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Neil Hutson - Focused on Emerging Technologies for Microsoft

I am responsible for the adoption of emerging technology platforms by developers and it professionals at Microsoft

Windows 7 : Building .NET Sensor and Location Aware Applications

Yochay in the team has just released a Windows 7 Sensor and Location .NET Interop Sample onto MSDN....

Author: neilhut Date: 03/20/2009

PowerTools for Open XML V1.1 - RELEASED

Today, Eric in the team released PowerTools for Open XML V1.1. PowerTools for Open XML is an open...

Author: neilhut Date: 03/19/2009

Windows Live Messenger Lets You Add Chat To Your Web Site

One of the cool technologies which did not get a huge mention by the press today at Mix09 today is...

Author: neilhut Date: 03/18/2009

WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2

The WCF REST Starter Kit is a set of features, Visual Studio templates, samples and guidance that...

Author: neilhut Date: 03/18/2009

ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 CTP Release

The ADO Data Services team released the first CTP of the upcoming ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 release...

Author: neilhut Date: 03/17/2009

Who Likes Basketball?

Roger in the team just posted about the work he has been doing behind the scenes for the March...

Author: neilhut Date: 03/13/2009

Changes to SQL Data Services ( SDS)

SQL Data Services ( SDS) is part of the Azure Services Platform and is the key service for storing...

Author: neilhut Date: 03/10/2009

Quite a Week of News if You are an ITPRO

Joey from Edge, highlighted on quite a big week in ITPRO land....

Author: neilhut Date: 02/27/2009

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Today we announced the final availability of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 RC to MSDN...

Author: neilhut Date: 02/25/2009

Windows 7 : BitLocker To Go !!

How do you secure your business critical information when it is stored on a USB Drive? Research...

Author: neilhut Date: 02/25/2009

SQL Server 2008 SP1 Public CTP

Today we released SQL Server 2008 SP1 Public CTP. The bits can be downloaded from here The team is...

Author: neilhut Date: 02/25/2009

Windows 7 : Booting from a VHD

Adam from EDGE talked to Jeremy Chapman about how you can boot from a VHD in Windows 7 ( or Windows...

Author: neilhut Date: 02/24/2009

Latest pictures of Windows Mobile 6.5

CNET have a number of shots of the new Windows Mobile 6.5 interface which were taken at the Mobile...

Author: neilhut Date: 02/17/2009

Windows 7 and DirectAccess

Every wanted to connect from home or from the coffee shop to your corporate network without having...

Author: neilhut Date: 02/16/2009

Azure Services Training Kit – February Update

Want to know how to architect applications for Windows Azure and the rest of the Azure Services...

Author: neilhut Date: 02/13/2009

Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder

Keith Combs has just published a screen cast on EDGE about an really excellent tool in Windows 7...

Author: neilhut Date: 02/12/2009

The Windows Client Profile

Jaime Rodriguez in the team put together a detailed view of the Client Profile a while back, which...

Author: neilhut Date: 02/01/2009

Recycling Active Directory?

We have had a recycle bin for Windows Files, Mail and many other objects which people delete on...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/30/2009

IE8 RC1 is released – Deployment Guidance

Today we launched IE8 RC1. David in the team spoke to Jane Maliouta for EDGE, who is the program...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/27/2009

Azure Issue Tracker Demo Released

Last week Ryan in the team released the Azure Issue Tracker sample application.  This demo...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/26/2009

IE8 Application Compatibility Resources

IE8 is currently in Beta and is also the Microsoft supported browser within Windows 7 (currently in...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/23/2009

Dynamics CRM Demo extended through Windows Azure

Some time ago at the Convergence conference in Copenhagen, Ben Riga on the team showed a demo of our...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/20/2009

Silverlight and the Inauguration

Nice to see that Silverlight is being used to stream live webcasts for the Inauguration. It started...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/19/2009

Installing Windows 7 from a USB stick on your Netbook

Dennis Chung from Microsoft Singapore has created a great screen cast on EDGE that shows you have...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/17/2009

Loads of Windows 7 Tips and Tricks

Tim Sneath in the team put together a really detailed list of nice features which you get with...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/13/2009

