Thomas Freudenberg

Confessions of a caffeine addict

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1,000 phones for 10,000 buyers
BizTalk Visionary wrote : During “Keynote" audiance advised they would have the chance to buy the iMate JASJAR (normall $1100) for $149. This meant some people bailed out to go and buy. The majority stayed and watched - of course. Only 1000...
The Return of the Sidebar
The sidebar's back. Microsoft presented it to us two years ago, but in succeeding CTPs it was gone. Now it's back and you can add so-called gadgets. To speak in Apple terms, think of sidebar and gadgets as dashboard and widgets. You can write...
Windows Vista UX Guidelines Released
Steve Sinchak points to a post by Brad Wardell, that Microsoft has released a preliminary version of the Vista User Experience guidelines: According to Brad Wardell's blog on JoeUser.com, Microsoft has released a preliminary version of the UX guidelines...
PDC: The (missing) Goods
Today we got The Goods, almost 30GB of geek stuff. It's a box containing 6 DVD's: Windows Vista Beta 1 (incl. SDK) Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 SQL Server 2005 June CTP, Virtual PC 2004, Virtual Server 2005 R2 Beta, Windows Server 2003...
Let the party start
The journey was a mess. My flight from Düsseldorf on Saturday was scheduled for 7:15am. Unfortunately, it was cancelled, and the next flight was at 2:05pm, so I had to kill nearly 7 hours at the airport. I arrived in LA at 19:00 local time, more than...
Four Days Left
I'm cleaning up my desk at the moment and preparing my laptop as I did the last time before I'll leave tomorrow. BTW, I'll stay in the Omni Plaza .