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Lately I have been playing a lot with Windows 7 and saw quite a number of posts from people who are installing it in all sorts of hardware and especially on netbooks. The netbook installation can be tricky because… well netbooks don’t come with DVD drives...

Sam Ramji, Senior Director of Platform Strategy, just announced in his blog (from the OSCON conference in Portland, Oregon) that we are stepping up our participation and contribution to Open Source. First of all we are going to provide monetary sponsorship...

As someone who works with Academics and students my year starts and ends in line with the Academic year (which is also more or less aligned with the Microsoft fiscal year but that is a different story). So every year before term, we look back at what...

If you follow this blog and/or me on Twitter , you should know that I have been travelling up and down the UK delivering a series of talks in colleges and Universities. During the talk, I show a very cool demo of how to use Expression Blend to transform...

As many of you should already know, we recently released Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) for Technet , MSND , MSDN-AA first and for everybody else a bit later. I installed it as soon as I could and have been playing around with it for a few days already...

It was announced some time ago and right on time the IE team released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8 . You can read the details in the official team post , but I would like to highlight what I think are the most significant features of this beta...

I just came across this project by the Columbia University Computer Graphics & User Interfaces Lab which I think is definitely worth looking at. In their own words, Goblin XNA is a platform for research on 3D user interfaces, including mobile augmented...

UPDATE: A new version of the PHP on Windows Training Kit which fixes a bug with Windows 7 has been just released. Check out more here or download the updated one here We just launched a the PHP on Windows Training Kit that developers can use to...

We just announced more details on the plans for the upcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The Marketplace will be a mean to distribute apps developed for the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform which will allow developers to sell their apps at a price they...

Have you ever wondered how Silverlight could take advantage of the Azure platform? Well, we just released DeepZoomPix a fantastic photo sharing site that takes advantage of both these technologies to provide a truly innovative way of sharing your photos...

Yes, yes, yes, yes!!! I was hoping for this since we acquired Caligari some time ago. We just announced that Caligari trueSpace 7.6 is available for all and for free!!! ( click here to register and download ). Moreover it is now fully integrated with...

This week I found a few extremely cool things I wanted to share: DeepEarth With their own words: “DeepEarth is a community project focused on creating a rich interactive mapping control using Silverlight2 Deep Zoom. Concentrating on Microsoft Virtual...

This post if part of the Student Project Express, a series in which I am showing how to complete a Student project using Microsoft technologies. The table of contents for the series is available here and I will keep it updated as as publish more content...

As those who read this blog probably realised, I am quite addicted to Twitter and think it is a really useful service to connect to interesting people worldwide. Especially those interested in Software and the software industry should really take a look...

The deadline to submit your entry for the Imagine Cup in the UK is approaching fast!!! You have to do it by 11.59 p.m. on 18th December 2009 ! I did receive a few questions on how to properly submit, so here is a brief overview on how to do it. If you...

Since a couple of weeks live.com started presenting their user with beautifully crafted start pages that show very nice photos as page background (unfortunately at this time only available in the US). To celebrate the Olympics, the backgrounds now show...

Some days ago I had an opportunity to have a chat with Christian and Iulian, the two members of the team KCL from Kings College in London who created a system called Pioneer which aims to reduce pollution in large cities by reducing traffic congestion...

This post if part of the Student Project Express, a series in which I am showing how to complete a Student project using Microsoft technologies. The table of contents for the series is available here and I will keep it updated as as publish more content...

Today was Bill Gates’ last public keynote as Microsoft Chief Software Architect. He spoke at the Microsoft Tech·Ed North America 2008 Developers conference and you can see a streaming version of the keynote here . While Bill is probably not the most exciting...

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a CPU and a GPU? And why you should consider using the GPU for complex calculations? Well the guys at NVidia wanted to find a good way of explaining that and they asked Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage...

Since the release of Vista, the engineering team has been quite careful about what to discuss about the ongoing effort (see the quite discussed about Translucency vs. Transparency Blog Post by Mary Jo Foley). It is quite understandable that media,...

We (the Microsoft Academic Team in the UK) are arranging an event targeted to Academics in Universities and Design Schools in the UK. Silverlight Insight is a one-day event designed to give attendees a solid understanding of the Silverlight 2 platform...

Today Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 have been released to web and are available from the download centre: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 The .NET Framework 3...

In the last couple of days, we made a number of announcements at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. One of the most interesting things we released (and that all developers may want to take a look at) is the XP2Win7 project , which features...

This year UK Imagine Cup is shaping up to be great! We received a large number of submissions for the Software Design category and the quality of the entries has been fantastic! As you may know we asked 5 charities in the UK to help us provide a briefing...