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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…

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…

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).

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,…

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…

We just had a short chat with Steve Ballmer in his office (we filmed the interview today, July 7, at 1:30 p.m.)Questions?Why does Microsoft care about developers?01:11 Why does Microsoft have an evangelism team?01:48 What is your call to action for developers right now?02:44 Microsoft is a leader in…

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…

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…

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.

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…