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James Senior at Microsoft: Like a kid in a candy store
BMW prototype the fabric car
Stunning.
Author: james Date: 09/15/2008
Customized Experiences on Windows Live
I was rebuilding my Lenovo X61 Tablet today and took a quick peek at the ThinkVantage...
Author: james Date: 09/15/2008
Buy once, play everywhere
Buy once, play everywhere. When it comes to digital content like movies, music and games it...
Author: james Date: 09/15/2008
Microsoft Surface is Hammer-proof
Well, MC Hammer proof at least. He was spotted “surfacing it up” this week at TechCrunch50 in...
Author: james Date: 09/11/2008
Zune 3 gets “buy from FM” feature
Wow this is cool. The new Zune (v3) has a feature that allows you to purchase and download a...
Author: james Date: 09/09/2008
Sony TV Art
Loving the new TV/Picture frames from Sony – the E4000 Series as they call it - comes in various...
Author: james Date: 09/09/2008
From Flash to Silverlight
One of the most common things we get asked about is how designers and developers can take their...
Author: james Date: 09/09/2008
Ultimate Steal – Office 2007 for £38.95
www.theultimatesteal.co.uk Cheap like the budgie, for university and college students and...
Author: james Date: 09/08/2008
Live Mesh Mobile Client pops up down under
Kudos to Long who snapped this demo at TechEd Australia of the Live Mesh Mobile Client. This...
Author: james Date: 09/05/2008
Microsoft BlueTrack
New technology that lets you use a mouse on any surface is nearly here, there’s a sneak peak trailer...
Author: james Date: 09/05/2008
Lips at the Bestival on the Isle of Wight
I’m heading off tonight to the Isle of Wight (located here), where I will be rocking out at the...
Author: james Date: 09/05/2008
Countdown to PDC2008
Channel 9 coverage of PDC content. Looking good! Register and find out more about PDC here....
Author: james Date: 09/04/2008
Start-ups don’t use Microsoft?
Last week I watched one of my favourite bands – Turin Brakes - play a free gig in Camden,...
Author: james Date: 09/02/2008
Trendy PCs on the catwalk
Some rather cool PCs got shown off last week in Vegas at the PROJECT fashion show. I really...
Author: james Date: 09/01/2008
Meet you at PDC 2008
Just booked up my ticket to LA for PDC in October – can’t wait! There’s going to be some really cool...
Author: james Date: 08/29/2008
New Look and Feel for Mojave Experiment
Gone is the dark and mysterious backdrop to the Mojave Experiment, now there is a fresh and light...
Author: james Date: 08/28/2008
Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC next week
Cool workshops event in NYC being run by my colleagues state side in New York: Overview of...
Author: james Date: 08/28/2008
Add this to your dictionary: Photosynther
My prediction is that in the next 6 months there’ll be a new noun in the dictionary: photosynther...
Author: james Date: 08/28/2008
Come and get it: IE8 Beta 2
Download and play: www.microsoft.com/ie8 My fav features, so far: Accelerators – select a part of...
Author: james Date: 08/28/2008
Death Star over San Francisco
Too good not to share :-)
Author: james Date: 08/21/2008
Microsoft UK Bloggers bring home the gold
In what I can only liken to Great Britain’s current haul at the Olympics, Microsoft UK bloggers have...
Author: james Date: 08/20/2008
SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 Bristol and London TechNet events
Just wanted to highlight the TechNet events in Bristol and London that the IT Pro guys are putting...
Author: james Date: 08/20/2008
Live Mesh: more slots and extended to new countries
Today we rolled out the Live Mesh Technical Preview to Canada, India and Ireland (in English) and...
Author: james Date: 08/18/2008
PC Power Management announcements
Just been checking the Microsoft Environment Sustainability Blog and the team has been busy with...
Author: james Date: 08/18/2008
Microsoft takes Google, Yahoo et. al to school
Love this article! Chris will too :-) Microsoft's Live Maps Schools Google, Yahoo, Ask and AOL in...
