If I did more Windows development for work I'd probably try to go, though honestly I'd be most interested in the WP7 development.

5/14/2011 5:58:01 PM

yeah, if WP7 is your thing then MiX was the conference you really wanted to be at .

I'll be updating this thread next week with TechEd announcements though . And if anyone is there, drop by thne Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate or Team Foundation Server booths and say Hi!

5/14/2011 6:05:08 PM

Well the cat is finally out of the bag, at least a little bit. If anyone was watching Jason Zanders part of the keynote, then you pretty much saw what I've been working on for a year and a half. I actually created the vision and design for most of the ALM story for visual studio vNext . Feels awesome to finally be able to talk about it

5/16/2011 4:24:26 PM

GG sir, congrats

5/16/2011 7:18:40 PM

link for the uninformed?

5/16/2011 8:09:05 PM

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2011/05/16/announcing-alm-roadmap-in-visual-studio-vnext-at-teched.aspx

5/16/2011 8:18:30 PM

the bing thread was too old so i'll just put this here. how much faith do you people have in the bing travel when to buy/predictor thing?

5/17/2011 11:46:37 AM

I wont pic bomb the thread, but if you watch the keynote here: http://www.studiosevent.com/newscenter/?id=teched110516?contentID

Pretty much all of the vNext stuff is my design

The Modern Web portal for TFS
Agile tools (taskboard, backlog management, et al)
Powerpoint for storyboarding and UI mockups
The Team Navigator in visual studio (my work, context switching, task based development)
The "Actionable" feedback tool for customer and stakeholder feedback

I'm super excited about it all!

5/17/2011 2:52:47 PM

great stuff Noen. Looking forward to getting my hands on it

5/17/2011 4:58:45 PM

I just got through installing .Net Framework 4 on an older laptop. Here's to hoping that for Framework 5 they can come up with an installer that doesn't do the following:

1) Copy a file
2) Sleep(100000)
3) Repeat until done

I downloaded the redistributable and the install still took 40 minutes.

7/1/2011 2:16:53 PM

Its frustrating for sure, but its not just sleep+copy. It's cray cray how much is going on behind the scenes. I install the .NET framework about 4x a week now and it's a lot, lot faster for me (on a P4 desktop no less)

7/2/2011 4:48:00 AM

Quote :

"They're bringing back storage pooling yay http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/01/windows-8-storage-spaces-detailed-pooling-redundant-disk-space-for-all.ars"

1/6/2012 12:16:19 AM

XBox One new hotness

5/21/2013 1:35:02 PM

i don't care what the price is, if the tv integration works a fraction as well as they showed I'm buying two

5/21/2013 1:42:47 PM

fuck, google tv has been able to do that tv part forever

i'm interested to see if they just passthrough and overlay from an external tv box, or if it becomes your tv box, and what providers it'll support

5/21/2013 1:57:04 PM

google TV can not do what they just showed

5/21/2013 2:03:05 PM

5/21/2013 2:12:04 PM

which TV parts you talking about?

[Edited on May 21, 2013 at 4:20 PM. Reason : those 7 people who bought surfaces are stoked about this]

5/21/2013 4:20:15 PM

what does this have to do with surface?

5/21/2013 4:38:32 PM

smartglass

5/21/2013 5:13:04 PM

Except smartglass is available for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Android and iOS.

So what does surface have to do with Xbox?

5/21/2013 5:52:01 PM

I'd have assumed that it would have better/more features on its native OS

5/21/2013 6:22:39 PM

^Not much http://www.xbox.com/en-US/smartglass/feature-comparison

5/21/2013 6:47:42 PM

Well the "native OS" isn't limited to surface, its every Windows 8 machine

5/21/2013 9:32:24 PM

Quote :

"I'd have assumed that it would have better/more features on its native OS"

there's the problem.

5/22/2013 10:43:13 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23530337

Quote :

"Skydrive Microsoft will soon have to stop using the Skydrive brand for its online storage service Microsoft is changing the name of Skydrive, its cloud storage service, after a legal challenge by BSkyB. "

First Metro, and now this? More than a few people in Microsoft marketing and legal should be fired over this. I don't care that its Microsoft this happened to necessarily, ANY company that loses a trademark case once a product is live didn't do their homework during product development.

8/2/2013 6:30:51 AM

on a related note, skydrive on Windows 8.1 is perfect, it absolutely blows any other cloud service out of the water.

8/2/2013 7:27:03 AM

^No it isn't. Can't change the folder location, and it still destroyed my machine for ~5 hours after installating 8.1 while it builds its db cache.

I do love the file virtualization, and service level integration. But there's still a lot of room for improvement

8/3/2013 3:21:39 AM

You can change the folder location in the RTM build of 8.1, even to an SD card.

8/15/2013 2:16:23 PM

What the FUCK Microsoft? I just got a copy of Office 2013 for my personal machine and they took out the option to install it on anything other than the C drive. I don't have 5GB free (SSD system drive) on my C drive so I can't install Office 2013? Grrr.

8/22/2013 12:45:55 AM

I've really been enjoying Office 365. So far it's met my needs.

8/22/2013 1:11:57 AM

Ok so I tracked down an .MSI install where I was able to customize a secondary drive for installation and it still gives me a "not enough space" error because I have less than the install size on the C drive. This is stupid.

8/22/2013 10:59:29 AM

The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’s Decline

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/23/stack_ranking_steve_ballmer_s_employee_evaluation_system_and_microsoft_s.html

8/26/2013 2:01:00 AM

To be clear, we're defining 'decline' as multi-billion dollar profits and year over year growth.

8/27/2013 5:23:24 PM

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4665166/microsoft-accuses-media-of-biased-steve-ballmer-coverage
Microsoft suggests bias in media's 'puzzling' Steve Ballmer coverage

Quote :

"Intertwining mentions of Dickens and Kurosawa, he goes on to cite examples of these "quick-twitch" and "puzzling" stories that have come from "so many writers, pundits and self-promoters." In particular, Shaw takes issue with shining a light on Microsoft's missteps "while ignoring the successes" enjoyed by the company elsewhere. "Another approach has been to go a step further, criticize our lack of 'focus' and suggest that those other successes are actually a distraction from what they believe should be our single priority." The Verge touched on issues of focus and Microsoft's ill-fated consumer products in our report analyzing Ballmer's tenure as CEO, also highlighting the executive's strong successes. "What these themes reveal is a single narrow frame through which the writers and pundits view the industry itself that leads them to reach these conclusions." "

8/28/2013 8:38:57 AM