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First Windows 7 Arcade Machine

For all the people that are compelled to get an arcade machine installed in their house, here is another option by using Windows 7 to power it. Andrew Dugdell is best known for his technical talks, but in this interview on EDGE , he talks about another Read More...
Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 11:30 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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HALO 3 – ‘Recon’

Keith spotted this new promotion from Bungie for the Fall of 2009. Can’t wait. Halo 3 Recon - the saga continues Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:01 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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Two Weeks to GO : THe PDC Awaits

Well at this time in two weeks, the first PDC keynote will just be about to start. I personally can not wait for it to kick off. Even in these tough times it looks highly likely that we are still going to sell out and I believe that the attendees will Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 4:57 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

MySpace Enter The Ad Market

They have taken there time ( I believe that I heard about this almost a year ago ), but MySpace has now entered the Ad Market with their MyAds offering. This seems pretty similar to what FaceBook have, but unlike Facebook (only allows text ads today), Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 4:32 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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Is Silicon Valley really in trouble?

A week ago we were all pondering the implications on the 700bn$ rescue package that the US government was planning to vote on. At the time there was hope that this could turn things around…. It was pretty clear to me that it was the end of the beginning… Read More...
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 11:52 PM by neilhut | 3 Comments
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Anybody ready for Visual Simulation

The team that brought you Flight Simulator has been working for a while to separate the core simulation engine away from the packaged product so that it can be used in other applications that require real world simulation. Out of this came Microsoft ESP. Read More...
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 2:18 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Steve Ballmer Live At The Churchill Club

There has been some interesting commentary going around on TechMeme from a meeting that Steve Ballmer had at the Churchill Club where he talked about Search, but also acknowledged something called Red Dog .   Here was some of the commentary from Read More...
Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 11:44 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

PDC Attendees get a 160GB USB Drive with all the goodies!!

Personally I am not a big fan of the "Software + Services" PDC theme, but behind the scenes I know that the new software announcements that we are going to make will erase any bitterness I have from my memory :-) However, there is some other Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:12 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Finding Building 20 - Platform Adoption Center

Sometimes its hard to find the wood from the trees, and in one case on campus it was hard to find the right building. At Bld20, we host the Platform Adoption Center ( PAC ) which is one of the main places where we introduce our very newest software to Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 4:37 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Mark Russinovich: the future of Sysinternals, Security, Windows

David interviewed Mark Russinovich for EDGE the other day and asked him some interesting questions about life at Microsoft such as big shocks, meetings with Bill Gates and the future of sysinternals. Take a look at the following location ( http://edge.technet.com/Media/Interview-with-Mark-Russinovich-the-future-of-Sysinternals-Security-Windows/ Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:15 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

LIVE Inside the "Ship Room" for SQL Server 2008

Joey was able to get unique access to the SQLServer 2008 ship room when they did the final signoff of the product and shared the experience on EDGE . As you can see, the owner of each feature area has to walk through their status, before signing off on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:44 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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The PDC is showing its Hand

Yesterday a whole new bunch of sessions were published on the PDC site. http://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/sessions.aspx In particular there are some interesting sessions which caught my eye at the top of the list talking around Building Block Services Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 02, 2008 1:10 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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EDGE Goes local

If anyone can translate this, send me an email ( with the translation ) and I will send you an EDGE T-shirt. A pretty funny video from Adam and Joey about EDGE support for localization.   TechNet Edge - now localized! Read More...
Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 8:12 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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The “Mojave Experiment”

This is an interesting experiment that was conducted around Vista. They asked a number of people that had not installed Vista to try our our latest Windows 7 product. ( http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/ )   There are a few comments on why it was not Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:31 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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PDC 2008 Registration OPEN

The great news is that the PDC 2008 registration site is now open . This is going to be one of the coolest events from Microsoft in a long, long time with some very interesting announcements and long term product strategy road maps which developers can Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:43 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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