May 2006 - Posts
Today Microsoft officially launched a new web site thttp://www.seewindowsvista.com/ . This site is showing early versions of ISV and Customer solutions that are in development for Windows Vista. The video content is broken down into 4 sections: Connecting
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I've been dogfooding Microsoft 2007 Office System for more than two months, since beta 1. By now I am used to do a Save As "Word 97-2003" (eg; Word document) to save the document in another format in order to let my Office 2003 colleagues open my newly
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Last Friday I did a presentation on the Windows Live services for a number of influential people in the Belgium developer and IT-Pro community. From what I've read on Kris' blogpost " Windows Live session London " and Miel's excellent coverage of the
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Yesterday and today I was invited to the " Software Developer Conference " in Arnhem , The Netherlands. This year was the fifteenth time Remi Caron & the " Software Developer Network " organized this conference. Looking at the session overview and
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CNET has a review of MTV Urge . Urge is the new on-the-go music subscription service that integrates with WMP 11. Looks great. Both Windows XP and Windows Vista users can check out the 14-day free trial. Windows XP users just need to install Windows Media
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After having installed and configured IIS 7 on Windows Vista it's time to deploy your applications and benefit from the new IIS 7 features. Matevz Gacnik over at the request-response.com blog has an excellent post on " Windows Workflow Foundation: Running
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Next Wednesday evening - May 17 - the Visual Studio User Group welcomes Clemens Vasters . Clemens has been in Belgium for several speaking engagements before. Next Wednesday however will be the first time that Clemens will speak as a fulltime Microsoft
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A couple of weeks ago MSDN Belux hosted the Visual Basic 2005 On Tour . During that event we took the opportunity to record our first Belgian podcast . Bart and I talked to Paul Yuknewicz and Todd Apley, both members of the Visual Basic product team.
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Next Tuesday May 9 I'll be speaking at the Belux ISV Community Day on Windows Vista . At this event we will be covering how Windows Vista can bring value to your organisation and why you need to consider moving your applications to this platform for the
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Today the Tech·Ed Europe team lead by Gerd De Bruycker launched the official Tech·Ed Europe web site . And registrations are open! Being one of the track owners of Tech·Ed Developers (web development) I'll focus on the developer event, but all equivalent
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After running Windows Vista (build 5365) on my Toshiba M4 machine and as I mentioned in a previous post , the performance and the overall user experience is far better than in any previous build I've been using so far. I'm currently exploring Windows
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Michael Swanson points to the online availability of all the MIX06 sessions . The 52 sessions are available not only for the attendees but for everyone. Watch the presentations to get an idea what happened at MIX06. Check also out the user experience
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