External blogging inside Microsoft is a ritual, a great channel for us to reach out to our partners and customers on various things latest going on at Microsoft. If you're reading this posting, you probably are already aware of how various Microsoft divisions...

The WhereAmI Project (formely The "WhereIs" Project) is all about GPS Location of oneself. It is a mechanism for me to transmit my GPS location to a central server and for my family, friends and colleagues to figure out where in the world I'm at , - ...

The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that helps developers visualize the different programs, servers, services, and tools that will help them build solutions. It allows them to drill down...

On Thursday, May 24, Microsoft announced that it will reschedule this fall’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2007 , originally planned for October 2-5, 2007 in Los Angeles. The PDC is the definitive developer event focused on the future...

On May 17 th 2007 , a very important milestone took place between Microsoft and the Clinton Foundation. We announced a partnership with the Clinton Foundation to help the world’s 40 largest cities reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. This is a KEY step...

I normally do not single out my Global ISVs and blog about them and their solutions on top of Microsoft Platform or about their conferences and events, All of my and Microsoft Global ISVs are important to me and Microsoft. They all add ton of value to...

Tellme Networks has officially joined the Microsoft family. On May 3rd , Microsoft announced that it has completed its acquisition of Tellme, the Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of voice services for everyday life, including nationwide directory...

Silverlight Resources bits & bytes · Get silverlight · Telerik RadControls – 3d virtual rooms using control based framework · DLR & IronPython · Silverlight developer reference “poster” · Forums – installation, troubleshooting...

IIS7OnTour site is live. Is your website living on IIS 7.0? If so, tell us about it by registering it at iis7ontour.com . My site was recently upgraded and migrated over to IIS 7 and is registered there. Go on, make your site visible on this blog. ...

As I was saying in my sometime ago entry , Speech is taking center stage along side many other platforms at Microsoft. To help spread our speech technology in relation to developing with .Net 3.0, I have recently started a new project under my projects...

Our MSRS team has just wrapped up the May CTP A Letter from Tandy Trower, General Manager, Microsoft Robotics Group Time to provide an update with information about the latest preview of our upcoming 1.5 release. As noted in my last “Welcome...

This Thursday, April 26th 2007, Microsoft released the Beta 3 bits of the Windows Server codenamed "Longhorn' for public evaluation. The following links provides a few resources for our partner and developer communities. We are especially happy to announce...

Implementing Constants in Cascading Style Sheets in ASP.Net 2.0 using HTTPHandlers By Nagi Punyamurthula ( nagibabu@microsoft.com ) Many times I have found myself messing with my CSS files where I usually have anywhere between 50-120 different...

Over the last few years, I have been spending some quality personal time in working on various home-brewed hobby projects. Projects such as FStop , The-Brain, iHome, iCar , ALIBE ; etc are a few of my favorites; I tend to spend more time on these more...

At the Consumer Electronics Show this week, BillG delivered his 10th CES keynote. Many new Microsoft products were showed-off including IPTV on XBox, Microsoft-Windows Home Server (for homes w/ multiple PCs). At this event, Yahoo show cased a few demos...

As of early this am, I have completely retired my self hosted blog and migrated all content over to the MSDN blogs umbrella. I have been planning on doing this for quite some time now - never really found time to finishing it. I am relieved that I no...

On Tuesday the 19th of December, our Zune team issued a 22 MB update to make Zune compatible with Windows Vista. The update also improves the Zune software installation process, addressing some of the known issues that users reported. It is the stuff...

Windows Vista, the most anticipated OS ever. It's almost here - Jan 30th 2007 to be precise. Get most up to date info from the new Windows Vista blog . The party has already begun!!

Recently, I became a proud owner of a Microsoft Smart Watch 2006 - this one made my Abacus. I must admit, this rev is really cool and formal looking watch. Microsoft had an internal deal going on for employees a few months ago and w/o further ado, I jumped...

Earlier today, we released the beta bits for VS-TFS SP1 . You can download these bits from our connect site . More details on what's in these bits, visit Brian Harry's blog entry . caio Nagi

Today the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that Pluto will not be keeping its "planet" title. Instead, Pluto, as well as asteroid Ceres and the larger-than-Pluto 2003 UB313 are now classified as "dwarf planets." According to the IAU, a ...

As our IE7 product team (PG) is getting ready to launch 4th qtr this year, they are also discussing what vehicles to use to distribute IE7 to our partners and customers. A recent decision to make available IE7 as a part of the Windows Update Service feature...

Earlier today, Microsoft announced the completed acquisition of Winternals and Sysinternals . Winternals and Sysinternals were both established in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. I’m sure most of you know Sysinternals well, as well as Mark...

I'm a Microsoft guy and Windows is in my blood. There's one (and ONLY one) feature that I love in our competitor's product, the Icon Dock. Now, I have been looking around to get a similar look and feel of the Icon Dock on Windows. And, finally found one...

Have you ever hungered to manage the "desktop" of your Pocket PC right from your PC? Like a "remote admin" to remote in to your Pocket PC from your PC. That would be awesome to have - especially when if you have cradled your PPC (or your PPC phone) and...