I just finished my keynote for Web Design World in Boston. The topic was ''Internet Explorer 7: The Route To Standards Compliance''. It was the first ''keynote'' that I've ever given, and I think it went really well. I had several people come up afterwards and compliment me on the presentation. I was quite happy with it! I usually don't have a ...

IE6 VPC I can't believe how much of a success shipping the IE6 VPC image was! The fact that we got Slashdotted , picked up by TechMeme , Mary Jo Foley and several other big publications, and big blogs was fantastic. Beyond what I would have expected. And with few exceptions, the feedback has been positive. Without a doubt, we're going to be ...

I think the biggest question people asked about the IE6 VPC image was when will it be available? How about right now! After a rather late night last night, and a bit of a false start, I uploaded the VPC image this morning, and it's gone live. The image contains Windows XP SP2, IE6 and the IE7 Readiness Toolkit. It clocks in at a 496meg download, ...

I saw this via Frans , but it's worth linking to... http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html As ridiculous as it all seems, isn't it strange how you can't really generalize that this is the way things go all over the company. The Xbox team doesn't appear to roll this way, and in all of the talking ...

It's no secret - the Zune could be better than the iPod and still languish as an also ran for years. iPod has a huge marketshare, a solid brand, and a following whose passion would be the envy of most terrorist organizations. The ''second mover advantage'' sweet spot time has come and gone. iPod is firmly established, and ''feature parity and a ...

There have been a few questions as comments on my blog that I wanted to follow up on. When are we going to release the image? As soon as humanly possible. The image is done, we're just working through some time bombing issues right now. We can't ship an untime bombed image, as that would be effectively shipping a full fledged OS. The image has ...

Me and a friends were talking about how annoyed we are that Vista just hit MSDN, less than a month after our subscriptions expired. I'm sure there are a lot of people like us, who are independent developers that bought in right around the Visual Studio 2005 launch, with the implied promise of Vista in the distance. We were hosed. I don't ...

For quite some time, developers have been asking us how to run Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 side by side, and sadly, it's not possible to it accurately. There is a work around that a few people have found, but it doesn't give you a true IE6 vs IE7 comparison. It's not just a matter of replacing a few files, you're changing core ...

After two years of being the Senior Architect for Planet Technologies (formerly eQuest), I have accepted a position back with Microsoft. My first day on the job is this Monday and I’m very excited to join as a “Partner Technology Specialist” in the “Small, Mid-Market, Solutions, & Partners” team for the ...

I was reading a post by Rob Chartier titled: "Microsoft needs to give developers a break...". Anyone whose been keeping up with news from Microsoft these days can easily assume that his post is talking about all of the new and soon-to-be software releases. I was going to leave him a comment, but it soon became a post. I think it's ...

I'm teaching the From Prints To Online: Updating Your Website class today at PCNW, and I had someone ask how they could random show an image on their home page. All of the students aren't really web designer or developers, but fine art photographers. They know and understand photography like the back of their hands, but not HTML, CSS or ...

Thank you to the Microsoft team for making Vista available for download to the MSDN subscribers! Pulling it down now! Now, let's work on the Zune software to work with Vista ;)

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I just chuckled when I saw this today after getting my laptop updated with IE7 . Just a rule of thumb: I * never * add new software to my laptop before a conference , so I’m getting caught up now. It’s funny since I noticed that my Google toolbar had recently auto-updated with some cool new auto-complete features. Guess they slipped in ...

Tomorrow is the day that the new Microsoft Zune is supposed to be released. Are you going to Zune? I already have. Sort of. I'm waiting to see when mine will show up. I preordered one from BestBuy.com. I think it probably won't show up until Wednesday, though I won't be at work for the next two days anyways. I've yet to jump on the ...

If you're a MSDN subscriber Office 2007 is available for download. I'm not the first one to post it on weblogs.asp.net but I had to do it anyways to get the word out to those subscribed to my blog.

One of the cool demos I saw around IE7 was how to extend the RSS platform so that you could include additional information, or provide additional ways of listing and sorting through data that you'd have in the RSS feed. Sean Lyndersay on the RSS team pointed me to these links that I found really informative. Generic RSS info: ...

I have wanted a simple Resource string refactoring tool for quite a while, so I was excited to see the post from Bertran about the alpha release of Resource Factoring Tool by Microsoft . Woot! Published with BlogMailr

After my last post, it got me thinking about the power and peril of product naming. A good product name can describe, define, and identify your product, it can energize customers to buy, attach an ideal, culture, or image to a widget (think iPod), and it can even make your product memorable or seem unique amongst a sea of identical products. Of ...

Originally posted http://www.tmcnet.com/ce/articles/3343-abi-research-reveals-58-percent-ipod-users-may.htm By Susan J. Campbell , TMCnet Contributing Editor All of you die-hard iPod enthusiasts may be dejected to learn that research has shown that Microsoft Zune may be posing a bigger threat to Apple’s iPod than you are willing to realize ...