After working at Microsoft for over 7 years as an employee and almost 5 years before that as a contractor/vendor, I’ve decided it’s time for me to do become independent and start my own company. My official last day at Microsoft is July 18...

Just posted the VSX Community Letter for April 2008 .

Video posted today: Channel 9: Sean O'Driscoll: General Manager for Community Support and the MVP Program   (36 minutes) . Last year I had this idea to do a video interview of Sean O'Driscoll , a General Manager for Community Support and the MVP...

I recently found a useful hotkey tip using various applications in Office 2007. Just toggle Ctrl+F1 to show and hide the ribbon toolbar area. This is similar to the F11 hotkey in Internet Explorer to toggle IE full screen view on and off.

Just posted the VSX Community Letter for March 2008 .

Reminder about the VSX Community Letter for February 2008 .

Just posted the VSX Community Letter for January 2008 .

Just posted the VSX Community Letter for October 2007 .

Just posted the VSX Community Letter for September 2007 .

Just posted the VSX Community Letter for August 2007 .

On June 15th, I informally hosted some folks from Ultimate Ears on the Microsoft campus in one of the cafeterias. During their visit, I invited the folks from the Channel 10 team to stop by to do a video interview for on10.net. The video they created...

Yesterday I posted the VSX Community Letter for July 2007 on the VSX Team blog . This is the first in a series of ongoing monthly letters to the Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) community. The letter is also highlighted on the http://msdn.com/vsx/ developer...

Ultimate Ears visits Microsoft June 15th, building 34/35 cafeteria Mike Dias from L.A. based Ultimate Ears is up here in Redmond visiting the main Microsoft campus on Friday June 15th from 11:00am to 6:00pm in the building 34/35 cafeteria. This is Mike...

An update on a few things I'm working on relative to the new VSX community building including a team blog and the msdn.com site for VS extensibility. I created the new VSX Team Blog recently and kicked off the steady blog activity (the 5 entries this...

At TechEd 2007, Sara Ford drives what she calls ScooterCam-1 to get around the conference due to her injured leg from a recent hiking incident (see her blog post Not broken after all ). The name ScooterCam is derived from the fact that she hooked up a...

There’s a new VSX Team Blog created as part of my community activities on the VS Tools Ecosystem team. Some news and fun kick of a few of the first blog posts there. You'll see in one of the first posts on the new VSX team blog some comments and a fun...

This week I took on a newly created position at Microsoft, as community program manager on the Visual Studio Ecosystem team focusing on developer community for VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility). The VSX community includes developers who build add-ins...

feedback.live.com has an updated list of Windows Live services for feedback (31 listed as of today, with some beta sites removed previously listed): Feedback Services Live Maps Live QnA Live Search Live.com Windows Live Account Windows Live Alerts Windows...

There are some cool new Windows Live web sites and services rolling out lately, including my favorite new one gallery.live.com . The new Windows Live Gallery is a great resources for users of Windows Live services, and also has a story for developers...

One of the cool things we are doing with the Windows Live Dev site at dev.live.com is hosting mashups on the site itself for samples, documentation, etc. The Virtual Earth team recently released a new Virtual Earth Interactive SDK mashup at dev.live.com...

The Windows Live Dev site has launched today in beta mode at http://dev.live.com . The Windows Live Dev site will be an dynamic and evolving web site as both a home for developers building on the Windows Live Platform as well as hosting mashups that uses...

I was recently inteviewed in a LiveSide.net podcast by Chris Overd and Harrison Hoffman when they were visiting the Microsoft main campus in Redmond along with others from the LiveSide.net team. Refer to Interview with Ken Levy, Product Planner for the...

The Windows Live Platform is about opening Windows Live services to create shared opportunity for developers and businesses. Open Windows Live services via APIs and SDKs to 3rd parties to create a virtuous ecosystem that mutually benefits users, developers...

I'm currently in Orlando, Florida speaking later this morning at the VSLive conference on the Windows Live Platform for developers in back to back sessions titled Modern Web Development from Mashups to IM-Based Bots. The updated abstract for the dual...

Recently, Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft-Watch.com interviewed Blake Irving , Microsoft Vice President, Windows Live Platform Group. The transcript is at Windows Live: The 50,000-Foot View and contains the excerpt below: M icrosoft Watch (MSW): When I define...