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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…

This is one of the coolest applications we've seen at the PDC. Here's a video of the North Face demo that was shown off during Jim Allchin's keynote at the PDC. This demo rocks and it was all done in Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon).

Next year there will be a new feature available on some laptops and Tablet PCs: auxiliary displays. This lets you do some things on your computer without needing to open up the computer and wait for it to start up. See what this new feature is. There's more information on the developer opportunity…

We always enjoy meeting with Bill Hill, so we thought we'd drop in on him with our camcorder and talk with the ClearType team again and see what's the latest with the fonts in Windows Vista.Those Japanese fonts sure are beautiful!We talk about trends in display resolution, research done in…

At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated the latest version of Windows Vista. Here you get to meet the Shell team. Now, what does the Shell team do? They make the Explorer and do a variety of other things. You will not want to miss this video because you'll get a good look at Windows Vista…

This is Larry Osterman's long-kept secret. The audio stack in Windows Vista has been completely rewritten so we can have cool things like per-app audio control. Anyway, Steve Ball talks to us about what the team has been working on and gives us some demos and introduces us to the team, including…

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…

Otto Berkes is the architect (now general manager) behind the Ultra-Mobile PC team, code-named Origami. We have a conversation about Origami and the vision behind it. More on what was announced today is found here on Microsoft's Presspass site.

Paul and Erik talk about what they presented this week at the PDC: Dynamic Programming in Visual Basic.

Here Paul and Amanda talk about the future of Visual Basic.