The folks over at RealWorld Graphics posted a nice write up on how developers working on native Win32 applications can create DPI aware applications for Windows Vista. For new applications, using Windows Presentation Foundation is a strong solution in...

Ben Forta has a nice write-up about his experience using Windows Vista. Kind words from a senior guy at Adobe .

We had TechFest here at Microsoft a few weeks back, and I got to see some really interesting new things from Microsoft Research. One of the things I saw was a nifty programming environment for young children that takes the form of a game that can be played...

If you play on an XBOX 360, you may be interested to know that Major Nelson posted the achievement unlocked sound on his blog. If you have a windows mobile phone, you can download it and make it your ringtone.

I had lunch w/ Michael Wallent the other day (Michael was my group manager when I worked in Windows) and he mentioned a really fascinating site to me. George Mason University did a study on phonetic variations that occur as a result of people's accents;...

OFF TOPIC: I saw a link to this post on 43 folders . Brian Kim writes about self-improvement and has some interesting suggestions for what every young person should learn before they venture out into the real world. Some great ideas there, and really...

Congratulations to the Blend team for shipping their release candidate! You can download Expression Blend RC1 from here . This build has a ton of quality improvements, a great set of new samples, and an updated user guide.

Jeff Atwood posted a great write-up detailing some of the issues around getting a PC running with more than 3GB of RAM. This is a great read if you're looking at building any kind of high-end workstation or if you're considering a 64-bit OS to support...

There is now an update available for Visual Studio that addresses many of the issues regarding using VS on Windows Vista. The details are on the download page .

Hilarious.

I made a post about a year ago regarding how some applications have a side effect of disabling Aero. While it is still possible to create applications that have this side-effect (due to the underlying problem of applications accessing the primary display...