Channel 9 Team

Just a quick, and poorly filmed, update from the dev team on what we worked on during the last sprint and what we are building right now. Yes the filming is shoddy, and yes the screens are hard to read... we'll get better, but we didn't want to spend a lot of time redoing this one when we know…

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…

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…

Jeff recorded Robert getting ready for the Steve Ballmer interview. Just something fun for your Friday afternoon. Dang, I have to clean up my office. You get to see the video equipment we use here on Channel 9, and I give you a tip or two plus you get to see the cafeteria where we eat lunch every…

The latest rage in Web site development is to "remix" or "mashup" services from a variety of different companies. Amazon's Jeff Barr invited us over to see how developers are using Amazon's Web Services in a variety of ways. To make it even better, yesterday they announced a…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by Steve Velat, a PhD student at Univ. of Florida working on cool autonomous robots. This week's news includes: - Microsoft store launches (1:00 - 1:40) - The New Xbox Experience is now available including new services like NetFlix, new avatars,…

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…

Mike Sampson, your friendly-neighborhood media-encoding and SCRUM specialist, lives in the office right next to mine.  I managed to walk the 12 steps over there and talk to him about what he's recently been working on, mainly a Silverlight player for version 4 of Channel…

We're working hard but we'll take three quick minutes to let you know what we're up to. Enjoy.

Last week we shipped out an update to 10 that not only refreshed the design but set up the EvNet platform to support Channel9. You've seen us before and you'll see us again as we move forward with the 9 update. WARNING: We were very tired and very zany. Enjoy