I did a session last Wednesday (9 Apr) -- introducing our Rich Internet Application technology Silverlight to our MSDN subscribers. In the session, we re-acquainted with Silverlight 1.0 and its AJAX-like programming model, but dedicated most of the time...

This is one of my favorite video interviews coming out from Channel 9 this year. In this post, Channel 9's intrepid reporter Charles Torre interviews Miguel de Icaza and Dragos Manlescu . Miguel de Icaza is, of course, the famed free-software developer...

A Customer who asked if a quiz-type application can be enabled by Silverlight. The answer is yes (obviously ) and I had to put my rusty coding skills to work over a good part of a Saturday afternoon. The result is a Silverlight 1.0 proof-of-concept application...

Hellgate: London is, of course, the new action role-playing game for the PC platform. Playworks Online , who distributes the game, will partner SingTel to launch the MMORG system. Early this year, we worked with the Playworks team to deliver a micro-site...

On 30th January, we did the first of a planned series of web-related technology talk events -- this time focusing on Web User Experience (UX). I'd like to thank everyone who attended and stayed back late (we overran by 45 minutes!) I think we had a lively...

This is definitely news - Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share .

Counting down with Silverlight - http://www.office2007quiz.com.sg/greetings/ . Check back again in a couple of days . Check out the super upbeat New Year eCard at http://www.office2007quiz.com.sg/greetings . It's available online right now -- feel free...

Came across this very nice article by Justin-Josef Angel on the Code Project web site -- Silverlight Controls - The Path to Reusable XAML . I've been working on a few Silverlight 1.0 projects recently, and a consistent struggle on these has been to maintain...

MediaCorp TV will be activating their Silverlight-powered Star Awards 2007 "LIVE" Update site later today (Sunday, 16 Dec) at 7pm. The Star Awards is, of course, MediaCorp TV's annual gala event celebrating and recognizing Singapore's own TV celebrities...

Tim Sneath has two exciting posts up on his blog: Silverlight 1.0 RC 1 Is Here What's New In WPF 3.5? Here's Fifteen Cool Features Linda and I have been looking forward to the Silverlight 1.0 RC1 release in particular as we are working with several enterprise...

Dopod 838Pro , 810 , P800W users should be happy to note that the long awaited upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 is finally here. See the HTC press release, " HTC Offers Windows Mobile 6 Upgrade " for more information. The shortcut to the download page is at...

Lots of exciting stuffs are being announced at the Microsoft World Partner Conference (WPC.) Windows Live Quick Apps (Beta) are showcase online sites that demonstrate the applications that can be built using the Windows Live Services . Two Quick Apps...

Just got wind from folks in the Microsoft Office System product team about the launch of the new OBA Central portal site at http://www.obacentral.com . Quick glance at the page source reveals that the site is hosted on Office SharePoint Server too. Good...

Certain days, mana just seem to drop from the heavens -- and the release of the new OBA RAP for E-Forms processing a week back was one such timely moment. We are working with a number of customers (both public sector and commercial) to explore automating...

Live Earth, the Concert for a Climate in Crisis , a series of concerts around the world this weekend to raise climate change awareness, kicked off today (Saturday, 7 July 2007) in various parts of the world. As I type this entry, Australia and Japan crowds...

WPF/E is now Microsoft Silverlight. To learn more, go here . Developers, go here . Firefox, Safari on Mac welcomed... (I realized this is one of the hundreds of blog posts on MSDN this evening on Silverlight, but this is too cool a thing not to be part...

We recently launched Singapore's very own Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets gallery page , and I do think we have some pretty cool gadgets to show off! A couple of my favorites (yes, I'm biased, but this is my blog )... The MC Radio gadget , created by Chris...

So my colleagues Mark and Andy from the Singapore ISV Team blogged the other day that one of our Microsoft ISV partners HeuLab got featured in both the Singapore 2007 Budget Speech , and was profiled as local software heroes in the newspapers . HeuLab...

The most effective way I found when sharing with Customers and Partners the concept of Office Business Applications (OBAs) is to show screen captures of possible application scenarios. Unfortunately, not many examples showcasing Office 2007 that can be...

We had a Microsoft Corp visitor in town over the last week - the unique and incomparable Mr. Vittorio Bertocci . My colleague Linda had the pleasure of touring and visiting many of our enterprise customers with him, talking up the core .NET 3.0 pillars...

One of the most fulfilling and interesting aspects about my role in Microsoft is meeting interesting people - Customers, Partners, Microsoft colleagues from other parts of the world. A special group of folks I particularly respect is our MVPs (or Microsoft...

We have been talking, and will continue to talk about Office Business Applications (OBAs) to enterprise customers and ISV partners for the past few weeks. As a follow-up, we will be organizing a Hands-On Lab session targeting technical developers which...

I've been waiting for this for a while... glad to see 'Crossbow' Windows Mobile 6 is almost finally here. As usual, Engadget has the breaking news . The early reviews are in: Mobile Review review of Windows Mobile 6 PC Magazine's review of WM6 Geek.com...

We held a Office Business Application (OBA) workshop at Microsoft Singapore last week. The session gave attendees (both our enterprise customers and ISV partners) an introduction of our OBA initiative. In the session, I covered an overview of the business...

Hmmm... I noticed my team-mate and fellow Evangelist who sits next to me - Chewy Chong 's been fiddling with mobile devices recently, and proming to blow our minds away. A clue just appeared on his blog post " Learning More - Windows Embedded ". Alright...