Last October, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook, suddenly placing Facebook’s value at a lofty $15 billion. Now, we see that revenues for 2007 came to around $150 million, while expenses still leave the company with a negative cash flow [See the full post…]

Are you trying to produce a fantastic user experience on the Web? Come spend 15 minutes with Kapil Tundwal and Mohan Dhandapani from Quark‘s emerging technologies and Warren Wilbee (ISV Architect Evangelist for Microsoft). Their discussion provides a crisp [See the full post…]

How should SmartClient technology integrate with web solutions? VP Development at Vertafore Chris Kinsman talks with Microsoft Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how and why SmartClient deployment of Windows Forms deliver the most value to its financial services customers in [See the full post…]

The Consumer Electronics Show usually isn’t a big show for gamers, but this year’s event was expected to be different. CES dedicated more show floor space for its Gaming Showcase and there were even rumors that Microsoft’s Bill Gates would [See the full post…]

Larry Hryb is one of Microsoft’s most famous bloggers. He works on the Xbox Live team and visited the CES BlogHaus to talk about what he’s seeing. [See the full post…]

Rumors were circulating that Microsoft’s Bill Gates would unveil a new version of the Xbox 360 during his final keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show, but that wasn’t the case. Instead, Gates and Robbie Bach, the president of [See the full post…]

This is a taste of my Saturday on the Podtech BlogHaus bus drive to Las Vegas. On board are A-List bloggers: Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Luic Le Meur, Marc Canter, Jeremy Toeman, Robert McLaws, plus Valerie Cunningham, Rocky, and many [See the full post…]

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates offered up some self-deprecating humor on his next career move after he steps aside at the world’s biggest software maker. Here’s an excerpt of his keynote address at CES 2008.

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Microsoft ISV Architect Evangelist John Wiese sat down recently with Karl Treier, Chief Technology Architect for Bluespring Software, to talk about building a solution on Microsoft Office Open XML, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Windows Workflow Foundation, and other Microsoft [See the full post…]

WeatherBug, the leading provider of weather information services, manages and operates a proprietary network of over 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and more than 1,000 cameras that are strategically placed at schools, public safety facilities and television stations throughout the [See the full post…]

Microsoft Office is one of the most ubiquitous applications in the world. Dr. Nasser Barghoutian the CTO Document Science and Warren Wilbee a Microsoft Architect Evangelist sit down and discuss how to utilize Microsoft Office as a platform for developing [See the full post…]

Kirk Gregeresen, director Office Client Product Management and Eric Gilmore, MS Office Product Manager Information Worker group show off a new version of Microsoft’s Office Live which brings far better collaboration features to Office users than they had previously. [See the full post…]

I sit down with Anthony Franco, President of EffectiveUI and talk about the design process. EffectiveUI creates software for a ton of big companies including eBay, Microsoft, and others. [See the full post…]

SharePoint is all the buzz. You can find out how ISV applications can benefit. Spend a few minutes with SharePoint expert Mauro Cardarelli from Jornata as he talks with Jason De Lorme at Microsoft discussing how ISVs are successfully building [See the full post…]

Do you think Google is the best search engine for cell phones? Think again with Taptu’s Bob Last. He’s senior vice president of business development there and talks with me about search engines and how mobile phones aren’t well [See the full post…]

Dan’l Lewin, corporate vice president at Microsoft, heads up its strategic and emerging business initiatives. This means that he and his team work with startups in Silicon Valley and beyond, and with large companies partnering with Microsoft. Mr. Lewin is [See the full post…]

You’ve heard the story. Bill Gates and Microsoft became a hugely successful business after it bought DOS from a small computer store in Seattle and licensed it to IBM. But what really happened? Did you know that Bill Gates didn’t [See the full post…]

Jeff Bell is Microsoft’s vice president of global marketing, interactive entertainment business. That’s the division that makes and markets the Xbox. He gave a keynote at the Market to the Max conference in Seattle earlier this week, and gave some [See the full post…]

After years of working with developers at Microsoft, Alex Barnett thought the pitch from Bungee Labs was too good to be true. A Web-based development environment with the richness and power of a fat, local IDE but with a easier [See the full post…]

On Monday at Mix, I got a chance to talk with Scott Guthrie, general manager who runs a bunch of the teams at Microsoft who develop developer tools and platforms. He just came off of a keynote where he [See the full post…]

Chris R. Johnson directs the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) at the University of Utah. Johnson was greatly influenced by several people responsible, in large part, for creating computer graphics as we know it today. Names like David Evans [See the full post…]

Kevin Keling, Marketing Strategy Manager for Ford, talks about Ford’s embrace of audio technology and its hope that downloads will drive buyers to it’s showrooms. The company has partnered with Microsoft to offer Sync, a voice-activated in-car communications [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast featuring two high-profile zero day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft and the Broadcom Wireless device driver set. This podcast features a technical discussion of the vulnerabilities and offers listeners insight on likely attack scenarios and mitigating strategies. [See the full post…]

This footage is of the fountain outside the Bellagio in Las Vegas during CES 2007. It’s the first of several clues to be shown in several locations around the world as part of the Vanishing Point contest, the winner [See the full post…]

At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Seagate‘s Senior Director of Marketing, Diana Cartwright, together with Microsoft Product Manager Dennis Moulton, talk about Microsoft Vista’s new easy backup feature. This is a Seagate podcast.

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