A consumer platform and an opportunity for 3 rd party sites and developers.   The vast majority of the Internet users has already been in touch with some of the tools and services that are grouped under the Windows Live label. Services like Live...

As a "technical evangelist", I should say that I spend most of my time within Visual Studio . Reality is that I spend most of my time within Outlook, which has become my main source of information - Through emails, mailing lists, and rss feeds...

On October 4th, Steve Ballmer was in Switzerland. The Swiss Developer & Platform Evangelism team, to which I belong, organized a public event with a keynote for him. After this keynote, I was supposed to be on stage with my colleague Sascha Corti...

Last short post is to catch the attention of the developers out there that are interested in building "extensible applications". With the .NET Framework 3.5 scheduled to hit the market in Q1 2008 with Visual Studio 2008, you find a technology called...

If you are a developer on .NET technologies, ScottGu’s Blog ( http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/ ) is an excellent starting point. Scott Guthrie is a General Manager within Microsoft's Developer Division. He runs the development teams that build: CLR, ASP...

Words On Web ( www.wordsonweb.net ) is a page where we have just started publishing information on cool web solutions that have been developed in Switzerland, as well as “VIP Interviews” (to this last category belongs my interview to Scott Guthrie registered...

I have heard about the project Astoria for the first time at Mix in Las Vegas this year. It immediately caught my attention and interest... Project Astoria aims to make data available on the Internet for easy consumption by other (client) applications...

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This post contains an easy example of use of Virtual Earth for basic location services. With the following code, you will be able · to put a flag on a location · to add information about the flagged place · to generate direction information to...

www.mix07.com in Las Vegas is over – and I am one of the lucky guys who could attend to it. Microsoft Silverlight was surely the highlight of this conference. I have had the possibility of seeing amazing applications developed with this technology. For...

… I normally do not post this kind of information but considering the importance of the product… you can find it under www.microsoft.com/getbeta3 and in one of my next post I will tell you more about how it can help you improve your business. Stay tuned...

So, it's now time to officially present , Microsoft new vision for creating, managing and experiencing content on all platforms, be it the desktop, web or mobile. Microsoft Silverlight is the new name for Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF...

I have initially put the pictures of the previous blog entry in a protected area... Now it should work. Thank you very much for your feedbacks.

This blog entry is about user experience. I will try to summarize in a few chapters why it matters and what Microsoft is doing to help you produce better "user experiences". Definitions <Wikipedia link= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience...

In my previous post about CardSpace ( A lighthearted introduction to Windows Cardspace ), I made an imprecise assertion that I would like to briefly reformulate here. In my example about tax application, I did mention that Self-issued cards were not ...

No, it's not an IPod... More information under Zune World & Zune info

The Problem Users are confronted with a few problems when dealing with electronic identities: Inconsistent, proprietary identification mechanisms. Some sites require the combination of username and password, other the combination of email...

If you want to be successful with a Gadget you have to fulfil at least the following 3 conditions: Generate awareness around the existence of your Gadget, so that as many users as possible will decide to take a look at your Gadget Have an...

As mentioned in my previous post, gadgets are "mini" applications that live within the Vista Sidebar (in the future also available for Windows XP) and on live.com, respectively for my Swiss compatriots on live.ch. Said this, there are a few reasons...

live.ch will change from the beta status to final on the September 12. On October 23 , there will be the official launch with a press conference in Wallisellen, during which a few Swiss local gadgets will be presented. If you are interested in being...

Gadgets are "mini" applications that live within the Vista Sidebar (in the future available for Windows XP as well) and on live.com, respectively for my Swiss compatriots on live.ch. If you want to develop a gadget, on Microsoft Gadgets you will...

Hi there, In the past weeks, I have been asked several times about SPS/MOSS documentation. So, here a few good links… General Information General Info, Office 2007 General Info, SPS2007 . and here ( http://blogs.msdn.com/scaravajal...

Hallo blog reader! I have decided to start this new blog by posting a leaflet on which I am working. In the next months, Microsoft will bring a lot of new technologies to market. To help the curios&interested having an overview of these technologies...