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Bringing Windows Vista to non-English markets is a lot harder than just changing a text file. Here Michael Kaplan, technical lead on the US-Windows Globalization team, on the  discusses some of the things (and tools) that the team does to bring Windows Vista to non-English speaking markets.…

Mat Noguchi is a developer at Bungie. Don't know who they are? That's the Microsoft group that developed Halo 2. Halo 2!We get the first tour of Bungie's new offices. He talks about what it's like to develop video games. Hope you enjoy this look. Oh, yeah, we used a new HDTV camcorder, so the…

Last month the MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) were on campus (they are folks who got noticed for doing a lot to help Microsoft's customers out) and we snuck into their meeting with Larry Hryb, aka Major Nelson. Hey, that's the only way we could get a look at the new Xbox 360!The launch is…

Sidebar lives!But it's even better, here Sean Alexander, David Streams, and special guest Sanaz Ahari of the Start.com team, demonstrate the new sidebar and gadgets that come in Windows Vista. Plus, we cover the three different kinds of gadgets and show how to build your own.You can learn…

This is the first of a series of videos we'll have on the Xbox 360 over the next few months.You might think that the Xbox 360 is only a game machine. But, here you'll learn it's a lot more than a game machine and that when you plug a Media Center and an Xbox 360 together you get a new kind of…

We're hours away from releasing to manufacture (our way of saying "ship it to the customers") Visual Studio 2005. This is a big deal for the developer division. There are tons of people who've worked for years on this series of products. The launch event is November 7.To get ready for…

Mark Boulter, PM and technical lead, and Brian Pepin, development lead, talk to us about Cider, a future version of the visual designer that'll ship in Orcas, future version of Visual Studio.They demo it too!

This eLearning video features Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet from LogicBay demoing a prototype they built for 3M. The very cool thing about the app is the browser integration: it is probably the most sophisticated in browser Avalon app created to date. It also features Arik Cohen from the Avalon (er,…

David Anderson writes the Agile Management blog that's been getting quote popular (and wrote a book on the same topic). He's been working with teams inside Microsoft to get them to ship software faster. Hear some of his stories of working with development teams to help get them unstuck.Do you have…

Are you a DirectX game developer? Well, you might check out PIX, which stands for Performance Investigator for DirectX. Mike Burrows demonstrates the tool and how you'd use it on Windows games to profile your game's performance.