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Great interview Charles.  Looking forward to more from Abolade!

Awesome! Pure gaming goodness! 

Awesome job! Thanks so much for doing this.

Great show guys - keep it up!

I am so glad you guys kept Adam's beginning intro in.  We've all been there - having to introduce ourselves before every presentation. Showing the human side makes you all easier to relate to.   Great work on the show keep them coming!  

I'm still chuckling from the fake lift  - nice job!  Loved the conversation about inclusiveness and how developers use multiple technologies to get the job done.  

 

Very similar conversations going on in the RIA Community as well:

 

http://www.bigspaceship.com/blog/labs/will-all-the-flash-devs-please-stand-up/

http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2010/02/my_thoughts_on.html

 

Can't wait for MIX!

 

-Dave

On the mobile front we announced we will be talking about the next version of Windows phones at MIX10.  March 15th-17th in Las Vegas again (http://visitmix.com/News/Thank-You-from-the-MIX09-Team) so stay tuned.

 

My Netbook came with Vista Basic and I have been running Windows 7 Ultimate on it.  Performance and battery life are noticeably better in my opinion.  Not sure about Windows XP I never ran it on it.  I imagine if you have an older Netbook that wasn't Win7 certified than you might see better performance on XP. 

By and large though there are so many improvements in Win7 to help battery life.  For instance on XP if you shut off your wireless card most of the Network services still run and take up cpu cycles (thus draining more battery).  In Windows 7 there is something new called Trigger Start services and you will find even some of the default services utilize that.  For example lmhosts service will not go out and try and get an ipaddress if it sees the nic is disabled. 

If I am doing any serious development though I try and plug into AC power and run on "High Performance."  I need all the horsepower I can get from the little guy. 

 

LOL - that is awesome Wesmac!  Thanks for posting the link.  Another benefit of having the same IIS7 codebase from Windows Server 2008 on Vista.  Not officially supported but worth playing around with on your dev box.  =) 

Hi Dylan,

Yes - I used a trial in the screencast which has the time limitation.  Wanted to be as realistic as possible. =) 

If you haven't seen it yet, check out the cool new SharePoint Developer site (http://www.microsoft.com/click/sharepointdeveloper/ .  It has an updated VPC image as well as some great tutorials.

Thanks,
Dave