ON THINGS MICROSOFT "A Brief History of Microsoft on the Web" (via @nikitap) - http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk.htm Netbook v iPad - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358590,00.asp WPF4 Hands On Labs - http://connect.microsoft.com/WPF/content/content.aspx?ContentID=15293 WiMo 6.x Hands on Lab published Jan-22 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b1c41316-61a0-49b2-a959-caa64624a572 Latest Microsoft.com downloads - always an interesting browse - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/results.aspx?sortCriteria=date&FamilyID=&OSID=&productID=&CategoryID=10&freetext=&DisplayLang=en&DisplayEnglishAlso= WPF and Win7 in space - http://blog.seesmic.com/2010/01/live-tweeting-from-space-using-seesmic-look-1.html Nike plus Silverlight Deep Zoom plus Azure Storage - http://www.jumpman23mosaic.com/ Top 16 Windows Gadgets for System Monitoring - http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista/tp/vistagadgetssu.htm Win7 has now passed all versions of MacOS combined - http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=11476&tag=nl.e539 NES Games in Browser with Sivlerlight - http://gamenes.net PC Week, Application Development: Top 10 Moves for Microsoft Silverlight in 2009 - http://bit.ly/8QxfpW Gartner RIA Report - Microsoft=strong positive - Gartner RIA Report - Microsoft=Strong Positive - http://blogs.msdn.com/innov8showcase/archive/2010/01/18/gartner-ria-report-microsoft-rates-strong-positive.aspx Ten WiMo phones from CES - http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/10-MustSee-Microsoft-Windows-Mobile-Smartphones-from-CES-460726/?kc=EWKNLEDP01132010C SQL Server Migration Assistant for MYSQL CTP - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0e6168b0-2d0c-4076-96c2-60bd25294a8e&displaylang=en Silverlight Game Dev Video by @billreiss - http://blogs.silverarcade.com/silverlight-games-101/08/silverlight-video-overview-of-silverlight-game-development/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SilverlightGames101+%28Silverlight+Games+101%29 ADO.NET Entity Data Model Extension Kit - http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DesignerExtStartKit Zune HD Apps Store - http://zhdapps.com/news/ Kenwood KIV-BT900 CD-less car stereo with Zune USB support - OK, I've never camped out for a car stereo before - http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10429258-269.html , available 2010-April Sarasota .NET Developers mailing list - http://www.davidhayden.me/2010/01/sarasota-net-developers-windows-live-group.html SQL Server Twitter Directory - http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Twitter MISCELLANEOUS kindle v ipad - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10443186-1.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave 101 fanboy tshirts - some pretty clever ones - http://www.cotygonzales.com/2010/01/25/101-t-shirts-for-apple-fanboys-and-mac-faithful/ google v mozilla on html5 video - http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10440430-264.html nexus one support forums - interesting reading - http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/label?lid=18bf75ad33b7d554&lid=551c5c4cca827a18&hl-en google next one 3g troubleshooting from tmobile - http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/t-mobile-gives-reps-troubleshooting-tips-for-nexus-ones-3g-issu/ iphone v nexus one - http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/010710-google-nexus-one.html?ts0hb&story=nexus, http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/iphone-versus-nexus-one/ Clarks World Online SciFi Mag - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/feed/rss/ OSX v Windows in Web 2.0 - http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/10/07/os-x-vs-windows-web-2-0-face-apple-gets-thrashing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IndustryStandardUniqueContent+%28The+Industry+Standard%27s+News+and+Commentary+%28no+3rd+party+content%29%29