TheChannel9Team

Welcome to Channel 9.  We are five guys at Microsoft who want a new level of communication between Microsoft and developers. We believe that we will all benefit from a little dialogue these days. This is our first attempt to move beyond the newsgroup, the blog, and the press release to talk…

Are you a one spacer or a two spacer? Bill Hill gives his opinion on why you only put one space after a period. This video was shot in 2004. We will miss you, Bill. Thank you for changing the world for the better when it comes to reading on digital devices. Rest in peace.

The most important operating system developers write software for is not Windows or OSX or Linux or Android. It's Homo sapiens 1.0. We make software for people first. Very wise words from a very wise soul, Bill Hill. Bill passed away on October 16, 2012 from a sudden heart attack. We are all…

Bill Hill runs the team that came up with ClearType, so we thought we'd ask him how ClearType actually works and what Bill Gates' reaction was when he first saw it.

Joe Beda, development lead on the Avalon team at Microsoft, discusses whether Avalon will be the technology that Microsoft uses to replace the Web. Joe also has a weblog where you can keep in touch with what he and the Avalon team are doing. Avalon is the next-generation graphic platform that…

Joe Beda of the Avalon team answers the question "how should developers prepare for Avalon/Longhorn?" He also covers whether or not to write for Windows Forms.

Joe Beda answers how much of Avalon is actually written in .NET code itself.

Joe Beda, a development lead on the Avalon team (the graphics display technology in the next version of Windows), talks about whether Avalon's APIs are all "managed" which is really like asking "will the APIs be easy for .NET programmers to use?"

Robert Scoble asks,"Why doesn't Microsoft have complete transparency on developer tools?"

Karsten Januszewski, technical evangelist, presented recently at the Macromedia Flashforward conference. "What is a Microsoft technical evangelist doing at a design conference?" Well, he showed off a ton of demos of Avalon that we thought you'd like to see. The whole talk is…