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Did you know that Microsoft has a full service television and production studio on campus? From Steve Ballmer appearances on Bloomberg to MSNBC broadcasts to Channel 9 Halloween videos, the Microsoft Studios team cover an extremely wide gamut of production services. In this Microsoft Campus Tours, Laura...

Dan and Clint stop by the Tech with Tina show to demo the Kinect-Enabled Turrett! The turrett uses skeletal tracking to detect if someone is in your office, it pans the gun toward the intruder and then uses a Phidget relay board to complete a circuit with a Nerf-brand Dart Tag SwarmFire gun.

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Microsoft has always had a history of pranks and well, sometimes you just need to play jokes on your colleagues. For this prank, Dan and I set up a fake photo shoot with the premise that they will be part of a new Microsoft campaign called The Faces of Microsoft.  It's of course all made...

In Part 1 of this Office Show, Tina and Laura used Office 365 to get their dog grooming business up and running with email, calendars and shared documents. In Part 2, they step up their game and create their own website, edit a Word doc simultaneously and set up a customer database in Access. Cool things...

So what is Office 365 and how can it help your small business? This Office Show answers those questions with a special two-part episode, wherein our heroines Laura and Tina start a business from scratch with Office 365. Like many of you, they're strapped for resources and face some nasty competition....

Ribbon Hero 2 is a new game from the office team.  It's played inside the office applications.  It's a way for the office team to get users to explore the office applications in an entertaining way.  Ribbon Hero 2 has a narrative with Clippy, yes he is back and if you played Ribbon...

Dan and Brian were AWOL this week so Tina and I stepped in to fill the void.

Tina assured me she had "prepped" for our taping but I think by this she just meant "consumed 18 cans of Dr Pepper".

In the end their were some very interesting stories to cover.... we just...

Major Nelson talks about Xbox Live and Cloud Storage which gives us the ability to save our Xbox Live profile and saved games up to the cloud so you have access to them anywhere.  He also talks about beacon, Kinect Labs, new titles and much more. 

Carl Ledbetter is a designer for Xbox and has worked on the Kinect and Zune.  He has also been at the company for sixteen years and takes us on a trip down memory lane starting with the Intellimouse he helped design in his early days at MS. 

I stopped by the AMD booth at E3 to get information on AMD's eyefinity technology.  We talk about the new graphics card and processor used for PC gaming and more.