Posted by L. Michael Golden Corporate Vice President, Education Michael Golden (left) and Michel Levy, general manager, Microsoft Brazil (right), present Bahia Governor Jaques Wagner with a copy of Windows 7 at the fifth annual WIEF. The TV hero MacGyver...(read more).. more »

Posted by Lutz Ziob General Manager, Microsoft Learning Lutz Ziob, General Manager, Microsoft Learning Given the current state of our economy, securing and retaining family-wage jobs is of upmost importance to most Americans. Today, I was fortunate to...(read more).. more »

As many of you know, most large web sites that feature lots of content often experience traffic that is looking for pages that either dont exist or have been moved. But did you know that the percent of traffic that causes web servers to return a generic 404 error page or sitemap is as much as 2 to 10 percent? Thats an awful lot of viewers .. more »

Im pleased to announce a new software development kit (SDK) that helps PHP developers easily leverage the Windows Azure platform AppFabric (formerly called .NET Services). This SDK is the third in a series, the first of which was released a year ago. Equivalent SDKs for are also available and they have been updated to reflect the latest version of .. more »

The SQL CRUD Wizard for PHP is a wizard type application that can be used to generate a simple "Create, Read, Update, Delete" PHP application from a Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure database table. The generated PHP application supports paging, sorting and simple CSS customization. The generated PHP Application Code, .. more »

Over a year and a half ago I had the pleasure to meet with CSR and Sustainability team to share ideas and best practices on environmental sustainability. BT is doing phenomenal work and have been thought leaders in this area. Since then Ive been following Kevin Mosss blog called to stay up to speed on the latest happenings at BT and also follow .. more »

, a non-profit created to raise consumer and corporate awareness of climate impact and corporate responsibility, today announced that Microsoft has achieved their highest category of rating. Climate Counts scores the world's largest companies on their climate impact to spur corporate climate responsibility with a goal of empowering consumers to .. more »

today that Microsoft has become the 150th business to join the Seattle Climate Partnership, a voluntary program for the regions businesses working to reduce their carbon footprint and partner with others in the effort. Nickels will recognize Microsoft and other local companies at a recognition gathering tonight at the Seattle Aquarium from 6 to 8 .. more »

Its been about three weeks since Facebook announced its Platform roadmap for the rest of 2009 the mechanics of and rules around Facebooks viral communication channels that applications use to spread and engage users. Last week, we took a look at what . The largest app developers are hard at work redesigning and re-optimizing their communication .. more »

is adding more banner advertising to its inventory, starting on Friday when it absorbs SocialMedias ad network on Facebook. The latter company is moving away from that business completely as it focuses on social ads interactive ads where can do things like see others tweets about a product and send their own responses back to Twitter. Terms of the .. more »

facebook-square-logoFacebook is the largest photo sharing service in the world, with over 2 billion photos uploaded by users each month. So when the company is testing a brand new way for users to get most of those photos onto the site, its a big change. Although the current photo uploading tools are obviously working well enough to support the .. more »

Were just about a month after the Windows 7 launch, and wanted to show an early look at some of the work underway on Internet Explorer 9. At the PDC today, in addition to demonstrating some of the progress on performance and interoperable standards, we showed how IE and Windows will make the power of PC hardware available to web developers in the .. more »

Dynamically allocated and manipulated data structures cannot be translated into hardware unless there is an upper bound on the amount of memory the program uses during all executions. This bound can depend on the generic parameters to the program, i.e., program inputs that are instantiated at synthesis time. We propose a constraint based method for .. more »

The BizSpark startup of the day is SocialGrow, based in the US. SocialGrow enables users to quickly make relevant new connections online. Tell us who you are and your role in the company. I am Ken Herron, and I am SocialGrow's Chief Marketing Officer and one of its three Co-Founders. My role in the company is to engage customers. Engaging our .. more »

Ive been working with Seattle startup Cheezburger Networkcreators of humor sites like , and othersfor a while now, so I was especially thrilled at todays kickoff of , our Professional Developers Conference. Martin Cron, a lead developer for the startup, was part of Ray Ozzies keynote address announcing Azure support for . In addition to Wordpresss .. more »

  Watch Windows Embedded MVP, Thierry Joubert discuss challenges that developers face when programming for Embedded devices at TechEd 2009 in Berlin. Intel Atom, Pico ITX, Vortex86, ARM ... the latest evolutions in hardware architectures create a situation where developers can leverage their knowledge on embedded projects. Windows Embedded C.. more »

  SharePoint MVP Marwan Tarek is the co-founder of SharePoint4Arabs, a website dedicated to providing SharePoint resources targeted to Arabic speaking countries. SharePoint4Arabs presents videos, presentations and useful resources. A particular focus for the site is on development, end users and infrastructure. The site is also welcoming speakers t.. more »

Its hard to believe that the holiday season is already upon us! But, what better way to kick off holiday shopping than with a great discount on Office for your Mac? Im a Marketing Manager here at the MacBU and also a mom of toddlers. I can use all the help I can get to organize my life at the office and my life at home. From managing my calendar, .. more »

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Q&A: Kurt DelBene, senior vice president of the Office Business Productivity Group at Microsoft, discusses what is new in the public beta and what developers can expect from the upcoming release of Office 2010 and related products... more »