Time to Kiss MSN Good-bye The Internet wars are over, and Microsoft lost. That's the clear message from the impending Google buyout of five percent of AOL for $1 billion. Preston Gralla

You Don't Need to Wait for Vista for Gadgets It may be a year until Vista ships, but there are plenty of gadgets you can download to your PC right now. Preston Gralla

Welcome to the New WindowsDevCenter You're seeing a new look on WindowsDevCenter today, and the changes go beyond the merely cosmetic. We've redesigned and refocused the site to expand our Windows coverage, and to give greater emphasis to our lineup of bloggers. Preston Gralla

Adding Clarity to the Enterprise Service Bus: An ESB Reference Architecture As part of our unwavering effort to continue to provide thought leadership and education on what it means to be an ESB, Sonic Software has announced a more formal and detailed definition. The "Sonic ESB: An Architecture and Lifecycle Definition" is a technical explanation of the major architectural components of an Enterprise Service Bus... David A. Chappell

Recorded Presentation from Enterprise Architect Summit I recently gave a presentation on ESB Architecture at the Enterprise Architecture Summit in Barcelona. A recording of the whole presentation, including the comments from the audience members, can be found here.... David A. Chappell

A Big Thanks to Miguel Castro Web Controls Presentation at Richmond's .NET User Group Frank La Vigne

Apple's OS X Is Subject to a Big Mac Attack Mac users constantly tell me their systems are impervious to assault, unlike hole-ridden Windows. But now the shoe is on the other foot. Preston Gralla

More Lisp—For Free This time, Christopher delves a little further into the resources available on the internet for teaching yourself the Lisp language for free. Christopher Roach

Fixing that Windows partition The not so short story on managing a Windows OS disk. Chris Josephes

The Art of Podcasting The December 2005 issue of Electronic Musician features my how-to article, “The Art of Podcasting.” The issue won’t go online until January, but you can see a bunch of my source material now, plus an example podcast, at the EM site. David Battino

Keyboard vs Mouse An Ask Slashdot posits the ancient question about CLI vs. GUI, in a Windows app context. For Mac users, this question is moot -- or can be made so. Robert Daeley

Microsoft Should Abandon Office Open XML As a Standard Microsoft's decision to submit its new Office Open XML document format for Office 12 to become an open standard is anything but an attempt at openness. Preston Gralla

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