The world’s largest chipmaker and Microsoft teamed up at CES to sponsor the World Series of Video Games, a gaming competition on various platforms, open to the public. On display: PCs powered by the Intel Core2 Extreme Dual and Quad [See the full post…]

Maryam Scoble ran into Mary Jo Foley at the BlogHaus, where she talked about why her name was once feared on the Microsoft Campus, why she covers Microsoft topics and what she is working on now.

Gentlemen (and ladies of course) start your blogs. Opening Day of the Bloghaus saw an overflow crowd of bloggers, video bloggers and podcasters. The event, which was sponsored by Seagate, Microsoft and AMD, jam-packed a wide-spectrum of community media into [See the full post…]

LAS VEGAS, NV, January 7, 2007 (PodTech.net) — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates kicked off CES 2007 with a keynote address that was long on demos and short on pizzazz. It was all about Vista and Vista as connector of the [See the full post…]

This is probably Microsoft’s biggest CES ever with Windows Vista shipping in a few days and Bill Gates met with bloggers from Engadget, Gizmodo, Kotaku, PodTech.net, and Joystiq for a wide-ranging interview about everything from Bill’s speeding tickets to software [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 6, 2007 (PodTech News) — The 2007 Consumer Electronics Show begins tomorrow night with a keynote by Microsoft Founder and Chairman Bill Gates. Catherine Girardeau takes a look at the CES schedule to see what the next [See the full post…]

Alfred Thompson and Don Dodge, who blog for Microsoft, meet up with me at the John Edwards’ campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and we talk a little bit about social media and how that’ll intersect with politics. New Hampshire [See the full post…]

Microsoft’s Zune came out of the Christmas season with less than 3 percent of the MP3 player market share. Its overall sales rank on Amazon – a recent check showed the various 30 GB Zune models fluctuating between #77 and [See the full post…]

Sanaz Ahari, program manager in charge of Microsoft’s Live.com home page, gives us a good demo of the things you’re able to do with Live.com, which is a host page for gadgets that’ll bring you news, games and lots of [See the full post…]

Maryam interviews Sanaz Ahari about what it’s like to work as a program manager on Microsoft’s Live.com team. She is responsible for the Live.com home page, which is pretty big shoes for anyone to fill.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 27, 2006 (PodTech News) — The past year saw significant changes in the world of video gaming. In recent months, both Sony and Nintendo released new consoles (the Playstation 3 and the Wii), while earlier on, Microsoft’s [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 13, 2006 (PodTech News) — BlackBerry v. BlackJack – a new lawsuit says Samsung is playing games with names. Also, security patches from Microsoft, a security breach at UCLA, increased Internet controls in China, a long-term threat [See the full post…]

Wayne Smith, product manager on Microsoft’s Expression Web team, takes us on a quick tour through Expression Web. LINK: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/web_designer/default.mspx Click here for transcript.

Eric Zocher and Wayne Smith sit down to talk with me about Microsoft’s Expression Web, a new tool for helping design and develop Web sites. Interesting discussion about Microsoft’s approach to Web development and design teams and the tools they’ll [See the full post…]

She’s Microsoft’s “BlogQueen” and used to run the site that holds most of Microsoft’s employee blogs, blogs.msdn.com, but now she’s working on Windows Live QnA site, which is a place where you can ask questions and get answers (or answer [See the full post…]

Gary Flake, distinguished engineer at Microsoft, gives us a tour around a new 3D photo experience that amazed attendees at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Summit yesterday when it was demonstrated. Several people came up to me afterward and said it [See the full post…]

Dr. Jim Kajiya, distinguished engineer and a general manager at Microsoft Research discusses his Utah Technology Council‘s 2006 Hall of Fame induction. He talks about solving problems from transforming computer processor and memory design to creating programmable matter and downloadable [See the full post…]

Fourteen-year veteran at Microsoft, Chris Weber, vice president in charge of the Western Region partner and enterprise group, talks about the strength of the partner network, the sales and marketing activities over the next 12 months for Vista and Office [See the full post…]

Microsoft’s iPod competitor, Zune, will be released on November 14. Matt Jubelirer is product manager for the Zune project. We spoke with him to get an in-depth look at Zune. Click here for transcript.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was interviewed by two tough VPs from research firm Gartner, Inc. at Gartner’s Symposium and ITxpo at the Dolphin Hotel in Orlando Florida October 10th. In the so-called “Mastermind Interview”, Ballmer fielded questions that ranged from [See the full post…]

Watch Video | Download Video Adobe Acrobat is the product software giant Microsoft would love to kill. But Adobe is hoping to pull ahead – way ahead – in the competition with Microsoft for office worker tools with Acrobat 8. [See the full post…]

What’s next for the average computer user experience? Lili Cheng is in charge of user interface for Microsoft’s Vista team. Coming to the Vista project via Microsoft’s research division, she’s thought a lot about how we’ll relate to our various [See the full post…]

SAN JOSE, August 14, 2006 (PodTech News) – Microsoft to gamers: DIY! The company kicked off its two-day Gamefest in Seattle today by announcing the release of XNA Game Studio Express. The video game developer’s toolkit will allow consumers to [See the full post…]

With over 3,200 technology and 500 life science companies in the state, and 8% year-over-year growth, Utah leads the western states region in creating and sustaining these companies. Richard Nelson, president and CEO of the Utah Technology council (formerly UITA) [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 24, 2006 (PodTech News)–“I doubt that we’re going to see any gaming functionality, at least in the first device. They were pretty clear with me that they weren’t going in that direction,” said analyst Michael Gartenberg of [See the full post…]