Dave Collins, one of the masters at marketing MicroISV software, talks with Bob Walsh and me in episode #13 about how to choose keywords, where to spend your advertising dollars (Google AdWords for now, Microsoft AdCenter perhaps in the future), why not...

HTML Validator from AI Internet Solutions has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are...

A Ruler For Windows from Rob Latour has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still...

Musigy from Musigy, Inc. has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still available...

BitZipper from Bitberry Software has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still...

Macro Scheduler from MJTNet has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still...

Ben Yoskovitz over at www.StartupSpark.com interviewed Stephane Grenier about his experience as a MicroISV. Stephane produces a product called landlordMAX , which is a property management software application. Said Ben, "For more information on Stephane...

Small Fun Farkle 1.2 from Small Fun Games has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes...

Crazi Video for Zune from River Past Corporation has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but...

CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2007 from Coffee Cup Software , has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up...

Visual Build Professional from Kinook Software, Inc ., has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up...

ABCommander from Winability has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still...

My co-host Bob Walsh, who's new book Clearblogging ( www.clearblogging.com ), has some good things to think about in his post about our recent podcast with David Shadle , Microsoft User Experience Evangelist. Bottom line: " An app that makes it clear...

We're hosting the MIX conference again this year, April 30th through May 2nd, at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. Windows Vista Ultimate for all MIX07 Attendees You heard it here first: all MIX07 attendees will receive a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate...

We have released Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005! This release adds new features and increases compatiblity with Windows Vista and Office 2007. Get your SP2 bits here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/servicepacks/sp2...

Virtual PC 2007 has just been released as a free download on the web. Download page is located here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en#filelist Virtual PC is an absolute-must...

While I love Community Server, the software that we use to power http://blogs.msdn.com , I hate using web-based interfaces for writing text. A new release of Windows Live Writer was put out recently and I'm now trying it out to see if it makes the grade...

SplitView , from Vyooh , has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still available...

DiskView , from Vyooh , has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still available...

The Tech-Pro World Clock , from Tech-Pro Ltd , has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more...

VS Law 2005 , from Visible Progress Technologies, Ltd ., has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling...

This week Bob and I talked with David Shadle,Microsoft's User Experience Evangelist about how a new emphasis on design is changing the way software is developed. We have moved away from the "everything-has-to-follow-the-Windows-Guidelines" era into...

Applications which have been submitted for the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight are now starting to make their way through the testing and approval process. The first application to be certified for the Spotlight is NuGenImageWorks from Genetibase...

While most of my time is spent focusing on the MicroISV community, I am also the Technical Evangelist for compiler writers here at Microsoft. Steve Yegge has just written a long blog post about developing languages and I couldn't agree more with one...

Scott Hanselman interviews Leon of SecretGeek discussing Leon's 25 steps to starting a MicroISV. From my point of view the biggest challenge facing MicroISVs is that there are too many hats to wear to do all the things one has to do to be successful...