Simon Willison’s Weblog

Mobile Device Connectivity to Exchange using IMAP vs Exchange ActiveSync (via) I count 14 instances of “experience” in this 1,000 word blog entry. Do real people talk like this?

# 12th July 2007, 5:17 pm / experience, weaselwords, communication, writing, microsoft, john-gruber, exchange, imap, activesync

The Sarcastic Gamer: MS Surface. “Your next computer will be a big-ass table.”

# 21st June 2007, 11:42 am / surface, microsoft, funny

The One True Object (Part 2). Jim Hugunin describes how the DLR let’s Python / JavaScript / Ruby talk to each other using a message passing abstraction.

# 5th May 2007, 1:27 am / dlr, jimhugunin, microsoft, python, javascript, ruby

Microsoft’s XUL. My take on XAML from back in 2003 seems strangely relevant.

# 4th May 2007, 11:40 pm / microsoft, xul, xaml, silverlight

Migrating Microsoft Hotmail from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows 2000. I’d like to see them try that with Yahoo!’s 100+ properties.

# 4th May 2007, 5:54 pm / yahoo, microsoft, freebsd, hotmail, windows, open-source

MSFT and Yahoo: two icebergs, roped together. Yahoo!’s engineering platform and culture is Open Source pretty much all the way down. Microsoft’s isn’t. I wonder how that would pan out.

# 4th May 2007, 5:50 pm / microsoft, open-source, yahoo

Dynamic Language Runtime. Miguel de Icaza describes how Microsoft’s new Dynamic Language Runtime lets you call JavaScript and Visual Basic functions from Ruby. Looks like they beat Parrot to the punch.

# 3rd May 2007, 10:29 pm / migueldeicaza, microsoft, dlr, javascript, visualbasic, ruby, parrot

How to debug JavaScript with Visual Web Developer Express. Microsoft’s best kept secret: a decent free debugger for Internet Explorer that doesn’t require you to install Microsoft Office.

# 2nd May 2007, 2:06 pm / visualwebdeveloperexpress, ie, debugging, microsoft, javascript

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (via) Microsoft have made free VPC images of IE 6 and IE 7 available for testing, but they expire in August.

# 20th April 2007, 4:47 pm / microsoft, ie, ie7, testing, virtualization

i’m Home. “Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective organisations dedicated to social causes.” Microsoft are now getting their marketing ideas from spam e-mail forwards.

# 2nd March 2007, 10:43 am / funny, im, microsoft, spam

Introducing Windows CardSpace. I incorrectly stated in my talk yesterday that CardSpace was a feature of Vista; it’s actually available for XP as well as part of the .NET 3.0 framework.

# 22nd February 2007, 11:47 am / cardspace, future-of-web-apps, correction, microsoft

CardSpace & OpenID: Working together. A more detailed explanation of what the Microsoft OpenID collaboration actually means.

# 7th February 2007, 1:58 am / microsoft, openid, scott-kveton, cardspace

Microsoft & OpenID. HUGE news. Microsoft are officially supporting OpenID, through integration with CardSpace.

# 7th February 2007, 1:56 am / microsoft, openid, cardspace

Microsoft confirms Vista Speech Recognition remote execution flaw. “I have verified that I can create a sound file that can wake Vista speech recognition, open Windows Explorer, delete the documents folder, and then empty the trash.”

# 1st February 2007, 5:19 pm / funny, vista, security, speechrecognition, microsoft

Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007. They’ve dropped the IE renderer and replaced it with... Microsoft Word! No CSS background images, no floats, no CSS positioning, no forms. Wow.

# 10th January 2007, 8:18 am / microsoft, htmlemail, css, outlook, outrageous

IE JScript Performance Recommendations Part 3. Once again, Microsoft’s official advice is to avoid closures entirely rather than learn how to use them safely. Sigh.

# 9th January 2007, 11:48 am / microsoft, ie, closures, javascript

A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft. Jon wants to bridge the gap between the alpha geeks and the mainstream.

# 8th December 2006, 2:16 pm / jon-udell, microsoft

Microsoft versus FOSS Configuration Management. Why the Free Software world’s source control works and Vista’s apparently doesn’t.

# 7th December 2006, 9:28 am / microsoft, open-source, sourcecontrol

Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation (via) Bruce Sterling on scaling up his annual SxSW party. I can’t believe I missed it htis year.

# 22nd May 2004, 8:35 pm / microsoft, scaling, sxsw, bruce-sterling

Microsoft Security FAQ (via) Point your less technical friends here

# 17th December 2003, 2:50 am / microsoft, security

Jonathan Caves: Adventures in Visual C (via) Who’d have thought Microsoft would have all the best in-house bloggers?

# 23rd November 2003, 11:59 pm / c, microsoft