Nope, it's not a new email address -- it's a new blog.  The team responsible for incorporating speech technology into Windows Vista, among other products, has a new blog called Speech @ Microsoft.  Their blog started just this month and inaugural posts cover such topics as using speech APIs (COM or .NET) in applications and which ...

  When we talk about application compatibility for our large customers, it goes beyond making sure the latest game or end user application works. Our enterprise customers sometimes have hundreds of thousands of PCs to manage. That means a lot of different applications, from many different companies, some custom and some customized. To ...

Today MIX07 kicks off at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas with the keynote by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and General Manager Scott Guthrie. You can continue to catch live, on-going coverage at the Visit MIX website. Let me take a moment to quickly outline the many announcements that occurred today.   An updated Windows Live Dev ...

Last month we posted an update to the Windows Vista Gadgets Competition on Code Project.  Now that the competition is complete, the team behind it would like to thank everyone who entered.  The goal of the contest was to deliver 20 quality Sidebar Gadgets; we surpassed our goal considerably with a total of 29 gadget entries.  The ...

Yesterday we officially unveiled the name for what was previously known as the extremely catchy ''WPF/e'' (Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere) at the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters Conference.  WPF/e is now Microsoft Silverlight. OK, so what?  Just what is Microsoft Silverlight?  It's a new cross-browser, ...

Our development team has put together a series of webcasts starting Monday 2nd April and continuing weekly through June.  These online-only Live Meetings are mainly for the developer crowd who's currently (or looking to be) building applications that run on mobile PCs.  Topics center on getting the most out of Windows Vista's mobility ...

We're only one month into the Windows Vista Gadgets Competition on Code Project, and already developers have exceeded our expectations in finding new ways to enhance the Windows Vista Sidebar experience via Gadgets.  Some of the cooler gadgets include a daily Dilbert cartoon display and a tool that places your email Inbox at your ...

Windows Vista Week has begun at Channel 9 and Channel 10.  Over on Channel 9 they're covering Windows Vista from the developer side, focusing on building apps for Windows Vista as a user-centric operating system.  What technologies underlying Windows Vista make it what it is for the user?  And what can developers get out of those ...

Project codename ''Glidepath'' is an Evangelism initiative targeted at helping MicroISVs get started and be successful with a focus on Windows Vista. Project Glidepath includes a free software factory add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that delivers, via RSS, guidance, content, code samples, step-by-step instructions and even custom tools that help ...

Still rocking, still rolling, still writing code -- Windows Vista devs are at it again. This is the third and final installment in the mock/rock/documentary series (unless I can dig up some more footage, that is ;). Windows Vista Devs Rocking Out #3