February 2007 - Posts

Lucky Number 13! - The MicroISV Show interviews Dave Collins of SharewarePromotions.com
Dave Collins, one of the masters at marketing MicroISV software, talks with Bob Walsh and me in episode #13 about how to choose keywords, where to spend your advertising dollars (Google AdWords for now, Microsoft AdCenter perhaps in the future), why not Read More...
Posted 22 February 07 07:47 by Michael Lehman | 1 Comments   
Filed under
HTML Validator is in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
HTML Validator from AI Internet Solutions has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are Read More...
Posted 22 February 07 06:22 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
A Ruler For Windows is in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
A Ruler For Windows from Rob Latour has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still Read More...
Posted 22 February 07 06:20 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Musigy is in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
Musigy from Musigy, Inc. has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still available... Read More...
Posted 22 February 07 06:15 by Michael Lehman | 1 Comments   
BitZipper is in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
BitZipper from Bitberry Software has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still available... Read More...
Posted 22 February 07 06:12 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Macro Scheduler is in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
Macro Scheduler from MJTNet has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still available... Read More...
Posted 22 February 07 06:08 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
MicroISV Interviewed on StartupSpark.com
Ben Yoskovitz over at www.StartupSpark.com interviewed Stephane Grenier about his experience as a MicroISV. Stephane produces a product called landlordMAX , which is a property management software application. Said Ben, "For more information on Stephane Read More...
Posted 20 February 07 06:17 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
Small Fun Farkle is in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
Small Fun Farkle 1.2 from Small Fun Games has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are Read More...
Posted 20 February 07 05:16 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
Crazi Video for Zune is in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
Crazi Video for Zune from River Past Corporation has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes Read More...
Posted 20 February 07 05:15 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
Coffee Cup HTML Editor 2007 is in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight
CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2007 from Coffee Cup Software , has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Read More...
Posted 20 February 07 05:13 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
Visual Build Professional in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
Visual Build Professional from Kinook Software, Inc ., has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but Read More...
Posted 20 February 07 05:11 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
AB Commander in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
ABCommander from Winability has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still available... Read More...
Posted 20 February 07 05:09 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
Bob Walsh's thoughts on the David Shadle podcast
My co-host Bob Walsh, who's new book Clearblogging ( www.clearblogging.com ), has some good things to think about in his post about our recent podcast with David Shadle , Microsoft User Experience Evangelist. Bottom line: " An app that makes it clear Read More...
Posted 19 February 07 07:20 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
All MIX07 Attendees get a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate....plus a discount on MEDC
We're hosting the MIX conference again this year, April 30th through May 2nd, at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. Windows Vista Ultimate for all MIX07 Attendees You heard it here first: all MIX07 attendees will receive a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate, Read More...
Posted 19 February 07 06:52 by Michael Lehman | 1 Comments   
SQL Server 2005 SP2 Released
We have released Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005! This release adds new features and increases compatiblity with Windows Vista and Office 2007. Get your SP2 bits here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/servicepacks/sp2.msp Read More...
Posted 19 February 07 12:56 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Virtual PC 2007 Released to Web!
Virtual PC 2007 has just been released as a free download on the web. Download page is located here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en#filelist Virtual PC is an absolute-must-have Read More...
Posted 19 February 07 12:51 by Michael Lehman | 1 Comments   
Testing out Windows Live Writer for Blog Posting
While I love Community Server, the software that we use to power http://blogs.msdn.com , I hate using web-based interfaces for writing text. A new release of Windows Live Writer was put out recently and I'm now trying it out to see if it makes the grade Read More...
Posted 19 February 07 11:49 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