Author: james Date: 08/14/2008
Pixar to use Windows Server 2008 HPC
Last year I dabbled a with the HPC (High Performance Computing) version of Windows Server and now it...
Author: james Date: 08/14/2008
Crazy Olympic Silverlight Stats
Came across this cool article on eWeek about the online coverage by NBC of the Olympics powered by...
Author: james Date: 08/14/2008
Saqib talks developing accessible applications
It seems like an age ago when I wrote the post “I want my desktop to look beautiful, even if I can't...
Author: james Date: 08/12/2008
SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 Click thru demos
I’ve been taking a look today at some SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 that are part of Microsoft’s Demo...
Author: james Date: 08/12/2008
Eric and his Linq Mindmap
Mr Nelson has been playing around with Mindmaps recently and he’s come up with a rather nice one for...
Author: james Date: 08/07/2008
VLinq – a visual editor for creating Linq queries
Today at TechReady I went to the best session of the conference so far. It was delivered by...
Author: james Date: 07/30/2008
It’s Starting
Check out the ad on the top right of www.Valleywag.com – “Mojave Experiment” is...
Author: james Date: 07/29/2008
Intel, HP and Yahoo get in a cloud together
News from TechCrunch today that Intel, HP and Yahoo are teaming up together to get in the Cloud...
Author: james Date: 07/29/2008
Microsoft Surface on a Sphere
How cool is this???!!!
Author: james Date: 07/29/2008
Mojave Experiment is go
The Mojave Experiment is now live at https://www.mojaveexperiment.com/ and I love it. As...
Author: james Date: 07/29/2008
Virtual Earth ASP.NET Controls Released!
WOOHOO! Finally we’ve released the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Controls (Angus, dev.live.com and Live Side...
Author: james Date: 07/28/2008
Live Search in Facebook
Exciting announcement for the Live Search guys, we’ve signed a deal with Facebook that will see us...
Author: james Date: 07/25/2008
Virtual Earth UK Partner Day in September in Brighton
Just heard from the UK VE Team that they are holding another Partner Day in September – here are the...
Author: james Date: 07/25/2008
Leveraging Social Computing, sensibly
I’ve just been reading this article from Microsoft’s Midsize Business Center (good place to go for...
Author: james Date: 07/24/2008
Reflections on Ray
I arrived back in San Francisco last night after a great conference in Atlanta, and despite being a...
Author: james Date: 07/21/2008
WESS Learning Paths are online
<Fanfare> We’ve just launched the Partner Learning Paths for WESS – that’s Small Business...
Author: james Date: 07/18/2008
Learn Infrastructure from Microsoft Consultants
Microsoft Consultants really know their stuff when it comes to technology and the guys I know in the...
Author: james Date: 07/17/2008
Perspective from the Web 2.0 crowd on Microsoft’s hosting announcements
It’s always interesting to listen to what Techcrunch and it’s readers say about Microsoft’s moves in...
Author: james Date: 07/09/2008
Obama gets Deep Zoom
Interesting little project this one, created from over 12,000 thumbnails of photos uploaded by...
Author: james Date: 07/08/2008
Vista Small Business Scenario Videos
The marketing guys in the UK recently put together some nice scenario videos last month showing the...
Author: james Date: 07/03/2008
Lost your laptop at the airport? You’re not alone!
Came across this interesting article in ComputerWorld that says that in the US alone, more than...
Author: james Date: 07/03/2008
Partners – How do you want your training?
Microsoft provides a huge amount of training, information, product data, sales guides, technical...
Author: james Date: 06/25/2008
Microsoft Environmental Strategy
With increased investment into datacenters around the world it is important to consider the...
Author: james Date: 06/24/2008
Geeking out at Mashed 08
I’m here at Mashed this weekend getting my geek on! There’s some interesting talks on from the likes...
Author: james Date: 06/21/2008