Today I found the nice surprise of seeing Microsoft Office Labs live on the web. As explained on their blog , the Office Labs team has been working on some very interesting ideas in Microsoft and it is very good to see them going live and make some of...

I just came back from the MSDN Roadshow in London. We had some great sessions for .NET developers delivered by the UK MSDN team (upcoming sessions in Manchester, Glasgow and Newcastle): Mike Taulty - “ADO.NEXT – Entity Framework & Data Services” Mike...

The Universities of Manchester, Central Lancashire and Lancaster have arranged four themed day events on Human/Computer Interaction in the North West of England. The 4 days are (click on the date for more details): Date Location Speaker Title Wednesday...

I just read Randall Kennedy's blog post " Why I'm glad I don't work for Microsoft " and could not stop myself from thinking that I actually DO LOVE working for Microsoft. Yes, the " Rockin' Our Sales " video is cheesy, yes we are aware about what is...

Today we announced the availability of the Windows Embedded SPARK Your Imagination program. It is basically a low cost bundle of Software (Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 and Visual Studio 2005 Professional) and Hardware (one reference board from one of five...

The International Engineering Consortium is hosting the SOFNET 2008 conference in London from April 28th to May 1st. In their own words: "SOFNET attracts the world's senior-level decision makers searching for the latest products and technologies...

Hello World! My name is Paolo Barone and I just joined the Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism team in the UK, working in the Academic team . But who am I? And what does it mean "Evangelism"? And why did I think (yet) another blog...