the country. The solution is a.http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/archive/2008/06/06/in-the-press-bluesky-award-winner.aspx Announcing The Winner Of The Bluesky Award- June 6, 2008 &160; I had the please of presenting the BlueSky award at the ISV Innovation Summit yesterday.&160; We had 3 solid finalists that show the kind of software innovation happening across Canada. Congratulations to our 2 runners-up are: Oculus Info Inc. :&160; Oculus Info Inc. is a provider of cutting-edge business visualization software solutions. Their solution, Oculus WPF, simplifies the creation of scalable 3D visualizations and allows users to directly view patterns in large ranges...http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/archive/2008/06/06/announcing-the-winner-of-the-bluesky-a... Up Today Founders & Funders- June 4, 2008 Tonight is Founders & Funders Toronto &8211; an event we are sponsoring that brings together high potential companies with sources of funding.&160; We participated once before and that event was terrific.&160; These kinds of networking events are exactly the kind of things we need to add to our Canadian startup &8220;culture&8221; to drive momentum. I will let you know how the evening goes.http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/archive/2008/06/04/up-today-founders-funders.aspx Video From TechED Soma shows off Silverlight 2- June 3, 2008http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/archive/2008/06/03/video-from-teched-somo-shows-off-silve... Video BillG at TechEd Developers Conference- June 3, 2008http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/archive/2008/06/03/video-billg-at-teched-developers-confe... In The Press: Microsoft Canada's EnergizeIT aims to wow students into IT- June 2, 2008 Microsoft Canada's EnergizeIT aims to wow students into IT http:www.connectitnews.comcanadastory.cfmitem=5766 30 May, 2008 By Liam Lahey With over 2,000 IT community members expected to attend last Saturday's Microsoft Canada Co.'s annual EnergizeIT event at the Toronto Congress Centre, one executive says though the extraordinarily unique event is in fact a celebration of IT, the focus this year was to woo post-secondary students to consider a career in IT. "The whole point of..http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/archive/2008/06/02/in-the-press-microsoft-canada-s-energi... In The Press: Cloud Computing For The Little guy- June 2, 2008 http:www.theglobeandmail.compartnersfreetechSMBcloud.html Cloud computing for the little guy A growing number of small business operators are finding cloud services can prove invaluable in streamlining their day-to-day work functions BY DENISE DEVEAU &160; When on the road, Brad Compton, an independent mortgage broker with Invis Financial in Toronto doesn&8217;t need a laptop any more. But he can still get to his files and application forms from just about any PC at any location....http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/archive/2008/06/02/in-the-press-cloud-computing-for-the-l... |