To celebrate the consumer launch of Windows Vista on January 30 2007, Microsoft Canada built a Digital Ice House in Toronto. A 100% free event where you had a chance to meet the Canadian IT Pro and Developer Advisor teams, drink Windows Live Water and explore Windows Vista in a very cool setting! Read...

This week I'll be at Seattle for the MVP Global Summit event. This is my first time in Seattle, first MVP Summit, first time to meet Bill Gates, first time on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, this should be a blast! Microsoft has booked 7 hotels in Seattle to welcome 1700 MVPs from all around the...

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...

Microsoft Portugal will be hosting Techdays 2008 from Mars 12 nd to 14 th , right after the Portuguese launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Mars 11 th . This is the biggest and greatest tech event in Portugal and there will be lots of...

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...

Do you know Microsoft codename BAT ? Big Ass Table, sometimes presented as Surface... At the VIP pre-conference a member of Microsoft SUX Team (Surface User Experience...) shown us this hilarious video: Technorati Tags: MIX08 , Canadian MIXers , surface , parody

Earlier this week I participate in the Ask The Expert booth with other Montreal MVPs at the Heroes happen here Microsoft show. I was a bit ill but that was pretty fun and I got lots of questions on: Visual Studio 2008 Expression Silverlight LINQ AJAX And I learnt about the poor support of classic ASP...

EnergizeIT is a free 1 day Microsoft event designed for IT professionals, developers, designers, and students passionate about technology. This day is dedicated to helping you realize your potential through the use of technology. The event includes 9 tracks on topics such as Green IT, Career, Security...

This morning I did a Silverlight 2 talk at Microsoft Montreal, during a half-day briefing called Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform . That was a 1 hour talk to present Silverlight 2, DeepZoom, Expression Blend and create from scratch a Silverlight 2 application which consume LINQ...

The best part of Bill Gates's Keynote at TechEd Developers 2008 was the Steve Ballmer apparition: Notice the eggs reference at the end... can't figure out? see below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtBQ4UCXQeo