ATTENTION TEACHERS—LOOKING FOR YOUR INPUT! My colleague Jay Schmelzer from the Visual Basic Team is looking for your feedback for future versions of Visual Studio and how it can help Academia. I would say that today, Visual Studio is almost TOO robust...

Hey—one of those interns is David Smith from MSU! I met David at the Imagine Cup regionals LAST year. David also swung by the US Finals this past year—I guess he was feeling nostalgic. Great comments David—glad that I got to bump into you while you were...

I posted previously about Project Aardvark ; Well the interns have finally shipped their summer project — Fog Creek Copilot 1.0 has shipped ! Congrats to the team! How cool is that for these students? Your Summer internships results in a shipping product...

But not the way that you might normally think… Two teams of “pencil pushers and programmers” faced off in a quiz competition (The Golden Linux Bowl) at LinuxWorld . I love the sense of humor of the Microsoft team dressed up as Darth Vader and Stormtroopers...

Thanks to Heather for the pointer. I’m usually just as big of a character blog hater as anybody. But the Crabby Office Lady’s feed actually pretty useful. I’ve learned a TON of stuff about Office that I didn’t know thanks to...

Looks like the team that is maintaining Paint.NET have updated the app. It was created all in C# by some students at Washington State University—mentored by some folks at Microsoft. The app is intended to be an alternative to Microsoft Paint. ...

If you have an MSN Spaces account AND you would classify yourself as an advanced user, you should check out the new Power Toys . From the Power Toys team: “PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been...

DigiGirlz is a great student outreach effort that the Microsoft Diversity Team puts on here in the Seattle area. There will be 80 high school girls visiting Microsoft campus for 4 days. They’ll meet female executives, take a tour of Game Test labs and...

The fact that a Spammer has to pay Microsoft $7 million is big news IMO. In the scheme of things, $7 million isn't a lot of money to Microsoft--this is clearly about the principle. It's great that $5 million of this will go directly to Microsoft's efforts...

The Microsoft Learning team has launched 8 FREE e-learning courses for Visual Studio 2005 . Free until November 8th--get it while you can! :) Tags: Visual Studio , Whidbey

I'm a little late to the game on this one (haven't had much time to dig into this kind of stuff)--but better late than never. The gist is that MSN Filter allows the masses of Web surfers to act as the initial ‘filter’ sharing content they think is interesting...

Thanks to Brian for the head's up on the release of the videos, presentations and demos from the ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer, and IIS talks at TechEd 2005 . Tags: ASP.NET , TechEd

The Coding4Fun guys are at it again . This is about the coolest thing I've ever seen! First it's cool because it's the first video podcast entry (yes, the feed will include a video file in your podcast catcher). Second it's cool because you can combine...

Tom Indelicato , Computer Science teacher from New Hampshire, was kind enough to write up his impressions on the newest version of Visual Studio . Nice quick overview of the key feature updates. Just wait Tom--it's going to get even better! ;) Tags...