Hasso Plattner’s design philosophy: No ‘artsy fartsy’ by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- Hasso Plattner, SAP co-founder and chairman of the supervisory board, has a strong affinity for design. He donated $35 million to fund a new design school at Stanford University, and has been teaching at the school in Palo Alto, CA. When asked during a keynote at Software 2007 about his software design philosophy, he responded: [...]

Ten lessons the Xbox Team can teach the rest of Microsoft by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley -- When it comes to building community -- and profiting from it -- Microsoft's Xbox team is helping write the playbook. That fact isn't lost on the rest of the company. Increasingly, other divisions at Microsoft are studying what the Xbox folks are doing right and trying to apply those lessons to their own products and services.