See the details and register here for the DEC 3 event in Nashville. Every registered attendee will get VS2008, as well as have some other fun. If you live in the Cincinnati (DEC 10) or Louisville areas (DEC 14), then register for DevCares here for a similar...

If you can find a good machine that is from a company that makes good drivers (and has hardware partners that are making nice behaving drivers), then you will have a good experience with Windows Vista. That's why I'm enjoying 64 bit Vista on my Lenovo...

Visual Studio 2008 has RTM'd this morning. If you have a MSDN subscription, you could access the bits today. Yes, it's well before the launch in February/March, but we can start using some of the 250+ new features today! We will still have our launch...

You betcha! We have announced Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express. Here's a video overview as well as the overview page . This is the real product, so you can get started with just a download and be up and running quick. Did I mention that it's FREE...

More good info out on why architects and developers should care about Windows Server 2008.

After I posted about our new UC initiative and specifically the RoundTable device, I have since found a video showing how LiveMeeting looks with a RoundTable.  Here is a picture (taken from the product sheet on the RoundTable product page). Very...

Just released is a sample app from Scott Stanfield (RD in San Francisco) and his company Vertigo . As presented on Tim Sneath's blog , this is a sample that shows how to deal with video presentation using all the new tools and Silverlight - almost like...

As some of our friends know, Jerry and I had a previous lifetime in building control systems using DCOM, C++/ATL, and VB6. Therefore, I'm always interested when folks use .NET to control any kind of device or equipment. I'm proud to point out a new show...

After posting about the Launch Gadget, I got an email from someone confused over rumors of the RTM date as opposed to the launch date. The launch date is when we celebrate a new product. It is not necessarily when we release the product. In the case of...

The Popfly team continues the momentum at TechEd EMEA. Announcing Popfly Explorer beta, the VS add-in that brings Popfly into the IDE. Can't wait to see what John Mullinax does next.

At this point of the year, me and my Microsoft friends (in DPE) are focused on the launch .  So, I just added the Launch Gadget to my Vista machine so I can think about it everyday. Nice looking gadget! Beth Humphreys , our Infrastructure Architect...