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This time lapse video shows how the MIX09 crew sets up and tears down the general session hall from empty room to setup, to rehearsals, to the live event, to tear down.

Watch a short video that depicts the humble origins of modeling and humorously traces modeling’s evolution from the beginning of history to present day, with Microsoft new modeling platform, “Oslo.”

The Application Consulting & Engineering team (ACE Team) assesses all of Microsoft’s line of business applications for privacy and security vulnerabilities. ACE Team founder and Director Todd Kutze and Microsoft CIO and VP Managed Solutions Ron Markezich talk about the ACE Team and its impact on the company[more ]

The Application Consulting & Engineering team (ACE Team) assesses all of Microsoft’s line of business applications for privacy and security vulnerabilities.  Senior Security Technologist Talhah Mir discusses the Threat Analysis and Modeling tool he has designed and which is being implemented.  Security Technologist and Training Coordinator Ricardo Birmele talks about the ACE Team training program and its money saving benefits to Microsoft application development teams.

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The Application Consulting & Engineering team (ACE Team) assesses all of Microsoft’s line of business applications for privacy and security vulnerabilities. This discussion among Ahmad Mahdi (Security Technologist), Ricardo Birmele (Security Technologist and Training Coordinator), Talhah Mir (Senior Security Technologist), Chris Lundquist (Performance Technologist), and Tony Dang (Privacy and Program Manager) talk about what it involved in the assessment process. Robert Scoble conducts the…[more ]

The Application Consulting & Engineering team (ACE Team) is chartered to assess all Microsoft line of business applications for security and privacy vulnerabilities. Security Technologist manager Shawn Veney, speaks eloquently about what it takes to conduct security assessments, and what’s behind our security philosophy. Robert Scoble conducts the interview.

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The Application Consulting & Engineering team (ACE Team) is chartered to assess all Microsoft line of business applications for security and privacy vulnerabilities.  ACE Team founder and Director Todd Kutze tells us about its activities, organization, and purpose. This is a Scoble interview.

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We recently hit a bit of a milestone, passing the one million mark of installed copies of Windows Starter Edition, a version of Windows XP (and now Vista) specially designed for use in emerging markets. You can read more about the Starter Edition, and see [more ]

Thomas Quinn is the Architect for the Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Office System (code name "Cypress").  TQ discusses the engineering decisions behind the design of the tools.  He explains the decision to create a new base project type that allowed the team to create Application Add-in projects for both Office 2003 and Office 2007.  He explains the rationale behind the change to the Outlook Add-in project type.  After watching this video, please visit his blog and…[more ]