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We've started a dedicated blog for all things DirectX, including Direct2D, DirectWrite, and some of...
Date: 04/21/2009
The SDK documentation for our new graphics and text API's in Windows 7 is now available on MSDN....
Date: 01/13/2009
We’ve had a handful of PDC attendees contact us directly asking for help finding the DirectX related...
Date: 11/07/2008
It looks like some press folks from neowin were in the crowd for my talk yesterday, and posted some...
Date: 10/30/2008
My PDC talk is now posted on Channel 9! If you weren’t able to attend at PDC, you can watch it here:...
Date: 10/30/2008
As you've probably guessed by know, I've been busy working on something that is part of Windows 7...
Date: 10/10/2008
Not much to add here - just watch the clip...(updated with higher quality video) Video: Shoe Circus
Date: 09/05/2008
I can't talk about my work quite yet - but some of the senior leadership on the Windows 7 team have...
Date: 08/21/2008
I saw this over at Craig's blog. Made me laugh out loud. I actually enjoyed Indy 4 quite a bit, but...
Date: 06/29/2008
Sorry for radio silence on work related posts. I promise to come back to it when there's something...
Date: 06/23/2008
I was scrolling through shelterrific this afternoon and came across a post to some new 2008 stamp...
Date: 02/24/2008
...and I'm catching up on my blogroll. Two things that popped for me this evening are Brand New,...
Date: 02/20/2008
Microsoft, Dell and (RED) announced a partnership to help people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. All...
Date: 01/24/2008
If you have code that implements a deskband for the Windows Taskbar in Windows Vista, you may have...
Date: 01/22/2008
Someone at work forwarded me a link to this video on the New York Times site about the clutter...
Date: 01/21/2008
I saw this over on one of the home server blogs I read.
Date: 01/20/2008
One of the features we added in Windows Vista was a platform to support for decoding camera raw...
Date: 01/04/2008
As you may have noticed, I've taken a bit of a hiatus form blogging for a while. Hopefully you...
Date: 01/04/2008
Does anyone out there have any experience with the Intensity Pro from Blackmagic Design? I'm looking...
Date: 09/26/2007
I recently discovered this project over on codeplex. It's a virtual desktop manager for Windows...
Date: 08/23/2007
This evening, I'm watching a recording of "Shark Weekend HD" on Discovery HD. The first frame of the...
Date: 08/07/2007
I ran into an interesting foible using the Ribbon in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 today. I'm...
Date: 07/18/2007
I got a question from a colleague about this recently, and thought I should share the answer with...
Date: 07/09/2007
It's wasn't that long ago that I moved to work on the Microsoft Expression line of products. As fate...
Date: 07/07/2007
This weekend I saw Ratatouille. The fine folks at Pixar constantly amaze me. The movie was...
Date: 07/07/2007
When we did the visuals for Vista, we worked really hard to get a to a look and feel that was...
Date: 06/14/2007
Mike Calligaro posted a great write up on how feature prioritization happens at software companies....
Date: 06/05/2007
Someone at work forwarded me a post on kottke.org that linked to a couple great galleries of...
Date: 05/12/2007
Scott wrote a quick review of some different Task Switching applications that have been written for...
Date: 04/18/2007
A common question among folks who are upgrading to Windows Vista on slightly older notebooks, tablet...
Date: 04/04/2007
Soma (our VP) announced this morning that by popular demand, Expression Blend and Expression Web...
Date: 04/03/2007
The folks over at RealWorld Graphics posted a nice write up on how developers working on native...
Date: 03/23/2007
Ben Forta has a nice write-up about his experience using Windows Vista. Kind words from a senior guy...
Date: 03/21/2007
We had TechFest here at Microsoft a few weeks back, and I got to see some really interesting new...
Date: 03/21/2007
If you play on an XBOX 360, you may be interested to know that Major Nelson posted the achievement...
Date: 03/16/2007
I had lunch w/ Michael Wallent the other day (Michael was my group manager when I worked in Windows)...
Date: 03/15/2007
OFF TOPIC: I saw a link to this post on 43 folders. Brian Kim writes about self-improvement and has...
Date: 03/15/2007
Congratulations to the Blend team for shipping their release candidate! You can download Expression...
Date: 03/15/2007
Jeff Atwood posted a great write-up detailing some of the issues around getting a PC running with...
Date: 03/09/2007
There is now an update available for Visual Studio that addresses many of the issues regarding using...
Date: 03/07/2007
Hilarious.
Date: 03/07/2007
I made a post about a year ago regarding how some applications have a side effect of disabling Aero....
Date: 03/07/2007
Mikhail Arkhipov is a dev manager on the Visual Web Developer team, who posted recently about some...
Date: 02/28/2007
The Windows Vista blog links to some great Vista wallpapers.
Date: 02/27/2007
I saw this yesterday. BillG was interviewed for Newsweek and the topic of Apple's advertising came...
Date: 02/23/2007
Somebody at work forwarded me this link. The content of the film is a little bombastic, but the...
Date: 02/14/2007
Tim Sneath has been maintaining a great list of new applications developed using WPF on his blog.
Date: 02/14/2007
The folks over at howtogeek.com have compiled a great list of tips and tricks for working with...
Date: 02/07/2007
I recently discovered this clip that was shown during the Windows Home Server announcement at CES....
Date: 02/06/2007
PixelMill is has started creating templates for Expression Web. They are some very nice looking,...
Date: 01/26/2007