Kevin Remde interviews a Program Manager and Dev Lead from the Exchange team working on Powershell, AKA Monad, a command line shell and task-based scripting technology.  They explain how Powershell dramatically simplifies command line management and why Powershell provides a greater…

.NET 3.0 has a boatload of new features but how do put these new capabilities into practice in the real world? Well Marc Mercuri is one of those guys who helps customers make sense of these new technologies and on this episode he is going to bring us some success stories from customers who are…

Last week it was my pleasure to mingle with physician colleagues and developers at our bi-annual Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MSHUG) conference on the Microsoft campus here in Redmond.  I also had the honor of delivering the closing keynote; a talk I'll be…

Dr Sneath introduces us to two interns who’ve spent the summer embedded in the WPF team. They talk briefly about their experiences of Microsoft and show us a charting control for WPF that they wrote to use the data binding, templating and custom control functionality.(apparently, the interns…

This video is based on English conversation.* 日本語の字幕は、2006年10月頃提供の予定ですマイクロソフト株式会社の鈴木さんとShanku Niyogi氏の対談を撮影しました。2006/9/1 夕方撮影。12分19秒のビデオです。Shanku Niyogi came to Japan to attend many activities for TechEd 2006 Yokohama.  He talks about various presentation technologies with Masami…

* This video is based on English conversation.* 日本語の字幕は2006年10月頃に準備する予定ですTechEd 2006 Yokohamaにおいて来日したShanku Niyogi氏よりAtlasについてデモを交えて解説していただきました。2006/9/1 夕方撮影。16分46秒のビデオです。Shanku Niyogi came to Japan to attend many activities for TechEd 2006 Yokohama.  He talks about Atlas technology with…

We've spent our share of time on social network sites over the years. Friendster, Orkut, Myspace, all of which essentially brought us the same level of entertainment; toying around with a gagel of geeks in a race to get every member of the Spice Girls on our friends list. Thankfully someone has…

I love my job!  One of the nicest part of it is… having accessing to a whole bunch of people smarter than me (I take comfort that I’m better looking).  During a visit to Redmond a few months back, Microsoft Research showed the attendees of our internal TechReady conference a project…

Sure AJAX apps are cool and web apps are all the rage but people still need to deploy and install bits on their computers. We have seen a lot of ways to get this done but Microsoft recently acquired a company called Softricity that has a very cool and unique solution known as Application…

Recently, we visited MSR Cambridge(UK) to meet some of the great minds working there. In this case, we were fortunate enough to get an hour's time with Simon Peyton-Jones and Tim Harris, who are researchers working on a very hard problem: making it easier (more predictable, more reliable, more…