Announcements

On stage at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference 2008 today, Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, showed developers how Microsoft is marshalling the power of software to help solve some of the toughest technological and societal challenges.  Read about Microsoft…

We’re excited to announce we’re back in LA next November 17–20, 2009 for our next PDC.  Mark your calendars!

RoboChamps is a simulated robotics programming competition in which contestants get the opportunity to program a simulated Mars Rover to recreate Opportunity’s exploration of the Endurance Crater on the Martian surface among other challenges. The competition brings robotics to a broader…

Developed by a team from Microsoft Research, DryadLINQ is a powerful programming environment that enables ordinary programmers to write large-scale data parallel applications to run on large PC clusters. The platform comprises Dryad, a distributed execution engine that allows reliable,…

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie appears on Channel 9 for a quick chat about the complexities of designing and implementing the Azure Services Platform, his key take-aways from PDC2008 and his guiding architectural principles for Azure.

The Show Off votes have been tabulated, and we have winners!  In third place:  Clipboard History for Visual Studio; in second place: Multi-Channel Virtual Earth and in first place… Brian the Build Bunny.  These entries will each recieve $500 Visa Gift…

See the same images that scientists at NASA use for their research and then perform your own research with those images by using WorldWide Telescope.  Take a 5 minutes to check out some cool stuff Microsoft Research and their partners are currently working on in the Big Room. 

Beginning today, Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider. You will soon be able to use your Windows Live ID…

Steve Marks invited Jonathan Greenstead, CEO of Sentinent on stage during Monday's PDC2008 keynote to demo Bluehoo, a rich application hosted by Windows Azure. Built in Silverlight and coded entirely in Visual Studio C++, Bluehoo is a location-based social networking tool to see people…

Today at PDC, we announced the availability of some new identity related services and technology, specifically the Microsoft Federation Gateway (full release) and the Microsoft Services Connector (community technology preview) - both of which make it possible for organizations to easily adopt…