Microsoft Expression Studio 2 ships
Congrads to the Expression team for shipping v2 of the Suite. I’m installing the whole suite now - it’s looking good so far. There are trial versions available for tire kickers too. A new 200GB hard drive, VS 2008, and Expression v2 on my laptop - guess what I’ll be doing this weekend. [...]
Developing Sidebar Gadgets
Now that the Feb CTP is out in the wilds, some of you are going to get inspired to write gadgets for the Sidebar. Here’s a couple pointers to some info that will help get you off on the right foot…
Lou has been posting some excellent information regarding Sidebar and Sidebar gadgets
Brian Teutsch, a [...]
MIX Conference - I’ll be there
I just found out I’ll be running one of the Sandbox areas (what PDC and TechEd folks know and love as Hands-On Labs) at this year’s MIX Conference. We’ll be showing folks how to create gadgets for the upcoming Windows Sidebar. This is your opportunity to tell me where we need to focus – what [...]
MIX 06 Conference Announced
Looks like we announced our designer-focused conference today – MIX ‘06. Vegas in March – should be interesting… Here’s the details so far:
A 72-hour conversation between developers, designers and business professionals to explore high-fidelity commerce, content, media, services and security
How new technologies can help find, retain and up-sell customers
The latest on IE7, Windows Vista, Windows [...]
Windows Calendar
As Steve mentioned, one of the projects we’ve been working on is a calendar for Windows Vista. Thanks to Brandon for taking the time to click on everything – good overview. This is still definately a work in progress, so caveat emptor! There’s a couple things we can say are further along than others. We’re currently [...]
A New Comet in the Sky
Looks like the Trott’s & Co. are up to something big (again). “Bringing weblogging into the mainstream.” – pretty ambitious. Maybe MSN Spaces caught their attention. From the “big bullet list” on this page, I think they’re focusing on the right stuff for Comet.
Props to The Goat for showing me this…
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NetVibes
NetVibes is looking like an interesting personalization play. They seem to be doing a good job focusing on just a few things, and doing each of them extremely well. I really like their RSS reader, although I’m not sure it would scale to my >1100 subs right now…
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Check out Microsoft MAX
One of the more interesting apps I’ve seen lately inside Microsoft is something called “Max”. Originally created as an exploration to take advantage of some of the new technologies we’re rolling out, including WinFX. What I’ve been paying particular attention to in Max is their UI, particularly their picture layout work, and their transition work. [...]
Tada! Please welcome the Windows Sidebar…
The folks on the team have been bouncing up and down, waiting for Bill to show off one of the projects our team has been working on – yep, it’s the Windows Sidebar… It’s baaaaack…
It’s been a really freah change of pace, getting to work on some tightly focused, tightly staffed projects again. The challenge [...]
Red Cross ribbon
Here’s a nice little script that will generate a ribbon that sits on your page, gently reminding folks that the real rebuilding is just beginning.
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