Starting in early November, Microsoft will begin the progressive introduction of the Microsoft Community Contributor Award.  The Microsoft Community Contributor Award seeks to recognize notable contributors to Microsoft online community forums...

This fall I participated in Tech*Days Taiwan 2010, and it was a great reminder of the vitality and commitment of the MVP community. The event attracted more than 3,000 attendees, offering formal presentations, Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions, rotating...

It is fascinating when companies takes very seriously their environmental responsibilities and go beyond words and nice canned statements into tangible actions. Today Microsoft announced Microsoft Hohm. This is a blog ready communication that I got...

An area where Microsoft is making a significant investment to ensure the digital safety of our customers is Security. It is very well known that security is also an underlying component that defines how pleasant and reliable is the experience when working...

One of the mechanism to collect feedback from our customers are the technical previews and the Betas. A popular one at this moment is Windows 7 where we saw a high interest from our influencers and technical communities. If you still using the Windows...

    Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable ( https://ms.istreamplanet.com/springboard ) Windows 7, is approaching fast. We’re going to examine Windows 7 application compatibility not only from the perspective of moving from Windows Vista, but...

Now you can translate your Microsoft Office documents with Microsoft Translator – right within Office! You can translate words, phrases, or even your entire document, through the Research task pane. Check out the new installer you can download to make...

On March the 1st we are going to have more than 1,500 Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) in our main campus for 4 days in an event called the “Worldwide MVP Summit”. I have the privilege to manage this program for Microsoft and since the last 5 years...

Short after Steveb presentation at CES, the Most Valuable professionals, selected Community influencers & customers/partners and MSDN/TechNet subscriber will gain access to the Windows 7 Beta 1. This version differs from PDC one because @ PDC the...

In the pacific northwest the year 2008 is almost over and we are getting ready to receive a brand new 2009. 2009 is going to be a very active year in terms of community and voice of the customer @ Microsoft because during 2009 we will have the Windows...

I got this from Clint Edmonson who is an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft. He wrote a couple of documents ( zip file ) containing the C# and VB.NET editions of what he calls his " reference coding standards ”. While many of you may not agree with his...

Since the beginning of the year, the developer community joined one of the most exciting initiatives to shape the future of Team System, the Team System 2010 Community Technical Preview program. Now is time to take the next step and as most of you know...

Inside and outside Microsoft Vista is a conversation topic that with some frequency is present at technology discussions and conversations. At community level Vista is a conversation driver in forums, newsgroups and bulleting boards because the number...

Today I got excellent news about an alliance between Microsoft and one of the most popular social media sites for sharing presentations called SlideShare . This is another end user delivery of the Microsoft’s vision for Software plus Services! It gives...

At Microsoft we value your comments and feedback. At this moment t he Windows engineering teams are conducting a listening exercise in key areas as is described below that you may want to take a look and let us know what you think. This is an opportunity...

Besides what Mac lovers or Linux lovers can say, Windows is the foundation of the personal computing and a mandatory reference when people speaks about personal productivity or how the computer came to make our lives easier, fun, productive and helps...

I'm very passionated about live services, finally the information embargo is over and you can take a look of the upcoming live services here http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!17757.entry

PDC @ Home With the current global crisis some of us will not be able to attend PDC this year due to different reasons however the PDC organizers decided to make available portion of the content in order to have people like me virtually attending...

After a succesfult beta, Silverlight 2 is ready for massive comsumption and you can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ .

Today I got an internal email talking about a set of social media additions to PDC. From tagging to interconnection with popular social media sites such as Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, PDC this year is offering an integral experience that goes beyond...

A friend of mine referred me to this article about Vista. Very balanced because it provides several tip and How-to's and at the same time some information about why Vista has a specific functionallity. Enjoy it http://twurl.nl/1mofy1

On August 11th our company announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 that includes a cool number of updates based directly on community and customer feedback. The service...

This is a must to try, not because I work for Microsoft just because is one of the best S+S application available in the market and it will surprise you! Try it, you will really love it as I do. Photosynth, was initially released as a Microsoft Live...

Due to popular demand, the PDC2008 Early Bird Discount has been extended three weeks. Register by 11:59 PM Pacific Time, Monday, September 8 th and save $200 off the Full Conference Registration of $2395.

Okay there is a lot of blog posts and online conversations about the power of social media or web 2.0 applications, etc, etc. While many of the authors identify themselves as a "social media" or web 2.0 gurus or consultants what I will post is just my...