Comedy Central confirmed that Bill Gates will be the guest on the popular "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Monday January 29, the eve of Windows Vista's launch. Tony Fox, executive VP with the network, said Gates would no doubt discuss Vista, but the...

Take your mobile PC running Windows Vista to any North American T-Mobile HotSpot between 30th January and 30th April for a complimentary, blazing-fast broadband connection. This offer was announced this morning by Nick White , who says the service goes...

Do you want a Windows Vista countdown gadget like the one I have here? Get the code snippet from the Windows Vista blog. Have a gadget you want to share with the world? The Windows Live Gallery is the site for uploading and downloading Web and Windows...

With Vista available to the public any minute, I'll bet you can't wait to start developing with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). WPF is one of the components of .NET Framework 3.0 and the newest presentation technology for the creation of next-generation...

Microsoft Pro Photo Team has just released Microsoft Photo Info (for XP and Vista), that lets you easily view and edit photo metadata rght in Windows Explorer. Right-clicking on a photo in Explorer shows a new context-menu item 'Photo Info' that launches...

Ever wonder about how things get in the Windows SDK and how they get installed on your computer? It's a big job -- the SDK ships headers, libraries, tools, documents and samples gathered from all across Microsoft. Jason Sacks, the Windows SDK Setup PM...

How many times have you looked at your group photos and thought, "if I could only take the face from photo A and put it over the face from photo B?" I need to do this all the time and was thrilled to see the Group Shot demo in BillG's keynote at CES....

Some people might be taking the Vista excitement a bit too far. I just came across this Limited Numbered Signature Edition of Vista on Amazon : Signed by Bill Gates himself: Windows Vista Ultimate is Microsoft's powerful new operating system for the home...

Turn off those Electric Sheep . The National Renewable Energy Laboratory list of green tips includes a good reminder: don't use a screen saver. They’re old technology and NREL says they use power and can prevent the hard drive from going fully into power...

It's official and posted on Netflix . They now allow people to immediately watch movies and television series on their personal computers. The feature is included in subscribers' monthly membership at no extra charge and will have a phased roll-out over...

Information Architects has created this fun subway style map of the Web, showing all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected. As they say, "it’s totally unscientific and almost useless, but definitely fun to look at." Grab...

When you click on a link to download one of the Windows Presentation Foundation Samples in the Windows SDK, you go to the Windows SDK .NET Framework 3.0 Samples page , where you can download all the .NET samples in bulk. This can be convenient, except...

Creativity is a core competency at Microsoft, but who really understands what makes a person creative? And can we really measure creativity's contribution in the workplace? Amy Randel is going to try and find out in a one of the few research projects...

Have you seen it? Take a look at the new ad for HP MediaSmart Server for Windows Home Server, staring our own BillG. Learn more about MediaSmart in Windows Home Server: are Consumers Ready ?.

Windows Home Server Team has lifted the cone of silence and the biggest secret around campus was announced in the BillG keynote at CES. But is Windows Home Server (formerly "Q") the must-have data management system families need to connect and manage...

Benjamin Heckendorn is at it again, and a Wii laptop is his latest cool toy. Endgaget will be posting a three part How-To with detailed instructions for building your own Wii laptop, as well as loads of photos of the construction process, so stay tuned...

This slideshow shows what Microsoft main campus looked like at noon today under a blanket of white after yesterday’s snow storm. There was plenty of parking today, after the entire campus turned into a gridlocked parking lot yesterday evening when employees...

You can help Children's Hospital by starting your next web search using this Live Search page . The Live Search Team will kick in a $1 donation for every search made from this page, up to $25,000. Get searching, now though January 29, 2007. Live Search...

With the stock just under $30 today, Douglas McIntyre predicts that MSFT stock will hit $36 this year, after "Xbox started to bang Playstation around" and the launch of Vista. With video games on the launch pad within 18 months for Zune's big screen,...

The CNG SDK is now available for download on the Microsoft Download Center. The CNG SDK is designed to be used with the Windows Vista operating system and the Windows Vista SDK . CNG samples that previously shipped with the Beta versions of the Windows...

Lake Superior State University released it's 32nd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness today. This year's somewhat paltry list of only sixteen was culled from more than 4,500 bête noir nominations...