August 2007 - Posts

• TechEd South East Asia in Malaysia

  Are you attending TechEd 2007 SEA in KL? It's the last couple of days before the Merdeka Special Offer expires (RM999 + free TechEd US Conference DVD and a chance to win a trip to VS Live or TechEd Europe - details on the site below). http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/techedsea2007/ Read More... Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:01 PM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments

• Announcing Windows Vista SP 1 Beta

  Via the Windows Vista Team Blog: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/08/29/announcing-the-windows-vista-service-pack-1-beta.aspx Read More... Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:34 AM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments

• Halo 3 Combat Video

  Halo 3 fans will absolutely love this video: http://halo.msn.com/videosHD.aspx Read More... Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:37 AM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments

• Tafiti Search

  Check out this new way of doing search (requires Silverlight)! Go to www.tafiti.com and enter your search query. Then feel free to play around with the various options. Pretty neat. Channel9 podcast: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Microsoft_Conversations_with_Jon_Udell Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:31 PM by StanleyTan | 1 Comments

• Imagine Cup 2007

  Thailand has just been announced as the worldwide winner for the Imagine Cup 2007 competition. Congratulations to the Thailand team! Read More... Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 9:20 PM by StanleyTan | 1 Comments

• Halo 3 Pre-Orders Pass 1 Million

  As probably expected by many including myself, Halo 3 is now breaking the record for pre-orders in the video game industry. The retail release date is scheduled for September 25, and having played the Alpha and Beta, I simply can't wait. See you on XBox Read More... Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 12:17 PM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments

• Career Day @ Catholic Junior College (CJC)

  Along with Jessica Tan (MP East Coast GRC, and GM Microsoft APAC) and Marcos Pinedo (Director, Microsoft APAC), I spoke at the CJC Career Day for the IT track. We had about 70 students in audience, although I did notice that only 1/6 were female and even Read More... Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:15 AM by StanleyTan | 1 Comments

• New WPF developer clones Gmail interface in 4 hours

  So Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has just been released and already someone has done something interesting with the in-built WPF designer. Check out this GMail interface clone done completely in WPF: http://cs.nerdbank.net/blogs/jmpinline/archive/2007/08/01/New-WPF-developer-clones-Gmail-interface-in-4-hours.asp Read More... Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:12 AM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments

• The Meltdown

  I have to say that this marketing campaign is quite interesting. It's something that you can so easily relate to and picture yourself in. http://blog.coolz0r.com/2007/08/01/the-meltdown/ Read More... Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:07 AM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments