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James Senior at Microsoft: Like a kid in a candy store

BMW prototype the fabric car

Stunning.

Author: james Date: 09/15/2008

Customized Experiences on Windows Live

  I was rebuilding my Lenovo X61 Tablet today and took a quick peek at the ThinkVantage...

Author: james Date: 09/15/2008

Buy once, play everywhere

Buy once, play everywhere.  When it comes to digital content like movies, music and games it...

Author: james Date: 09/15/2008

Microsoft Surface is Hammer-proof

Well, MC Hammer proof at least.  He was spotted “surfacing it up” this week at TechCrunch50 in...

Author: james Date: 09/11/2008

Zune 3 gets “buy from FM” feature

Wow this is cool.  The new Zune (v3) has a feature that allows you to purchase and download a...

Author: james Date: 09/09/2008

Sony TV Art

Loving the new TV/Picture frames from Sony – the E4000 Series as they call it - comes in various...

Author: james Date: 09/09/2008

From Flash to Silverlight

One of the most common things we get asked about is how designers and developers can take their...

Author: james Date: 09/09/2008

Ultimate Steal – Office 2007 for £38.95

www.theultimatesteal.co.uk Cheap like the budgie, for university and college students and...

Author: james Date: 09/08/2008

Live Mesh Mobile Client pops up down under

Kudos to Long who snapped this demo at TechEd Australia of the Live Mesh Mobile Client.  This...

Author: james Date: 09/05/2008

Microsoft BlueTrack

New technology that lets you use a mouse on any surface is nearly here, there’s a sneak peak trailer...

Author: james Date: 09/05/2008

Lips at the Bestival on the Isle of Wight

I’m heading off tonight to the Isle of Wight (located here), where I will be rocking out at the...

Author: james Date: 09/05/2008

Countdown to PDC2008

Channel 9 coverage of PDC content.  Looking good! Register and find out more about PDC here....

Author: james Date: 09/04/2008

Start-ups don’t use Microsoft?

Last week I watched one of my favourite bands – Turin Brakes - play a free gig in Camden,...

Author: james Date: 09/02/2008

Trendy PCs on the catwalk

Some rather cool PCs got shown off last week in Vegas at the PROJECT fashion show.  I really...

Author: james Date: 09/01/2008

Meet you at PDC 2008

Just booked up my ticket to LA for PDC in October – can’t wait! There’s going to be some really cool...

Author: james Date: 08/29/2008

New Look and Feel for Mojave Experiment

Gone is the dark and mysterious backdrop to the Mojave Experiment, now there is a fresh and light...

Author: james Date: 08/28/2008

Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC next week

Cool workshops event in NYC being run by my colleagues state side in New York: Overview of...

Author: james Date: 08/28/2008

Add this to your dictionary: Photosynther

My prediction is that in the next 6 months there’ll be a new noun in the dictionary: photosynther...

Author: james Date: 08/28/2008

Come and get it: IE8 Beta 2

Download and play: www.microsoft.com/ie8 My fav features, so far: Accelerators – select a part of...

Author: james Date: 08/28/2008

Death Star over San Francisco

Too good not to share :-)

Author: james Date: 08/21/2008

Microsoft UK Bloggers bring home the gold

In what I can only liken to Great Britain’s current haul at the Olympics, Microsoft UK bloggers have...

Author: james Date: 08/20/2008

SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 Bristol and London TechNet events

Just wanted to highlight the TechNet events in Bristol and London that the IT Pro guys are putting...

Author: james Date: 08/20/2008

Live Mesh: more slots and extended to new countries

Today we rolled out the Live Mesh Technical Preview to Canada, India and Ireland (in English) and...

Author: james Date: 08/18/2008

PC Power Management announcements

Just been checking the Microsoft Environment Sustainability Blog and the team has been busy with...

Author: james Date: 08/18/2008

Microsoft takes Google, Yahoo et. al to school

Love this article! Chris will too :-) Microsoft's Live Maps Schools Google, Yahoo, Ask and AOL in...

