Ryan Storgaard's Blog
A view on software, services and technology by Ryan Storgaard
Slides Posted: Canadian Leadership Summit “Exploring Software Plus Services” Breakout Session
I’ve posted the slides from the “Exploring Software + Services” presentation Mark Relph and...
Date: 05/29/2009
Did you know Skydrive is now 25 GIGABYTES of free online storage and Hotmail is now “ever growing”
Two huge announcements I’m finding not a lot of people are aware of with regards to the latest...
Date: 02/12/2009
Office 14 Web Applications PDC 2008 Video Demo
Here’s a snippet from the Day 2 keynote at PDC showing Office 14 Web Applications:
Date: 11/03/2008
PDC 2008 – Day 1 Wrap Up – Videos, Fact Sheets, Channel 9 Videos, and Speech Transcripts
Wow. What a day! I’ve attempted to pull together a summary of materials and videos from Day 1. I’m...
Date: 10/28/2008
Windows Azure website is now live – microsoft.com/azure
https://www.microsoft.com/azure You are also able to register to try the Community Technology...
Date: 10/27/2008
Windows Azure – Ray Ozzie just announced Windows Azure and Windows Azure Services Platform
Key takeaways so far on what Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform are: Windows...
Date: 10/27/2008
PDC 2008 is underway, watch the keynote live!
Ray Ozzie has kicked off PDC 2008 and is delivering his keynote right now. You can follow...
Date: 10/27/2008
Live Mesh Tech Preview
For those of you that attended the Canadian Strategic Architect forum a couple of weeks ago, Live...
Date: 04/24/2008
CSAF – Windows Live Platform Slide Deck
Here’s the latest Windows Live Platform slide deck from my presentation today at the Canadian...
Date: 04/10/2008
How to use the Windows Vista Snipping Tool to capture a menu
I use the snipping tool in Windows Vista all the time. If you’ve ever wondered how to capture...
Date: 03/27/2008
Social Network Data Portability through Windows Live Contacts API and www.invite2messenger.net
Huge announcement from John Richards, Director of Windows Live Platform. Read the full post here,...
Date: 03/25/2008
Good post from George Moore, GM, Live Platform Services
Via Angus (who's blog is definitely one you want to check out for all the latest on Live Platform....
Date: 03/12/2008
Big List O' Mix08 Software Downloads
Joshua pulled together a nice list of all the Mix08 software. He's actually got another good Mix08...
Date: 03/11/2008
"The Gambler"(s), PhotoZoom collection of Vegas pics, and Joe using the Deep Zoom Composer on a Silverlight 2.0 Poster
Aside from all the exciting stuff at the Mix08 conference, it was entertaining for me to watch...
Date: 03/11/2008
Mix08 Keynotes - Ray Ozzie, Scott Guthrie, Dean Hachamovitch, Guy Kawasaki, Steve Ballmer
Ray Ozzie Keynote Guy Kawasaki and Steve Ballmer Keynotes Some keynote snippets:...
Date: 03/11/2008
Ray Ozzie's Mix08 Keynote Speech Transcript
I noticed Ray's keynote transcript was available on the press site. I've included the full...
Date: 03/06/2008
Hello Bonjour Hola Ciao こんにちは Hallo 你好
Have you checked out Windows Live Translator Beta yet? I absolutely love the UI features! My wife...
Date: 09/11/2007
SharePoint 2007 Blogging Tweaks: Rich text blog comments and multiple category selection
Well that was easy! Thanks to an internal thread by Lawrence Liu on configuring rich comment support...
Date: 09/07/2007
Windows Live Hotmail - Got my bump to 5GB and also configured my LiveID for InfoCard
Cool! All week I was checking my storage limit wondering when I'd get the magic bump from 2GB to 5GB...
Date: 08/30/2007
Office 2007 MSDN Virtual Labs
Cool! The MSDN Virtual Lab team has some Office 2007 labs available now: 2007 Microsoft Office...
Date: 08/22/2006
seewindowsvista.com and congrats to CDN ISV 90 degree software for being highlighted on the site!
Man I'm stoked about this - this is so cool... Check out www.seewindowsvista.com (very innovative...
Date: 06/01/2006
Windows Vista and WinFX February CTP is available!!!
YES!! Just received the email I've been wating for the whole week. From Tom Archer's email: "The...
Date: 02/22/2006
Guy & the "Art of Partnering"
Man, Guy Kawasaki has been absolutely rippin' up the blogging world over the last month. Check out...
Date: 02/08/2006
IE7 Beta 2
Download IE 7 Beta 2 Watch the channel 9 interview with the IE team IE7 Developer Centre on MSDN A...
Date: 02/01/2006
Upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 2005
Many of you have products written in VB6 and have been pondering if/when/how to go about moving to...
Date: 02/01/2006
Windows Vista Logo Program for Software
Interested in having a look and/or providing feedback on the proposed Windows Vista Log Program for...
Date: 02/01/2006
Microsoft Research - Search Result Clustering (SRC)
Last week I installed the Search Results Clustering toolbar from sandbox.msn.com and I'm lovin' it!...
Date: 02/01/2006
Awesome offer for CDN ISV's building on SQL 2005
Canadian ISV's, have we got a deal for you! I'm excited to tell you about a very cool offer that's...
Date: 01/23/2006
Windows Workflow Foundation (Beta 2) Hands on Labs available
The WF team have updated the hands on labs to the latest Beta 2 version (you can download the WF...
Date: 01/20/2006
Detecting network connection status with the System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace
Got a smart client application that needs to detect the network connection state? Using the .NET...
Date: 01/19/2006
Team Foundation Server Release Candidate "early February"!?
Cool... According to Jeff Beelher's (Jeff's a Lead Program Manager) blog a TFS Release Candidate...
Date: 01/19/2006
Real-time flight info - this is so cool
I first saw mention of FlyteComm on Rick Segal's blog and this morning saw that Scoble picked it up...
Date: 01/19/2006
"Ready to Rocket" 2006 list is out
I see my friends over at Rocket Builders have released their annual "Ready to Rocket" 2006 list....
Date: 01/19/2006
Availability of "Go Live" license for WCF and WF
What’s the “big news” today? Today we announced the availability of “go live” licenses for two big...
Date: 01/18/2006
So what does SQL 2005 mean to an ISV? Part 2
Business Intelligence Folks, if you really want to seize an opportunity to drive some demand for...
Date: 10/20/2005
So what does SQL 2005 mean to an ISV? Part 1
Let's face it, there is a LOT of information available out there on SQL 2005, Visual Studio 2005,...
Date: 10/15/2005
Windows Workflow Foundation announced today at PDC!
Windows Workflow Foundation was publicly announced and demonstrated today at PDC!! ISV’s, you are...
Date: 09/15/2005
IE 7 beta download
MSDN Subscriber downloads has IE 7 beta ready for download! (It's under Operating Systems if you're...
Date: 07/28/2005
Windows Vista Beta 1 - Ready for download!
Vista Beta 1 (formerly code named "Longhorn Beta 1) is ready for download from MSDN Subscriber...
Date: 07/27/2005
A quickstart on Identity
Identity is an area getting a log of attention in the blogosphere lately. Specifically, I've been...
Date: 07/08/2005
Some SQL 2005 Resources for ya
I put together some SQL 2005 resources for one of my ISV's so thought I'd share with you... Most of...
Date: 03/29/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 – MSDN Deep Dive Follow Up Resources
Hey guys, as promised during the Deep Dive presentation, here’s a bunch of resources regarding...
Date: 03/11/2005
.NET and J2EE Interop resources
.NET and J2EE Interop resources I had a great time presenting this topic at several User Groups over...
Date: 03/02/2005
VSLive! Toronto 2005 - Use conference priority code "RYAN" for 10% off!
VSLive! Toronto is running April 13-16th and it looks to be a really good line up of sessions and...
Date: 02/28/2005
IE7 announced
Check out the IE7 blog here (and over 400 comments!!)...
Date: 02/15/2005