Microsoft has a new web site to start the excitement on his new dev technologies: IE8, WPF, Silverlight and Windows Mobile. It is called {You shape} it and focus on Design, Development and IT Management in a nice claymotion Silverlight UI. http://www.microsoft.com/youshapeit/ MSDN is part of this portal...

So I don't know if any of you watch Chuck , I've been watching it since the first episode last season, it's a great geek comedy if I do say so myself. During last night's episode (which we watched tonight) there was a moment where Chuck ask's Morgan if the store, Buy More, had any Rush albums, to which...

TechDays Canada website is now online! Learn all about this new Canadian event at www.techdays.ca (cities, dates, sessions, …). You can register online, note that this is a paid event: the early bird special is $249.99 (for the 2 day cities), so this is not very expensive and the benefits are huge: just...

Microsoft Connect has been improved! The new website is much more intuitive and interactive. "Your dashboard" view helps to keep an eye on your activities and news. I find the new Connect much more interesting than the old! What is Connect ? This is a way to help Microsoft improve their software by submitting...

Kawasaki took no time to take cheap shots at Ballmer, working in chair throwing jokes in the first minute. Google he says they're definitely underdogs in the search and advertising markets. He says Apple also does good work in the music and PC space, and he hopes they can do a better job on their products...

Ozzie has been regarded as the thinker who will take the place of Gates and set the tone for the direction of the company's software. I think that's a pretty huge burden. Generally speaking, he's got the right idea in the bigger picture, that the PC over time is replaced by a combination of devices and...

http://www.microsoft.com/canada/heroeshappenhere/register/default.mspx Event Overview Attend an event in your city to take part in the launch of three new Microsoft products: Windows Server® 2008 Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008 With demonstrations and face-to-face Q&A sessions...

In case you do not know MIX is a Microsoft web development conference hold in Las Vegas each year. This is where they make great announcements like Silverlight last year (MIX07), people start to call it "The PDC for web developers". -> MIX08 is being held March 5th-7th in Las Vegas. This year's edition...

Good deal: 3 free e-books from Microsoft Press! Go to http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urvs5cn3s8 sign with your Windows Live ID and get the full complete books free chapters and the full complete LINQ book! Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo Complete!! Introducing Microsoft...

Whoohoo that is a great news !!! Microsoft has now licensed the technologies from Eolas , removing the “click to activate” requirement to use pluggins such as Flash in Internet Explorer, which caused so many headaches since april 2006. What is going to change [again] ? In april 2008 IE will rollback...