Microsoft's race with Google in Conquering the earth

If you go by the link u can locate most of the places in the US. U can get your driving directions in the US and for me it was a sort of nostalgic that i located the place where i used to stay in the US last year. U can scroll through the map to zoom in or zoom out the map. probably I will play with the features to find how far Microsoft has reached mapping India or Germany where I stay right now.

More of Google

Its well known that people do not browse any longer but they have started googling... In my case I browse directly to a site only when i want to blog or check mails. Otherwise i start googling. I feel google is a absolute time saver and is the best free service any one can think off to get in the internet.

Now Google is turning to enterprise way, and we hear that there are huge list of products like IM, google office , desktop search engine etc are coming out. Strategies of google to extend partnership with SUN,IBM seems to be a clear message to Microsoft.

But there is yet another potential which i feel has always done injustice to itself is the MAC. The UI experience of MAC is wow! and everytime i see it iam tempted to buy a MAC for me.

Comment on Microsoft's Support

The problem here was the performance of the oracle queries. As I analysed, I felt i was clear about the access path the query should use. I decided to use a Optimizer hint and found that the Microsoft provider for Oracle (msdaora) never returned back certain field attributes whenever there was a presence of Optimizer hints. When we represented the problem to Microsoft, microsoft technical side gave us two solutions which i would call crap.
1) Live with the performance problem....(inspite of knowing it was critical for us)
2) Change to oraoledbprovider (knowing our product was time tested on msdaora).

The second one was tolerable but the first one being a technical person from microsoft support team, the person assigned to us was so good enough to call the it a solution ...

hats off to microsofts support team...

Article from Microsoft's CTO

Had to do a lot of things which kept me totally away from blogging the passion i ve developed of late. It happenned that I had to shift projects, and had to travel to Germany for the project Ganesha that i love the most. I ve been reading a lot about the developments and exploring new avenues in the Microsoft world for a newer version of a Construction product that iam going to develop. I came across this wonderful article from Microsoft's CTO Ray Ozzie.