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Wed, 09 May 2007 02:58:30 GMT

Clinton and Balmer

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:58:22 GMT

Former President Bill Clinton with Microsoft Corporation CEO Steve Ballmer. (AP Photo/Marcus R. Donner)

Bill Clinton is an inspiring speaker that makes you feel good about America and the world as he talks of the power each and every person has to make a difference. His passion for giving and civic duty is infectious and the crowd at the Microsoft Conference Center this morning was alternately awed and animated by his pro-giving speech that was the perfect wrap up to the Microsoft Giving Campaign. We have raised just over $72 million dollars so far this year, with close to 61% of our employees participating.

Clinton focused on the virtues of volunteering time, money, ideas, skills and “things” to worthy causes and steered fairly clear of politics, except for a couple of amusing references to his potential role as a Presidential spouse. He talked a lot about his book, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World. Clinton believes that that stopping global warming depends on demonstrating that it makes economic sense, which he believes wholeheartedly. He talked of climate change as a great economic opportunity. "We will not get a global agreement on climate change unless you can prove this is not a burden," he said. "This is the greatest opportunity we have had in our lifetimes." blogs.msdn.com/karinm/archive/2007/11/03/bill-clinton-at-microsoft-what-an-inspiration.aspx

Hillary Rodham Clinton at Microsoft

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:58:22 GMT

What a time I’m having with the lineup of MS Political Action Committee (MSPAC) speakers this election year! It was a wonderful treat to join Hillary Rodham Clinton at the beginning of the Microsoft Women’s Leadership and Development Conference on 10/18. She is a powerful speaker and woman and I surprised at how incredibly likeable and real she is.

anemone skin for Windows Media Player

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:10:18 GMT

It’s fun to change the look of Windows Media Player with the new batch of Skins released today or grab one from the Skins Factory, but why settle for someone else’s idea of cool when it’s so easy to make your own? Skins are just collections of art files, organized by a text file that tells WMP how to use the files to display a skin. One reason skins are easy to create is that you can look at the individual pieces of art and the source code for any skin and see how the skin is put together.

blogs.msdn.com/karinm/archive/2007/11/03/playing-with-skins.aspx

How to: Add 64-bit support to .vcproj files

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:05:11 GMT

How to: Add 64-bit support to .vcproj files
Have you found a great sample in the Windows SDK but wish it could target 64-bit platforms? Not all of our samples have 64-bit support, but it’s quick and easy to configure the sample yourself using the project configurations available in the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
To develop 64-bit applications you must install one or both of the Visual C++ 64-bit compilers. Without these compilers on your dev machine, 64-bit project configurations will not be available in the IDE. See Installing Visual Studio 64-bit Components on MSDN for more about this.

First, I describe how to change the active project configuration to target 64-bit platforms using the Visual Studio IDE. Next, I describe how to migrate Win32 project settings into a 64-bit project configuration.

blogs.msdn.com/karinm/archive/2007/11/02/how-to-add-64-bit-support-to-vcproj-files.aspx

Capt Jack Sparrow

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:10:32 GMT

We're having a pirate theme for Halloween in Developer Division. I want to be Captain Jack EVERY day!

Ignite Your Career

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:08:35 GMT

Become a better developer: Ignite Your Career
Microsoft Canada will host 5 webcasts on the fundamentals of being a more effective developer and managing your career. The series is unusual because it doesn’t targeting any specific technology, focusing instead on building the right set of information source to keep you up to date and help manage through constant change. Some excellent speakers are lined up for the webcasts, which run from September 11th through October 9th. Thanks to John Bristowe for a head’s up on Ignite Your Career. The sessions:

Becoming a Better Developer - September 11
Building your Skill Set - September 18
Discovering your Trusted Resources - September 25
Becoming your own Boss - October 2
Creating your Startup Business - October 9
Details and registration.

Some tips may be targeted for Canadian-based developers, but it looks like the great majority of the content is valuable to a developer in any location.

msdn2.microsoft.com/en-ca/bb738057.aspx

Burning Life (in Second Life)

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:18:22 GMT

I’ve always wanted to go to Burning Man, the annual countercultural arts festival, but with both Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 screaming towards RTM I can’t possibly take time for a jaunt to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Luckily, I can easily visit the virtual Burning Life in my Second Life. This will be the fifth year that Second Life publisher Linden Lab is donating some virtual land in their virtual world for a virtual Burning Man festival.

Just like the Burning Man in the real (?) world, organizers will create a temporary zone in which residents can create amazing works of art that will last for a short period of time and then disappear forever. The requisite sculpture of a man will burn spectacularly at the end of the festival.

