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Metering Cloud Computing

One of my favorite quotes from the book Fooled by Randomness is Wittgenstein's Rule : Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table, you may as well be using the table to measure the ruler. I believe...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 1:18 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: IIS, S+S, Windows Live, Office Live, SkyTap, SatoriTech, DeskTone

Startups & Friction Free Cloud Services

Golf is an activity that requires a tremendous amount of overhead. Aside from actually learning how to swing, aspiring players also have to set aside continuous time blocks of 4 hours, gain membership at a suitable course, acquire an expensive bouquet...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 5:03 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: IIS, Silverlight, .Net, S+S, Startup, Entrepreneur, Windows OS, Windows Live, Office Live, ASP.NET

Ping and Sxip

Despite energetic community efforts and the blooming of a thousand identity initiatives , the path to profits for online consumer identity services has proved remarkably elusive. Sxip Identity , one of the best-known identity startups and helmed by identerati...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2008 1:13 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Security, Acquisitions, S+S, Windows Live, Active Directory, IE, Ping Identity

Bring Your Own PC

Jeff Fisher from Desktone has posted some thoughts on desktop virtualization. One interesting scenario he paints is a future where employees will be expected to provide their own physical PCs for corporate IT departments to deliver a virtual PC to. While...

Published Sun, Mar 03 2008 1:56 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: S+S, Systems Center, Windows OS, Windows Hardware

Where Are They Now: Voltage Security Revisited

Voltage Security, Inc. PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA www.voltage.com 400 Customers, Positive Cash Flow, and Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant by Gartner Here’s what customers are saying about Voltage Security’s information encryption solutions: “It just works...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2008 4:23 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Why Microsoft?, S+S, Where Are They Now

The Evolution of C2A

Not too long ago, a China-based VC told me that nearly all the startups he was seeing were of the “Copy To Asia” or C2A variety. Each pitch inexorably led to the goal of becoming the “Google of China” or “Facebook of China” or “YouTube of China” etc....

Published Mon, Jan 01 2008 10:57 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Windows Mobile, S+S, Mobility Tech, Startup, Xbox, AdCenter, Entrepreneur, Windows Hardware, Media Player, Windows Live

Tapping the Grid

As a young techie, it was hard to resist the temptation of looking for space aliens with my PC. And so I became an early adopter of SETI@Home, a project that now counts 3 million users who contribute their spare PC processing power to scanning radio-telescope...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2008 9:17 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: S+S, Entrepreneur, Windows Live, Office Live, Office Business Applications

CAPTCHA and Cats

How do you know if it’s a real human trying to sign up for an account on your website or posting a comment on your blog, or whether it’s simply a software bot leaching your resources? The most common way today is to subject the alleged human to a CAPTCHA...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2008 1:13 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Security, IIS, S+S, Startup, Entrepreneur, Windows Live, Office Live, Free Software

CTO Interview: Russell Greenspan, VP of Technology Strategy and Software Architecture, Tutor.com

Stuck on a math or science problem? Tutor.com can help. The company creates innovative, on demand homework help and tutoring services that connect students to a professional tutor online the moment they need help in math, science, social studies or English...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2008 4:52 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, Why Microsoft?, S+S, CTO Interview, Encarta

Where Are They Now - NewsGator Revisited

NewsGator Technologies, Inc. DENVER, COLORADO www.newsgator.com Moving Beyond Outlook to Social Networks, Enterprise 2.0, and More Chew on this: RSS feeds and social media tools are more than a trend, they have become a phenomena all their own, and NewsGator...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2007 3:55 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Partnering, Why Microsoft?, S+S, Where Are They Now

CTO Interview: Joe Kleinschmidt, Leverage Software

Social networking is here. And thanks to Leverage Software it is on popular public sites and major private community sites for some of the strongest and most innovative brands in the world, including The New York Times, Dwell Magazine, Charles Schwab...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2007 6:20 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Silverlight, Partnering, Why Microsoft?, S+S, CTO Interview

Free software?

One of the questions I get asked most frequently by start-up software companies, and one that came up during The Online Opportunity event last week, goes something like this:   "We would like to build a business around a solution we're...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2007 6:59 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Partnering, Entrepreneurs, Startups, S+S

The Online Opportunity

This morning we had nearly 180 people turning up for an event at Microsoft's London office in Cardinal Place near Victoria Station. The title of the event was "The Online Opportunity" and the intention was to bring together some of the UK's...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2007 5:17 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Silverlight, Partnering, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurs, Startups, S+S

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