Steve Clayton
“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.” - Peter Drucker
Trek x Wired
It feels like an age since I blogged about anything “off piste” but I couldn't resist the limited...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/21/2009
Pigeon Impossible
Lucas Martell is the creator of Pigeon Impossible. It’s an amazing story… "When the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/21/2009
Microsoft Pivot: from the wizards at Live Labs
I just sat through Gary Flake’s session on Microsoft Pivot – a new project from Live Labs that...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/18/2009
Microsoft Office 2010 public beta is live
There goes the network at PDC for a few hours…. I’ve been using the beta for a little while now and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/18/2009
IE9 breaks cover at PDC09
Steven Sinofsky delivered a killer keynote here today at PDC09 There is some great IE9 content...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/18/2009
Office Mobile 2010 beta released
As well as the Office 2010 beta for PC today, the Office Mobile 2010 beta was announced. Available...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/18/2009
Seesmic desktop on Windows
I just loaded up Seesmic desktop for Windows. thanks @loic and team…perhaps I can finally lay Twhirl...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/18/2009
Required reading here at PDC09
lots of ‘em on the Windows Azure stand tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla';...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/17/2009
What does a Windows Azure container look like?
A lot like this….on site at the PDC in LA today. tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/17/2009
Dilbert on the future of media
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/17/2009
Gartner Fellows interview with Ray Ozzie on Cloud Computing
Just over a week ago I was sent the Gartner Fellows Interview With Microsoft's Ray Ozzie on Cloud...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/17/2009
Final voting for my blog
We’re down to the last few days of voting in the 2009 Computer Weekly blog awards. If you...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/16/2009
PGR Ferrari Edition on Zune HD
This is how PGR: Ferrari Edition looks on my Zune HD. In fact, it looks a LOT better than that and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/16/2009
PDC09 photos
My Flickr set for PDC09 photos . Yesterday was a pink day…with fine coffee at Toast tweetmeme_style...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/16/2009
PDC09 brain strain
I’m back in LA this week for our Professional Developers Conference – a time to catch up with...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/15/2009
Under 6 weeks til Christmas
time for some light relief from Bing tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla';...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/15/2009
Anticipation
Still a great advert tweetmeme_url =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/13/2009
XBOX Project Natal named #5 in Time’s 50 Best Inventions of 2009
It’s not even here yet but Time magazine has named Project Natal one of The 50 Best...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/13/2009
Free Windows Azure Fasttrack Architecture Review for Microsoft partners
David Gristwood is churning out more and more good stuff on Windows Azure from Microsoft UK. His...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/13/2009
Business travel essentials
When I saw the title of Matt Rutherford’s post - A hero speaks…business travel essentials! – I fully...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/13/2009
Discover Bing
I had a good chat earlier today with 2 friends about Bing. It’s great to see sentiment changing as...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/12/2009
Mc Wifi
Great ad… via frederiksamuel.com tweetmeme_url =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/11/2009
Economist Debates: Cloud Computing
There is an interesting debate under way over at Economist Debates on Cloud computing and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/11/2009
United Snakes
The boys from Bristol are back on form – Massive Attack’s latest, United Snakes. tweetmeme_style =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/11/2009
Geek Spotting #2
How to spot a geek #2 - they talk about Redmond & Cupertino rather than Microsoft and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/11/2009
Bing Favourites #5
beautiful way to remember the fallen. nice work Bing UK tweetmeme_url =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/11/2009
Ormetis with Excel
A few months back I got a demo of Ormetis and said wow…I thought Excel has everything you need in...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/11/2009
Something went wrong…
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/10/2009
Bing Maps Tube map view
I’m digging the new Tube map view on Bing Maps. Some nice new iconography to simplify things spotted...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/10/2009
The next Bill Gates?
Cool competition from XMA and Toshiba to find the next Bill Gates. My pal Hermione is holding the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/10/2009
Geek Spotting #1
I’ve decided to start a new series of posts on “how to spot a geek”….which is sort of like saying,...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/09/2009
Microsoft sees a silver lining in the cloud
[credit: Sunday Times] The Sunday Times here in the UK had a lengthy interview with...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/09/2009
SQL Azure & SQL Server playing together
A few weeks ago I was hounding the SQL Azure product team for a video that showed how SQL Server and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/09/2009
Inside the Microsoft Apps Lab
and the official Windows phone ad which strangely I’d not seen before now tweetmeme_url =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/08/2009
Zune HD 4.3 firmware released
Though I’m not seeing it yet (must be a staged rollout) the 4.3 firmware for Zune HD has just been...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/08/2009
Who’d you find at The Cavern Club?
Bing the video answer tweetmeme_url =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/08/2009
Ferrari 599 China edition
The one-off 599 was hand painted by Chinese artist Lu Hao with a classic porcelain pattern of the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/06/2009
Microsoft demonstrates eye tracking software
The future isn’t so far away! Craig Mundie showed this on his recent Microsoft College Tour. I’ve...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/06/2009
Voting is open in the Computer Weekly 2009 blog awards
The 2009 Computer Weekly blog awards are open for voting and I’m delighted to have been...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/06/2009
Adamo XPS finally breaks cover
As 9.99mm thin (though Dell’s own headline on the official site says 9.99m which is pretty thick)...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/05/2009
Google dashboard
A short video that I think is designed to be instructional but also shows you just how much Google...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/05/2009
Happy Guy Fawkes from Bing
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/05/2009
MSN hits refresh button
Wow…I love the look of the new MSN homepage. You can check out the preview now. Very cool to see...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/04/2009
Hey Jude, flowchart style
from LoveAllThis via SwissMiss Nicholas will like this tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/03/2009
The digital music wave
Most surprising for me was CDBaby and FYE.com spending per transaction compared to iTunes....
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/03/2009
Google, now in printers
Google is of course a very big competitor of Microsoft so whilst I don’t go out of my way promoting...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/03/2009
Scottish Government and Silverlight
Some very cool Silverlight work by the guys at colaab to create SIMD – a portal for viewing...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/03/2009
Engineering BPOS
I was fortunate enough to find myself in a meeting with Dave Thomson whilst in Redmond last week – a...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/02/2009
Windows 7 - Listening to customers
Windows 7 has been a big team effort and our customer service and support guys are a big part of...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/02/2009