Posts tagged with "Microsoft"

I occasionally receive letters sent out to the Industry Executives from the top dogs at Microsoft.  Here’s the one I just received outlining their newest initiative called Windows Azure, which was just announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference.

August 22-23

Exactly two months ago Microsoft sent me an email introducing it’s new branding called “Microsoft Advertising” (note that the page is presently erroring out).  Personally I think the new branding is a step forward, as I never cared for “AdCenter”. ...

Over the past year, Microsoft has broadly touted their partnership with NBC and the video feeds they will provide for the Olympics.  So on July 4th, I sat back and while watching their TV broadcast and went over to their...

While I love Microsoft’s developer products, adCenter (Microsoft’s search advertising / pay per click) makes me want to hide in shame.  See the email I received below.

Ok, so my announcement is 6 days late.

If you’re interested in joining Microsoft’s beta program for games, you’ll be interested in the following email I received.

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We’ve scheduled the next MSDN Express event to take place on February 27th, from 1pm-5pm.  Zain Naboulsi (our MSDN Evangelist) will be presenting topics TBA.  Location will be at the New Horizons office in Rogers.

I’m impressed by the fact that they used Silverlight to highlight Bill Gates keynote and Microsoft at CES.  Note that the intro is a bit long before they actually let him speak.  If you’ll notice at the bottom, they included...