Today Microsoft officially launched a new web site thttp://www.seewindowsvista.com/ . This site is showing early versions of ISV and Customer solutions that are in development for Windows Vista. The video content is broken down into 4 sections: ...

I've been dogfooding Microsoft 2007 Office System for more than two months, since beta 1. By now I am used to do a Save As "Word 97-2003" (eg; Word document) to save the document in another format in order to let my Office 2003 colleagues open my newly...

Last Friday I did a presentation on the Windows Live services for a number of influential people in the Belgium developer and IT-Pro community. From what I've read on Kris' blogpost " Windows Live session London " and Miel's excellent coverage of the...

Yesterday and today I was invited to the " Software Developer Conference " in Arnhem , The Netherlands. This year was the fifteenth time Remi Caron & the " Software Developer Network " organized this conference. Looking at the session overview...

CNET has a review of MTV Urge . Urge is the new on-the-go music subscription service that integrates with WMP 11. Looks great. Both Windows XP and Windows Vista users can check out the 14-day free trial. Windows XP users just need to install Windows Media...

After having installed and configured IIS 7 on Windows Vista it's time to deploy your applications and benefit from the new IIS 7 features. Matevz Gacnik over at the request-response.com blog has an excellent post on " Windows Workflow Foundation:...

Next Wednesday evening - May 17 - the Visual Studio User Group welcomes Clemens Vasters . Clemens has been in Belgium for several speaking engagements before. Next Wednesday however will be the first time that Clemens will speak as a fulltime Microsoft...

A couple of weeks ago MSDN Belux hosted the Visual Basic 2005 On Tour . During that event we took the opportunity to record our first Belgian podcast . Bart and I talked to Paul Yuknewicz and Todd Apley, both members of the Visual Basic product team...

Next Tuesday May 9 I'll be speaking at the Belux ISV Community Day on Windows Vista . At this event we will be covering how Windows Vista can bring value to your organisation and why you need to consider moving your applications to this platform for the...

Today the Tech·Ed Europe team lead by Gerd De Bruycker launched the official Tech·Ed Europe web site . And registrations are open! Being one of the track owners of Tech·Ed Developers (web development) I'll focus on the developer event,...

After running Windows Vista (build 5365) on my Toshiba M4 machine and as I mentioned in a previous post , the performance and the overall user experience is far better than in any previous build I've been using so far. I'm currently exploring Windows...

Michael Swanson points to the online availability of all the MIX06 sessions . The 52 sessions are available not only for the attendees but for everyone. Watch the presentations to get an idea what happened at MIX06. Check also out the user experience...