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Great news today in Office 365. Office 365 is out of beta. Learn more about Office365 at http://office365.com .

The MIX team just published a great little document describing the efforts it takes to pull off a great keynote. Certainly worth your time. The hidden city backstage. The craft of demos. The many months of work coming to fruition. Lights, camera, action...

Following the recent success of a well attended online training , my team has started enhancing the content and publishing it to the Microsoft Virtual Academy . The first course, Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals - The Platform , is now...

Wow. Awesome series of 10 episodes/post on the how and what of pinned sites with IE9: IE Pinned Sites Part 1: What Are Pinned Sites? IE Pinned Sites Part 2: Why Implement Pinned Sites? IE Pinned Sites Part 3: How to implement basic site properties...

IT professionals, we know the drill. Every now and then a new technology or a new paradigm comes our way. Cloud being one of them. They all want to alter all our lives for good. Some enforce adoption, other allow for a smooth transition. But often enough...

On May 24-26 Microsoft Learning is hosting a free 3-day Jump Start tailored for IT Pros interested in learning more about preparing for and deploying Office 365. This is the first public training for IT Pros on Office 365 . Find out more about this great...

Go watch the MMS 2011 keynote recording from day 1 on TechNet Edge.

We need less information and more wisdom . Find out what else might be out of balance at HBR.ORG “ 30 Things We Need — and 30 We Don't ”

Just one week after Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (MMS), Microsoft Learning will be hosting an exclusive three-day Jump Start class specially tailored for VMWare and Microsoft virtualization technology pros.  Registration for “ Microsoft Virtualization...

A new plugin for Visual Studio 2010 is available on Codeplex. From the project website : Python Tools for Visual Studio is a free & open source plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft's Technical Computing Group. PTVS enables developers to use...

and Scott At last year's MIX10 event, Windows Internet Explorer Corporate Vice President, Dean Hachamovitch , announced the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 1 with hardware accelerated HTML5. This year, Dean will be back on the MIX stage as he returns...

Check out the details at the Windows Server Division blog .

We are hiring – again. If you have followed PDC last week you have probably heard and seen a lot about Windows Azure. In order for us to cope with the demand from our partners and developers worldwide I am looking to hire a senior developer evangelist...

What a great lineup. Over 200 Tech∙Ed sessions are now posted on the website, along with an amazing line-up of speakers for this year’s event.  Many more sessions will be posted in coming weeks.  Don’t forget about the Pre-Conference Seminars...

Available for download from the Microsoft website. The help file contains cmdlet descriptions, syntax, examples, and additional information for all HPC cluster-specific cmdlets that are available in Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2. The HPC cmdlets provide...

Here’s your opportunity to be technical evangelist at Microsoft. A peer of mine, Drew, has an open position in his team. In his post he outlines the details of the role. Don’t be scared by the first few paragraphs of his post :). It is a cool job. Drew...

Latest info about the upcoming technical event for developers and IT professionals at Berlin Messe in Berlin, Germany. Brad Anderson to Keynote Tech∙Ed Europe 2010 Microsoft CVP, Brad Anderson , will be a keynoter at this year’s Tech∙Ed Europe event. ...

CIO.com lists 5 of what they consider “Indispensable IT Skills of the Future”. Analyzing Data Understanding Risk Mastering Robotics Securing Information Running the Network The article lists those five skills. Looking at it, they look pretty obvious to...

There’s always room for improvement. We’ve been very lucky to be part of a web portal platform that hosts so successful websites as Channel9 . In our quest to become better and serve our subscribers and visitors better we decided to take the plunge and...

Folks have been asking for a location to download the 64-bit Insider Newsletter I once put together. Well, it had been in several locations over the years. While still considering to review the existing documents, here’s a link to the current documents...

Watch this 2 part video series from the recent MIX10 event. It provides you with an overview of the unique functionality for Silverlight applications on the Windows Phone application platform . Learn about new input paradigms, APIs for phone applications...

Just when you didn’t think it could get any better, we took it to the next level. At MIX10, learn about developing applications and games for the next generation of Windows phone. We were serious when we said you’d be learning the “future” of development...

If you want to learn about what’s new in HPC Server 2008 R2 or want to see who’s behind the product, go to the HPC Show on Channel9 . Wen-ming just posted a larger number of new videos and screencasts. The product is currently in beta and scheduled for...

Microsoft just opened the registration for next year’s MIX10 event. Look like a Love Fest to me :). I wish I could go. Buxton and Guthrie return to keynote at MIX10 Bill Buxton and Scott Guthrie headline MIX10 delivering key messaging on the future of...