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Wix team: The most used piece of software at Microsoft (and it's open source!)Apr 29, 2006 at 12:54 PM
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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… -
Jeff Barr - Amazon Web Services Contest WinnersApr 26, 2006 at 6:56 PM 4
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. -
Jeff Barr - Amazon Web Services Contest WinnerApr 26, 2006 at 6:53 PM 0
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. -
Jim Carroll, Dan Manrique - Two dev's story of helping Katrina victimsApr 24, 2006 at 4:24 AM 3
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… -
Charlie Owen - Your first Media Center/Vista application (and a look at their secret room)Apr 07, 2006 at 7:17 PM 42
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… -
Richard Anderson - Interactive teaching with Tablet PCs at University of WashingtonApr 05, 2006 at 2:10 PM 22
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… -
Ric Merrifield - Microsoft gets down to business with Motion initiativeApr 03, 2006 at 5:55 PM 13
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… -
Mike Hall - Network Enabled Refrigeration Device (and pranks at Microsoft)Apr 01, 2006 at 12:09 AM 17
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… -
Mike Arcuri - More business intelligence in Office 2007Mar 30, 2006 at 10:38 AM 18
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! -
Developer Solutions Team - Demos of MSBee, Managed Stack Explorer, and TFS Administration ToolMar 28, 2006 at 6:40 PM 23
The Developer Solutions team invited Ken Levy over to check out their first 3 power toys for Visual Studio 2005. In this video, you’ll meet the team and catch demos of MSBee, Managed Stack Explorer, and the TFS Administration Tool.
