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Is there any business intelligence out there? Mike Arcuri, group program manager on the business intelligence team shows off Excel 12's new features for looking at how your business is doing. You'll never look at pivot tables the same way again.

What's the C# team up to these days? Who's on the C# 4.0 design team, anyway? With the looming problem of manycore facing developers now and certainly in the near future (to a much greater extent - programming for 80 core (asymmetric to boot) processors, anyone?). I thought it was time to…

The great Larry Osterman discusses what excites him most about Windows 7's new audio features. Of course, we talk about all things audio as Larry is a 24 year veteran of Microsoft and best known as the developer who makes Windows go ding.  He's also an avid blogger.

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had an important announcement to make today and we were lucky enough to catch up with them for a brief chat about the big news this morning.Postscript:  Check out the coverage on  TechMeme.

You've probably heard of Brandon Bray if you program with VC++. We recently caught up with him to discuss some of the new additions to the language in version 2005. VC++ is evolving nicely and has great native support for managed code.

The IE team is busy working on the next version of the world's most popular browser. IE 8 is the most widely used browser on Windows. IE 9 is currently in the oven and the IE team is ready to talk about what they're working on. Here, IE GM Dean Hachamovitch leads us through the halls of…

We recently visited the Vista Print team with our esteemed colleague Tim Sneath. We learn about the new Print stack in Vista and take a tour of the team and the lab where print testing happens. Enjoy.

Marketing says: "Microsoft® Max is built on the next-generation WinFX Runtime Components technology that will drive the development of Windows Vista® applications."  Now, what is Max, exactly? We send Scoble to find out. He sits down with project Max Group  Program…

Bill Gates has been at the helm of Microsoft for the entire existence of Microsoft. It's the only place he's worked and he's getting ready to step down from his day to day responsibilities in his office on the Redmond campus. Bill's employment future will be centered around running his…

John Jendrezak and Trevor McDiarmid give us a first look at Click-to-Run, an innovative new Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) technology for Office 2010 that  utilizes Microsoft’s streaming and virtualization technology (AppVirt - you learned a great deal about this technology right…