Laura Foy

Laura Foy

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Bug Killer – A Channel 9 Halloween special

Posted By: Laura10 | Oct 29th @ 10:34 PM | Comments: 51
Bug Killer – A Channel 9 Halloween special

WARNING: This video contains blood, gore and one extremely frightening software developer.

 

Have you spent countless nights up late writing code?  Have your eyes burned after staring at a monitor for 18 hours? Have you ever wanted to hack up a co-worker or two?  Sure, we all have! Here’s the story of what happened to one developer on a dark and foggy night when the pressure was just too much…

Get the "Behind the Scenes" Theme here

Tags: bug killer, Halloween, Visual Studio

Microsoft's Pressure Sensitive Keyboards

Posted By: Laura10 | Oct 21st @ 9:36 AM | Comments: 12
Microsoft's Pressure Sensitive Keyboards
There is a somewhat little known department here at Microsoft called the Applied Science Group and they do some truly incredible work. They are the research team behind Microsoft Hardware. I met up with Paul Dietz from this group and he showed me the amazing new Micrososft Pressure Sensitive Keyboard. Not only are the possibilities limitless- but they're multi-touch and predicted to be priced affordably. After he demo-ed the keyboard for me he showed off some of the winning applications made for it from the User Interface Software & Technology Conference. Absolutely Innovative!
Tags: Hardware, keyboards, Multi-touch, pressure sensitive, USIT

Windows 7 Launch Party

Posted By: Laura10 | Oct 9th @ 9:31 AM | Comments: 5
Windows 7 Launch Party
Microsoft and Windows 7 have asked people around the Globe to throw their own version of a House Party. They started last night, October 8th, and I hit one thrown by my colleague, Dana Manciagli at the Parlor Live Comedy Club. She not only was there to celebrate and show off Windows 7 but she partnered the event with a really cool program called Junior Achievement as part of the Microsoft Giving Campaign. Here's a quick look at one of the MANY Launch parties being thrown around the world.

Check out more pics and info on the Windows Team Blog
Tags: house party, Junior Achievement, launch, Windows 7

Ping 29: Silverlight & Movies, Company meeting, Tweets, Win7, Viral Vids

Posted By: Laura10 | Sep 14th @ 11:50 AM | Comments: 20
Ping 29: Silverlight & Movies, Company meeting, Tweets, Win7, Viral Vids
We had the annual company meeting this week and Microsoft was on fire! Here's what people were talking about:

Company Meeting
Silverlight & Hollywood
Windows 7 Tweets!
Viral is good
Tags: ping, PingShow, Silverlight, Twitter, viral, win7

Behind the Scenes: Office Labs

Posted By: Laura10 | Aug 13th @ 6:02 PM | Comments: 2
Behind the Scenes: Office Labs
"Explore. Experiment. Discuss." That's the tagline you'll see when you visit officelabs.com and that's exactly what you will have the opportunity to do. I sat down with Chris Pratley, GM of OfficeLabs to find out how this unique division of Microsoft came about and why. He also gave us some inside scoop on how things work at OfficeLabs, some stuff they have up their sleeves and, of course, how you can get involved.
Remember the Envisioning video that had the internet all buzzing a few months back? Yeah, that came from Office Labs.
Tags: chris pratley, Microsoft, Office Labs

Ping 23: Yahoo Partnership, Wave launches, Win7 for testers & Amazon milk ratings

Posted By: Laura10 | Aug 3rd @ 12:09 PM | Comments: 18
Ping 23: Yahoo Partnership, Wave launches, Win7 for testers & Amazon milk ratings
Microsoft made huge headlines this week and somehow in the mix of it all, some of us managed to search for Wolf T-shirts on Amazon. Here's how it all went down:

Microsoft and Yahoo partner
Ride the Microsoft Wave
Beta Testers get Win7 for free
Milk get high ratings!
Tags: amazon, ping, wave, Win 7, yahoo

Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Posted By: Laura10 | May 29th @ 1:05 PM | Comments: 35
Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine
At the All Things Digital Conference, Steve Ballmer just announced our new search engine called Bing. Bing is actually MORE than a search engine- we are referring to it as a "decision engine" as its goal is to help users make more informed decisions by collating and formatting information for you that is relevant to your search. It's exceptionally useful in areas like travel, shopping, weather and movie listings. Beyond there's there are a ton of new fun features and time saving capabilities. Watch as Stefan Weitz takes us on a test drive.

Read what the critics are saying...
Tags: bing, Search

Craig Mundie talks about being on Obama's advisory council

Posted By: Laura10 | May 12th @ 1:14 PM | Comments: 9
Craig Mundie talks about being on Obama's advisory council
On April 27, 2009, President Obama announced the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). PCAST was originally established in 1990 to enable the President to receive advice from the private sector and academic community on technology, scientific research priorities, and math and science education. Amongst merely 19 others chosen was our very own Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie. I took some time to talk with Craig about what his role will be, what PCAST is overall and, of course, what this will mean for Microsoft.
Tags: Craig Mundie, Obama, PCAST

The Mouse Project

Posted By: Laura10 | Apr 30th @ 1:37 PM | Comments: 1
The Mouse Project
Mike Lamanna and Annuska Perkins have taken it on themselves to design a mouse that enable special needs children to explore the wonderful world of the WWW. Watch this clip and learn about their journey- pass it along and help others.
Tags: Annuska Perkins, mice, Mike Lamanna, mouse project, special needs

Getting to know: Yuri Alkin

Posted By: Laura10 | Apr 8th @ 12:21 PM | Comments: 0
Getting to know: Yuri Alkin

Yuri Alkin is a man of many interests, and many great accomplishments. He leads the Enterprise Social Computing team (over at Engineering Excellence group) responsible for Microsoft internal projects such as CodeBox, ToolBox and Mingle. His job is to lead creation and adoption of systems that help people at Microsoft achieve more by connecting and collaborating with each other. Another way to define his job (in case you like buzzwords) is to say that he's responsible for driving adoption of Enterprise 2.0 technologies and practices at Microsoft. He is passionate about the opportunities social computing brings to the enterprise and has been spearheading Microsoft's major internal efforts in this space. So, let's get to know Yuri Alkin.

Tags: codebox, CodePlex, Microsoft, toolbox, Yuri Alkin
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