PDC 2005
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The new Outlook Express: Windows Mail demoed
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(2)As part of our journey around Windows Vista teams, we wondered what was being done to Outlook Express. Well, for Windows Vista it's been renamed to Windows Mail. And that's not all. -
Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12
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(1)At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated Office 12 in public for the first time. The news you'll hear is "they changed the user interface." So, we wanted to talk with the team who came up with this new UI and we wanted to ask them "are you nuts?" After all, changing how… -
Manuel Clement and others - Introducing Sparkle
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(2)Microsoft, today, at the PDC, announced Microsoft Expression, which is a suite of three applications to help you build Web sites and new kinds of Windows applications.Here we meet the Expression Interactive Designer team last week as they were having a late-night pizza dinner (code-named… -
Anders Hejlsberg - LINQ
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(5)LINQ stands for Language INtegrated Query and in a nutshell, it makes query and set operations, like SQL statements first class citizens in .NET languages like C# and VB. Here we visit Anders Hejlsberg in his office to get more on LINQ. Dan Fernandez, also seen in this video, just put up a blog… -
A thank you to the Niners! (The Channel 9 Song)
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(2)This is a fun one. We played this to the crowd at the PDC before Eric Rudder's keynote. We did it as a thank you to all of you who come here and make Channel 9 a fun place to hang out. Sorry, the download is not available for this one. Music by Michael Lehman. Video length: 00:02:28. Here's… -
Kam Vedbrat - Looking at Windows Vista's user interface (AERO)
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(2)Kam Vedbrat is a lead program manager on the AERO team which redesigned the User Interface of Windows Vista (the next version of Windows). We spend half an hour looking at the user interface. -
North Face Demo at the PDC
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(1)This is one of the coolest applications we've seen at the PDC. Here's a video of the North Face demo that was shown off during Jim Allchin's keynote at the PDC. This demo rocks and it was all done in Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon). -
Windows Sideshow Team - Auxiliary Displays (new laptop feature coming next year)
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(3)Next year there will be a new feature available on some laptops and Tablet PCs: auxiliary displays. This lets you do some things on your computer without needing to open up the computer and wait for it to start up. See what this new feature is. There's more information on the developer opportunity… -
Shell Team - Exploring and Using Windows Vista
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(1)At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated the latest version of Windows Vista. Here you get to meet the Shell team. Now, what does the Shell team do? They make the Explorer and do a variety of other things. You will not want to miss this video because you'll get a good look at Windows Vista… -
Steve Ball - Learning about Audio in Windows Vista
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(2)This is Larry Osterman's long-kept secret. The audio stack in Windows Vista has been completely rewritten so we can have cool things like per-app audio control. Anyway, Steve Ball talks to us about what the team has been working on and gives us some demos and introduces us to the team, including…