Cut-n-paste blogging at its best... XNA Game Studio 3.0 Beta is GO! That's right! You can download it now! We'll be asking your help to put this baby through her paces as we lead up to the official release later this year. It is your input that makes...

Having just returned from seeing Paolo deliver a Silverlight training course to 20 UK Academics, I was struck by how alien the XAML / Visual Studio / Expression Blend combo seemed to everyone - although after a couple of hours, everyone was getting on...

Ask most people what they'll be doing for their 40th birthday, and I'll bet that glug, glug, glug will feature somewhere in their description. Of course, Paolo (fellow 'softie) was no different . At least it wasn't raining in there :) Andy

Just as you're stuffing the duvet in the back of your car, and balancing your cheese plant on the front seat, it's back! A great offer for students - Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for a shade less than £39. <hat tip> Ray and the UK Education Team...

It rains a lot here. You thought Seattle was bad, well check out Wales . As long as I can remember, It's always been like this (don't worry, I'm not going to get all Maxy on you). This meant I used to watch a lot of TV while I waited for computers to...

At last - I've been promising my team that I'd start blogging for, ooh, the last three years. Which accounts for 75% of my time at Microsoft. *ahem* Welcome - I'm Andy Sithers. I live here , and work here doing this job as the leader of this team . I...