June, 2009

On her blog, Sara Ford is now posting a series of tips related to www.codeplex.com, Microsoft’s project hosting site for open source software. ...

Mrs. Anne and Mr. Ian Mclean have been invited by the Lord Chamberlain's office to attend a Royal Garden Party held by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace on July 21st 2009. ...

Another stellar review for Sayed & William's book, from a senior SDE at Microsoft....

Ed describes the multistep process he uses when writing a script....

We’ve added two more free chapters to the Microsoft Learning Windows 7 portal, where you’ll find links to numerous training resources related to Windows 7. Seven chapters from upcoming Microsoft Press books are now available....

Check this out: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx . “The offer begins on June 26, 2009 and will continue while supplies last, or until July 11, 2009, whichever comes first.”

Today we share the full TOC of "Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2" so that you can better understand the book’s structure and coverage....

Microsoft Hohm is a free web-based application (running on the Windows Azure platform) that enables consumers to better understand their energy usage by utilizing advanced analytics....

Yesterday we posted about a demo Sayed performed for channel9.msdn.com. Sayed’s demo appeared in a 75-minute video featuring other demos as well. Channel 9 has now released Sayed’s demo as a separate 17-minute video....

Sayed Hashimi recently appeared on MSDN’s Channel 9: "The topic that I discuss in that video is how you can create a custom MSBuild logger to update your Twitter page to keep everybody informed about the build." ...

Ed compares an all-day conference call to flying across the country....

This colorful, magazine-sized guide will help you explore the practical, fun, and creative things you can do right now with Microsoft Office with expert guidance from the team at Windows Vista: The Official Magazine....

15 minutes of video on "Windows Internals Fifth Edition" and its history, the Windows kernel, SuperFetch, IO priorities, and plans for the book’s next edition. ...

The 2009 summer scripting games are nearly half over at the script center: www.scriptingGuys.com....

The full Table of Contents (not just chapter titles) for "Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Resource Kit" can be found here. 23 chapters of virtualization bliss! ...

Virtualization has rapidly changed--and improved--the way we work online. Robert Larson and Janique Carbon with the Windows Virtualization Team at Microsoft have put together the in-depth reference that will help you optimize this amazing technology....

Today we insist "Give the people what they want/When they want/And they wants it all the time" and ask for your ideas. ...