The New York Times had an op-ed today (subscription may be required) decrying the increasing amounts of summer homework that students are being assigned. At some schools students are assigned several books to read, reports to write and other assignments designed to keep them learning over the…

Fathers Day is almost here, are you ready? Have you figured out what to get the old man this year? Well, if not- here are some great tech gifts that will make your Dad love you a little more. P.S. Thanks to all my myspace friends for their suggestions!

On Monday, June 19th, please join me along with Roberto Ruggeri, Microsoft's senior healthcare technical strategist, for a special Windows Vista for Healthcare Web Cast. If you read this post and join the webcast, add a little (b) to your name during registration and we'll know who you are!…

Karsten Januszewski interviews Nathan Dunlap, a design extraordinaire who has been the design lead on numerous WPF applications.  His blog, Designers Love .NET (http://www.designerslove.net ), is indicative of his enthusiasm for the platform and perspective as a designer.  In this video,…

Geoff Harris from the Windows Media Player team walks us through some of the new features in the current beta release of WMP 11, including the new URGE music service from MTV.

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had an important announcement to make today and we were lucky enough to catch up with them for a brief chat about the big news this morning.(No download yet)

Technical Evangelist Michael Lehman has launched a new evangelism program for MicroISVs: Project Glidepath. Visit http://www.projectglidepath.net and watch as Michael explains the purpose and inner workings of this new way to develop software for Windows Vista and the .Net 3.0 Framework.

In this episode, David takes a look at the Microsoft Web Sites and Services MP.   The Microsoft Web Sites and Services MP allows you to "replay" requests to web services or sites and raise alerts based upon the results. Setting this up to test your web services is a piece of…

Microsoft Federal Developer Evangelist Marc Schweigert demonstrates how ASP.NET "Atlas" abstracts the complexities of XMLHTTP programming by allowing you to make web service calls from client script. The source code for this screencast is available here.  Don't forget to check…

Microsoft Federal Developer Evangelist Marc Schweigert demonstrates how ASP.NET "Atlas" abstracts the complexities of XMLHTTP programming by allowing you to make web service calls from client script. The source code for this screencast is available here.  Don't forget…