Microsoft and the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) has worked together to stream the inauguration live using Silverlight. However, there has been an outcry from the Linux community regarding the lack of access and inclusiveness of their platform...

I've been using Live Mesh for a while now. In fact, it is being used by my team to share presentations that we may be called upon to use in front of ISVs. While it's nice for users to rely on a technology that's still in beta, it is quite another for...

Microsoft is often maligned for not supporting open efforts which is why I found it interesting that the company has been a supporter of Creative Commons for the last four years. When Creative Commons, near year-end, was still short of their funding raising...

Check out this crazy car mod . Some fan has infused their car with XBOX 360 components and it looks incredible. There's a controller in the steering wheel and two XBOX 360s inside the vehicle. The interior color of the (car) console appears to match the...

Gizmondo has this really cool AC/DC music video created using an Excel spreadsheet. You've got to see it to believe it.

I may have missed it or maybe it hasn't been well publicized but I love the new Live Search home page. Whoever is responsible for selecting and creating the picture each day is doing a fantastic job. Besides the captiving photo, you can hover over hotspots...

One of the things that I like to do (and used to do more often) is participate in local user groups. Over the summer, I became the Chair of the SDForum Windows SIG -- the most established Windows developer user group in Silicon Valley. This gives me the...

I read a fascinating article on the discovery of the memristor by HP. A memristor is a nanoscale component that can exhibit digital (0's and 1's) or analog (continuous range) values. Due to its size and speed, it can be used as computer memory or storage...

Microsoft Research is showing a preview of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) at the TED Conference in Monterey, CA. WWT compiles all the great images captured by telescopes from around the world and from space to deliver an immersive experience for science...

Prior to the holidays, the team working on IE8 announced an internal build that renders the Acid2 test properly within the browser. While Acid2 isn't technically a standard, many web developers consider it a litmus test of CSS compliance. The goal, of...

It's been a while since my last blog post. I'm officially rebooting my blog. My plan is to post more regularly with news and tidbits that are of interest to me and, hopefully, to you as well. I hope you'll join me and share your comments openly.

There is quite a buzz around Software as a Service (SaaS) as customers look to purchase software as a service rather than as a packaged application. There are many advantages to this model. If this is something that you are considering, you should register...

Microsoft has been named the World's Most Powerful Brand, according to a new ranking by global marketing research firm Millward Brown. The brand ranking associates consumer research with financial data to measure the brand's impact on a company's bottom...

I saw something that came across my Inbox that is really cool... if you want your system to boot and run really fast. Gigabyte introduced i-RAM, a PCI card with four memory sockets and a SATA port for $150. This card enables the RAM to appear as a...

There are so many webcasts available from Microsoft that it's difficult to track what's going on. If you are an ISV, a good site to bookmark is http://www.isvwebseminars.com . This page contains a list of upcoming webcasts as well as previously recorded...

It looks like Microsoft just launched a new community web site and channel, On10.net . Unlike Channel 9 which is focused on developers, On10 is geared towards users and how they are using technology in innovative ways. Every weekday, a new video will...

Geoffrey Moore (author of Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, and several other business classics) spoke to a group at Microsoft Research today. Although I couldn't be there in person, I was able to catch a recording of his presentation tonight. ...

No way! Way! Dude! I have to admit that this Wall Street Journal article came as somewhat of a surprise to me; not because I don't believe in the reputation of the company that I work for but because it is being acknowledged through several studies...

Do the acronyms STRIDE or DREAD mean anything to you? When is the last time you used the terms "threat modeling" or "threat mitigation" in a conversation? Security has become everyone's business, including software developers. Some of my partners have...

I'm going to be conducting a webcast on Windows Error Reporting (WER). Windows Error Reporting is one of those best kept secrets at Microsoft. If you have ever experienced an application crash or hang in Windows, the mechanism to collect and report that...

Hi, my name is William Leong. I'm an ISV Developer Evangelist based in Silicon Valley. In my role, I get to work with a great set of ISVs based in the Bay area. Together, we explore different Microsoft platforms and technologies that ISVs can leverage...