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To kick off Build 2012, we put together a video featuring developers who have helped move the industry forward.  We asked them to share why they love what they do. Hear what they have to say in this video, shown on day one at Build. Participants included: Anders Hejlsberg: Technical Fellow,…

Join your guides Brady Gaster and Cory Fowler as they talk to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. In this episode, Cory talks with Doug Mahugh of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. about a recent release of the Windows Azure Storage for…

I finally had the chance to sit down with Morten at MIX11 in Las Vegas last week to discuss the work he is doing on WordPress with Windows Azure to solve some common challenges with multi-site WordPress installations using traditional hosting. In Morten's words:  "I am building a…

  The Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer easy. The Web PI also makes it easy to install and…

Web development has evolved over the years and the options continue to grow and become ever more complex. This week we talk with Mark Brown about some initiatives Microsoft is working on to make that easier from an Interop perspective such as PHP, Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, and more. This show is…

There was lots of buzz on the Microsoft Campus this week, and we cover it all on this episode of Ping: The move to WordPress Keeping Windows Phone 7 FAST Archiving Tweets Is that you, Mr Gates? A second life for SecondLife?

Yesterday, Microsoft announced a partnership with blog specialist Automattic that will see 30 million Windows Live Spaces users upgraded and transitioned over to Wordpress.com accounts. The move doubles the size of the Wordpress.com user base which is now one of the largest free blogging platforms…

By now you’ll have probably heard that Internet Explorer 9 Beta has been released. As reported by PC World, it’s been a popular download with over 2 million installs in the first 48 hours.  IE9 comes witha host of speed and feature enhancements that users and developers alike will love. One of…

Although Chris Pendleton previously reported on a Bing Maps plugin for WordPress back in July, Johannes Kebeck of the Bing team recently came across an alternative: the Silverlight Bing Maps plugin. Developed by Regart.net, this plugin lets you install an interactive maps on your WordPress site…

Customizable, embeddable Bing Maps are now available to WordPress bloggers by way of a new plugin. The “Bing Maps for WordPress” plugin created by Rich Gubby lets you easily insert mini maps into your blog posts using a [bingMap] shortcode in your posts. You don’t have to worry about how the maps…