Working for Microsoft has been a dream since I was very young and now that I'm finally here I love this company even more. I believe in what we're doing and in the ways we help people. I think it's great we have such an energetic CEO, and I love Microsoft's commitment in improving our products and listening and working more with our customers. On...
As a photography enthusiast and the son of a professional photographer (SLR, or "single lens reflex"), I am excited to read that Longhorn will support raw image formats from several manufacturers of digital cameras and digital SLRs.Raw images are pre-pixilated dumps from the image sensor - a CCD - that are comparable to film. Keeping raw image...
Today I released version 1.3.1976 of my Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies. This version adds support for Windows Me and fixes a few bugs to provide column handlers and overlay icons for Windows Me, Windows 2000, and newer.Among the fixes was a crashing bug that occurred because of an access violation exception when sorting by the public key toke...
The Developer Division Customer Product-lifecycle Experience team has a new logo thanks to his impromptu logo contest on Channel9. CPX voted for several logos over the last couple of weeks and the winner was chosen.
MSN has released the final version of their MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search, formerly known as the MSN Toolbar Suite with Desktop Search.Not a lot seems to have changed from a high level except for the user interface. The desktop band is smaller and the system tray (systray) icon has changed slightly, but build 02.01.0000.2214 is a b...
Microsoft researchers announced on Wednesday that the same technology used to effectively fight SPAM is now being used to fight HIV. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have already given over $1 billion in grants to help fight HIV, TB, and reproductive health alone, with over $4 billion since the foundation's inception given to global health.
We received our Windows Media Center 2005 from Dell yesterday and I'm quite pleased. Not only is the machine a nice configuration but the capabilities of Media Center are great. There's nothing like kicking back on the home office couch and listening to music selected via remote on your 5.1 surrouned sound system or watching recorded TV in the...
It's official: an old acquaintance of mine from DevHood that became my intern and then a close friend is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Visual C#, a member of the community that has shown outstanding commitment to helping developers (for development-oriented technologies) grow intellectually and to answer questions whenever th...
My buddy and former employee (intern) of mine, Nick Parker, has his blog http://developernotes.com featured on the Visual C# Development Center: Blogs page, along side the C# team's own blog; our wonderful Microsoft Developer Network blogs you're reading now; and some of the leading C#, Common Language Runtime (CLR), and XML developers in the world...
Spaces.msn.com is a new MSN service that ushers Microsoft into the growing blog space and offers several nice features, such as sending messages from a mobile device via SMS to be published immediately or entered as a draft.I decided to give this a try with a personal blog and can't wait to see what this beta service has to offer as time goes on.
