Duncan Mackenzie

Hey folks, as you may have noticed, some people are finding that our videos are playing back with no audio. We don't know yet why this is happening, but we have some theories. Attached to this post is the same Visual Studio Documentary video, but re-encoded with WMA 9 instead of WMA 10 that we…

Outlook 2007 brings along a wide variety of new calendar features, so I sat down with Hank Leukart from the Office team to go over what's new and interesting, including improvement Sharepoint integration, better sharing of Calendars with folks outside your organization and…

Ever since its first beta release in August 2006, I've been a big fan of Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer is a fully featured Windows blogging client with support for spell checking, WYSIWYG editing, picture uploading and custom plug-ins (with a full SDK). In addition to the expected…

In this part two of my visit to Boston, Gary Conti from Mad Doc Software walks me through the skirmish mode of Star Trek Legacy... the mode that offers hours and hours (and hours) of replayability and will be the source of all light and joy in my life for quite some time.

This is more Star Trek Legacy gameplay footage than I think you'll find anywhere on the tubes... a full mission from somewhere later in the single-player storyline of Star Trek Legacy... including Picard, Sisko, the Defiant, the Galaxy class Enterprise-D and lots of exploding Romulans.(Check out…

Jesse and I visited the Xbox buildings again this week, this time to check out the soon-to-be-released Xbox wheel. Dennis Tom is the Program Manager for the wheel and he told us everything there was to know, including some neat info about the automotive design cues that went into it.This new…

Ben Martens, a Microsoft employee and Zune enthusiast sent us over this video of him using his Zune with his Pioneer in-car stereo/navigation system and, being the extroverted type of folks that we are, we thought you might want to check it out.Want to see something in particular about the Zune? Let…

Our very own Adam Kinney, the designer/developer who was the team lead building on10.net, has just released a cool new Sidebar Gadget for Windows Vista. You pop in the Xbox gamertags of your friends, or just people you'd like to keep track of, and there you go!Check it out on his blog...

I flew to Boston last week and sat down with Dr. Ian Davis, the Mad Doctor himself, CEO and Founder of Mad Doc Software to talk about their upcoming game "Star Trek Legacy" for the PC and the 360. We chatted about Star Trek games, Artificial Intelligence and Bulldogs... not in any…

This video went up a few days ago onto the marketplace, but here it is for those of you that don't have a 360 or just would rather see it on your PC/Zune/iPod/PSP...Here is the official description (from Major Nelson's post):"In the second Bungie “Vidoc” we take a long hard look at the…