SplitView in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
SplitView , from Vyooh , has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still available... Read More...
Posted 19 February 07 07:45 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
DiskView in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
DiskView , from Vyooh , has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes are still available... Read More...
Posted 19 February 07 07:42 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
Tech-Pro World Clock in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
The Tech-Pro World Clock , from Tech-Pro Ltd , has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but more Zunes Read More...
Posted 19 February 07 07:38 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
VS Law 2005 in the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight!
VS Law 2005 , from Visible Progress Technologies, Ltd ., has passed the tests and is being featured on the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight of MicroISV applications! Their Zune is on-the-way! The queue of applications to test is filling up but Read More...
Posted 19 February 07 07:31 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
The MicroISV Show #11 - A talk with David Shadle, User Experience Evangelist
This week Bob and I talked with David Shadle,Microsoft's User Experience Evangelist about how a new emphasis on design is changing the way software is developed. We have moved away from the "everything-has-to-follow-the-Windows-Guidelines" era into an Read More...
Posted 16 February 07 02:45 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
And the first Zune goes to...NuGenImageWorks from Genetibase!
Applications which have been submitted for the Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight are now starting to make their way through the testing and approval process. The first application to be certified for the Spotlight is NuGenImageWorks from Genetibase Read More...
Posted 12 February 07 12:56 by Michael Lehman | 1 Comments   
Filed under
The Next Big Language - or how writing a compiler makes you a better programmer
While most of my time is spent focusing on the MicroISV community, I am also the Technical Evangelist for compiler writers here at Microsoft. Steve Yegge has just written a long blog post about developing languages and I couldn't agree more with one of Read More...
Posted 11 February 07 08:44 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under
HansleMinutes podcast with Leon of SecretGeek
Scott Hanselman interviews Leon of SecretGeek discussing Leon's 25 steps to starting a MicroISV. From my point of view the biggest challenge facing MicroISVs is that there are too many hats to wear to do all the things one has to do to be successful. Read More...
Posted 11 February 07 08:37 by Michael Lehman | 1 Comments   
Filed under
The Money and Software blog
Ted Graham has started a cool series of link posts over at http://www.moneyandsoftware.com/ under the topic of "Best Software Startup Information". Each week he's pointing at threads from the Business of Software forum and other sites. This week he included Read More...
Posted 10 February 07 11:22 by Michael Lehman | 1 Comments   
Filed under
The MicroISV Show #11 - Windows Developer Power Tools
In episode #11 of The MicroISV Show , Bob Walsh and I interviewed Jim Holmes and James Avery, authors of the new O'Reilly book: Windows Developer Power Tools ( companion website ). Read More...
Posted 09 February 07 01:53 by Michael Lehman | 1 Comments   
Filed under
Windows Vista Movie Maker Custom Profiles
In the interest of saving someone else a whole bunch of time... I was creating a video that I wanted to publish to the web like we do on Channel9 and the default export settings in the Windows Vista version of Windows Movie Maker included only a handful Read More...
Posted 08 February 07 08:17 by Michael Lehman | 2 Comments   
Filed under
Check out the Windows Vista Team Blog
The Windows Vista development team has their own blog at: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/ You can check out coverage of the Windows Vista launch, some Vista devs rocking out , a pointer to the Windows Vista Innovation Cafe and, coverage Read More...
Posted 07 February 07 12:39 by Michael Lehman | 1 Comments   
Filed under
Project Glidepath Windows Vista Spotlight Launches!
Greetings from the Microsoft Project code-name "Glidepath" team! We have updated the Project Glidepath site ( www.projectglidepath.net ) to feature the Windows Vista Spotlight , a list of MicroISV applications that run with the Windows Vista operating Read More...
Posted 06 February 07 03:17 by Michael Lehman | 1 Comments   
Filed under
Getting Started as a MicroISV in 25 easy steps
My new co-host of The MicroISV Show, Bob Walsh, linked on Monday to Leon Banbrick's post giving his 25-step recipe for building a successful MicroISV. Based on my own experience starting 1 very successful and 2 struggling MicroISV companies, I think Leon's Read More...
Posted 01 February 07 01:30 by Michael Lehman | 1 Comments   
Filed under
The MicroISV Show #10 - Joel Spolsky
Joining me as co-host of The MicroISV Show is Bob Walsh, Managing Director of Safari Software ( www.safarisoftware.com ), author of "MicroISV: From Vision to Reality", author of the soon to be published "Clear Blogging", and proprietor of 3 websites which Read More...
Posted 01 February 07 10:23 by Michael Lehman | 0 Comments   
Filed under

Search

This Blog

Syndication

Page view tracker