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jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery . Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available to...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 11-21-2008
The Ruby Suns on your TV thanks to computers!?

It’s true. The Ruby Suns song “Oh, Mojave” has been used by Microsoft in their commercial for somthing called Windows Vista. I asked our IT department what that was and apparently its what makes your computer go, but only if you’re using the John Hodgman kind of computer. So there...

Posted to Indie by Anonymous on 11-20-2008
Microsoft tells Google, Amazon, Adobe, Rackspace, & Apple: “stay off our lawn”

Yesterday Microsoft announced a new set of cloud-based services, called Windows Azure. Today they announced Windows 7. I’m tracking the news here, will have more to say later. What do you think?

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-28-2008
PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times

Some computers are never turned off, or at least rarely see any state less active than "standby," but others (for power savings or other reasons) need rebooting — daily, or even more often. The New York Times is running a short article which says that it's not just a few makers like...

Posted to Hardware by Anonymous on 10-26-2008
“Demo of the year” of 2006 released by Microsoft

If you go to Google and search for “demo of the year” you’ll find my 2006 post about Microsoft’s Photosynth. It was that good. The demo is still among my favorite I’ve ever seen (and I’ve sat through thousands of demos). A few minutes ago Microsoft released Photosynth...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 08-20-2008
.NET Rocks! on ASP.NET Dynamic Data

The great folks over in DNR land just posted Scott Hunter's interview on ASP.NET Dynamic Data! In it he talks a lot about not only what is available with VS08 SP1, but also what is coming next. Exciting times! Show #349 | 6/10/2008 (63 minutes) Scott Hunter on Microsoft Dynamic...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 06-10-2008
The Truth About Last Year's Xbox 360 Recall

chrplace forwards an article in which Gartner's Brian Lewis offers his perspective on what led to last year's Xbox 360 recall. Lewis says it happened because Microsoft wanted to avoid an ASIC vendor. "Microsoft designed the graphic chip on its own, cut a traditional ASIC vendor out of the...

Posted to Hardware by Anonymous on 06-10-2008
Under The Radar: Tue 6/3, Mountain View

If you're in Silicon Valley tomorrow (tue 6/3), check out the Under The Radar Social Media & Entertainment conf (sched). I'll be a judge & panelist for 2 startup pitch / review sessions on Content and Targeting Tools. Social Media and Entertainment June 3, 2008 | 8:00am – 6:00pm Microsoft...

Posted to Venture Capitial by Anonymous on 06-02-2008
Job Openings Working on the .NET Framework Product Team

The single biggest factor for success on any project I have been apart of in the last 10 years at Microsoft is the people. In a business like ours where intellectual capital is the biggest asset, hiring and growing people is an extremely important task. I have gathered some details on a few...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 04-30-2008
Updated ASP.NET Dynamic Data Bits Posted

We just posted some updated bits and samples for ASP.NET Dynamic Data... I encourage you to go pick them up and let us know what you think... Some cool new stuff in this release: Visual Studio Integration is much cleaner Now supports "pretty" URLs http://products/details/1 instead of http:...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 04-23-2008

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