January 2007 - Posts

posted Monday, January 29, 2007 4:28 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

UK Vista/Office Launch Tour - Days 4 and 5

Thursday started quietly with a chance to catch up on some real work.  Then in the afternoon Daniel drove us up to Bolton (I had my eyes closed most of the way) for our evening session at the University there.  The audience consisted of academics Read More
posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:33 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

UK Vista/Office Launch Tour - Days 2 and 3

Day 2 started in Eastleigh with iMeta; then it was straight in the car for the trip up to Coventry (with a brief stop at the Reading office for reasons I still can't fathom). Mike drove us to Coventry, much to Daniel's chagrin. Tuesday evening in Read More
posted Monday, January 22, 2007 10:03 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

UK Vista/Office Launch Tour - Day 1

Many thanks to the good people at Beazley for hosting our first session.  Mark Johnston, Mike Taulty and I presented 10x 10-minute sessions (demos only - no slides), and by the end of it we were getting into the swing of things.  I'm sure we'll Read More
posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:20 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

UK Vista & Office Launch Roadtrip

Monday 22nd January marks the start of our road-trip in London.  You might still be able to attend one of the three venues that are open to the public.  See here for more details.  Otherwise, keep checking the roadtrip blog for updates Read More
posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:46 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Vista/Office UK Developer Launch

Day 1 of the launch was a great success.  Really nice to see so many enthusiastic people.  It can't have hurt that we're giving them all a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition or Office Professional :-) Now it's day 2.   A good Read More
posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 5:56 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Mashups with Virtual Earth

I just started playing with this excellent tool from Microsoft Research... MSR Map Cruncher for Virtual Earth It allows you to take a map in many different formats (pdf, jpg, etc.), mark out how locations correspond to those in Virtual Earth, add transparency Read More
posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 5:28 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

Chance to Inflict Suffering on Microsoft Man

Mike Ormond is entering the London Marathon. We, his colleagues, would very much like to see him run it :-) He won't be allowed to run unless he raises a lot of money, so come on everybody: take this opportunity to see a Microsoft Developer Evangelist Read More
posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:44 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

UK Vista and Office Launch Road Trip

Thanks to everyone who offered venues.  We now have an itinerary planned.  Please visit http://ukvistaofficelaunchtour.spaces.live.com/ to see where we'll be going, and note that three venues are open to the public.  It would be great Read More
posted Friday, January 05, 2007 1:30 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

VS2005 on Windows Vista

As you probably know, there are a few areas of Visual Studio that are adversely affected when running on Windows Vista, and therefore we're working on an update for VS that will improve things, specifically on Vista. It's been there for a little while Read More