The College Board, which runs the SAT, has sent a letter to college administrators saying that they are seeing a decline of 4-5 points across the Critical Reading and Math sections as compared to last year's scores.This is in response to inquiries from puzzled administrators, who have seen an…

I'm back down in Vegas for NAB (The National Association of Broadcasters), the premier Broadcast Association worldwide. The future of electronic media takes shape at the NAB show. Bringing together more than 100,000 attendees and 1,400 exhibitors from 130 countries, the NAB show delivers the most…

We recently caught up with Jim Hogg, program manager for the Phoenix Framework, a very robust backend compiler platform co-created by the VC++ team and MSR. Ever wanted to extend the functionality of a backend compiler? Well, now you can, and it's much easier than you'd think given the…

How do you tryout a bunch of APIs (including Search, Expo, and more) all at once? You have a Windows Live 'Hack Day', gather developers together into one place, feed them and set them loose trying to build as many cool apps as they can.

Welcome to the third installment of The Voice of Support! This week, we travelled to the Charlotte, NC support site to sit down and talk about Project Server and Sharepoint with Ben Reich, a producer here in Global Service Automation Content Delivery. Ben has been involved with many…

We all spend WAY too much time browsing the internet and sometimes there are sites and stories we find that the world simply MUST know about. This is our chance to share some of our favorite web findings with you! And if you've found a site or story that you think people should know about it-- then…

I just returned from Chicago where I had the pleasure to speak to more than 75 healthcare executives at the Allscripts Annual Users Summit. Of course, in many ways I was speaking to the proverbial choir.  Most of the CEOs and other executives attending the…

Network World is running an article today on a case coming before the D.C. Court of Appeals this week. The American Council on Education is suing the FCC over their ruling requiring all ISPs to allow the government provision to wiretap their connections. The latest extension of that ruling extends…

Meet Betsy Aoki, self-appointed queen of Microsoft employee blog sites and principal program manager for Gotdotnet (when Charles and Jennifer caught up with her) and now program manager in MSN working on Windows Live. http://blogs.msdn.com/betsya/  From her magenta hair to her magenta…

Join me down in San Mateo, CA as I check out Maker Faire! I chat with Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of Make Magazine, to find out what this event is all about, and I learn about the Maker's Bill of Rights from Mr. Jalopy himself! Want to see more? No worries, more Maker Faire coverage…