Duncan Mackenzie

Duncan Mackenzie

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Modeling Through the Ages

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Oct 27th @ 8:37 AM
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.”
Tag: Oslo

Dev Diary for April 23

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Apr 23rd @ 3:43 PM
We're back with another update! This time we have a mix of content, including: Sampy talking about SQL optimization using indexed views Erik covering a relatively simple, but useful, web control and explaining a bit about how we build our UI components as he goes (and you can get the controls he demos right from here) Sampy showing off the wiki, in a unskinned but functional state (like any good demo, we even included a surprise error!) Me demoing nothing and generally blathering on in a managerial way[more ]

Dev Diary for April 15th

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Apr 15th @ 4:36 PM

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 you'd rather we keep focused on developing the dev site Smiley
Tags: Channel9 Team, EvNet

Mohsen Agsen: Bridging the Gap between PC and Enterprise, Developer and Designer

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Oct 5th, 2007 @ 11:11 AM
A rolling stone gathers no moss. What it does gather, however, is a great deal of experience. During his long career at Microsoft, Mohsen Agsen has been actively avoiding gathering moss. LAN Manager, MCS, bCentral, Exchange, Visual Studio and … oh yes … games too. These are just a few of the products and technologies that Mohsen has been involved in.  At each step along the way, he's built and maintained a reputation for being a strategic thinker and technical leader. During this episode, we discuss with Mohsen some of the challenges that Microsoft has faced in the past, and learn how not…[more ]

The Channel 9 beta has been updated

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Sep 29th, 2007 @ 2:42 AM
Hey folks, it has been awhile since we first published the Channel 9 beta site and we thought you might be wondering where we are with the whole 'new Channel 9' project. Well, we have been moving forward on many different areas of the code and we even shipped a new production site (http://Channel8.msdn.com) built on the exact same code base. All of the work done since we last updated the beta site is hard to describe in a few lines of text, but let me give it a shot anyway Smiley

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Tag: EvNet

A quick chat with Microsoft's CIO about the ACE Team

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Nov 22nd, 2006 @ 1:08 PM
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
Tag: Security

The ACE team at Microsoft: Threat Analysis and Modeling

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Nov 22nd, 2006 @ 1:02 PM

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.
Tag: Security

Software Security at Microsoft: ACE Team Tour, Part 3

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Oct 23rd, 2006 @ 9:53 PM

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 interview.

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Tag: Security

Software Security at Microsoft: ACE Team Tour, Part 2

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Oct 23rd, 2006 @ 9:49 PM

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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Tag: Security

Software Security at Microsoft: ACE Team Tour, Part 1

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Oct 23rd, 2006 @ 9:44 PM

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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Tag: Security
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