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We are excited to announce a version of Visual Studio Achievements that works on Visual Studio 2012 RC.  Running this version of the extension will enable you to unlock a new achievement called Brave New World, which is unlocked when you create or open a project when running Visual Studio 2012…

Hey folks, I’m sure a few of you have found it already, but there is a Channel 9 application in the Windows Store. The app lets you access all sorts of Channel 9 content, from the most recent to browsing back through past events, shows and series. You can find the app in the store by searching on…

The Channel 9 team is excited to announce that they will be broadcasting LIVE and unscripted from the PDC Big Room for all three days of the Professional Developers Conference 2009.Who will be on Channel 9 Live at PDC09?We'll be publishing the full schedule very soon but for now here's a taste of…

Hey folks,  Our Content Delivery Network (CDN) is experiencing very high traffic due to MIX10 session content. To resolve this, we will be blocking access to the MIX sessions temporarily while they copy all of the MIX sessions into various edge caches around the world. The end result of…

Hey folks,We've just released an update to Channel 9 that simplifies how you share content.We've now added two dedicated sharing icons for Twitter and Facebook on a video page, as shown in the image. Clicking on either of the links will ask you to login with your Twitter (via…

Updated: Watch us live at http://live.ch9.ms today at 3:00 PM PST!Mark your calendars, on Friday,  November 6th at 3:00PM Pacific Standard Time, Channel 9 will host its first live broadcast for This Week on Channel 9! We’ll have a special Web page setup for our live streaming player and…

Welcome to the Channel 9 Team blog. You know it is kind of ironic (some would say sad) that the team that for over five years who has worked to communicate what is happening behind the scenes at Microsoft does not have its own blog. Sure, many of us have our own personal blogs, but there is no …

One of the things we spend time on for Channel 9 is trying to make sure we are following the right standards, adopting new ones as necessary and that we render correctly for both real people and for search engines. As part of that ongoing work, we recently adopted two new concepts.  Canonical…

Hey folks, since the last C9 Team post, we've deployed (to C9, C8 and Edge) the TinyMCE editor that I talked about last time, and we've made some other small fixes and changes as well. The editor problem where you couldn't put in a link to another page on C9 has been resolved... check out this…

Hey folks, we’ve launched yet another new feature on Channel 9, making a new home for all of our ‘on-demand’ event content, consolidating the content from numerous domains and sub-domains. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events  So while you are waiting to attend MIX11, come take a trip down memory…