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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Windows-Camp/Windows-8-Developer-Camp-Redmond/WIN8-CAMP-05#c634814113131800061 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:21:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Windows-Camp/Windows-8-Developer-Camp-Redmond/WIN8-CAMP-05#c634814113131800061 spivonious Re: Announcing BUILD 2012 That's my wife's birthday. COINCIDENCE!?!??!  Tongue Out

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Vector/Announcing-BUILD-2012#c634788261447295245 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:15:44 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Vector/Announcing-BUILD-2012#c634788261447295245 spivonious Re: Early Look at the Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client Looks great! This is definitely a reason to ask the company to get us off of XP.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/funkyonex/Early-Look-at-the-Visual-Studio-LightSwitch-HTML-Client#c634751172537617967 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:00:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/funkyonex/Early-Look-at-the-Visual-Studio-LightSwitch-HTML-Client#c634751172537617967 spivonious Re: Windows 8 Consumer Preview Demo Looks great. I can't wait to get home to try it out.

Any word on Steam and the Marketplace? It would be fantastic to see those two services integrated.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Blog/Windows-8-Consumer-Preview-Demo#c634661283281007582 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:05:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Blog/Windows-8-Consumer-Preview-Demo#c634661283281007582 spivonious Re: Microsoft DevCamps: Free, Fun, No-Fluff Events for Developers These seem a little light on real content. The phone session is a little under two hours of actual content? Doesn't seem worth the six hours of drive time.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Microsoft-DevCamps-Free-Fun-No-Fluff-Events-for-Developers#c634564687151194170 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:51:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Microsoft-DevCamps-Free-Fun-No-Fluff-Events-for-Developers#c634564687151194170 spivonious Re: Microsoft Campus Tours - Building 4 Refurb I saw one of those Coke machines at Universal Studios Orlando. If only it served Pepsi. Smiley

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-Building-4-Refurb#c634493759700000000 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:39:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-Building-4-Refurb#c634493759700000000 spivonious Re: Pranking Softies: The Faces of Microsoft campaign lol, awesome.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Pranking-Softies-The-Faces-of-Microsoft-campaign#c634479144920000000 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:41:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Pranking-Softies-The-Faces-of-Microsoft-campaign#c634479144920000000 spivonious Re: GoingNative 0: Help us fly this plane, Some modern C++, Meet Ale Contenti I could read way too much into this and think that a focus on native code + all the "WinRT" rumors, and I could think that .NET is on the way out. Smiley

Also, Diego can be hard to understand at points. What accent is that?

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/C9-GoingNative/GoingNative-0-Help-us-fly-this-plane-Some-modern-C-Meet-Ale-Contenti#c634474500391611787 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:40:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/C9-GoingNative/GoingNative-0-Help-us-fly-this-plane-Some-modern-C-Meet-Ale-Contenti#c634474500391611787 spivonious Re: Microsoft Campus Tours - The Microsoft Home

, nic wrote

@spivonious: I think the "10-15 years out" is a reference to when the technology becomes mainstream/common place as opposed to simply possible or available.

I mean the same thing. New TVs now pretty much all include access to Netflix, Pandora, and Youtube. 5 years from now, Apple or Google will have duplicated the things in the MS Home and MS will be forced to play catch-up yet again. Why wait for the market? Make the market come to you.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-The-Microsoft-Home#c634401287460000000 Wed, 04 May 2011 17:59:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-The-Microsoft-Home#c634401287460000000 spivonious Re: Microsoft Campus Tours - The Microsoft Home I would buy the charging plate and the screen that you showed the music library on today. Make it run on a PC and display on my TV. MS needs to realize that this stuff is not 10-15 years out; it's more like 5 years out. The amount of "web-enabled" TVs is proof of this. Make it so I can use a WP7/Win8 tablet to control everything.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-The-Microsoft-Home#c634399674100000000 Mon, 02 May 2011 21:10:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-The-Microsoft-Home#c634399674100000000 spivonious Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds 737 Cockpit In His House And I thought I was nerdy when I would fly from Chicago Midway to Philadelphia on FS95. Fantastic job!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Softie-Builds-737-Cockpit-In-His-House#c634396848230000000 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:40:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Softie-Builds-737-Cockpit-In-His-House#c634396848230000000 spivonious Re: Fonts, Form and Function: A Primer on Digital Typography Robby is a great presenter. Hopefully we get to see more of him.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/EXT02#c634389983620000000 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:59:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/EXT02#c634389983620000000 spivonious Re: Kinect Demos with the Channel 9 team Ha, love the Kinect recliner.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Kinect-Demos-with-the-Channel-9-team#c634383978680000000 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:11:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Kinect-Demos-with-the-Channel-9-team#c634383978680000000 spivonious Re: Windows Phone 7 Announcements & Demo's from MIX 11 with Joe Belfiore

I couldn't watch all the video because that woman is damn irritating, always interrupting with nonsense comments. Sounded very fake, giving the impression that she was just paid to agree and show fake excitement.

You do realize that this is a Microsoft website, and that both of the people in the video are Microsoft employees, right?