Hurry, registration for one of the 62 available Burning Life plots is now open and submissions must be received by Sept. 7. The event begins Sept. 24 and ends Oct. 5.

inspiration starts somewhere

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:31:22 GMT

Beginning Developer Learning Center

blogs.msdn.com/karinm/archive/2007/08/11/beginning-developer-learning-center.aspx

The VS Express Editions Beginner Developer Learning Center is a great place to point your kids and others interested in breaking into programming. My 12-year old and his friends find the bite-sized resources and How-To reference library (with 5-10 minute tutorials on a specific task) easy to use and less overwhelming than other sites. On the Beginning Dev site they start off with the very basics, and move step-by-step through kid-friendly lessons, to using full scale development tools for the Web or Windows. Very cool.

ted_aguerayarcas_t_2007

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:22:00 GMT

blogs.msdn.com/karinm/archive/2007/08/11/why-is-everyone-talking-about-photosynth.aspx (follow this link to my blog post for access to all the other links in this story) There’s a reason everyone’s sending you links to Photosynth. It presents the most astounding possibilities of any technology I’ve seen. Even playing with it myself I can’t believe it’s real. Using photos of frequently photographed places (NASA Space Shuttle, Piazza San Pietro, Rome, Gyeongbok Palace in Korea) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that will stretch your mind. Check out the Photosynth collections, where you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor. (Technical difficulties? Check the Photosynth FAQ for help.)

How does it work? According to Wikipedia, the program works by analyzing multiple photographs taken of the same area. Each photograph is processed by noting specific features, like the corner of a window frame or a door handle. Photos that share features are then linked together in a web. When the same feature is found in multiple images, its 3D position can be calculated. Photosynth's 3D model is a cloud of points showing where these features are in space. This model enables the program to show a particular area from various angles, based on the different angles found in the photos.

In this video (which takes a couple minutes to load), architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference in Monterey, CA. Photosynth will undoubtedly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images. It’s actually a mind-adventure to experience this new visual networking, which uses advanced algorithms to interpret, categorize and codify pixel-ba

lori pearce

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:20:00 GMT

blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/archive/2007/08/07/lori-pearce-windows-sdk-pum-on-channel-9.aspx

Lori Pearce, our own Product Unit Manager for the Windows SDK team, was recently interviewed on Channel 9. How does the Windows SDK Team build a product that supports development using both the Win32 and .NET Framework programming models? Hear it from the source. Lori came to Microsoft with the Visio acquisition after years of experience as a developer and manager. From her first project writing graphics code in Pascal for the HP150, to her “inevitable” destination at Microsoft, Lori shares the joys and challenges of shipping software.

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Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:20:58 GMT

Oops: China’s new nuclear sub caught on Google Earth

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:57:24 GMT

blogs.msdn.com/karinm/archive/2007/08/07/oops-china-s-new-nuclear-sub-caught-on-google-earth.aspx

A commercial satellite image appears to have captured China's new nuclear ballistic Jin-class (Type 094) attack sub recently and it's been published by Google Earth. According to the Strategic Security Blog, the new submarine was photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006 and the image is freely available on the Google Earth web site. Not in our backyard: the sub was moored at the Xiaopingdao Submarine Base south of Dalian, approximately 193 miles north of Qingdao, at 38°49'4.40"N, 121°29'39.82"E.

XBox Elite

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:24:35 GMT

blogs.msdn.com/karinm/archive/2007/08/07/xbox-360-just-got-cheaper.aspx

The announcement came today that Microsoft will reduce the estimated retail price of Xbox 360 by $50 starting Aug. 8, to $349.99 for the model with a 20GB hard drive, wireless controller and Xbox 360 headset. If that’s still a bit too high, the entry-level Xbox 360 Core System price has been lowered to $279.99. The cool new black Xbox 360 Elite with a 120GB hard drive, will be priced at $449.99, still $69 higher than it will be when released in Japan this October.

Windows SDK Shortcuts

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:18:44 GMT

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Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:22:34 GMT

blogs.msdn.com/karinm/archive/2007/07/27/cool-toy-run-triple-monitors-off-your-notebook.aspx

Cool Toy: run triple monitors off your notebook

Do you need triple monitors running off your notebook computer with a resolution of up to 3840x1024 (triple 1280x1024)? Me too. With only one video output I didn’t think I could have the system I needed running off my notebook PC but I was wrong. Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition to the rescue. The latest in Matrox's series of Graphics eXpansion Modules (GXM), TripleHead2Go Digital Edition is an external multi-display upgrade device that connects via the dual-link DVI or analog output of your system (PC or Mac) and can support both analog and digital monitors. Dramatically increasing Office Productivity (tell my PUM!) for business professionals, providing an incredible Surround Design environment to high-end workstation users and delivering the most immersive Surround Gaming? experience to gamers, the TripleHead2Go Digital Edition is the ideal solution for individuals looking for a truly digital-to-digital experience. Is your laptop one of the known compatible systems?

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Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:22:34 GMT

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Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:20:41 GMT

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Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:20:41 GMT

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Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:20:41 GMT