Note to Dave Winer- I work for Microsoft, and I'm not scared of users . In fact I take every chance that I can get to talk to users and understand their problems. And I know that many of my coworkers do the same thing.

Rob Copeland, Product Unit Manager for RAD Tools (that's VB, .NET Client aka Winforms and VS Data) has joined the blogosphere . In his first post, he discusses the VB6 support policy and where he'd like to go with his blog. Please go and make him feel...

More interesting discussions tonight at the Pub Summit . I spent time speaking with Robert and Gary on how blogging can affect your career. We also discussed general industry topics including MS growth opportunities, Google's position, etc. It was great...

One of the things I like best about Google is their clean, elegant and functional UIs. Microsoft's web offerings always seem to be a step (or three) behind, or so I thought before running across http://www.start.com/1/ Once again the folks at MSN prove...

Wouldn't you know it. I finally decide to create a blog and work on my first post and then technology gets in the way. We have some issues here creating new blogs on msdn, so I've decided to post here instead. When I get blogs.msdn.com/robertco up and...

MakeMeAdmin script updates, and a security setting you should change

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The next round of MSDN content is fully baked and on its way in April, May and June to a theater, hotel, or convention center in your area of the U.S. We will once again have 3 solid topics (cities in my district and dates follow below): Web Services...

The Microsoft MEDC team have kindly extended a special offer to blog readers. The first sixty people to sign up for MEDC 2005 using the RSVP Code CAATTAT get an extra 10% off our Super Early Bird price of $795. A total savings of $480! Register immediately...

Vegetarians of Washington host a festival of vegetarian food....

Short-sighted performance is when your component runs faster, regardless of its impact on other components. ...

New release of Microsoft's developer toolset has slipped to April...

You can thank a pretty hard working developer in MSN for fixing this. The site now says: Now in new Firefox flavor!