Day 9: Windows7.Device Management   Device Stage A home page for your hardware. When you plug something into your PC, you’ll see a menu of popular tasks for that type of device. Devices and Printers Shows you everything connected to your PC, making...

Day 8: Windows 7.Desktop   DESKTOP Juggle Windows Three simple and powerful new features: Shake , Peek , and Snap to help you instantly clear through desktop clutter. Cool New Wallpapers Includes a slew of new desktop backgrounds—wallpapers—that...

Register at http://www.uspsvle.com/developer-agenda.aspx today! On November 10th at 9 am (PST)/12 pm (EST) you are invited to join Microsoft U.S. Public Sector Vice President Curt Kolcun and top technology leaders at “The New Efficiency” virtual...

Day 7: Windows7.Calculator   Fresh look and new features: new Programmer and Statistics modes. Unit conversion translates Celsius to Fahrenheit, ounces to grams, and more like history and touch support. Joel Reyes Technorati Tags: Windows 7 features

Day 6: Windows7.BitLocker Drive Encryption Once BitLocker is turned on, any file you save on that drive is encrypted automatically. BitLocker To Go —a new feature of Windows 7—provides lockdown to easily-misplaced portable storage devices like USB flash...

Day 5: Windows7.Backup & Restore You can back up to another drive or a DVD. And if you're using the Professional or Ultimate editions of Windows 7, you'll also have the option of backing up your files to a network. Windows can back up files on whatever...

Day 4: Windows7.Audio And Video Improvements Audio Automatic Stream Management routes audio to the right place. Playing a CD? The sound emerges from your speakers. Making an Internet call? You'll hear it on your headset. Supports High-Definition Multimedia...

Day 3: Windows7.Aero Point to a taskbar icon, and you’ll see a thumbnail-sized preview—even for live video. Hover on a thumbnail, and it morphs into a full-screen preview. Aero Shake and Aero Peek cut through desktop clutter by quickly minimizing open...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . As always, thanks to those of you who attended.  You can find the deck here: The Surface 1.0 videos are there as well. Some of my code demos came from other sources: http://tinyurl.com/Windows7TrainingKit http...

Day 2: Windows7.Action Center If Windows requires your attention, the Action Center icon appears in the taskbar. Click it and you’ll see both alerts—and suggested fixes for any problems. Joel Reyes Technorati Tags: Windows 7 features

Day 1: Windows7.Accessibility Speech  Start an email by speaking the recipient's name, surf the web without a keyboard, or dictate your documents. Magnifier  Inside the Magnifier window, you can click buttons and input text as you normally would...

Check what’s new ( more ) and if you have MSDN go grab the bits… and take a walk (through) you will fall in love with programming all over again…   Joel Reyes Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2010 , Beta2

VS 2010 Beta2 is available to MSDN subscribers starting today http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx . Great 10-4 Episode on how to install VS 2010 Beta 2 is at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-33-Downloading-and-Installing...

REGISTER TODAY! Venue Hotel Duval, 415 North Monroe Street, Tallahassee, FL 32301 (850) 224-6000 Date & Time November 4, 2009 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Eastern Time About the Conference We invite you to join us for a day of developer...

Two dates/locations being offered – please see below! Click the appropriate registration link below OR call 1-877-673-8368 and reference the event ID Washington, DC November 2, 2009 (Monday) Event ID: 10324246309 Event Location: Microsoft...

REGISTER TODAY! Event Date: October 27, 2009 Registration: 08:30 Event Time: 09:00 – 16:00 Event Location: Hilton Harrisburg One North Second Street Harrisburg, PA 17101 (717) 233-6000 About the Conference We invite you to join us for...

REGISTER TODAY! Event Date: October 21, 2009 Registration: 17:30 Event Time: 18:00 – 20:00 Event Location: Microsoft Corporation 12012 Sunset Hills Road Reston, VA 20190 (703) 673-7600 Speaker for tonight's presentation Marc Schweigert...

Here's some great on-demand content that were delivered as part of "Silverlight Firestarter" and "Windows Firestarter" events on Sept 17th and 18th 2009. After clicking the links listed below, scroll down the page to see the on-demand content. ...

For those of you who are using, or interested in Azure, a nice post about using custom domain names in Windows Azure http://blog.smarx.com/posts/custom-domain-names-in-windows-azure -Keith