 

I am also wondering how apps are closed, since it seems that pressing Home keeps them running. Also, the Qantas app is super cool, but I have to wonder how it affects battery life to have a live tile constantly polling your location.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Phone-7/Windows-Phone-7-Announcements--Demos-from-MIX-11-with-Joe-Belfiore#c634383890570000000 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:44:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Phone-7/Windows-Phone-7-Announcements--Demos-from-MIX-11-with-Joe-Belfiore#c634383890570000000 spivonious Re: First Look: Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview I'm more curious how IE10 compares to IE9, not how it compares to Chrome and FF.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/First-Look-Internet-Exploer-10-Platform-Preview#c634383007150000000 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:11:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/First-Look-Internet-Exploer-10-Platform-Preview#c634383007150000000 spivonious Re: Using Microsoft Office on a Tablet PC touch screen It's nice to see Office getting better support for touch. I would have loved a device like this during college. No more lugging around notebooks and pencils. With lots of textbooks available in e-book form, I would have had a much lighter backpack.

In my current situation, I really can't justify it. While it would be nice to have at work for note-taking and meetings, I have a feeling that most of the time it would just sit unused. The price puts it out of reach for casual "couch-surfing". If Asus can create a tablet like this one for $500, they would have a very attractive product.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/Using-Microsoft-Office-on-a-Tablet-PC-touch-screen#c634370964220000000 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:40:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/Using-Microsoft-Office-on-a-Tablet-PC-touch-screen#c634370964220000000 spivonious Re: Walkthrough of a Real-World LightSwitch Application used at Microsoft Good to see a real app made with Lightswitch.

I'd also be interested in seeing the source.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/funkyonex/Walkthrough-of-a-Real-World-LightSwitch-Application-used-at-Microsoft#c634360556340000000 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:33:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/funkyonex/Walkthrough-of-a-Real-World-LightSwitch-Application-used-at-Microsoft#c634360556340000000 spivonious Re: 12 Year old kid develops for Windows Phone! It's nice that he's into programming, but I hope he realizes how lucky he is to have a big house, 2-3 computers, a piano, a pool table, and his own WP7 to use.

 

Elliot - don't get too hung up on Windows. Learn the foundations of programming so you can jump to another framework or language quickly.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/12-Year-old-kid-develops-for-Windows-Phone#c634345143230000000 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:25:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/12-Year-old-kid-develops-for-Windows-Phone#c634345143230000000 spivonious Re: Microsoft Campus Tours - Channel 9 Behind The Scenes I remember seeing this before?

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-Channel-9-Behind-The-Scenes#c634317646900000000 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:38:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-Channel-9-Behind-The-Scenes#c634317646900000000 spivonious Re: Quest Software's Azure Services Tell Quest to fix the bugs in Toad for Oracle. Smiley Still has trouble recovering when the database connection is dropped unexpectedly.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Quest-Softwares-Azure-Services#c634238649080000000 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:15:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Quest-Softwares-Azure-Services#c634238649080000000 spivonious Re: The Office Show: Rocking your data with Excel 2010 lol, Laura just couldn't resist it, could she?

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-Office-Show-Rocking-your-data-with-Excel-2010#c634238002560000000 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:17:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-Office-Show-Rocking-your-data-with-Excel-2010#c634238002560000000 spivonious Re: Office 365: The power to think big and be small, to be big and act fast Very cool stuff. Sharepoint is really becoming the de facto intranet solution.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Office-365-The-power-to-think-big-and-be-small-to-be-big-and-act-fast#c634231272980000000 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:21:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Office-365-The-power-to-think-big-and-be-small-to-be-big-and-act-fast#c634231272980000000 spivonious Re: TechTalk - NUI - What’s in a Name?

, silvercrux.​com wrote

Awesome Video Smiley. Great to learn about Simon and other cool historic devices. Watching this video, makes you wonder, why did Microsoft abandon Courier project. It would have been revolutionary.

 

I thought the same thing. I was amazed to see the things the industry was doing with touch in the 70s. We should be much farther along than we are.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/TechTalk-NUI-Whats-in-a-Name#c634230998230000000 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:43:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/TechTalk-NUI-Whats-in-a-Name#c634230998230000000 spivonious Re: The tech behind Kinect: Major subsystems, RGB camera, Depth Sensor Not much tech info here. Is there a plan for a more in-depth video?

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TechWithTina/The-tech-behind-Kinect-Major-subsystems-RGB-camera-Depth-Sensor#c634213895150000000 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:38:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TechWithTina/The-tech-behind-Kinect-Major-subsystems-RGB-camera-Depth-Sensor#c634213895150000000 spivonious Re: Countdown to PDC: Meet Jeannine and Win a Limited Edition Shirt The video is almost inaudible on the Medium WMV setting, and has lots of audio glitches.

 

edit: nevermind, my headphones were half-unplugged. D'oh!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Countdown-to-PDC-Meet-Jeannine-and-Win-a-Limited-Edition-Shirt#c634209589000000000 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:01:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Countdown-to-PDC-Meet-Jeannine-and-Win-a-Limited-Edition-Shirt#c634209589000000000 spivonious