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  Windows Marketplace for Mobile to accept apps on July 27

  Max's Blog Jul 14, 2009 at 5:30 AM 14 Max

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  Mark your calendars, everyone: July 27, 2009. That’s when the Windows Marketplace for Mobile will begin accepting applications created by… well, YOU!
  
  In case you haven’t heard, the Windows Marketplace for Mobile will come with every Windows Mobile 6.5 phone. So if you’re a Windows Mobile developer...
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  Joe Video Blog 004

  Max's Blog Jun 30, 2009 at 4:52 PM 0 Max

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  The 4th installment in Joe's pre-Imagine Cup 2009 video updates.
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  18 minutes, 11 seconds
  Visual Studio Learning Pack for you to download

  Max's Blog Jun 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM 1 Max

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  What started out as an initiative to help middle school students learn about programming concepts has ballooned out into a great tool for all beginner programmers. It’s the Visual Studio Learning pack… and it’s ready for you to download.

  This pack allows you to interactively step through concepts...

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  Joe Video Blog 001: A month out

  Max's Blog Jun 01, 2009 at 4:20 PM 3 Max

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  The “Olympics” of software for students is about a month away.  That’s right, the finals of the Imagine Cup 2009 starts July 3rd in Cairo, Egypt.  This is a quick lowdown from the Director of Education here at Microsoft. 

  Expect more of these quick-bits as we get closer to and even...

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  Stefan Is... scrutinizing the user experience of Live Search (Episode 005)

  Stefan Is... Apr 28, 2009 at 2:03 PM 8 Max

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  This was one of my most enjoyable talks with the team that brings you Live.com.  This time, we dove into the User Experience and User Interface—topics I am personally intrigued by.

  Have you ever wondered how we make our decisions?  What we do to optimize speed and efficiency?  Who...

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  Ping: Episode 9

  Ping! Apr 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM 16 Max

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  Laura gets things going by tricking me… with her trickeries.  But eventually we do get to some fun topics this week including—but not limited to:

  • Windows Mobile is hiring for a nifty Dev Lead position
  • Skydrive lets you arrange your photos more easily
  • Laura watches too much reality TV (this...
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  15 minutes, 17 seconds
  Stefan Is… researching the art (or is it Science?) of Search

  Stefan Is... Mar 31, 2009 at 11:02 AM 6 Max

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  Believe it or not, Search is a relatively new technology.  You probably perform a few searches a day… how satisfied are you with the results?

  Stefan and I sat down with Martin, a Senior Product Manager on the Search team, to find out the process for improving search and where things may be trending. ...

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  9 minutes, 27 seconds
  Ping: Episode 5

  Ping! Mar 23, 2009 at 10:43 AM 6 Max

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  Coming at you LIIIIVE (ok not really) it’s this week’s Ping.  This was a really exciting week in Microsoft-land with MIX, IE8, and Silverlight.  We also talked about the “Surface 2” rumors and, of course, wrapped up with some trivia.

  Here are some of the fancy links for you all so you...

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  Stefan Is... diving into Live Search API 2.0 (Episode 003)

  Stefan Is... Mar 20, 2009 at 2:45 PM 4 Max

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  You asked to go deeper, we listened.  Stefan and I met with Roopali from the Live Search team.

  We had a high-level discussion about the 2nd Pillar in project “Silk Road”: the Live Search API 2.0.  This is the very same back end used for some little known websites… like Facebook, heard...

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  Ping: Episode 4

  Ping! Mar 16, 2009 at 9:06 AM 16 Max

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  This week , as always, Max and Laura observed and listened to what people here at Microsoft were buzzing about, what was on their minds and what they talked about at the water cooler.  Here is a recap of what was on the minds of Microsofties this past week. Topics include:
  
  St....

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