Admittedly, a somewhat esoteric topic/tip, but I ran into this recently, so I figured there may be other folks who can benefit... I've got a Dell Latitude D820 laptop, running 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate, and I've occasionally wanted to be able to use...

Brad Abrams notes: Thanks to the folks in Expression Media and the Silverlight Streaming it is now amazingly easy to add video (or other Silverlight content to you blog with Windows Live Writer . With nearly any blog host, you can write your blog, "Insert...

There's now a beta available of the next release of XNA Game Studio: XNA Game Studio 2.0 (Beta) The Beta release of XNA Game Studio 2.0 is now available for you to download! Simply select whether you’re new to XNA Game Studio or an existing XNA Game Studio...

I'm so there . For the first time, consumers also will have the option to customize their Zune player with laser-engraved designs and personal text through a new Web store called Zune Originals. Customers will be able to purchase a Zune player directly...

Sounds like one of those stories with a predictable punchline. But there's a surprise and I won't spoil it: My blog was hacked over the weekend. ... ZDNet broke the news on Monday - I was awakened by PR people. The headline read, “Microsoft privacy guru...

So I've installed the new Zune desktop software, and updated my brown (yes, I have brown and I like it, thank you very much!) Zune 30GB to the new 2.2 firmware, and having had most of a day to use both, I'm pretty pleased, particularly given that the...

CNET has some amazing shots of the moon and earth, from the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya: The Japan Space Agency's (JAXA's) Kaguya spacecraft re-created one of the most memorable photos from space--an Earth-rise from lunar orbit. But this one was taken...

The wait is over...Visual Studio 2008 has been released...you can download it now from MSDN Subscriber downloads : On Monday, Nov. 19 , Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 were released to manufacturing (RTM). With more...

Or...why it sometimes pays to know a little bit about networking. So in two days it will be Thanksgiving. We're hosting most of the family, so my mom just came home with my brother in tow, on leave from Marine training at Camp Lejeune, NC SC [ looks like...

Excellent news...excuse me, I'm off to grab the release version of Windows Live Writer : Final Windows Live Wave 2 applications available for download Looks like nothing can stay quiet for long - a new installer featuring the final Windows Live Wave 2...

My friend and local Regional Director , Brian Noyes , is going to be teaching a Master Class on Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Presentation Foundation the week of December 10th-14th at the Microsoft office in Reston, VA. Anyone who's met Brian...