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Wix team: The most used piece of software at Microsoft (and it's open source!)

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 29th, 2006 @ 12:54 PM
What piece of software is used in Windows, Office, MySQL, and many other places? The Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset.

But even better, did you know it's open source? And, did you know that it is developed by an all-volunteer team.

It's developed after hours, come along and meet the team and attend one of their developer meetings.

Rob Mensching's blog talks more about it too.

Sorry about the bad video right at the beginning.

Jeff Barr - Amazon Web Services Contest Winners

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 26th, 2006 @ 6:56 PM
Jeff Barr, Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, dropped by my office the other day and showed me the winners of the Microsoft/Amazon Web Service Contest. Cool stuff, congrats! More details are up on the Amazon Web Services blog.
Tag: Web Services

Jeff Barr - Amazon Web Services Contest Winner

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 26th, 2006 @ 6:53 PM
Jeff Barr dropped by Scoble's office the other day and showed us the contest winners from their recent Web Services contest that they held with Microsoft. More details on the Amazon Web Services blog.
Tag: Web Services

Jim Carroll, Dan Manrique - Two dev's story of helping Katrina victims

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 24th, 2006 @ 4:24 AM
Jim and Dan are two seemingly normal Microsoft employees who I've been watching from afar (they work for Microsoft Consulting Services). When hurricane Katrina hit they dropped everything in their lives and got in a plane and flew to Austin, TX. Hear their story about the technology they deployed (they architected, and developed the Katrina Safe Website for the Red Cross within hours of the disaster) and the heck they overcame -- all voluntarily.

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Tag: MS Personalities

Going Deep: Richard Ward - Engineering security into Windows Vista

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 14th, 2006 @ 3:07 PM
Richard is an architect on the kernel team on Windows Vista. In other words, everything in Windows builds on top of his team's work. Here Charles Torre has a 52 minute conversation with him about the kinds of things that are being done deep inside Windows from a security perspective. But you'll learn more about the innards of Windows than you might expect from this conversation.
Tags: Kernel, Security, Windows Vista

Charlie Owen - Your first Media Center/Vista application (and a look at their secret room)

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 7th, 2006 @ 7:17 PM
Over in building 50 there's a secret room. It's never been shown in public before. What is this room for? Testing audio devices. It is a special room where it's completely silent and the walls have been treated to minimize sound wave reflections. After giving us a tour Charlie Owen, PM on the Media Center team, gives us a little taste of Windows Vista's Media Center features and shows us how to build your first Media Center application. Great discussion of Xbox 360 and the latest in Media Center functionality. The Vista demo starts at about 19:00 into the video. The Web site we talk about is the Media Center Sandbox, which is where you can learn more.[more ]
Tags: Windows Media, Windows Media Center, Windows Vista

Richard Anderson - Interactive teaching with Tablet PCs at University of Washington

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 5th, 2006 @ 2:10 PM
Recently I visited Richard Anderson's classroom at the University of Washington and watched how he used Tablet PCs to teach his computer science class. It is really cool. Students can send him notes, post their thoughts, and interact with him, via their Tablet PCs. This technology came out of Microsoft Research's ConferenceXP Project and the UW Classroom Presenter has a site which has more details and downloads too. The first minute of the video shows off his classroom then we start an interview with Richard and a few others who use or helped build the Classroom Presenter.[more ]
Tag: TabletPC

Ric Merrifield - Microsoft gets down to business with Motion initiative

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 3rd, 2006 @ 5:55 PM
Ric, director of strategy on the top secret Motion Incubation team, runs the Motion initiative. What's that? It's a group at Microsoft that studies how businesses work and looks for opportunities to help them do their business better. They made an entire map of how business works.

Motion's research led to the acquisition of Great Plains, too (which led to the Dynamics suite of services/applications).

Enjoy this look into a team you've never heard of before today and see how Microsoft approaches new markets and new acquisitions, and how it learns from other businesses.
Tag: Dynamics

Mike Hall - Network Enabled Refrigeration Device (and pranks at Microsoft)

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 1st, 2006 @ 12:09 AM

April 1, 2006 -- Mike Hall uses Windows CE for everything. Including building a network enabled refrigeration device (NERD) with the NERD feature pack, released today.

While you're watching that video, we also have some other videos for you to consider this weekend (sorry, downloads won't be available for these videos). These are all about fun pranks that have happened at Microsoft over the years:

Mardella Brekke and Dee Dee Walsh
A crazy assortment of pranks, from adding flames to cars, to creating web sites to mock co-workers.   

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Tag: MS Personalities
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Mike Arcuri - More business intelligence in Office 2007

Posted By: scobleizer | Mar 30th, 2006 @ 10:38 AM
This is a second, deeper look at Excel 2007's business intelligence capabilities (Mike Arcuri was on Channel 9 a few weeks ago). Really cool stuff for helping your business see what is happening.

The demos start at 6:15 into this video. Really great stuff, if you are an Excel freak, don't miss!
Tag: MS Office
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