This Week on C9: May 9th, New tools, new records and ratings, flying pigs, and a .NET app to Pwn Rock Band

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | May 9th @ 1:35 PM

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover:

- Brian Keller back this week (0 - 0:50)
- Microsoft withdraws proposal from Yahoo (0:50 - 1:24)
- Expression Studio 2 now available (1:24 - 2:40)
- XNA Game Studio CTP now available so you can build Zune game (2:40 - 4:00)
- Windows XP SP3 now available (4:00 - 4:39)
- Windows Live rated #1 for tools, SDKs, and Web services (4:39 - 5:59)
- SQL Server 2008 sets new TPC performance records (5:59 - 7:50)
- Brian ponders building a Guiness Book of World Records for geeks (7:50 - 7:58)
- Scott Guthrie and Bob Muglia named in eWeek's Top 100 most influential people in IT (7:58 - 8:50)
- System Center Operations Manager releases cross-platform extensions for Unix, Solaris, Linux and more, including flying pig swag (via Greg Duncan) (8:50 - 9:46)
- Brian talks about the Pink Floyd pig sniper when the pig got away (9:46 - 11:11)
- Dan's Pick of the Week: Pure Pwnage builds a way to win Rock Band with a 99% score using Brian Peek's Holiday Lights program (11:11 - 12:24)
- Brian's Pick of the Week: Multi-part series on how Microsoft uses Team Foundation Server

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Tags: Expression, Live Services, SQL Server, XNA, Zune

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wisemx
Live it

Cool show guys...Rock on. Wink

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

...watching this right now... just wanted to say that the

"Low res" & iPod versions are of last week's show....

update:
For a really good interview on MaryJo's book go to the Windows Weekly podcast # 57

http://twit.tv/ww57

Where MaryJo talks to Paul & Leo about MS 2.0.

(was Dan mentioned in that podcast as well?)

littleguru
allein, allein,... allein, allein!

Awesome episode... and ~~Barney~~ Brian is back on board. Btw. you guys should call one of the niners during your recording. You know like having her/him on the show for a minute or so - would be an interesting thing.

TommyCarlier
Trust me, I'm from the Internets

Calling niners sounds like a good idea, as long as it doesn't end up like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jHafp4R4Ho

littleguru
allein, allein,... allein, allein!

TommyCarlier wrote:

Calling niners sounds like a good idea, as long as it doesn't end up like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jHafp4R4Ho

How's the weather over there? <pause> rainy, ... yeah... rainy! <pause> Tongue Out

Dan

Minh wrote:

...watching this right now... just wanted to say that the

"Low res" & iPod versions are of last week's show....

update:
For a really good interview on MaryJo's book go to the Windows Weekly podcast # 57

http://twit.tv/ww57

Where MaryJo talks to Paul & Leo about MS 2.0.

(was Dan mentioned in that podcast as well?)

Good catch, my bad, updated the links.

As for Mary Jo on TwiT, I'll have to check it out. I doubt I was mentioned though as Keller and I are below interns:) and the big news at that time was Yahoo+Microsoft.

Dan

TommyCarlier wrote:

Calling niners sounds like a good idea, as long as it doesn't end up like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jHafp4R4Ho

LOL @ video. Interesting, I like this idea and yI'd be willing to give it a shot, I need to think through how we do this (technically) as I'm not sure we have a way to put callers through over a loud speaker...perhaps we'll do this using Live Meeting or Messenger?

What's the right way to do this?

- Should we do it a la Call for Help where we take folks questions?
- Get some niners to respond to new announcements (eg: Yahoo + MSFT)
- Have folks send in pre-recorded (audio or video) comments or questions on a topic?
- Something else entirely?

littleguru
allein, allein,... allein, allein!

Dan wrote:

TommyCarlier wrote: Calling niners sounds like a good idea, as long as it doesn't end up like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jHafp4R4Ho

LOL @ video. Interesting, I like this idea and yI'd be willing to give it a shot, I need to think through how we do this (technically) as I'm not sure we have a way to put callers through over a loud speaker...perhaps we'll do this using Live Meeting or Messenger?

What's the right way to do this?

- Should we do it a la Call for Help where we take folks questions?
- Get some niners to respond to new announcements (eg: Yahoo + MSFT)
- Have folks send in pre-recorded (audio or video) comments or questions on a topic?
- Something else entirely?

I like the second option the most: get some niners to respond to announcements or stuff like that.

Also the niner could have a "pick of the week" thing: like the niner pick... could get interesting.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Dan wrote:

- Should we do it a la Call for Help where we take folks questions?
- Get some niners to respond to new announcements (eg: Yahoo + MSFT)
- Have folks send in pre-recorded (audio or video) comments or questions on a topic?
- Something else entirely?

I'd definitely love to see questions from Niners get answered in this show. There are a lot of questions floating around in the Coffeehouse, but obviously there's not going to be a representative from every single product team scanning the forum and jumping in on a discussion, which means the question is left hanging.

It would be great if you guys could pick up on some of the stuff that's being wondered about in the forums or something, and seek out somebody from the relevant team for an answer.

Obviously it couldn't be stuff like "Will this and this be in Windows 7" or "What company are you guys secretly planning to buy now", but perhaps it could be things like "What the hell is up with Ultimate Extras" or "How will IE8 impact the sidebar and development for it".