I don’t know why, but I decided to put this article up on Medium. Experimenting with different stuffs. Hope you enjoy. People who were kids in the 80’s often reminisce and declare the fact that there are no longer any good cartoons these days. They say this with a look of nostalgia always on their faces as they watch modern cartoons (often with the kids). The 1980’s was a period where animated cartoons were just beginning to gain popularity — the rise of the Saturday morning cartoon. And unlike today’s animated offering, they were filled with deep, rich content that parents were comfortable with. Not to say that the cartoons these days…
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Microsoft Blogging
Once upon a time, in a land far away, there was a team of Microsoft employees. They operated in a black box, a silo of noncommunication. In order to learn what was in the new products they were developing you had to wait until they were released. There were no seeds, the prerelease software distributed to partners was codenamed with words like longhorn and the developers, if they spoke out of turn were publicly flogged with cat-o-nine-tails made of rusty old x86 hardware, known as flogware. But then something happened. Microsoft, to whatever degree, embraced a world of openness. The developers for various teams were suddenly encouraged to blog, speak…