Lego visited the Redmond Campus of Microsoft to show off their newest home robotics kit, the Lego Mindstorm NXT.  They talked about the collaboration between their products and our very own Microsoft Robotics Studio.  Also check out photos from the event.

Creating web services? Let’s just admit that it isn’t that hard to create a new one. But how do you build them in the best way, the most appropriate way, the recommended way? My old friends at the patterns & practices team have cranked up the effort and produced a very cool software factory…

In this screencast we show you how to access back-end systems using the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Business Data Catalog. 

This edition of the MicroISV show is an interview with Craig Krantz of Krow LLC who worked with Microsoft to develop the Project Glidepath Software Factory add-in for Visual Studio. More information about Project Glidepath is available at www.projectglidepath.net Project Glidepath is an…

Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an Architect of PhotoSynth, which is a super cool 3-D image "tourism" application that enables a new methodology for exploring related groups of images using a complex imaging algorithm developed in part by Microsoft Research. Here, Charles sits down with Blaise…

Imagine being able to click your way through the Eiffel tower with perfect photographic reality...or walk the Venice Beach boardwalk...or simply show off your new living room to your friends over the net. Well, it's all about to become real. Photosynth is an incredible new application takes multiple…

I don't really know what to say about this video. We have coffee now, fresh, rich coffee... and it is a gadget... and we love gadgets.featuring music by Theory In MotionNote that the iCup also appears, briefly, in this video

As you may recall, last month Bill Gates announced his plans to step down as Chief Software Architect of Microsoft to pursue full time work at the Gates Foundation. If you watched that Channel 9 interview with Bill and Steve, you probably remember hearing about one of his replacements, Craig…

When you think of natural disaster, software programs rarely come to mind. But Ted Okada and Robert Kirkpatrick of Microsoft’s Humanitarian Systems know from experience that where there's a crisis, software can be a life-saver. On the front lines of war, earthquakes and floods Ted and Robert…

So what does the announcement of Microsoft's acquisition of Azyxxi mean to the healthcare industry?  In my opinion, it is an important first step in a journey that will produce huge benefits for clinicians and patients.  First and foremost, it signals an important change in…