Blogging

Microsoft enthusiast and blogger Long Zheng arranged for seven bloggers to participate in All Star Blogging from PDC: Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Kip Kniskern, Rafael Rivera, Paul Thurrott, Tom Warren, and Long Zheng. The group will be contributing to a single Coveritlive blog so you’ll…

Microsoft announced this morning that the next release of Microsoft Office will include “lightweight”, browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote (read the full story). Here is what people are saying: Joel Oleson thinks this is a…

Earlier this morning, Ori Amiga has joined Treadwell on stage, showing a "Meshfied" photo application automatically synching files between different machines and mobile devices . Live Mesh will have a broader beta starting later this week, with new features and support for Macs and…

Get an inside scoop on Windows 7 and what the community is saying after the recent PDC 2008 announcements and demos. Follow the live blogs BetaNews and 8 Live Bloggers (Ed Bott, Paul Thurrott, Kip Kniskern, Mary Jo Foley, Rafael Rivera, Tom Warren, Todd Bishop, and Long Zheng).

Since this morning's Windows Azure announcement, a lot of details have materialized. Peter Bright provides a rundown of what was announced today.

This morning, Ray engaged audience members by reminding them that Microsoft executives "viscerally understood" that for the company to be successful, developers also had to be. Microsoft Watch considered Ray's keynote "refreshing and down-to-earth. His early delivery was…

Get the details about Windows Azure and other technologies announced this morning from the live blogs BetaNews, CNET or the community live blogging session done by Long Zheng, Ed Bott, Paul Thurrott, Kip Kniskern, Mary Jo Foley, Rafael Rivera, Tom Warren, and Todd Bishop directly from the fist…

"SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night - PDC 2008 Edition", coordinated by Andrew Connell, is a serious candidate for the most sought-after social pre-PDC event. In his own words: "We’ll be doing another SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night in LA the Sunday (Oct 26th) @ 7PM before…

The conversation is happening now and here are the highlights: Andrew Connell: "Azure, VS10, Win7... PDC2008 ROCKS!!!!" John Osborn: "Applause for multiple WebConfig files to support dev and deployment scenarios..." Robert Hallock: "Steve Sinofsky demonstrated a build of…

Windows 7 was demoed for the first time this morning at PDC 2008. Even if you attended the Keynote you can't miss this recap wrote by Ed Bott full of screenshots and details about the cool features of the new OS.