Having been inspired by the demonstration that Jeff Woolsey performed at WinHec 2006 on Windows Server virtualization, Michael Murphy and Kevin Remde interview him on exciting new features.  Among others, a few of the topics that Jeff discusses in this conversation are the benefits of…

Meet Irena Kennedy, an architect with Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS), located in Southern California.  Irena was at a tech conference in Seattle when Charles and Ritzy caught up with her; listen as she tells us “Something You Should Know” about AppDev and talks about her youth as she…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth   Intro: Windows Vista has a new aero theme that includes what we call the glass effect (powered by the Desktop Windows Manager). While the non-client area of all windows get glass for free, extending glass into the client area is something you have to…

このブログでは、イベントマーケティンググループの生江さんにTech･Ed 2006 Yokohama直前インタビューということでお忙しい中、３０秒弱のコメントをいただきました。Tech･Ed 2006 Yokohamaに向けて、マイクロソフト株式会社のTech･Edのイベントに携わるプロジェクトメンバーならびに関係者が活動しています。会期を来週に控え、プロジェクトメンバーならびにスピーカの方々、ブースの担当者など様々な方々が大詰めに入っております。Channel…

In anticipation of PAX and just because we're fans, Laura and I headed over to Seattle to visit the guys behind Penny Arcade. Check out this video of Mike and Jerry and you'll see how funny they are even outside of their comic strip!

One of my best jobs at Microsoft (other than being host of ARCast) was being a product manager in the patterns & practices team and being involved with guidance books like Improving Web Application Security and Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability and code based…

Into eBay, but not interested in hanging around your computer waiting to jump in and snipe that last second bid? Well, now you can bid on auctions with your TV remote! I was down in Las Vegas for the Ebay Developers Conference and I met up with Christoph Buenger from Scendix. Scendix specializes in…

Here is the long-awaited demo of the latest incarnation of Singularity, a research operating system written primarily in safe C#. See Singularity III: Return of the SIP, here.

It's been a while since we checked in with the Singularity folks over in MSR Redmond. You know, the usual suspects like Jim Larus and Galen Hunt. So, Charles went and visited them recently to see where they are with Singularity, see what they're up to, what's new... As you may expect, they…

日本のマイクロソフトは、Women in Technology (WiT)という展開をオンラインとオフラインで実施していきます。WiTでは、女性ＩＴエンジニアを主なターゲットとして、女性同士のネットワーク作りや、働く女性ITエンジニアのワークスタイルについての情報発信を行っていきます。 オンラインを支援する上で、Channel 9日本版においては、Women in Technology in Japanという番組をお届けしていきます。すでにChannel…