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If you’re not already familiar, Ray is Microsoft’s “Chief Software Architect” and was the driving force behind a lot of the new synchronization services like Groove, Live Sync, and the Live Mesh (beta for now).

Mesh is probably the most useful thing to come out of Redmond since Office, IMHO.  Totally amazing, FREE, service.  www.mesh.com

We had a short but REALLY exciting conversation about what’s happening in the relatively near future with the Windows Live Essentials, and I can’t wait till we announce some of the new features publicly.

Here’s an article from Wired last year on what Ray is doing for MS:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/microsoft.html

Hope this was interesting, have a great day!

Jeff

Read the article if you have money in the market, or plan to during your life.

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How traders killed investing – MSN Money
A market dominated by nontraditional trading forces explains, in part, why GM shares have kept so much value. Arbitrage traders make a lot of contrarian moves. They buy to cover their short positions. They sell to take a profit. All they really need is for the price to move.

There’s no simple solution to the problems of the market. A few proposals today aim to improve things a bit, such as the elimination of naked shorting, reinstatement of the uptick rule and more transparency of traders’ holdings. Some people, like David Weild of Grant Thornton are calling for separate markets for certain securities, such as newly issued stock.

But separating investors from traders in the market would destroy it. The market needs both. Traders, after all, provide regular price discovery and the other side of the deal. They keep the market moving, but they’ve also replaced investors as the market’s driving force. Don’t bet on that changing anytime soon.

I’m writing this on a pc running windows 7, which will release this holiday season.  Right now I’m syncing some of the music I’ve downloaded to the one device I rely on most, my AT&T Tilt running, thanks to xda-developers.com WM 6.5, also to be released over the next few months.  In a moment Here’s a photo from said phone, so everyone can see how pretty the rosebush in my entryway is.

Getting to play with all the latest gadgets and technology is a blast!

Just making certain that this works from the demo account.

I’ve been stuck at home in the snow a few days this week, which has given me lots of time to work on getting all those things I never get around to done, like organizing all my documents, photos, and music collections.  I’ve often been frustrated by trying to pull something up and finding that it’s on another computer.  With Live Sync, it’s not a problem.  I’ve checking out ways to make this happen for about 10 years, and this is by far the easiest, and the price doesn’t get any better than free!  if you haven’t tried it out yet, check out Live Sync at sync.live.com

Just download the free sync utility, sign in with your free window live id, and choose which folders you would like to sync via web across as many PCs as you want.  you can also login to sync.live.com with your live id to pull up your files from any web-enabled computer.  at least one computer that has the files needs to be online for this to work.  if you’ve got a large collection of stuff, I’d recommend adding one folder of it at a time rather than doing everything at once so you can be sure to get those critical folders first.  live sync will take a little while to work it’s magic since it’s transferring things through your web connection, and since both machines have to be online at the same time you may want to leave them on overnight to give it time to work.  I’ve been leaving it on at night for a week now and it’s transferred nearly 30 gb of stuff for me with absolutely no problems, except when I was deleting folders as I realized it was duplicating some things.

long story short, live sync is a fantastic utility, and if you’re patient enough to let it copy everything for you over a few days, then you can easily merge folders to make sure you wind up with the most current version of everything.  keep in mind that unless you have 30gb worth of pics, docs, music, and stuff, you should have a literally 3 step process- download, install, choose folders, and enjoy!

Live mesh is the beta taking live sync a few steps further.  Live Mesh supports Windows Mobile and Mac, as well as giving you 5gb of free online storage, which you can access whether you have a PC with the files online or not.   Oh yeah, Live Mesh also lets you actually login to and run your computer remotely, so if you need to work with a file that you’re not able to since you don’t have the program installed on the computer your at (you know, in case you need to redesign that skyscraper in autocad from the library or something) you’re able to run remote desktop with very minimal configuration, again it’s basically download/install, sign-in, and enjoy!

I put my docs and pics in my mesh since those are the things I want to make sure I absolutely never lose (again), and can always pull up online from any computer.