Windows 7 available today, Kylie gets a new PC and other musings from GA-Day

Welcome to Windows 7 Release! Microsoft Simplifies the PC With Windows 7, Oct. 22, 2009 From MSSpringboard, Podcast: Migrating Windows XP to Windows 7 Using Windows Easy Transfer and USMT http://bit.ly/2WZOxt Tags: articles, what I read, twitter, Microsoft, Windows 7.

XNA 3.1 install onto Windows 7

To overcome this issue I set the runtime compatibility of the XNA 3.1 install file to be Windows Vista Service Pack 2 – you do this from the file property dialog. Re-running the XNA 3.1 install it all worked fine. On starting VS2008 Pro I see that I have both XNA 3.0 and XNA 3.1 project templates avail...

First glimpse at the Microsoft Store

Glowing signage at the first Microsoft Store – opens later today. Meantime, staff have been giving out Zune HD’s to the first in line at Scottsdale.

Top downloads for your Windows 7 PC at home

Windows Live (Messenger, Hotmail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, and more)Microsoft Security EssentialsFun WebSlices for Internet Explorer 8: WeatherPopular Videos (most shared via Twitter)Find more WebSlices My favourite IE8 Accelerator: Define with Bing or find more Accelerat...

Ed Wilson: Zune Casting: considerations for success

4. How will the Zune cast be displayed? Will it be downloaded to a portable media playing device, or will it be watched via a Silverlight control embedded on a web page. (See Script Center 101 for an example of a Silverlight media control).

New Cape Cod XNA Group – First Meeting Friday 10/23

The new Cape Cod XNA user group will offer a chance to learn and share knowledge about creating games with XNA (which builds on .NET to make games for the PC, XBox 360, and Zune.) Cape Cod XNA October 23, 6:30 PM Venture Suite 14, 540 Main St, Hyannis, MA [map]

Microsoft reboots

Aha…so now we know the source of those graffiti Windows 7 murals in San Francisco. Fortune commissioned Ricardo Richey to do his thing for their article Microsoft reboots. We’re only 6 days away now from what Fortune describe as the technology launch of the year. Wow, when was the last time yo...

Zune HD Level Program Written in XNA

Joel Ivory Johnson has written a great article on Codeplex showing how you can build a level applicatoin for the ZuneHD using its built in accelerometer. If you have not looked at ZuneHD yet you may not have known that you can write software for it using our XNA Framework. In addition to the ac...

Installing Windows 7 on an older computer: a realistic scenario

Step 3. Apply all current updates, drivers and patches.  Go to programs, then run Windows Update. This took me over an hour because you have to keep repeating this step five or six times since some updates have to be applied before the next one’s become available.  Take a look at both optional an...

Missing International Setting Registry Key?

Some Zune users ran into a strange problem http://forums.zune.net/2/3/518796/ShowPost.aspx and it seems like the Nation Value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Geo isn't there on some Windows XP machines.  That seems really wierd to me because if the Internationa...

belo demo da experiência com o Zune HD

muito bom essa demonstração da experiência completa do Zune HD (player, web, software e TV full HD).   muito boa também essa tirada: Buy the Zune HD if you love music. Buy an iPod for everything else. aqui está o artigo na íntegra Zune HD review: Music wants you back | Crave - CNET...(read more)

Opinion: Dude, Where’s My Space?

Those Zune guys make it look so easy: Zune 4 = up to 1,000 songs, while Zune 120 = up to 375 hours of video. But of course, they’re looking at average file sizes, and the “up to” acknowledges that not every song is exactly 4MB. Your business data isn’t MP3s and videos, but it’s pretty similar in tha...

Opinion: Jeff Blankenburg gives 10 factors of Zune vs. iPod

With the FM Radio capability, I’m sold. Add in the Zune Pass, and it’s a no brainer. Games is a plus, an opinion from my wife who loves Texas Hold’em and Sudoku, and my 7 yr old who likes Checkers. That’s why 4 of 5 in my house own a Zune, even the 7 year old (who’s a big fan).

Zune in the zone (aka It is not easy to embarrass a man with no shame)

You see, I have a Zune. To be more accurate, I have three Zunes. Q:  How many 30GB Zune devices are affected? How many Zune 30GB devices were sold? All 30GB devices are potentially affected. Now I embarrassed because I work for Microsoft, the company that sells the Zune.

How to create a Zune podcast from an audiobook or other files you already have

Here's the secret: Before adding the content to your Zune collection, use Windows Explorer or Windows Media Player or some other metadata-editing tool to do two, possible four, things: Change the Genre to Podcast, Set the album title on all the episodes to the title of the book (or lectur...

Coding4Fun Book: The people and the projects

Create a 2D clone of Space Invaders with XNA, including how to build for the PC, Xbox 360, and Zune. Download, convert and sync hundreds of YouTube videos to iTunes and Zune. PeerCast Windows Home Server Mail Read your email remotely from Windows Home Server without needing Exchange Server.

Sammy The Snake: An XNA game for the Zune

Possible cause of and workaround for XNA Game Studio Device Center crashes

The specific problem we have seen is the following: Launch the XNA Game Studio Device Center Click the button named Add Device If you are using the XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP, select the device type (Xbox 360 or Zune) For an Xbox 360: For a Zune:

IntermediateSerializer vs. XmlSerializer

I'm posting again! This must mean my workload has quieted down, right? Sadly no. My dev machine is currently tied up running a build and unit test pass, plus I'm building the Zune tree at the same time, which has slowed things to a crawl. I would normally try to work on a different bug at the same t...

zune game development with xna game studio 3.0

Are you ready to start programming games for your Zune? All you need is the XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP and any model of the Zune media device. Follow these instructions to get started with your first Zune game. Once you've done that, try our first Zune Mini-Game, Alien Game!

Patch: Zune 2.5 Available for Download

The Zune team has dropped the latest software and firmware, and you can download it from zune.net, or update from within the Zune client. Gapless playback (yay for Pink Floyd fans everywhere!)Video Marketplace (get your Heroes fix on your Zune)Autoplaylist supportMetadata EditingWin...

Joystiq live from the Microsoft GDC keynote

11:05 am PT -- Satchell whips out a Zune (he actually has one) and selects "Zauri", a topdown shooter. It supports custom soundtracks too (what with it being an MP3 player and all). You can take a game from Windows, to Xbox, to Zune, explains Satchell. "We've more than delivered," says Satchel...

Opinion: A Zune Update

People external to Microsoft have mentioned these shortcomings, but our internal email lists at Microsoft have hit the Zune team the hardest regarding the Zune software. Microsoft employees are VERY hard on other Microsoft employees. It's part of what makes Microsoft such a great compa...

Zune Update

I was thrilled that even though I have a first-gen Zune, I was eligible for the firmware update ... and all the great new things coming along with the launch of the image new Zune. I didn't ... added a lot more music as well. I love the new interface on my Zune - it feels a lot smoother

A new Day, a New Zune

So I've installed the new Zune desktop software, and updated my brown (yes, I have brown and I like it, thank you very much!) Zune 30GB to the new 2.2 firmware ... for my purposes. I'm a Zune Pass subscriber, so one of the things that I like to do is find music that I'm

Zune Bashing in the press

Microsoft has made a huge investment in Zune, and it isn't going to kill it soon. What I expected was that by spring, Microsoft would hide the Zune in the attic, feeding it scraps, and apparently hoping people would forget it ever existed. You know, just like what Kristi Yamaguchi's parents d...