by admin on June 06, 2006
I’m recently returning from Linux World Brazil where I presented on ‘OSS and Microsoft.’ One night in Sao Paulo I had the opportunity to chat with two of the leading OSS technologists in Brazil – Cesar Brod and Helio Chessini de Castro...... more
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by admin on May 30, 2006
Time for some confessions. I’m fully addicted to World of Warcraft (abbreviate WoW). There, I said it...... more
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by admin on May 17, 2006
Last week I attended the Microsoft VC Summit at our Silicon Valley campus. Before Microsoft and IBM, I helped to build four start-ups, three in the Bay area, so spending a day with a couple hundred VC folks talking about industry trends and business models and in general networking with some great people, was a lot of fun...... more
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by admin on May 08, 2006
Feedback loops are critical. One of my favorite experiences working with Open Source Software came in 1999 when I was working at eToys.com. We used Apache and mod_perl heavily, and we also did some interesting proxy/caching work with mod_proxy. At the... more
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by admin on May 02, 2006
Swimming is my cure for jet lag. I am currently at the MES 2006 (Microsoft Executive Summit) in Mumbai (Bombay), India – an annual event for the top 250 CIO’s in India. I’ve been here a couple days and have been waking up at 3am, so my cure has been a pre-dawn swim in the hotel pool. The hotel I’m staying at has a nice pool, right next to Powai lake and it’s protected forest, where I later learn... more
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by admin on April 28, 2006
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to be the first person from Microsoft to keynote a Linux World conference. Although the concept may sound unusual....
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by admin on April 25, 2006
Reading through some of the first posts to Port25, there has been some great ideas and posts. There have also been some really interesting conspiracy theories, so let me clarify some things we’ve seen in the blog posts, emails, and even other Web sites and articles...... more
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by admin on March 31, 2006
A sincere thank you for all the excitement and feedback since we launched Port25 last week. We’ve had a tremendous response and the conversation has been lively to say the least. ... more
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by admin on March 28, 2006
Roblimo from Slashdot warned me. Last Fall, I did an interview on Slashdot and put my email address at the end of the interview, following the statement that if “ If you'd like to contact me directly, I can be reached at billhilf at microsoft... more
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