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
The Rumor Mill for the PDC
Netbooks, Strata, Cloud, etc, etc, even Office14. Everybody has been pre-guessing what the...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/25/2008
Head in the Cloud, Feet on the Ground
Eugenio Pace and Gianpaolo Carraro from the architect team have just published and article in the...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/22/2008
Microsoft Hyper-V already has 23% share of new Virtulization Machines
There was a report out from IDC late last week which provides a great summary of the Virtualization...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/21/2008
HALO 3 – ‘Recon’
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
Parallel Computing with .NET
There is a lot more information becoming available of the Parallel frameworks in .NET 4.0. Here are...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/17/2008
Skipping Windows Vista for Windows 7
Steve Ballmer was at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo conference today, talking about a number of issues....
Author: neilhut Date: 10/16/2008
Silverlight 2.0 Ships
Silverlight 2 shipped today. Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform browser plugin that enables rich...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/14/2008
Windows 7
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
Eclipse Tools for Silverlight
Busy day. A new open source project “Eclipse Tools for Silverlight” - https://www.eclipse4sl.org/ has...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/13/2008
Two Weeks to GO : THe PDC Awaits
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
MySpace Enter The Ad Market
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
Is Silicon Valley really in trouble?
A week ago we were all pondering the implications on the 700bn$ rescue package that the US...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/10/2008
Anybody ready for Visual Simulation
The team that brought you Flight Simulator has been working for a while to separate the core...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/09/2008
New IIS7 Extensions Being Released to the Web
Joey recently spoke with Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec who is a Group Program Manager for IIS. They talked...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/08/2008
Group Policy Preferences
Chris Henley put together a really detailed screen cast on Group Policy Preferences which is a key...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/07/2008
Announcing the PDC Boy Band
5 Years after the "Boy Band" culture was lost forever, the PDC team are looking to bring...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/03/2008
The Best Place to Get Visual Studio 2010 Content
At the beginning of the week we announced Visual Studio 2010, together with the new key technologies...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/02/2008
Microsoft Announce the "Dublin" Application Server
With the announcement of Visual Studio 2010, one thing that was not highlighted as much as the...
Author: neilhut Date: 10/01/2008
WPF Application Quality Guide
In light of the rapid adoption of the WPF and the continuous requests from partners and customers,...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/30/2008
GREEN IT is like "LIVING WITH YOUR MOM" ??
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
Steve Ballmer Live At The Churchill Club
There has been some interesting commentary going around on TechMeme from a meeting that Steve...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/26/2008
Windows 7 bits given out a the PDC
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
Under the Hood: Windows Vista Performance...Need Answers?
Mark Russinovich and a panel of industry experts are going to be talking live in around 45...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/24/2008
PDC Attendees get a 160GB USB Drive with all the goodies!!
Personally I am not a big fan of the "Software + Services" PDC theme, but behind the...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/23/2008
Best Places to find Windows HPC Server 2008 Resources
Within the team we compiled a great lists of "best places" to find information about...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/22/2008
Windows HPC Server 2008 ( V2) goes to RTM
This morning we just announced the release of Windows HPC Server 2008 to manufacturing. This is a...
Author: neilhut Date: 09/22/2008
Finding Building 20 - Platform Adoption Center
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
The Matrix coming to a PC near you
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
IE 8 Beta 2 References
With the release of IE8 Beta2, I thought it might be interesting to pull together some useful tips...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/28/2008
Mark Russinovich: the future of Sysinternals, Security, Windows
David interviewed Mark Russinovich for EDGE the other day and asked him some interesting questions...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/27/2008
SQL Server 2008 Consolidation and Virtualization at UBS
Charley Hanania who is a Senior Database Specialist at UBS talks on EDGE about how SQLServer 2008 is...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/25/2008
A New Microsoft Data Center in Des Moines IOWA
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
Intel Announce Dual Core Atom
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
LIVE Inside the "Ship Room" for SQL Server 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
Easy Steps to Get your Web Site to Support IE8 in 5Mins
Put simply, IE8 running in standard rendering mode will not display sites created to support IE7...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/13/2008
.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit goes to RTM
Jonathan, Drew, Jason and Brian have just shipped the final release of the .NET 3.5 Enhancements...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/11/2008
Have you Climbed up Zermatt Yet?
So a month ago we announced the "Zermatt" Developer Framework which as an SDK which aids...
Author: neilhut Date: 08/08/2008
NBC Olympics on Silverlight 2
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
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RTM
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
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4
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
The PDC is showing its Hand
Yesterday a whole new bunch of sessions were published on the PDC site....
Author: neilhut Date: 08/02/2008
EDGE Goes local
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
The Client Transition from 32-bit to 64-Bit
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
The “Mojave Experiment”
This is an interesting experiment that was conducted around Vista. They asked a number of people...
Author: neilhut Date: 07/29/2008
How Can You Slipstream IE8 into a Vista Install Image?
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
PowerTools PowerShell Commands for OpenXML Released
Eric White on the team has just released his PowerTools PowerShell cmdlets for OpenXML onto...
Author: neilhut Date: 07/03/2008
The Front Fell Off
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
Excel running in a HPC Cluster
Wenming has just created a cool demo which shows how Microsoft Excel can be configured in a Windows...
Author: neilhut Date: 07/02/2008
Hyper-V Hits RTM
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
DNS is like a toilet? Software like beer (18:25)?
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