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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

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