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James Senior at Microsoft: Like a kid in a candy store
USB 3.0
I was surprised to read on Wired today that’s it been eight years since the last update to the USB...
Author: james Date: 11/16/2008
PDC Swag
How much swag was there at PDC? Lots. T-Shirts, Water Bottles, Bags, books, magazines etc. ...
Author: james Date: 11/12/2008
Mesh Man Ori Amiga on the Mesh Mobile and Mesh Wallpaper
My Mesh pal, Ori Amiga – of PDC keynote fame – over the weekend got the urge to start blogging and...
Author: james Date: 11/12/2008
MeshPack
News on the back burner after PDC via the Microsoft Startup Labs developer blog - 4 apps to get you...
Author: james Date: 11/12/2008
Defining Azure and Ignoring Live Services at your peril
Windows Azure Steve found a rather honest and down to earth description of Windows Azure on The...
Author: james Date: 11/11/2008
Driving Speeds
This made me chuckle especially having recently had to adjust my driving speed over here in the...
Author: james Date: 11/10/2008
Obama
They were saying at Web 2.0 that Obama won the election because of the web. Well, there was...
Author: james Date: 11/08/2008
How to pronounce Azure
The Azure Services Platform … Ashure … Azyouwere ??
Author: james Date: 11/08/2008
SideShow in Windows 7
Bryant’s got a stand out blog post on Windows 7 SideShow features I recommend checking it out. ...
Author: james Date: 11/06/2008
BizSpark: Free software, support and visibility for start-ups
If you are starting up a business you are going to spend money on stuff. You are going to have...
Author: james Date: 11/06/2008
The types of devices in Live Mesh
One of my favorite sessions at PDC 2008 was Jeremy Mazner’s talk on the “Future of the Device...
Author: james Date: 11/05/2008
Settling in
It was my first full day yesterday in Building 18, Microsoft HQ and as well as unpacking my new...
Author: james Date: 11/05/2008
Behind the keynote at PDC
Ever wondered what’s it like behind the scenes in the keynote room at PDC? Nick Lansley from Tesco...
Author: james Date: 11/04/2008
Building the Tesco demo for PDC
Adam Kinney in my team shot 9 videos whilst he was at PDC that really captured some of the coolest...
Author: james Date: 11/04/2008
The Prix Pictet Photography Competition
Photo courtesy of Prix Pictet 2008. The Prix Pictet Photography Competition is a brand new...
Author: james Date: 11/04/2008
More PDC 2008 Stats
Jennifer Ritzinger just sent out an email giving even more juicy stats on the hardware and food...
Author: james Date: 11/03/2008
Microsoft Services Connector – from Active Directory to the Cloud, seamlessly
Dr Logan has posted about resources that will help you get your head around the Microsoft Services...
Author: james Date: 11/03/2008
PDC 2008 in Stats
Countdown@PDC: Day 4 Recap Mike Swanson, Jennifer Ritzinger and their teams did an absolutely...
Author: james Date: 10/31/2008
I’m a Mac, wait, no I’m a PC!
Loving the work of John Curran and the Windows UK team. They parked a I’m a PC recording booth...
Author: james Date: 10/31/2008
Make your own electoral predictions!
Check out this cool WPF application that allows you to predict the outcome of the US election. ...
Author: james Date: 10/31/2008
New Features in the Worldwide Telescope
This week at PDC we launched the new version of WWT, “Equinox” this is truly stunning stuff and here...
Author: james Date: 10/30/2008
Tour of the Live Mesh Mac client
Today we released the bits for the Live Mesh Mac Client – here’s what the app looks like courtesy of...
Author: james Date: 10/30/2008
Ori and his Marvellous Meshified Car
I tweeted recently about Ori and his Mesh car and today the Channel 9 video proving the existence of...
Author: james Date: 10/30/2008
Live Mesh is now in BETA
We just released a new version of the Mesh Client for PC that is now BETA. Great work to all the...
Author: james Date: 10/30/2008
Live Mesh Mac Client now available!
