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Cloud API Management Company Sonoa Woos Sam Ramji From Microsoft: Written on Wed, 09/30/09 - 9:39am; And the answer is... Sonoa.; Read More
Microsoft Security Essentials - Never Pay For Anti-Virus Software Again: Written on Tue, 09/29/09 - 9:28am; When Microsoft announced the death of OneCare, I had a pretty good suspicion that wasn't the last we'd heard from Microsoft about anti-virus software. Microsoft doesn't just suddenly for no reason drop out of markets. Rather they stay at it until three or four versions down the road when they finally...; Read More
Is A Ballot Screen For Choosing Your Browser Really Fair?: Written on Mon, 09/28/09 - 9:28am; Microsoft's proposing to use something called a "ballot screen" that would require users chose which browser they would like to use. It's something akin to the default search engine chooser you're presented with the first time IE8 starts up. Great, one more install question we'll get to answer. But is...; Read More
Google Eating The Chrome Off Of IE8, Firefox Drinks Ribbon Menu Kool-Aid: Written on Mon, 09/28/09 - 8:57am; It was mid last week when I installed the Google plugin for IE8 that replaces the web rendering and JavaScript engine with Google Chrome's WebKit and V8 engine respectively. Since I blogged about this last week, Microsoft's fired back balking because the plugin negates the private browsing feature in...; Read More
Microsoft: All I Have To Say Is 'Fix Your Browser': Written on Fri, 09/25/09 - 9:00am; The issue of Google's gutsy move to step in and solve IE8's performance problem is pretty short and sweet from my perspective. If IE8 wasn't such a slow pig of a brower, there wouldn't be an opportunity for Google to fix it by using Google's WebKit display engine. Plain and simple. IE8 was slow when...; Read More
Microsoft "Courier" Tablet: The Right Stuff To Compete Against The Apple Tablet?: Written on Thu, 09/24/09 - 3:59am; More than just photos are leaking out about Courier, Microsoft's booklet sized tablet currently in development. Gizmodo has a video showing the Courier's user interface in action. The Gizmodo video is on YouTube (see below) and you should also check out Gizmodo's article about it.; Read More
Microsoft Fix It. Where Is "Harry Tuttle" When We Need Him?: Written on Tue, 09/22/09 - 10:00am; The current Server Message Block (SMB) vulnerability we're experiencing caused me to go out and run Microsoft's Fix It application. It reported that the fix doesn't apply to the Windows 7 RTM I'm running. I hope that's because this version isn't vulnerable and not because Fix It doesn't work with Windows...; Read More
Podcast: If You Like Xobni, You'll Love Gist: Written on Mon, 09/21/09 - 2:31am; I mean it. If you like Xobni, the very popular Microsoft Outlook plugin that mines information buried within your inbox, you'll love Gist. Here's why. Gist is like an older brother to Xobni, because it not only analyzes your inbox for connection information, but Gist connects you with all kinds of current...; Read More
Laptop Hunters Didn't Know They Were In A Commercial: Written on Wed, 09/16/09 - 11:00am; Wondered what really was happening in those Microsoft Windows PC "laptop hunter" commercials? Are those people real? Why were they so surprised when they got the money at the end of the commercial after selecting a Windows PC? Didn't they know they were in a commercial? You can get a glimpse of what...; Read More
Number 1 Thing To Make Windows 7 Installs Easy: Written on Mon, 09/14/09 - 11:00am; I'd hate to think exactly how many times I've installed some version of Windows 7 since its debut back at Microsoft PDC 2008. There was the Windows 7 pre-public beta (that didn't have the new UI and menu bar), the Windows 7 public beta, the Windows 7 RC and the Windows 7 RTM. On my daily use laptop alone...; Read More
Podcast: Are you doing what it takes to succeed at implementing SharePoint?: Written on Fri, 09/11/09 - 2:00am; I talked with Dux Raymond Sy, author of O'Reilly's SharePoint for Project Management and Innovative-E SharePoint consultant, on this week's podcast about what we can learn from successful and failed SharePoint projects.; Read More
Netbooks: Popular but will you buy a Netbook next time?: Written on Tue, 09/08/09 - 10:26am; I've carried an ultraportable Sony VAIO laptop with me now for two years and so far I've resisted all temptations to buy a netbook. I carry my VAIO laptop with me everywhere, .. I mean everywhere.., so much so that my laptop backpack is starting to look a personal version of Quasimodo's hump. Some wonder...; Read More
My 15 favorite smartphone apps - From TweetDeck to Math Blaster: Written on Tue, 09/01/09 - 9:06am; I love gadgets, smartphones among them. The best part of today's mobile phones are all the cool apps. Here is my list of the smartphone apps that I can't live without. Have you got a favorite not on this list? Drop me comment or a tweet (@mitchellashley) and I'll check it out. To quickly flip through...; Read More

About Converging on Microsoft

Mitchell Ashley has a diverse background in software development, network engineering, information security, mobility, collaborative technologies, and IT management and operations. An early adopter of social media in business, he began blogging about security and information technologies in 2006 at theconvergingnetwork.com. Mitchell is VP of Information Technology at CableLabs in Louisville, CO, and previously held positions as CIO, CTO and VP Engineering at prior companies.

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