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Feeling like Homer Simpson… Sorry for being out of touch for so long.  We had to get ready for beta in a foreign country and we’re rocking and rolling toward full production.  (I now have less hair!)  It’s all fun, but … Continue reading →

Be forewarned people!  Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 RC2 is apparently on its way out.  I just tried to look at the COM API for VS05 and it is NOT to be found!!!  Virtualization is going to be built-in to Microsoft … Continue reading →

Microsoft doesn’t always communicate their visions clearly (take .Net for instance).  The Microsoft Live Platform is another one of Microsoft’s great visions that encompass so much that it’s difficult to understand it in its entirety.   There is just so much … Continue reading →

NetworkWorld ran an article that gives you a brief but good rundown on what’s new in VS2008.  Well worth the 2 min you’ll spend reading it.

Folks, the waiting is OVER!  VS 2008 is now RTM in all of is glorious editions!  Even the Express editions!!  And those are FREE!!!!!!

Even with Quad-Cores, it appears that XP still outperforms Vista on game setups (which to us geeks, is a real developer box! 🙂 But be patient.  XP seemed a bit sluggish out of the gate, but continual tuning got it … Continue reading →

Dave Campbell has put up a site (well, it’s a over a week old now) that is a place for ‘all things Silverlight’.  You can search for examples and the blog alone is worth it.  Check it out here.

Microsoft has put together a great demonstration of a Silverlight-based search tool that was built on top of Microsoft’s Life Search engine.  The site is http://www.tafiti.com and gives you a just a hint of what you can do with Silverlight.  … Continue reading →

As Scale Developers, we’re often required to verify that our systems meet their performance requirements.  The best practice is to instrument your application using performance counters.  But sometimes you ‘inherit’ an application that is already ‘instrumented’ with calls to the … Continue reading →

Many people give Microsoft guff because they tout their own products and development.  So for those detractors of Microsoft Research, take this!  It’s not just SigGraph that is saying that Microsoft’s research into graphics is monumental, but Peter Jackon‘s firm … Continue reading →