Our initial release has provided a great deal of feedback. We recieved a good bit of feedback on what our customers want. Our team took this feedback and did their best to implement it.

Google exclaims, and everyone gasps and bows before the cloud embracing visionaries. But where's the step back, the deep breath, the wiping away of the 'oh gosh it's Google, it's the future' haze to reveal the problems that lurk beneath the surface? I'm far from being a luddite, I was an internet evangelist 20 years ago and an early adopter of everything from virtual worlds to social networks.

A petition to bring a Microsoft Store retail outlet to the mall in King of Prussia, PA.

It could happen. Windows 7 makes adopting and converting very easy.

Ten years ago, Microsoft opened the Silicon Valley Campus, giving the company a foothold next door to the company's biggest competitors. Today, the site is Microsoft's second largest in the United States.

Dag König talks with Julia Lerman, the Entity Framwork guru and author of the book Programming Entity Framework.

Dag König talks with Scott Hanselman. In this interview we will at last hear how many hour Scott sleeps. That's a real mystery.

This past week was a busy one – with lots of announcements and cool releases happening at this year’s PDC conference. All of the PDC keynotes and breakout sessions are now posted online for anyone to watch for free. You can find sessions to watch here.

A story in Sunday’s Financial Times is reporting that Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. have been holding preliminary talks to pull News Corp. content from Google, and for Bing to then pay a premium for that content. There’s quite a debate around the web on what such a deal would mean for Google, or Bing, for that matter.

As you know, Chris and I are in the middle of our Fall/Winter 2009 Northeast Roadshow, with four more stops scheduled for early December:

Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 screenshots

Don't know how to communicate to a business manager or owner about NAV capabilities? Want to gain a “big picture” of how NAV 2009 works. Want to know whats new in NAV 2009? To find out this and a lot more about NAV 2009 take a look at this tutorial written by David Studebaker...

Nexan unveils a "Beast" of a storage system and Microsoft opens it's Surface SDK to everyone. SAP and Microsoft also form a marketing alliance that might irritate Oracle.

This edition of Discoveries This Week includes both the very best of what I saw at PDC 2009 and the most outstanding things I’ve glimpsed going on in the F# community. Please do enjoy.

Well, PDC09 is over and it was a blast. What a relief it is to finally be able to show the world what the Silverlight team has been working on since Silverlight 3. Based on the feedback at the conference, people are excited to dig into the new bits and start building solutions. As a round-up of resources from PDC, I’m putting some of my favorites here.

When you have command line arguments to parse, the place to look is Mono.Options. To date, I have not found anything better to get the job done. It is a single C# file if you do not want to download the entire Mono Library to use it. I was first introduced in Mono 2.2. The equivalent product is NDesk.Options by Jonathan Pryor. His single Options.cs file has been implemented as Mono.Options. To demonstrate how easy command line parsing can be, I’m going to sh...

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog entry entitled Microsoft Semantic Engine where I spoke about a technology called (unsurprisingly) the “Microsoft Semantic Engine” which looks like it is set to ship in a future version of SQL Server.

We’re happy to announce that Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition (Patterns & Practices) is available now. You can buy it in hard copy via online retailers (ISBN: 9780735627109) or download it from the Microsoft Download Center.

Microsoft did a fantastic job making PDC09 accessible to everyone, even to geeks as far away as Vermont. Their real-time HD video coverage of the keynotes and conference presentations was awesome. And what Microsoft didn't provide at http://microsoftpdc.com, Twitter did. The combination of microsoftpdc.com and the #PDC09 stream allowed me to feel like I was at the conference without having to fly across the country to get there.

In this podcast, Luca Bolognese provides an under-the-covers view of how programming languages are designed within Microsoft. Learn about how features are evaluated before being adopted into a language, and why sometimes excellent features are rejected.

Silverlight 4.0 was the big hit at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC) this week. "I can see that Silverlight is the future of Windows client development" one attendee told me. The basis for this enthusiasm is an array of new features that resolve many of the frustrations discovered by developers working with the previous release.