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Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:33 PM

Five Years at Microsoft

It’s hard to believe, but five years ago yesterday, I started my career with Microsoft as a consultant in the Great Lakes District. My first job was to help a large Midwest retailer move their rich-client functionality to a web-based intranet for all
Posted by mswanson | 10 Comments
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:47 AM

New Avalon, Indigo, WinFX, and Speech API Beta 1 RC

We released the "Avalon" and "Indigo" Beta 1 RC to the general public earlier today ( release notes ). The great news is that this release supports Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 (and there was much rejoicing). There are also associated downloads of the WinFX
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Friday, May 13, 2005 2:27 AM

Introducing the Xbox 360 (and a Cool Video)

Tonight, MTV presented Xbox: The Next Generation Revealed and gave everyone a sneak peak at the next version of our console, called the Xbox 360 . Although the system looks very sleek and cool, I personally thought the show was a bit light on details;
Posted by mswanson | 4 Comments
Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:43 AM

Shutting Down Outlook

This is one of those things that I thought only happened to me. For years, I've been running multiple Outlook profiles: one for my personal e-mail, and one for my Microsoft e-mail. It's quite common for me to exit Outlook and fire it up again so I can
Posted by mswanson | 35 Comments
Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:25 AM

XAML By Hand!?

Adam Nathan responds to Mike at Median Group (an awesome designer that I had the pleasure to work with for two years on the NxOpinion project ) about tools to help create XAML. In addition to the three tools that Adam mentions, I'd also add Mobiform 's
Posted by mswanson | 4 Comments
Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:18 AM

More PDC 2005 Information

Our PDC 2005 site has more information about the upcoming event at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The event runs from September 13th through the 16th with pre-conferences on the 11th and 12th. I work on the team that puts together this conference,
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 11:52 PM

Chris Anderson's 11-Minute Avalon Overview

Channel 9 strikes again! They cornered Chris Anderson for an 11-minute video interview where Chris talks about the architecture of Avalon, including such juicy bits as: Where Direct3D and User32 fit into the picture What the heck is MILCORE.DLL ? The
Posted by mswanson | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 11, 2005 10:58 PM

Component Vendors on Channel 9

I organized and ran my first developer lab at our Platform Adoption Center (otherwise known as building 20) in early March. We had quite a few component vendors in attendance. Our work was focused on helping the vendors ensure that their components are
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:26 PM

XAML Playing Cards

Adam Nathan's Win32 to WinFX Blog has a good post titled XAML Playing Cards . Adam takes the playing cards from Windows XP and updates them to run on the March CTP of Avalon . As you can see in his screen shots, because the Avalon cards are rendered using
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