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Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording sessionJan 04, 2006 at 2:09 PM| 260 views this month
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Robert Fripp was on the Microsoft campus a few weeks back. He's the famous guitarist and composer, known for his founding role in the band King Crimson. Charles Torre (a big King Crimson fan) was invited over by Steve Ball to film the session.So, what was he doing on campus? Recording the… -
Wix team: The most used piece of software at Microsoft (and it's open source!)Apr 29, 2006 at 12:54 PM| 215 views this month 23
What piece of software is used in Windows, Office, MySQL, and many other places? The Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset. But even better, did you know it's open source? And, did you know that it is developed by an all-volunteer team. It's developed after hours, come along and meet the team and… -
Raymond Chen - PDC 05 Talk: Five Things Every Win32 Programmer Needs to KnowSep 16, 2005 at 2:17 PM| 161 views this month 21
We did a hand recording of Raymond Chen's presentation yesterday at the PDC. Sorry for the shaky cam, we didn't have our tripod, but we had a few requests from Channel 9'ers to record this (it'll be our only actual PDC session recording). -
Anders Hejlsberg - LINQSep 13, 2005 at 11:27 AM| 123 views this month 87
LINQ stands for Language INtegrated Query and in a nutshell, it makes query and set operations, like SQL statements first class citizens in .NET languages like C# and VB. Here we visit Anders Hejlsberg in his office to get more on LINQ. Dan Fernandez, also seen in this video, just put up a blog… -
Jerry Dunietz - XML Paper SpecificationAug 08, 2005 at 4:49 PM| 102 views this month 22
XPS (formerly code-named "Metro") is a new XML-based file format that we think you'll find interesting -- it's a great way to build a file that's easily interoperable with other applications or even printers. XPS stands for XML Paper Specification. To learn more, we had Windows Vista… -
Craig Jensen - Windows Embedded for Point of SaleMar 10, 2006 at 12:33 PM| 72 views this month 10
Did you know that Windows Embedded operating system runs many of the world's cash registers? Well, Mike Hall takes his camcorder over to meet Craig Jensen, a developer on the Embedded for Point of Sale team and he takes you through coding up a point of sale system.The team, this week,… -
Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12Sep 13, 2005 at 11:55 AM| 67 views this month 80
At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated Office 12 in public for the first time. The news you'll hear is "they changed the user interface." So, we wanted to talk with the team who came up with this new UI and we wanted to ask them "are you nuts?" After all, changing how… -
The new Outlook Express: Windows Mail demoedSep 16, 2005 at 2:35 PM| 55 views this month 60
As part of our journey around Windows Vista teams, we wondered what was being done to Outlook Express. Well, for Windows Vista it's been renamed to Windows Mail. And that's not all. -
Ric Merrifield - Microsoft gets down to business with Motion initiativeApr 03, 2006 at 5:55 PM| 54 views this month 13
Ric, director of strategy on the top secret Motion Incubation team, runs the Motion initiative. What's that? It's a group at Microsoft that studies how businesses work and looks for opportunities to help them do their business better. They made an entire map of how business… -
Bill Gates - A short chat with Microsoft's Chief Software ArchitectSep 08, 2005 at 1:15 PM| 48 views this month 138
Bill Gates. Do we need to say anything more?Visit Bill in his office for a few minutes to talk about where he sees the future going. This is a fun interview, prepares you for the PDC that's coming next week. It's going to be a fun next week, make sure to come back on Tuesday when we'll…
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