Ian Moulster's blog
A Microsoft employee translating Microsoft technology into plain English
Mix:UK 07 early bird rate closing on Friday
In case you wanted to attend our rather excellent Mix:UK event, you should be aware that the bargain...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/08/2007
NASA release new Photosynth collection
Interesting to see that NASA have released a Photosynth collection covering the preparations of the...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/07/2007
Syncing Silverlight video to Virtual Earth map
One of the coolest things about the recently released Windows Live quickapps is the demonstration of...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/02/2007
Mix UK Event Registration now live!
We have opened registrations for the Mix UK 07 event. Head to www.microsoft.com/uk/mix07 for...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 07/25/2007
Source Code for great Windows Live applications
I need to make you aware of a couple of really nice examples of Windows Live applications that we've...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 07/11/2007
Virtual Earth screensaver
My colleague Simon Davies has just pointed me at a cool Virtual Earth (VE) screensaver that uses RSS...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 06/27/2007
More Silverlight tutorials
I recently posted a couple of entries (here and here) with tutorials regarding Silverlight. If...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 06/26/2007
Nice new Silverlight tutorials
These are great: short, snappy Silverlight "how to" tutorials using....Silverlight. Perfect.
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 06/21/2007
Virtual Earth in UK websites
I've just noticed that the NHS are now using Virtual Earth for their "find a service" feature that...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 06/21/2007
Mix:UK 07 - register your interest
We've getting closer to starting registrations for the Mix:UK 07 event. I've been banned from...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 06/20/2007
Sky News Vista gadget
Sky News have just released a gadget for the Windows Vista sidebar - I particularly like the option...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 06/20/2007
Video tutorial on Silverlight Streaming
[UPDATE: We have since published a plug in to Expression Encoder that makes it much, much easier to...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 06/17/2007
Example of a UK site using Silverlight streaming
Take a look at http://www.lovelewisham.tv for an example of Silverlight streaming being used by the...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 06/11/2007
Award-winning Developer launch
Those of you who watched the webcasts we produced for the UK Developer launch of Windows Vista and...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 06/04/2007
Windows Live Writer
I'm a big fan of our Windows Live Writer product, and everyone I’ve managed to persuade to talk a...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 05/30/2007
Mix in the UK
If you currently subscribe to the UK MSDN Flash newsletter (and why wouldn't you?), you may have...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 05/17/2007
Windowsclient.net launches
We've just launched a new site for Windows Client development, focusing on Windows Forms and the...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 05/11/2007
Free event covering Silverlight and Windows Live for developers in the UK
If you want to witness Silverlight development first hand, along with insights into the...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 05/09/2007
How much will it cost me to develop against Windows Live?
In my previous blog post I outlined some new commercial terms for Windows Live services that we...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 05/03/2007
New Windows Live announcements at Mix 07
I'm in the Windows Live opening session at day 2 of Mix and Brian Arbogast is providing some great...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 05/01/2007
A new dev.live.com
As a part of the announcements at Mix this week we have significantly revamped our Windows Live...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 04/30/2007
Mix Day 1
The keynote is over for day 1, and it’s been fantastic so far. You may well have seen the various...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 04/30/2007
In Vegas
Well I'm here in sunny and very hot - 38 degrees C - Las Vegas, getting ready to enjoy the first day...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 04/29/2007
Scary video
I knew I'd regret agreeing to this: The guy who runs a new designer-focused website -...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 04/17/2007
Office prizes sent (UK developer launch)
This may be passé now but just to make sure everyone is aware: the Office prizes did indeed get sent...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 04/17/2007
The "S" word
You may or may not have noticed an announcement we made late on Sunday, so I thought I'd draw...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 04/17/2007
Great decision: Expression Blend and Expression Web will be in MSDN
In case you haven’t already heard it from elsewhere we have decided to include Expression Blend and...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 04/03/2007
Technologies to focus on
When people find out I work for Microsoft they often ask “so what technologies should I be aware of...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 03/20/2007
List of winners, and update on the Office delivery date (UK Developer Launch)
Some day I'll be able to stop blogging about this competition and get back to blogging about other...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 03/13/2007
A few pieces of news (UK Developer Launch)
I thought I'd start a new post to save people trying to find comments on the last one, as there are...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 03/08/2007
Emails have been sent to winners (UK Developer Launch)
I'm very pleased to announce that we have now sent the emails to the winners of the UK developer...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 02/26/2007
Shipping of Windows Vista / Microsoft Office prizes to competition winners (UK developer launch)
I have received an update on the shipping date, we're likely to start shipping during week...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 02/15/2007
Universal Music gadget for Windows Vista
I've just been sent a new Windows Vista sidebar gadget produced by Universal Music - see...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 02/08/2007
When will the software be sent to the winners? (UK Developer Launch)
I have asked for an update from the team that is getting the copies of Windows Vista and Microsoft...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 02/07/2007
Signed stuff
A little while ago I posted a blog entry about some merchandise that Bill Gates signed that we were...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 02/07/2007
"Presentation Advances in the .NET Framework Version 3.0" video now available for download
As you may be aware we re-released the download versions of the UK developer launch technical...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 02/06/2007
Online version of Official Windows Vista Magazine
Future Publishing have just sent me the link to their online version of the Official Windows Vista...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 02/01/2007
Have we reached 1000 winners yet? (UK developer launch)
I have just received the first set of data re the number of winners in the launch competition. The...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 01/31/2007
Video downloads (for UK developer launch)
I'm going out on a limb....which I tend to do from time to time....but I have a proposal for readers...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 01/26/2007
"Thank You" email has been sent (UK developer launch)....for day 1 only
I can confirm that the "thank you" email has now been sent to attendees of the first day UK...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 01/26/2007
Some questions you might have on your mind (regarding the UK launch)
I'm aware that readers of this blog are waiting for answers to three questions (maybe more, but...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 01/25/2007
Answering some of the comments
There have been quite a few comments to various of my blog entries, all covering the competition, so...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 01/20/2007
The competition
You may have to refresh your browser to see it, but to save you the bother the link is here:...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 01/19/2007
We're going to pull the download option for a while (the streaming version is still ok)
Folks - my apologies, but we've taken the decision to pull the download option for the videos. It's...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 01/19/2007
Some issues with downloaded versions of videos
We've had some reports of people have "file corrupted" messages from some of the videos they...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 01/19/2007
Looking for the keynote for developer launch?
It will be available on www.microsoft.com/uk/launch2007/dev absolutely as soon as possible. The...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 01/19/2007
My email to Bill Gates
I love working at Microsoft. And that's not as sickly sweet as it sounds, it really is a fun place...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 01/16/2007
Into the home straight for developer launch event: Satellite trucks and film crews - it's like a film set
It's surprising just how much effort it takes to put on a launch event. But then, there are quite a...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 01/15/2007