This is an interesting video for Channel 9. As many geeks know, the Office team at Microsoft is the team that typically sets the standard for UIs throughout our company, and then the industry beyond. It's where the experimentation takes place. It's like the Area 51 of UI workshops. In this…

[NOTE: Download file is up - Streaming file is on its way...] This is an interesting video for Channel 9. As many geeks know, the Office team at Microsoft is the team that typically sets the standard for UIs throughout our company, and then the industry beyond. It's where the experimentation…

For the first time Excel will be able to take advantage of multi-CPU and multi-core hardware natively which will dramatically enhance the core spreadsheet capabilities.  Michael Murphy interviews Anthony Morgante, a Technical Solutions Professional specializing in Directories and Identities…

Around this office we've had mixed feelings about this game, it looks great and it seems fun... but it also seems a bit kid-focused (which isn't really a bad thing, but it doesn't get us as excited as Gears of War, know what I mean?). Now that it is out though, it turns out that almost everyone in…

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.

Mike Swanson has done it again!  Check out his (http://www.mikeswanson.com/swf2xaml) SWF to XAML converter.  Wow! In this segment, he demos the tool in action and explains the secrets of how he pulled it off. Karsten Januszewski conducts the interview.

If your project is a bit long and has a complex deployment, you may have some way of notifying your team that your build succeeded or failed. Mike Swanson has two methods, one orbital and the other is his laptop.  He has hacked an Ambient Orb and his Dell XPS Laptop to visual alert him to…

  This article walks you through the steps of creating an extension to the Visual Basic My namespace that will allow you to program Lego Mindstorms RCX robots. Note that with the introduction of Microsoft Robotics Studio there is an additional way to do programming…

A couple of years ago I was chatting with some colleagues and the topic of service design came up. Creating web services is easy but how do you help people to know how to create the right kind of services? The whole thing reminded me of the kind of problems we had 10 years ago when teaching…

I just had to share with you all a story that truly touched my heart (and I try not to let anything do that so this is huge). A good friend of mine- and HUGE gamer, has been anxiously awaiting the launch of the Wii so she could camp out in line, grab her new console and enjoy her wii-kend. So…