Come meet more of the amazing students who took part in Imagine Cup 2006, including teams from Thailand, Australia, Algeria and Denmark. In this video, you will also meet some of the people (well, judges) behind the Algorithms and IT contests. Of course, Charles also wanders…

Our mothers always told us to protect our hearing. Well after an extended adolescence, with tours of duty at Lollapalooza, Bumpershoot, and E3, her words are ringing in our ears (though neither loud nor clear). Thankfully hearing aid technology has kept up with humanity’s attempts at damaging…

Are you up to speed on the new imaging alphabet?  ImageX, BDD, WIM, WSIM, WinPE and various other glorious acronyms are discussed in the screencast below.  In the meantime, let me set the stage for the some of the desktop imaging problems today, and the solutions Microsoft is…

If you haven't had a chance to look at Windows Vista and it's instrumentation, eventing and monitoring toolset's, you really should grab a copy when the "release candidate" code becomes available.  You'll be pleased with the improvements we've made to the amount of information that…

Surely by now you've heard of Windows Vista Aero Glass. It's the sexy new transparency stuff you see in the operating system. It's very noticeable in a variety of the core applications. However, transparency isn't the only user interface improvement you see in Windows Vista. Of course the…

I'm guessing most of you think finding stuff is pretty important.  The Windows Vista development team also thinks search should be an easy to use core operating system feature.  The search feature set in Windows Vista is really multiple parts.  We like to call this set of features…

Scott McLeod over at the Dangerously Irrelevant blog asks the question of who at the technology leaders in education? By that he means that in most school systems the principals and superintendents are not the ones pushing for more and better use of technology in their schools.One of the things I…

Channel 9 was at the Imagine Cup this year in Agra, India. As part of our coverage, Charles walked around with his camera and, drum roll please, a real microphone (oh my!) so to meet the students taking part in the Software Design competition as well as check out some of the other challenges and…

Recently, Microsoft and UGS announced a new business partnership and strategic alliance. What does this mean? Well, for one thing, it means that UGS has direct access to the brains behind the products they rely on to conduct their business successfully. Of course, this interests Channel 9 (not…

We here at 10 are all huge Matrix fans, and so any technology that offers a computer interface into our brains. While they haven't developed a way to instantaneously teach us kung-fu, Dr. Jeff Ojemann and his team at the Seattle Children's Hospital are making progress in the…