Starting today, MSDN and TechNet subscribers can access the Windows 7 RC release candidate, with general public availability coming next week. Generally speaking, the Win7 Beta that came out a few months ago was pretty feature complete, so the changes...

Joey happened to be walking through building 44 and met the team putting together the demos for day 2 of the Microsoft Management Summit. What they are planning is pretty exciting, where they are going to wake up 20 laptop through wireless and the using...

Donovan and Vittorio have been putting together an Identity section on Channel9 called “ The Id Element ”. This will contain all kinds of information about Identity and Access Control such as weekly interviews with product team members, developer how...

Yep we have patch Tuesday, but what does this really mean? The guys in the Trustworthy Computing team have started a show on TechNet EDGE which provides details of each vulnerability and its potential threat. You can get details about the latest updates...

Phil in the team have been recording a pretty extensive set of 5 min Video about developing for certain segments of Windows Server 2008 R2. Areas include Powershell V2 , lots of Windows Server 2008 R2 Core development areas such as NUMA support and finally...

Today we release CTP3 of  “Velocity” ( link ). This is a highly scalable in-memory application cache for all kinds of data. By using cache, you can significantly improve application performance by avoiding unnecessary calls to the data source. Distributed...

Image interacting with Facebook for everything that you do in real life!! Here is a video that the evangelism team put together for April Fools this year. Pretty funny Anything better? “I do love me some social networking.  I used Facebook a lot...

Yesterday, Microsoft is announcing that Sharepoint Designer becomes a free product. I think that this is great news and extends the designers ability to build truly customized solutions on this platform. Most customers want to create custom/personalized...