Kam VedBrat

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Tune in to the DirectX blog!

We've started a dedicated blog for all things DirectX, including Direct2D, DirectWrite, and some of...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/21/2009

SDK Documentation for Direct2D and DirectWrite now live on MSDN

The SDK documentation for our new graphics and text API's in Windows 7 is now available on MSDN....

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/13/2009

Locating DirectX content on “The Goods” from PDC

We’ve had a handful of PDC attendees contact us directly asking for help finding the DirectX related...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 11/07/2008

neowin covers my talk!

It looks like some press folks from neowin were in the crowd for my talk yesterday, and posted some...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 10/30/2008

Watch my PDC talk on Channel 9

My PDC talk is now posted on Channel 9! If you weren’t able to attend at PDC, you can watch it here:...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 10/30/2008

Attend my presentation at PDC2008!

As you've probably guessed by know, I've been busy working on something that is part of Windows 7...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 10/10/2008

Churos!

Not much to add here - just watch the clip...(updated with higher quality video) Video: Shoe Circus

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 09/05/2008

Engineering Windows 7

I can't talk about my work quite yet - but some of the senior leadership on the Windows 7 team have...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 08/21/2008

Off Topic: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script

I saw this over at Craig's blog. Made me laugh out loud. I actually enjoyed Indy 4 quite a bit, but...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/29/2008

Eric Tan's Poster Art

Sorry for radio silence on work related posts. I promise to come back to it when there's something...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/23/2008

Stamps!

I was scrolling through shelterrific this afternoon and came across a post to some new 2008 stamp...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/24/2008

It's late...

...and I'm catching up on my blogroll. Two things that popped for me this evening are Brand New,...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/20/2008

Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED

Microsoft, Dell and (RED) announced a partnership to help people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. All...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/24/2008

Keeping the taskbar transparent when your deskband is enabled

If you have code that implements a deskband for the Windows Taskbar in Windows Vista, you may have...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/22/2008

Clutter

Someone at work forwarded me a link to this video on the New York Times site about the clutter...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/21/2008

The Final Frontier

I saw this over on one of the home server blogs I read.

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/20/2008

Camera RAW Codecs for Windows

One of the features we added in Windows Vista was a platform to support for decoding camera raw...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/04/2008

long time - no blog

As you may have noticed, I've taken a bit of a hiatus form blogging for a while. Hopefully you...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/04/2008

Intensity Pro

Does anyone out there have any experience with the Intensity Pro from Blackmagic Design? I'm looking...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 09/26/2007

Vista Virtual Desktop Manager

I recently discovered this project over on codeplex. It's a virtual desktop manager for Windows...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 08/23/2007

Don’t Try This At Home!

This evening, I'm watching a recording of "Shark Weekend HD" on Discovery HD. The first frame of the...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 08/07/2007

A Ribbon Gotcha!

I ran into an interesting foible using the Ribbon in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 today. I'm...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 07/18/2007

Really High DPI

I got a question from a colleague about this recently, and thought I should share the answer with...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 07/09/2007

another new job

It's wasn't that long ago that I moved to work on the Microsoft Expression line of products. As fate...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 07/07/2007

No Motion Capture

This weekend I saw Ratatouille. The fine folks at Pixar constantly amaze me. The movie was...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 07/07/2007

Mary Jo Foley says Leopard looks like Windows Vista

When we did the visuals for Vista, we worked really hard to get a to a look and feel that was...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/14/2007

Feature Prioritization

Mike Calligaro posted a great write up on how feature prioritization happens at software companies....

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/05/2007

Off topic: Business Cards

Someone at work forwarded me a post on kottke.org that linked to a couple great galleries of...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 05/12/2007

Scott Hanselman looks at Vista task switching applications

Scott wrote a quick review of some different Task Switching applications that have been written for...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/18/2007

Why Intel 915 graphics don’t have a WDDM driver for Windows Vista

A common question among folks who are upgrading to Windows Vista on slightly older notebooks, tablet...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/04/2007

Expression and MSDN

Soma (our VP) announced this morning that by popular demand, Expression Blend and Expression Web...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/03/2007

Creating a High DPI application in Windows Vista

The folks over at RealWorld Graphics posted a nice write up on how developers working on native...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/23/2007

Ben Forta is hooked on Windows Vista

Ben Forta has a nice write-up about his experience using Windows Vista. Kind words from a senior guy...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/21/2007

Boku

We had TechFest here at Microsoft a few weeks back, and I got to see some really interesting new...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/21/2007

Get your ringtones here…

If you play on an XBOX 360, you may be interested to know that Major Nelson posted the achievement...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/16/2007

Fascinating – the speech accent archive

I had lunch w/ Michael Wallent the other day (Michael was my group manager when I worked in Windows)...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/15/2007

5 Things that should be taught in every school

OFF TOPIC: I saw a link to this post on 43 folders. Brian Kim writes about self-improvement and has...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/15/2007

Get your Expression Blend release candidate here!

Congratulations to the Blend team for shipping their release candidate! You can download Expression...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/15/2007

4 GB's of RAM

Jeff Atwood posted a great write-up detailing some of the issues around getting a PC running with...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/09/2007

Visual Studio and Windows Vista

There is now an update available for Visual Studio that addresses many of the issues regarding using...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/07/2007

Scott Guthrie on Red vs. Blue

Hilarious.

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/07/2007

iTunes & Quicktime and Aero

I made a post about a year ago regarding how some applications have a side effect of disabling Aero....

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/07/2007

Expression Web and Visual Studio Orcas

Mikhail Arkhipov is a dev manager on the Visual Web Developer team, who posted recently about some...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/28/2007

Vista Wallpapers

The Windows Vista blog links to some great Vista wallpapers.

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/27/2007

Finally! BillG comments on the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads

I saw this yesterday. BillG was interviewed for Newsweek and the topic of Apple's advertising came...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/23/2007

Google's master plan

Somebody at work forwarded me this link. The content of the film is a little bombastic, but the...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/14/2007

WPF Application Portfolio

Tim Sneath has been maintaining a great list of new applications developed using WPF on his blog.

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/14/2007

Windows Vista tips and tricks

The folks over at howtogeek.com have compiled a great list of tips and tricks for working with...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/07/2007

The Home is Personal Again

I recently discovered this clip that was shown during the Windows Home Server announcement at CES....

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/06/2007

PixelMill Templates for Expression Web

PixelMill is has started creating templates for Expression Web. They are some very nice looking,...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/26/2007

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