It's gone midnight Pacific time, so it's safe for me to write a post that I've been wanting to write for many months. Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer (the product formerly known as "Sparkle") is finally available in the form of its first...

I've been playing with this build for a little while on my Windows XP partition, and I already miss it when I'm forced to use an alternative machine. The combination of tabbed browsing and thumbnailing, RSS feed subscription, filtering and searching,...

The WinFX Runtime Components January CTP and Go-Live site have been published; they should all start becoming available within the hour! WinFX Runtime Components: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=61DD9CA7-1668-42E4-BD37-03716DD83E53&displaylang...

Having sent out a rapid-fire announcement of the Jan CTP, I wanted to provide a couple of snippets of additional detail covering this release. Firstly, this release of the WinFX Runtime Components marks another major milestone for us as we progress...

It's time for me to return to my roots. After nearly a year away from my home country, I'm heading over to Europe next week for a series of customer visits and early adopter training sessions in the UK and Germany. Although I love every aspect of living...

Although Windows Presentation Foundation offers tremendous power to those who master it, for a newcomer the technology can be somewhat daunting. Particularly at this current time when the documentation isn't complete and the tools are only partially available...

Getting a new conference off the ground is hard. In contrast, marketing the PDC took comparatively little effort - as Steve Cellini , the event owner, joked the other day, "you could have just put one guy at the side of the road with a placard and the...

Although WPF itself is unchanged since the December CTP, the "Cider" Visual Studio integration in the new release shows the benefits of a full coding milestone. The main differences in this release include an improved grid experience and the ability to...

Photography is something of a hobby of mine. I'm not nearly as competent as even many of my colleagues (for example, Mike Swanson takes some fantastic macro photography ), but I gain great satisfaction from taking portrait photographs and candid, informal...

Like many others, I've been searching for an Xbox 360 Premium system since its Nov 22 launch date in the US. That night I went to the Best Buy in Bellevue at midnight just to check out the buzz at the main launch store. I had no expectation of getting...