Ever since the MSN team released their first beta toolbar with Windows Desktop Search , developers have been asking how they can add its search functionality to their own programs. Well, the wait is over – the MSN team have quietly added documentation...

BlogJet is a truly excellent blog-posting tool written by Dmitry Chestnykh (I've raved about it before ). Now I find out that he just graduated from college last week — from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology to be precise. Make you proud...

All my posts for the past month have hit a bug in Community Server that strips out the leading "http://blogs.msdn.com" when I link to other Microsoft blogs. If you read this blog via a syndicated feed (e.g. Bloglines) then those links were broken for...

One of the nice things about working alongside 1,500 other bloggers is that if you let a thought go unblogged for too long, someone else will pick up the slack. For example: OneNote tells me that I created the page “Getting to ZBB in your inbox” in my...

Yesterday's Gnomedex demos by the Longhorn RSS team (who also chose that moment to come out of stealth mode) have predictably started a huuuge discussion. Scoble's been doing his best to link to all the reactions - see " First blog reactions on RSS news...

Ryan Naraine has written a nice article for eWeek about non-admin security in XP . He notes that Microsoft will be promoting Least-privileged User Accounts heavily in Longhorn, but that you can enjoy their added security right now – if you know where...

Jeff Sandquist and his team have posted graphic evidence* of just how low some developers will go to get to PDC’05. At least now we know what they were sneaking into Jeff’s office . Betsy claims to be shocked, shocked – but really, after seeing all the...

The program managers for Microsoft Operations Manager have started their own team blog , and they already have post categories that hint at what's to come. I've been working closely with this team over the past few months, so it's great to see them getting...

Scoble has posted a fascinating Channel 9 video interview with David Ornstein . David describes what makes wikis work, how his own FlexWiki advances the state of the art, and speculates about what type of people like wikis. His PC display setup is...

IronPython is a .NET implementation of Python, written by Jim Hugunin . It’s now reached v0.7.6, and has been released on microsoft.com (via Mike Gunderloy ). What’s really impressive is that IronPython is faster than Python 2.3 . F# is a .NET implementation...

MaxiVista is a software application that lets you use another PC – your laptop, for example – as an extra screen for your main computer. Since more screen real estate is always better, this is a Good Thing. It's especially sexy with a Tablet PC, because...

I've ranted before about Microsoft product names, so it's nice to see that I'm in good company : CNET Interviewer : “You made a comment this morning poking fun at a Microsoft product name. Do you think Microsoft is good at marketing?” Steve Ballmer...

Another vital resource has sprung up fully-formed on Channel 9 – the Patterns and Practices Security Wiki (yes, this is yet another Microsoft wiki ). Whether you need to deploy a secure ASP.NET 2.0 application right now, or just have a vague wish to learn...