Microsoft has just released the Release Candidate 1 for Internet Explorer 8, and I would strongly encourage you to install it and use it today. You may want to know what a “release candidate” is:  that’s techno-speak for an almost...

I’ve been working with the interns in our Microsoft Innovation Center (Singapore) on some cool Windows Mobile demos.  One of the biggies we encounter is how aggressive Windows Mobile manages power.  Not a bad thing for end users wanting to use...

Bob Familiar interviews David Platt , CEO of Rolling Thunder, on why today’s software sucks. There’s no other good way to say it. It’s unsafe, allowing criminal programs to creep through the Internet wires into our very bedrooms. It’s...

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and 7.0, SQL Server 2008 Express, .NET Framework 3...

As part of Microsoft's commitment to nurture the next generation, Microsoft will hold a technology competition for students. Finalists in each country will compete at the world finals which is held in Egypt this year! Visit the Imagine Cup 2009 site to...

There are many disciplines that a software architect must master in order to do the job: requirements definition, use cases, modeling, layering, object orientation, service orientation, methodologies, and so on. In addition, as we are typically project...