On the partner floor at the recent SXSW show, we found a drag bike which contains two servers which are designed to process the media and telemetry of the bike. While it has not been down to the track yet, they think it will do 0-60 in around 1 second...

Laurence in the team published a blog this week which provide a lot of great advise for how you can build the best Silverlight installation experience for your website. This is based on quite a bit of research that was carried out during a number of large...

Here is an article from the NY Times today which has a doodle from Steve Ballmer which outlines the Microsoft Cloud Platform. You can see the full article here. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/steve-ballmer-maps-microsofts-cloud-y-future/...

Yochay in the team has just released a Windows 7 Sensor and Location .NET Interop Sample onto MSDN. The Sensor and Location .NET Interop Sample Library provides an abstraction of the native Sensor and Location API and provides strongly typed objects for...

Today, Eric in the team released PowerTools for Open XML V1.1 . PowerTools for Open XML is an open source project on CodePlex that makes it easy to create and modify Open XML documents using PowerShell scripts. You can find a list of all cmdlets in PowerTools...

One of the cool technologies which did not get a huge mention by the press today at Mix09 today is the new capability to extend the reach of Windows Live Messenger to web sites. Any Website can add a chat feature right into site pages. This is an elegant...

The WCF REST Starter Kit is a set of features, Visual Studio templates, samples and guidance that enable users to create REST style services using WCF. While the October release of the WCF REST Starter Kit focused on building server-side REST services...

The ADO Data Services team released the first CTP of the upcoming ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 release ( link ). This is a preview of a number of enhancements, both client and server that will make the data service development experience much easier, including...

Roger in the team just posted about the work he has been doing behind the scenes for the March Madness On Demand project with CBSSports . While there is a lots of great content that the viewers can see live, to ensure the correct level of quality for...

SQL Data Services ( SDS) is part of the Azure Services Platform and is the key service for storing data in the cloud, whether your application is either hosted locally or using some of the compute capabilities of Windows Azure in the cloud. Since its...