Laura Foy

This is a huge day for Bing Maps and as you'll see in this video a really great day for developers as well. Streetside imagery has been integrated into Bing Maps and they released the beta Silverlight version of the site. Other great features include enhanced birds eye, the application…

This year, at MIX '11, we debuted the first annual Niney Awards. The goal of this celebration was to honor the Channel 9 community and have that community vote for the winners that they feel best deserve an award. There are guest appearances by all your Channel 9 favorites like Scott Hanselman,…

After 3 days of non stop coding the hackathon participants are ready to show off their hard work. This video showcases the top finalists and announces the winner- what an amazing group of developers creating magic in 72 hours. Enjoy!

Today, at Tech Ed 2010 in New Orleans, the Bing Maps team is making some major announcements that are sure to please. Chris Pendleton came by our studio to talk about the SDK release and to give a hands-on demo of some of the new apps. He also promotes a few contests and explains why you really…

This past weekend, a team of Microsoft Employees - many from Windows - participated in the Red Bull Flugtag, a competition where teams from all over the world build human-powered flying machines, push them off a 30’ high dock, and see who can fly the farthest. The event was tons of fun…

Brandon Watson, Director for Windows Phone 7, is making some announcements for developers today so we stopped by his office to get the highlights. Plus, we got the official word that on September 16th the final Windows Phone Developer Tools will be available. Here's an overview of what…

Today I'd like to introduce you to another piece of new technology from Microsoft Research Labs – Image Composite Editor (ICE) with Multi-Image Fusion.  In the current version of ICE, it provides advanced features for panoramic stitching such as choosing the stitch’s…

One of the highlights for all PDC09 attendees was the Coding4Fun booth. And- without question- the highlight of the Coding4Fun booth was Clint Rutkas' DrinkTendr- a robot machine that is programmed to pour the perfect cockatil. In this video we pitted human vs. machine in a battle to the…

Thomas Gruver has one of the coolest jobs at Microsoft; he helped create and run our Workplace of the Future, also know as the CIW. His day involved dreaming up what the future will look like for office workers and presenting that to Microsoft executives and industry leaders. Find out…

The Build hackathon is underway and loads of developers are hard at work creating apps for Windows 8, Windows Azure and Windows Phone 8. I stopped by just as they kicked off and caught some of the pre-event excitement. Take a look!