I’ve posted the slides from the “Exploring Software + Services” presentation Mark Relph and presented May 28, 2009 at the Canadian Leadership Summit. We had a great session as there were plenty of good questions throughout which was appreciated as it...

Two huge announcements I’m finding not a lot of people are aware of with regards to the latest release of Windows Live. 1. Skydrive is now 25GB (used to be 5GB) of free online storage. Not to me they did a great job integrating a nicer photo experience...

Here’s a snippet from the Day 2 keynote at PDC showing Office 14 Web Applications:

Wow. What a day! I’ve attempted to pull together a summary of materials and videos from Day 1. I’m now in the keynote for Day 2 so will have more later on that later.   Fact Sheets – Live Services, Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure, .NET 4.0...

http://www.microsoft.com/azure   You are also able to register to try the Community Technology Preview.   Here’s a copy paste from the “What is Windows Azure?” section on the www.microsoft.com/azure   What is the Azure Services Platform...

  Key takeaways so far on what Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform are: Windows Azure: - A set of cloud-based technologies such as storage, identity, and multi-device sync that extend software development for both enterprise server and...

  Ray Ozzie has kicked off PDC 2008 and is delivering his keynote right now. You can follow along at home/work by watching the keynote live.

For those of you that attended the Canadian Strategic Architect forum a couple of weeks ago, Live Mesh is what I would have loved to be able to speak with you about during my talk on Windows Live Platform. Unfortunately the timing was two weeks off for...

Here’s the latest Windows Live Platform slide deck from my presentation today at the Canadian Strategic Architect Forum.

I use the snipping tool in Windows Vista all the time. If you’ve ever wondered how to capture a menu using this tool, here’s how you do it (straight from the help file for the snipping tool btw) Can I capture a snip of a menu, such as a shortcut...

Huge announcement from John Richards, Director of Windows Live Platform. Read the full post here , but I’ve pulled a few key elements from John’s blog post on dev.live.com Contact Data portability, partnership with Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged...

Wow... Rick's got an incredibly interesting post regarding Albert Lai's comments in a recent Canadian Business magazine article " The Venture Gap ". So what is it in the article that turns Rick into "Cranky Rick"? Albert's comment...

Via Angus (who's blog is definitely one you want to check out for all the latest on Live Platform. He also gave a killer presentation on Live Platform at Mix08 ) George Moore has a detailed post on the (new and improved!) dev.live.com blog "A Unified...

Joshua pulled together a nice list of all the Mix08 software. He's actually got another good Mix08 roundup post as well. Here's the list: Expression Studio Beta ( download ) The second release of Expression Studio adds a wealth of new features including...

Aside from all the exciting stuff at the Mix08 conference, it was entertaining for me to watch everyone (try to) tear up the casinos :-)     But.... like Kenny says: "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, Know when to...

Ray Ozzie Keynote   Guy Kawasaki and Steve Ballmer Keynotes   Some keynote snippets: "Web Developers! Web Developers! Web Developers!"   "Softball" question from Guy Kawasaki to kick off the Q&A with Steve Ballmer...

  I noticed Ray's keynote transcript was available on the press site. I've included the full transcript in original format further down, but here is a version that I formatted so it's easier to follow and starts directly with the three principles...

There was an astounding demo during the Mix08 keynote this morning showcasing Silverlight "Deep Zoom" technology. The best part is you can check it out for yourself right now. Head over to the Hard Rock Memorabilia site and you'll have to install...

Have you checked out Windows Live Translator Beta yet? I absolutely love the UI features! My wife and I have been all over Latin America and I everywhere we go I pick up a local newspaper everyday and in the evening I kick back with a cerveza or two and...

Well that was easy! Thanks to an internal thread by Lawrence Liu on configuring rich comment support in SharePoint 2007, and Live Search for pointing me to a post by Ricky Spears on configuring SharePoint 2007 to support multiple categories , I've fixed...

Cool! All week I was checking my storage limit wondering when I'd get the magic bump from 2GB to 5GB and it just kicked in! Not that I actually found I needed 5GB of storage, but hey, I'm happy to have it :-) If you're looking for more info on this, have...

Hello blog, long time no write... For those of you who haven't heard, last year I took on a new role at Microsoft Canada as Strategy Manager for Search and Online Services. It's a very cool job as it spans a LOT of product teams, technologies and business...

Cool! The MSDN Virtual Lab team has some Office 2007 labs available now: 2007 Microsoft Office System Virtual Labs Creating Workflows for Windows SharePoint Services New! In this lab you will learn to: Design a custom...

Man I'm stoked about this - this is so cool... Check out www.seewindowsvista.com (very innovative look and feel to this site and features a walking talking Tom Skerrit highlighting various solutions on Vista/WinFX). So yes, the site is cool. However...

I had a good chat with one of the ISV's I work with and we ended up spending some time discussing WPF and XAML. As a follow up I sent some videos I thought would be applicable. Thought maybe others might be interested in them as well so....here's some...