Limited tech preview available – get them while they’re hot! www.mesh.com
Author: james Date: 10/30/2008
Microsoft Research: where computing changes the world
At the keynote this morning at PDC 2008 Rick Rashid talked about Microsoft Research and how an...
Author: james Date: 10/29/2008
Microsoft: change the world or go home. How about we change the world.
About a year ago, my pal Steve Clayton (happy birthday buddy) unleashed a genius viral marketing...
Author: james Date: 10/28/2008
Speaking of experiences…
Sitting here at PDC watching the multi-touch demo on Virtual Earth and remembered a post I’ve seen...
Author: james Date: 10/28/2008
Live Blogging goes big at PDC
Long and the crew are all over the Live Blogging here at PDC. Long tells me that during the...
Author: james Date: 10/28/2008
Windows Azure: Front and Center
Being of British origin, I normally use the BBC as a barometer for important tech news stories, if...
Author: james Date: 10/28/2008
Software + Services: Greater than the sum
Great new video on S+S and what the S+S vision is. Love how they dropped the “Mesh” word in...
Author: james Date: 10/28/2008
Quake 2 in Silverlight – sweet!
One of the last PC games I remember playing was Quake 2 – I know I know, it’s been a while. ...
Author: james Date: 10/27/2008
6000 geeks in a room
Loving gholzer’s Panorama of the PDC keynote this morning – check out the full size 9883 x 1356...
Author: james Date: 10/27/2008
Need some help understanding Windows Azure?
Did the keynote at PDC leave questions unanswered about Windows Azure? I would recommend...
Author: james Date: 10/27/2008
Hard Rock still rocking in Silverlight
The Hard Rock site just got a revamp with more items – there are now 500 items! There’s also a...
Author: james Date: 10/23/2008
Holy Cow it’s Mix 09!
I’m not even at PDC yet and we get an internal email telling us about Mix 09 registration opening...
Author: james Date: 10/23/2008
Here begins the period of craziness - and I can’t wait
Well, well, well. It’s mid-October and my life is about to get insane. Yesterday a consultant...
Author: james Date: 10/15/2008
Windows 7: what’s in a name?
As you probably heard the next version of Windows will be named Windows 7. There are some...
Author: james Date: 10/15/2008
Live Services Jumpstart
Hop, skip and jump start into Live Services with these 2 day technical courses on how to...
Author: james Date: 10/14/2008
Wow
courtesy of Yahoo finance…
Author: james Date: 10/10/2008
Moving on...
I'm excited to say that I've accepted a new role at Microsoft HQ in Redmond as Technical Evangelist...
Author: james Date: 10/03/2008
Windows Cloud
There’s news all over the internet this morning about Windows Cloud after Ballmer bounded into...
Author: james Date: 10/02/2008
Convince your boss to let you attend PDC
Have you struggled in the past to justify attending technical conferences to your boss before? ...
Author: james Date: 10/01/2008
New Virtual Earth Intellisense helper
Hot on the heels of the open source stuff being talked about of the last couple of days and...
Author: james Date: 09/30/2008
Virtual Earth at Pisces
Just got off stage in Edinburgh where I delivered a presentation on Virtual Earth. The topic...
Author: james Date: 09/30/2008
Loving the new features in Virtual Earth
I’m preparing this morning for a keynote tomorrow at the Pisces conference in Edinburgh and I’ve had...
Author: james Date: 09/29/2008
Advanced Editing in Office Live
Tim Kimber, the UK Product Manager for Office Live has put together a cool tutorial on using some of...
Author: james Date: 09/17/2008
Financial Services Craziness
Seems like a great time to pick up a bargain in Financial Services. Bank of America bought...
Author: james Date: 09/17/2008
Windows Live Wave 3 Beta!
LiveSide gave me the headsup on the new Windows Live Wave 3 Beta available here. This version...
Author: james Date: 09/17/2008
Bill and Jerry Part 2
Just in case you missed it. Normal people, just like me and you...
Author: james Date: 09/16/2008