Welcome to the eighth installment of The Voice of Support! This week, we sat down with Mark Auld, Senior Support Program Manager here at Microsoft, to discuss Games for Windows support, and some past impressions of upcoming technology and titles featured a while back at…

The war of the languages.  Some people like c#, others like VB.  Yes, there are others like, Ruby, C++, Python, Java, PHP ... but more on the lines of .Net languages, transcoding code examples becomes a bit of a headache. Personally, I have issues reading VB.  I don't…

Sure designing and building an application is great fun but once it goes into production the real work begins. Managing, monitoring, provisioning are all a part of the day to day operations of a mission critical system. In this episode we are joined by the operations team from CBA to hear how…

Lifehacker alerted me that Live can now do 3D maps!  Right now San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, and Seattle are in 3D. What is even cooler is you can use some javascript with the provided API to manipulate the earth.  Here is the "hello world" program from the post.…

Vincent Oh (IW Product Manager), Stanley Tan (Academic Program Manager) and Chewy Chong (Developer Evangelist) were the first ever to install the newly released Office 2007 in Singapore (and probably all of Asia Pacific).  In this quick little video, they brag about this point and show the…

A chap named Hap had a foe, but unlike Carl Spackler , he took a far more technical and cruelty free approach to his varmints (and less TNT).  He built a deterrent system that used a motion detector wireless transmitter and a timer delay and would spray water on the offending…

Microsoft Flight Simulator X is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed flight Simulator Series from Microsoft.  I love flying so much I thought how can I not cover this game.  Pilots use it and gamers play it.  I talked to the crew who put it all together and here…

In this episode Michael Murphy speaks with MVP and Expert Zone Columnist, Charlie Russel, about what Charlie thinks of Windows Vista.  They talk about Charlie’s involvement in the Vista beta process, 64-bit, and new security enhancements in Windows Vista. Participants:   Aurora…

Brian Rush has a program over at The Code Project that exposes the iTunes Library via XML (and XLST), ASP.NET, and AJAX.  It is written in VB.net and uses the Atlas framework ( which is now called the Microsoft AJAX Library ).  It can't stream music yet but one can yearn for that day to…

Cliffy B., is the lead designer of the upcoming triple A title for the XBox 360 "Gears of War". He sits down and chats with me about the Unreal series, Epic Games and of course Gears of War. I hope you enjoy.