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Office Engineering blog - Office 2010 Starter Edition - Reduced functionality version of Office that would ship with OEM versions of Windows (Works replacement) Windows Phone launches, new developer portal up Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode on MSDN
Zune HD launches, Microsoft AJAX CDN - Includes ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, and ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX libraries Mahesh Sabnis - What's new in WCF 4.0 Part 1 PHP Toolkit for REST/.NET, via Joe Stagner Julien Manici - Windows 7 logon background changer, via Paul Thurott
Even with Labor Day weekend ahead of us the 'Softies were still hyped about these stories: Interface of the future Free Windows Zune I'm bringing Vista back
The shorter guy with the dark hair whose been accused of being a Zune fanboy returned this week- and while he was out exploring the world he picked up a few juicy Microsoft storeis to bring back and share with us. Voila: Microsoft gets in the Reality Biz Jimmy Fallon is a Microsoft FANBOY!!
Microsoft announces Project Natal (pronounced na-tall) for Xbox 360, Dan wants to code it, badly Brandon LeBlanc - Windows Blog - Windows 7 General Availability is scheduled for October 22nd Windows 7 Little Tweaker for 32-bit Windows, via Greg Duncan
Follow up - Microsoft services like Hotmail and Messenger won't be renamed to "Bing Messenger" Dan's pick of the week: Sean Faussett - Virtu, an Apple IIe emulator built using XNA, Silverlight, and WPF. You can even play Apple IIe games on your Xbox 360!
With all the buzz surrounding the dueling advertising campaigns between Macs & Microsoft it was clearly time to address the issue. And since the CoffeeHouse is talking about it... Office: The Movie What Apple can learn from Microsoft War on the Ipod! Mac fights back
Less discussed however, is a group at Microsoft that isn’t necessarily focused on ship dates, packaging, or competing products. Instead they think about how computers and technology can make life easier, with an eye towards developing new technologies that can improve all our lives an...
Justin Needham and Matthew Straub use Windows CE to build a system that can predict the path of pool balls using a Webcam, projector, and mirrors Top Picks USB Endoscope (Code it) ($59) XNA Creator's Club (Code it)($99/year) Zune (Code it) ($99 - $249)
Microsoft store launches (1:00 - 1:40) Omar Shahine discusses Windows Live updates, and New York Times declares Microsoft the winner of Social Inbox 2.0 (6:23 - 7:40) OnMicrosoft video site launches, includes interviews with the Microsoft product teams (13:10 - 14:00)
Microsoft withdraws proposal from Yahoo (0:50 - 1:24) XNA Game Studio CTP now available so you can build Zune game (2:40 - 4:00) Windows XP SP3 now available (4:00 - 4:39) Windows Live rated #1 for tools, SDKs, and Web services (4:39 - 5:59)
We caught up with Tandy Trower recently to find out what's new with in Microsoft Robotics World, now named Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (got to love our naming schemes, eh?:)). The Robotics group has moved from Redmond to downtown studio. They are still a very small team, but...
James created the winning entry in a recent XNA contest. His game is based on his experience as a dishwasher in a restaurant where he wasn't afforded proper respect. The result of this legitimate angst is a game written on the XNA platform (managed XNA, specifically, fully written in C#) D...