Remote Assistance was first introduced in Windows XP. It enabled a new level of support (allowing trusted remote users to access your session(and desktop) and help diagnose problems in real time). In Windows Vista, Remote Assistance technologies have evolved significantly. How so? Tune…

As software projects have grown larger and increasingly complex they are being tackled by ever larger teams. As the size of the team increases the problem of consistency begins to become an ever larger risk. How can we keep consistent quality? How can we quickly make new developers on the team…

Advertising in video games has been around for a while now and we've all sort of been sitting back to see how far it will actually go.  It's going to go as far as it does in reality.  Toyota and Sony BMG already have advertising in Second Life. If game companies can make extra cash through…

The LA Times reports on a new trend towards hiring school district superintendents who have not previous academic (teaching or management) experience. One popular option is hiring retired military officers. Now I have known several military officers who have become great teachers. Some move from…

So here is a subject that affects all of us. Net Neutrality. Wikepedia has some good information about the history of the subject as well. This is really a huge issue for our generation and those younger of course. The Internet has absolutely changed the way we live. In both positive ways and I…

はがきスタジオ2007に搭載されている新機能マジカル クロップ、これを利用すると、デジカメ写真などの画像上で、切り抜きたい部分を大まかに範囲指定するだけで、手間をかけずにキレイに写真を切り抜くことができます。このビデオでは、マジカル クロップの開発者である川口さんにインタビューし、マジカル クロップの操作について説明してもらい、さらにChannel…

In this screencast, Word program manager Zeyad Rajabi gives an introduction to “Compatibility Mode”. Compatibility Mode ensures that documents created from older versions of Word will look the same in Word 2007 and that documents created in Word 2007 will look exactly the same when opened by legacy…

In this screencast, Word program manager Jonathan Bailor shows how to take advantage of the Theme feature new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 when reusing content (“copying & pasting”).   Themes are one of the most useful features new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. Put…

In this screencast, Word program manager Jonathan Bailor demonstrates how Microsoft Office 2003 users can open and save Word 2007’s new default XML based formats natively.   Microsoft has adopted the Office Open XML file format, as the new default file format for Word, Excel, and…

In this screencast, Office program manager Brian Jones shows how to use a custom schema to import data from Excel 2007 into a Word 2007 document.   Microsoft has adopted the Office Open XML file format, as the new default file format for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 to reduce…