This blog post takes a look at two different UX paradigms: hubs vs. apps

Starting last with with a scathing review and continuing this week with a much more warm reception, the onslaught of reviews and previews of WP7 has begun

Microsoft is apparently working on a new app-builder tool called KittyHawk. Here I post my thoughts on the subject

Microsoft has been quietly working on a new barcode-ish technology called "Tag", that links real-world codes on physical objects to the web, arbitrary text, or even phone numbers. Question is - is it another CueCat failure?

An interesting Microsoft product in beta right now is called "Geneva". This blog post takes a look at Geneva and distills it into bite-sized morsels that a non-security-guy can digest.

Just this morning I managed to get my hands on some interesting new bits. Read the rest of the blog post for more details!

The cat is out of the bag and despite rumors of my retirement from writing, I am actually contributing to another book.

In this blog post I'll talk about some of the things we've been hearing at MIX 2009 about the new features in Silverlight 3

The first day of MIX 2009 was an interesting mix (har har, get it?) of new technology, glimpses at Microsoft plans, and networking with other geeks

I am sitting in the gigantic meal hall at MIX 2009 inside the Venetian hotel, trying to take it all in as I wait to go up and get a seat for the keynote.

Microsoft dropped the latest Live Framework bits yesterday, which include a number of stability features, fixes, and streamlined workflows.

Rumor has it that CTP3 of Velocity, Microsoft's distributed cache service, is going to drop at MIX 2009 next week.

I've finally managed to spend a decent amount of time using Windows 7 Beta 1 as my routine operating system for my usual tasks. In this blog post I talk about my experience and what I think of the new OS.

In this tutorial, I walk you though the process of upgrading your Silverlight Live Mesh application to be able to store and retrieve data using DataFeeds and DataEntries

In this post I discuss more of my progress in attempting to build Silverlight applications using the DLR on the Mac with no Windows intervention at all. The news isn't promising

This blog post takes a look at Live Mesh and Windows Azure, both part of the larger Azure platform, and describes the technical and practical differences between the two and why you might pick one over the other

Yesterday during the PDC 2008 opening keynote, Microsoft unveiled Windows Azure Services. In this post, I'll take a look at the information available and see if I can distill it down into an easily digestable form

In this first of what I hope to be many blog posts, I explore the potential development environment of using a Mac, OS X Leopard, and Ruby to build cross-platform Dynamic Silverlight applications.

Microsoft recently released Silverlight 2.0 to the public. After the Olympic games, Silverlight ended up on a LOT of people's computers, but Silverlight 2 has more importance to application developers in the future. I discuss that in this post

With the PDC coming up shortly and Microsoft's trickled announcements of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, what is Microsoft's direction, and will it work for them?

Lately the decision as to which mobile devices to target and which mobile SDK to use for building your application has become much less clear. This blog post takes a look at some of the current options for building mobile apps; their pros and cons

I found a ZDnet article from 2002 that outlined Microsoft's plans to extend ASP.NET to run on Apache, .NET to run on non-MS Operating Systems, and .NET to connect to Oracle.

The Really, Really Odd Couple - Gates and Seinfeld - debuted last night and you can find the video online everywhere. In this post are my thoughts on the advertisement.

In this post, I take a fairly objective look at Vista to date, in light of recent efforts to clean up Vista's image by Microsoft including Seinfeld and Mojave.

Just when I thought I was at the point of no return and was looking for my Vista media to reformat my drive, Microsoft fixed the issue!