Neil Hutson - Focused on Emerging Technologies for Microsoft
I am responsible for the adoption of emerging technology platforms by developers and it professionals at Microsoft
Netbooks, Strata, Cloud, etc, etc, even Office14. Everybody has been pre-guessing what the...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/25/2008
Eugenio Pace and Gianpaolo Carraro from the architect team have just published and article in the...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/22/2008
There was a report out from IDC late last week which provides a great summary of the Virtualization...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/21/2008
Keith spotted this new promotion from Bungie for the Fall of 2009. Can’t wait. Halo 3 Recon - the...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/20/2008
There is a lot more information becoming available of the Parallel frameworks in .NET 4.0. Here are...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/17/2008
Steve Ballmer was at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo conference today, talking about a number of issues....
Author: neilhut Date: 10/16/2008
Silverlight 2 shipped today. Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform browser plugin that enables rich...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/14/2008
The old king is dead, long live the king… or so they say. On the Vista blog site, Mike Nash has just...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/13/2008
Busy day. A new open source project “Eclipse Tools for Silverlight” - https://www.eclipse4sl.org/ has...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/13/2008
Well at this time in two weeks, the first PDC keynote will just be about to start. I personally can...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/13/2008
They have taken there time ( I believe that I heard about this almost a year ago ), but MySpace has...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/13/2008
A week ago we were all pondering the implications on the 700bn$ rescue package that the US...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/10/2008
The team that brought you Flight Simulator has been working for a while to separate the core...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/09/2008
Joey recently spoke with Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec who is a Group Program Manager for IIS. They talked...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/08/2008
Chris Henley put together a really detailed screen cast on Group Policy Preferences which is a key...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/07/2008
5 Years after the "Boy Band" culture was lost forever, the PDC team are looking to bring...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/03/2008
At the beginning of the week we announced Visual Studio 2010, together with the new key technologies...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/02/2008
With the announcement of Visual Studio 2010, one thing that was not highlighted as much as the...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/01/2008
In light of the rapid adoption of the WPF and the continuous requests from partners and customers,...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/30/2008
Adam Carter did an interview with James Governor, who is an an analyst with RedMonk, when he was in...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/29/2008
There has been some interesting commentary going around on TechMeme from a meeting that Steve...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/26/2008
I guess the news is out. Mary Jo Foley blogged about the fact that the PDC will be giving exclusive...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/25/2008
Mark Russinovich and a panel of industry experts are going to be talking live in around 45...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/24/2008
Personally I am not a big fan of the "Software + Services" PDC theme, but behind the...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/23/2008
Within the team we compiled a great lists of "best places" to find information about...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/22/2008
This morning we just announced the release of Windows HPC Server 2008 to manufacturing. This is a...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/22/2008
Sometimes its hard to find the wood from the trees, and in one case on campus it was hard to find...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/17/2008
I have been on holiday for a couple of weeks and catching up on the latest news. One thing that...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/08/2008
With the release of IE8 Beta2, I thought it might be interesting to pull together some useful tips...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/28/2008
David interviewed Mark Russinovich for EDGE the other day and asked him some interesting questions...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/27/2008
Charley Hanania who is a Senior Database Specialist at UBS talks on EDGE about how SQLServer 2008 is...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/25/2008
I guess Data centers are big news these days and where they are located ( when not placed on the San...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/21/2008
Surely two cores can not still make an atom, but Intel seem to think so. At their dev conference,...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/20/2008
Joey was able to get unique access to the SQLServer 2008 ship room when they did the final signoff...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/19/2008
Put simply, IE8 running in standard rendering mode will not display sites created to support IE7...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/13/2008
Jonathan, Drew, Jason and Brian have just shipped the final release of the .NET 3.5 Enhancements...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/11/2008
So a month ago we announced the "Zermatt" Developer Framework which as an SDK which aids...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/08/2008
The Olympics start tomorrow and one of the things that DPE has been involved with that I am most...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/07/2008
So SQLServer 2008 made it to RTM today. This is a pretty big release of the product and combined...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/06/2008
Phil Haack, one of key guys behind ASP.NET MVC provides an insight on new in Preview 4 for Channel9....
Author: neilhut Date: 08/05/2008
Yesterday a whole new bunch of sessions were published on the PDC site....
Author: neilhut Date: 08/02/2008
If anyone can translate this, send me an email ( with the translation ) and I will send you an EDGE...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/01/2008
I have been working on 64-bit adoption for many years now (some say too many), first with Itanium...
Author: neilhut Date: 07/31/2008
This is an interesting experiment that was conducted around Vista. They asked a number of people...
Author: neilhut Date: 07/29/2008
So if you ever wanted IE8 to be integrated into your Vista Install Image, how could you do this? In...
Author: neilhut Date: 07/13/2008
Eric White on the team has just released his PowerTools PowerShell cmdlets for OpenXML onto...
Author: neilhut Date: 07/03/2008
I normally keep my blog pretty much on track with Technical Stuff, but this video caught my eye as...
Author: neilhut Date: 07/03/2008
Wenming has just created a cool demo which shows how Microsoft Excel can be configured in a Windows...
Author: neilhut Date: 07/02/2008
The bits are golden.. There are some great discussions on the EDGE site around Hyper-V from all the...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/27/2008
One of the last interviews at TechED was with Mark Minasi . He is one of the externals which has an...
Author: neilhut Date: 06/14/2008