Channel 9 Team

You’ve seen this app before in various forms (we had a version in the consumer preview for Windows 8, and a beta up on the forum for awhile), but the v1 release just hit the Windows store. Features Pin your favorite shows and keep up to date with Live Tiles Watch videos with your choice of…

Before we launched the most recent version of Channel 9 we did a lot of work to make sure site performance was acceptable for our users. This involves data collection to try to determine what aspects of the site are slow, and then work to make it all better. At some point though, we run into…

Nic Fillingham is moving on from Channel 9. It's been a fun four years or so and he's done some great stuff as a member of our small team. Nic's the guy behind Channel 9 Live and he's helped to improve the physical quality of Channel 9 media (16x9, 720p HD, etc). He's also been the champion of…

Golnaz Alibeigi is our newest addition to the Channel 9 team. She is a recent gradute from the University of California Irvine. Her role for Channel 9 will be site manager and content creator. Contact her at golnazal@microsoft for any website related issues, concerns, requests, comments or…

Tina is leaving Channel 9 to join the Xbox team. In her new role, she'll continue to make great content for Xbox Live that you can watch on your Xbox. Congratulations, Tina! Xbox is lucky to get you.Tina's done great things on C9 over the years and we will certainly miss her mellow, friendly…

Check out this preview of an all new Channel 9. We're looking forward to your feedback and suggestions. If you are interested in how it was built and the decisions we made about the architecture, check out this video with Charles and Sampy.Thank you all for your amazing support of…

A preview version of the new Channel 9 is now available at http://preview.channel9.msdn.com. Please file any bugs or suggestions on Connect.  Mike Sampson (aka Sampy) has done some stellar work with the backend architecture and design of the next version of Channel 9, code named…

Nic decided it was a good idea to hide my keys a few weeks back.  This was my revenge.

Last week on this week on Channel 9 we announced a project that we’ll use to improve the user experience of Channel 9. This work along with improvements to our content strategy will enable us to bring Channels 8 and 10 content back into Channel 9. We call this project Revolution 9 and when…

On a very special episode of This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Jeff, Duncan, and Nishant to talk about the recent survey results, and the Revolution 9 project - (0:00 - 1:00) Jeff Sandquist, Duncan Mackenzie, and Nishant Kothary - (1:00 - 1:57) Survey results request by Minh - (1:57 -…