BitLocker in Windows 7 – Protecting your USB Drives

One of easy ways to get your data stolen from your PC is through the theft or misplacement of USB...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/12/2009

What I like About Windows 7

So after the announcement of Windows 7 beta yesterday, here’s my take on the seven things that I...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/08/2009

No More Parallel Development Pain : 10-4

The Visual Studio Evangelism team just released a new episode of the 10-4 show ( Visual Studio 2010...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/07/2009

The hidden Gem – Windows Live Essentials

Over the break, I got the chance to look at some software and technologies which I do not typically...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/06/2009

Wikieexplorer running on Windows Azure

Dotnetsolutions, a Microsoft Gold partner from the the UK have just finished porting their...

Author: neilhut Date: 01/05/2009

WATCH THE 10-4 SHOW to Learn about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0

Brian and the rest of the Visual Studio evangelism team have released the first episode of the 10-4...

Author: neilhut Date: 12/18/2008

ODF Support for Office 2007 SP2 – How it will be done

We have just has published documentation on how we are going to implement support for Open Document...

Author: neilhut Date: 12/16/2008

Microsoft’s Datacenter Vision

Last week there was a lot of discussion about some of the thinking about a future generation of data...

Author: neilhut Date: 12/08/2008

Windows Vista Sp2 / Windows Server SP2

The Customer Preview Program (CPP) for Windows Vista® Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available so that...

Author: neilhut Date: 12/02/2008

Environmental Sustainability

Who would have thought that 5 years ago there would be a director of “Environmental Sustainability”...

Author: neilhut Date: 12/02/2008

SQL Server Fabric Control Point and The DAC 'PACK'

Joey met with Mike Jones right after the first public showing of some of the great new features...

Author: neilhut Date: 11/21/2008

Microsoft Ships Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008

At the RoboDevelopment Conference we announced the availability of Microsoft Robotics Developer...

Author: neilhut Date: 11/19/2008

I will have to go to a 'Mark Minasi' presentation one of these days

Adam caught up with Mark Minasi last week in Vegas. He seems to be flying all over the place, but...

Author: neilhut Date: 11/18/2008

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) REST Starter Kit

Ron Jacobs has been quietly building a really great REST based resource for Windows Communication...

Author: neilhut Date: 11/11/2008

PDC Highlights @ TechED EMEA - Here We Come

The core of the evangelism team is traveling to TechED EMEA in Barcelona today to redeliver some of...

Author: neilhut Date: 11/09/2008

A Day in the life of a Microsoft Unified Communications User

If you ever wanted to get a demo of Microsoft Unified Communications by someone who runs this every...

Author: neilhut Date: 11/03/2008

Azure Services Training Kit – Now available

Today at the PDC we are making available the first preview release of the Azure Services Training...

Author: neilhut Date: 10/30/2008

Windows Server 2008 R2

  One of the key things that got announced yesterday were details about the next release of...

Author: neilhut Date: 10/30/2008

PDC LIVE: Keynotes Roundup Day 2

Wow. The Day 2 keynote was pretty amazing and I am sure that I am going to forget something in my...

Author: neilhut Date: 10/28/2008

PDC LIVE - CRM Team Talk about CRM "5"

Ben has posted a blog which provides some insight into some of the features coming in CRM 5 together...

Author: neilhut Date: 10/28/2008

PDC LIVE : Kim Cameron Outlines Identity Vision

Kim Cameron gave a session today with some pretty big announcements around Microsoft's Identity...

Author: neilhut Date: 10/27/2008

PDC LIVE : Windows Azure Technical Preview Starts Now

At 12 noon PST, the Technical Preview of Windows Azure is open. The full cloud experience is only...

Author: neilhut Date: 10/27/2008

PDC LIVE : Microsoft Announce New Cloud Platform Called AZURE

Im here in the keynote at the PDC and Ray Ozzie has just announced the new cloud platform which is...

Author: neilhut Date: 10/27/2008

Ahead of the PDC, "Microsoft .NET" has stepped out into the limelight sporting a new logo....

Author: neilhut Date: 10/26/2008

System Center Virtual Machine Manager released to RTM

As described on EDGE, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) released to manufacture(RTM)...

Author: neilhut Date: 10/25/2008

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