Windows Vista Beta 1 shipped today. Congratulations to the team on a major milestone in the biggest project ever undertaken here at Microsoft! John Montgomery is blogging about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/archive/2005/07/27/443920.aspx...

So... (as almost every sentence at Microsoft starts) I'm done with the conference and back in Seattle! It was an amazing three days and I want to thank not only the organizers of the conference (Sharon, Gary, Paris, Doc, Becky, Harold, and Dan), but...

Yesterday Dan Fernandez , Jed Rose and I gave an hour long presentation and hosted an exhibit booth at the Shareware Industry Conference being held this weekend in Denver, Colorado. I am pleased to report that it all went exceeding well and surpassed...

As the first day of the Shareware Industry Conference continues I've been thinking about how to explain the connection between Microsoft and shareware. First off, there is a very nice history of shareware over at Paul Mayer's website, Paul's Picks...

Coming to you from beautiful, hot, Denver, Colorado, the 15th! Annual Shareware Industry Conference started today. It's being held at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center and so far it's wonderful! There was a very nice welcome reception last night and a...

Update: Our talks are on Friday and Saturday (not Thursday... oops!). We at Microsoft believe in developers and are keenly aware that quite a large portion of the innovations that happen in our industry start out in someone's bedroom, garage or small...