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
Announcing the New .NET Logo
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