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• TWC9: Office 365, Internet Explorer 10 PP2, Choosing the Right collection class, ToneCheck

  Jul 03, 2011 at 4:27 AM

  Tonecheck - pointless. Just tell the recipients of your emails to stop being whiny little kids.

• TWC9: The Nic-&-Tina-Have-Nothing-Intelligent-To-Say Edition

  Jun 11, 2011 at 2:01 PM

  Kumbayah, Tina.

• E3 2011: Interview with Kudo Tsunoda about Microsoft's E3 announcements

  Jun 08, 2011 at 6:02 PM

  Nice try Kudo, but you'll never be J.Allard.

• Joe Belfiore Announces Next Release of Windows Phone, Code-Named 'Mango'

  May 25, 2011 at 4:20 PM

  It's mostly great, but search as a solution for launching apps = lame. iPhone has had search since 3.0 and very few people ever use it. They introduced folders in 4.0 for good reason.

• Ping 102: PhotoDNA & Facebook, Xbox update, Give-aways for students, Windows Phone on Verizon

  May 24, 2011 at 12:42 PM

  I was going to suggest that Tina might have had Lasik recently, but I think she's just trying to show solidarity with Lindsay Lohan.

• Ping 100: HaloFest, Kinect you in Carbonite, Talking to the wall, Ping celebrates 100!

  May 10, 2011 at 2:37 PM

  Congrats on your 100th episode of PING! (caps to simulate Laura's voice)

  My favourite episodes were 16, 43, 71 and of course 100.

  It's been a long, stange journey. I feel like I now know Laura like a sister, Paul like a kid brother and Max like that cousin that disappeared one week and neither our parents nor uncles or aunts would answer any questions about.

  All the best for the next 100 shows!

  p.s. Laura, why did you get such a big frickin' dog?

• TWC9 HouseBuilder, Solver Dev Labs Project, Windows Shell Extensions

  Apr 30, 2011 at 10:44 AM

  It's hard to get excited about anything in Devlabs if a really promissing tool like CHESS doesn't make it it into Visual Studio and then gets abandoned.

• Knockout JS: Helping you build dynamic JavaScript UIs with MVVM and ASP.NET

  Apr 23, 2011 at 7:12 AM

  5 hours ago, Ryoushin wrote

  Hmmm... I think Sys.Observer was ( ) more "Silverlight-ic" and felt comfortable with it, but you MS guys are going to abandon the Ajax 4 js framework (sad about it) so we have to move on. Why then don't you put more emphasys on jQuery "link" plugin (which is being written by MS itself) instead of broadening the spectrum of js MVVM frameworks?

  DId you miss the part at the start where he says that it's not a Microsoft project? It's the author's personal open source project - just because it's presented at Mix, it doesn't mean that it's official Microsoft policy.

  Besides, why should there just be one way of doing any particular thing? Developers in the Microsoft ecosystem have really suffered in the past from Microsoft determining the 'one true way' to do a particular thing when Microsoft's choice of technology has turned out to not be very good (ASP.NET AJAX being a prime example). I rather like the new Microsoft way to let a bunch of different libraries slug it out and let the developers see which is more popular. I'll bet we see more community-driven libraries and tools win out over the 'designed in Redmond' equivalents.

• What’s New for Windows Phone Development with the XNA Framework?

  Apr 17, 2011 at 6:35 AM

  Good talk. I'm looking forward to using this as I think it (combined with the new GC) fixes two of the biggest problems in developing graphical applications for WP7.

  One tip for the presenter: stop doing that air quotes thing

• Ping 97: Azure & Toyota, Kinect Window, ICE, WP7 Challenge

  Apr 12, 2011 at 4:36 AM

  The thing with the Apple stores is that they can offer the same prices as online because Apple does most of the online selling of Apple products and independent retailers get such a small margin that they can't undercut Apple either.

  That's not the case with PC hardware and software. I don't know why Microsoft thought retail stores were a good idea - vanity maybe? But I don't think it would be a financial success, especially in Britain where the highstreet has been gutted by online sales.

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