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Host Jonathan Rozenblit goes through the monthly developer news: Latest Bits: Download the Windows 8 Release Preview Latest Bits: Download the Visual Studio 2012 RC Windows 8 Codeapaloozas in Ottawa and Montreal Canada Windows 8 App Excellence Labs Think you know Windows Azure? Think Again - Meet…

This video showcases how Windows 8 will allow a user's settings to persist from one computer to another by logging in using your Windows Live ID. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/26/signing-in-to-windows-8-with-a-windows-live-id.aspx

The default player is only embedding at 848x wide. So I'll see if I've go the HTML-fu to embed big enough to get the full 1280x720.

Microsoft and Google working together? Yep. It seems Google-owned YouTube is running Microsoft Silverlight in CBS’s dedicated channel for March Madness. (For those of you outside the States, March Madness is when everyone goes crazy over basketball). In the CBS YouTube Channel located here:…

Starting today, the default Live search in IE8 is so smart it can answer some of your questions before you finish asking them. For example, with Live set to default in IE8, try typing "MSFT" in the search box. No sooner does your finger lift off the T before Live provides a stock chart for…

Kevin over at Gamerscore Blog has the details:I love getting achievements when I play games. I love having the same friends list shared between my PC games and my XBOX 360. And I love not having to pick games from a list of servers, but just having matchmaking that puts me into a game. And…

So, Streaming Media is doing a special "Europe edition" of Streaming Media, and I'm doing an article about webcasting for it. I've getting a bunch of questions about how to deliver low-latency live streaming to Silverlight, and so with their permission, I'm excerpting this section on that…

The Live Search team has just announced a change to the search results that will now show more of a Wikipedia entry than before. This is a great new feature since many times when you’re doing a search, you just need a quick answer and Wikipedia is usually the link you click to read the info you…

A recent conversation over at the Streaming Media Advanced list sparked a rant from me about the importance of comparing implementations of codecs, not just codecs. To that end, I thought I'd do a demo to show how much improvement there's been in Windows Media since the launch of Windows Media 9…

The Windows Live SkyDrive team blog gives us the latest on new updates to SkyDrive that launched today. SkyDrive is now available in 24 additional locations, with support for a total of 62 countries. You can now leave comments on any SkyDrive file. You can add captions to photos, there is a…