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  • Licensing the Office 2007 UI - what is Microsoft's IP strategy?

    Jensen Harris announced that the Office 2007 Ribbon UI can be licensed . For the last year or so, one of the questions I've been asked again and again has been: "Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product?" I have to be honest - I'm a bit baffled at this whole thing. Note, they are not...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-27-2006

  • The tradeoffs of the Energy Policy Act of 2005

    As part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that Congress passed last year, Daylight Savings Time will be extended by four weeks. One of the rationales behind DST is that we leverage the longer daylight hours in the summer months to minimize the need for artificial light. This operates off the assumption...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-30-2006

  • Misbehaving Software: Zinio Reader

    Zinio Reader is a application that allows you to download digital magazines and view them in a magazine-like presentation, complete with turning pages. It is especially cool on the Tablet PC platform (indeed, it is preinstalled on many Tablets now). The only problem is that Zinio misbehaves when it comes...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-16-2006

  • A quick rant on H1-B Visas

    On a related note, I agree with Faisal's criticism of Wally's H1-B rant . I don't purport to be an expert here (quite the opposite), but we need to remember that outsourcing is different than the work visa issue. In the former, work is exported from the country because those in places like India or Brazil...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-03-2005
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