Anith Gopal

Sometimes as a manager, I not only want to coach people on how to get things done at work, I’d love to be able to help them change the way they think.  Early in my career, an engineering coworker used to say that it’s all about “behavior modification” but I truly never understood what he meant at the time.  Now I do.

In case you haven’t heard, I am ALL OVER social networking.  If you follow my personal account , it’s full of cooking stories and food pics, DIY and crafting advice, My Fluevog shoe obsession, cute pictures of my dog, cute pictures of OTHER people’s dogs and tech stuff.  Maybe not your cup of tea, cause you just want the tech stuff.  Well, I have another Twitter account that I occasionally allude to, and it’s strictly business. Microsoft business that is, in the Midwest (Illinois,…( read more )

В 1995 Windows изменил ПК. BUILD покажет, что Windows 8 меняет все

오늘 소개해 드릴 내용은 XBOX용으로 출시된 Kinect 입니다.

Long Post Disclaimer:-): Sorry this post turned out to be a bit longer than I expected but if you can take a minute to read through it, it may be worth your time.

SQL MVP Robert Cain has found the perfect use for all those backpacks and bags most of us have stuffed in the corner of a closet—donate them to displaced tornado victims. Robert lives in Alabama, which was one of the states hit by the recent rash of tornados that devastated parts of the southern United States. “Many people have been stranded with nothing,” said Robert.

In my previous post, I spoke about how Windows Azure supports the goal of a “Never Down” application. In this post, I will give the credit the specific module that allows for such goal to materialize: Introducing … drum roll … the Fabric Controller!   The fabric controller is an integral part of the Windows Azure platform

and Scott At last year’s MIX10 event, Windows Internet Explorer Corporate Vice President, Dean Hachamovitch , announced the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 1 with hardware accelerated HTML5. This year, Dean will be back on the MIX stage as he returns as the day 1 keynoter at MIX11. Eight platform previews, one beta, one release candidate, and one final version of Internet Explorer 9 later – it’s a keynote you won’t want to miss

During the key note address at Tech Ed ME 2011 in Dubai yesterday, I was asked by a Microsoft customer: “What is Windows Azure?.” I then realized that we, at Microsoft, may not be doing as good a job as we should in getting the word out and this is where the idea for this blog post came about:   I label is “Part 1” because no single blog post can explain it with merits in one shot so more to come on the subject. Let me first tell you “some” of what Windows Azure is NOT. It is NOT the next version of Windows Client (Windows 7) and it is NOT the next version of Windows Server (2008 R2) either

This post is a little deviation from my Cloud related focus on this blog but I also own the Windows Client Track at Tech Ed Middle East 2011 – Tech Ed is a premier technical education event that takes place once a year at only handful locations around the world. Having it in Dubai for the second year in a row brings a tremendous advantage and value to the region.   My selection of this content is very pragmatic.

Microsoft’s search engine Bing, and even Yahoo, are providing users with more accurate searches than their rival Google, according to a report out this week. Bing and Yahoo, which is now using Microsoft’s Bing search technology, had the highest search success rates last month, reported Experian Hitwise , an Internet monitoring firm. More than 81 percent of searches on their sites led users to visit a Web site.

Payments processing has always demanded a high performance, and highly resiliant platfrom. This is true of Fedwire and other RTGS systems, national ACH systems, and card transaction platforms alike. As the first of these systems was implemented in the 1970s and 1980s it isn’t surprising that mainframe architectures have prevailed in this space ever since.