After the huge success of the last Virtual Tech Days (We had over 28,000 hours of live webcasts watched by Developers and IT Pros), we thought we should do it more often. So our team at Microsoft India is doing another Virtual Tech Days event for all...

Just last night, the Live Mesh team announced that Live Mesh Tech Preview is being extended to India . I am very excited about this. Enough accounts are available currently and there is no wait-list so I encourage you to try it out immediately. ...

Some of you (Just over 13,000 Developers and IT Professionals) joined us for Virtual Tech Days. I thought it was a phenomenal success, with 32 in-depth technical sessions delivered by some of the best experts from Microsoft on Visual Studio 2008, SQL...

Vinod Kumar M, who is our technology evangelist focusing on SQL Server wants to hear from you. He is planning on doing session on SQL Server and wants to know what topics you would like him to cover. Do give your suggestions to him.

Clare from InnerWorkings dropped a note last week about free Visual Studio 2008 e-Learning that they are offering. More details here .

I am just back from a hectic week of traveling around the country for the launch events. In case any of you missed attending the launch of Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, there is still a lot of good news for you. Microsoft...

In case you haven't already, do register for the VS 2008 launch event. Its going to happen in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi. The events are scheduled to be held in movie theaters, so a lot of fun is assured! More details here . We convinced Soma to...

Steve Guggenheimer or Guggs, as he is popularly known at Microsoft, was heading Application Platform and Developer Marketing at Microsoft. Some of you may remember his keynote at TechMela last year. I thought it was one of the best keynotes I had heard...

InnerWorkings is giving out 10 hours of .NET hands on training and I encourage you to try it out . I have played around a little bit with the InnerWorkings application a couple of months back, and I thought of it as a great way to learn specific .NET...

I wanted to give you all a quick update that we are scheduling a number of webcasts on Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 starting Feb-18. These will be delivered by evangelists from Microsoft India as well as external experts...

Wonder if you saw this fun Facebook application we launched recently. We launched this as a part of the Heroes Happen Here campaign in India. And it has really caught on with Developers. Its cool, isn't it? Let me know if you liked it :) On the down...

Just saw this really cool marketing campaign. Did you know that there is only one Windows Server 2003 on Microsoft.com today? The rest have all upgraded to Windows Server 2008. And the one left out is feeling really dejected :) Check it out - http...

I stumbled across this article on ZDNet. And I kind of agreed with it. What do you think? When I reflect back and look at the years when I was a developer, I distinctly remember the people with better people skills, and those people always had an edge...

So here I am. Finally on the world wide web. This blog is going to be for software developers by a software developer (well... at least I used to be a software developer a few years ago). Just like Freud (and every husband in the world including...