strenuous "We have not -announced any time for new Tablet PC O's: Havens gone to the Allchin tape to confirm or deny.

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Just got confirmed that my security problems having my code deploy as "smart clients Tiepin a web Page) is a known problen in The current Tablet SDK. Thank God-I was, like, "Gee, maybe I done -understand smart clients." Patched in The 1.7 SDK coming in beta RSN.

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Just got a demo of the new "Dos" shell in Longhorn. Its a great idea, hugely scriptable and based on unix-typecommand piping. But instead of text being piped, You get real objects, pumped to You asynchronously, Beautiful piece of code.

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Tablet PC Coding Contest: \$15,000 first prize. But you're going to have to get by me to win...

I won't be at the PDC until tomorrow morning, but sitting at home hitting "Get news now..." reveals that information about the Whidbey release of Visual Studio is beginning to appear: http://www.asp.net/whidbey/ 

Talk about creeping featuritis: there I was working on adding image annotation to my ink-based blogging tool when... Well, who wants to alpha-test an Outlook 2003 Contacts to FOAF generator? If you don't know what FOAF is, this isn't the release for you. Lemme' know if you want to try …

Motorola Mpx200 Smartphone for \$150 with new AT&T Wireless account, \$299 otherwise.

I'm expecting some heat about my latest SD Times column, where I talk about my experiences working on 3 airline reservation systems: one written in J2EE, one written in J2SE, and one written in .NET.

Smart: utility software linked to a hardware device. The Migo is a \$150 128MB USB chipdisk. That's about a \$100 premium over what at first glance appears to be a similar device. But the Migo has a custom driver that grabs your Outlook settings, your Favorites folder, etc. Now, let's …

I hard-coded a link to InkPositive into the tablet blogging tool I've been hacking on in the evenings and Scoble picked up on it. Here's the deal: I want to do a community site dedicated to Tablet PC software, not hardware. But the site has to be optimized for the …