Author: james Date: 08/14/2008

Pixar to use Windows Server 2008 HPC

Last year I dabbled a with the HPC (High Performance Computing) version of Windows Server and now it...

Author: james Date: 08/14/2008

Crazy Olympic Silverlight Stats

Came across this cool article on eWeek about the online coverage by NBC of the Olympics powered by...

Author: james Date: 08/14/2008

Saqib talks developing accessible applications

It seems like an age ago when I wrote the post “I want my desktop to look beautiful, even if I can't...

Author: james Date: 08/12/2008

SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 Click thru demos

I’ve been taking a look today at some SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 that are part of Microsoft’s Demo...

Author: james Date: 08/12/2008

Eric and his Linq Mindmap

Mr Nelson has been playing around with Mindmaps recently and he’s come up with a rather nice one for...

Author: james Date: 08/07/2008

VLinq – a visual editor for creating Linq queries

Today at TechReady I went to the best session of the conference so far.  It was delivered by...

Author: james Date: 07/30/2008

It’s Starting

  Check out the ad on the top right of www.Valleywag.com – “Mojave Experiment” is...

Author: james Date: 07/29/2008

Intel, HP and Yahoo get in a cloud together

News from TechCrunch today that Intel, HP and Yahoo are teaming up together to get in the Cloud...

Author: james Date: 07/29/2008

Microsoft Surface on a Sphere

How cool is this???!!!

Author: james Date: 07/29/2008

Mojave Experiment is go

The Mojave Experiment is now live at https://www.mojaveexperiment.com/ and I love it.  As...

Author: james Date: 07/29/2008

Virtual Earth ASP.NET Controls Released!

WOOHOO! Finally we’ve released the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Controls (Angus, dev.live.com and Live Side...

Author: james Date: 07/28/2008

Live Search in Facebook

Exciting announcement for the Live Search guys, we’ve signed a deal with Facebook that will see us...

Author: james Date: 07/25/2008

Virtual Earth UK Partner Day in September in Brighton

Just heard from the UK VE Team that they are holding another Partner Day in September – here are the...

Author: james Date: 07/25/2008

Leveraging Social Computing, sensibly

I’ve just been reading this article from Microsoft’s Midsize Business Center (good place to go for...

Author: james Date: 07/24/2008

Reflections on Ray

I arrived back in San Francisco last night after a great conference in Atlanta, and despite being a...

Author: james Date: 07/21/2008

WESS Learning Paths are online

<Fanfare> We’ve just launched the Partner Learning Paths for WESS – that’s Small Business...

Author: james Date: 07/18/2008

Learn Infrastructure from Microsoft Consultants

Microsoft Consultants really know their stuff when it comes to technology and the guys I know in the...

Author: james Date: 07/17/2008

Perspective from the Web 2.0 crowd on Microsoft’s hosting announcements

It’s always interesting to listen to what Techcrunch and it’s readers say about Microsoft’s moves in...

Author: james Date: 07/09/2008

Obama gets Deep Zoom

Interesting little project this one, created from over 12,000 thumbnails of photos uploaded by...

Author: james Date: 07/08/2008

Vista Small Business Scenario Videos

The marketing guys in the UK recently put together some nice scenario videos last month showing the...

Author: james Date: 07/03/2008

Lost your laptop at the airport? You’re not alone!

Came across this interesting article in ComputerWorld that says that in the US alone, more than...

Author: james Date: 07/03/2008

Partners – How do you want your training?

Microsoft provides a huge amount of training, information, product data, sales guides, technical...

Author: james Date: 06/25/2008

Microsoft Environmental Strategy

With increased investment into datacenters around the world it is important to consider the...

Author: james Date: 06/24/2008

Geeking out at Mashed 08

I’m here at Mashed this weekend getting my geek on! There’s some interesting talks on from the likes...

Author: james Date: 06/21/2008

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