Greeting Niners. We are very pleased to announce the first annual Niney Awards. The Nineys will be a celebration of Channel 9 and its community. We are looking to honor some of the great work being …

This is a fun one. We played this to the crowd at the PDC before Eric Rudder's keynote. We did it as a thank you to all of you who come here and make Channel 9 a fun place to hang out. Sorry, the down…

There are three segments to this walkthrough the PDC. We walk from one end of the PDC hall to the other. We start out behind the scenes. We run into Microsoft execs and Tantek Celik (CTO at Technorati…

Hundreds of millions of people use Hotmail. Here's the first look at the next-generation of Hotmail, code-named "Kahuna." You meet the team which is located at Microsoft's Silicon Valle…

Scott Isaacs is one of the inventors of DHTML. He is one of Microsoft's smartest Web developers and built a framework that's being used on Start.com, the future Hotmail, and other places like the new …

Ever use Terminal Services? You know, get into one Windows machine from another? Or use Fast User Switching? Or use Remote Assistance? Well, then you are using Terminal Services and in this video you'…

What happens when an application crashes? Watson collects data and lets users send that in to Microsoft for analysis. Here you get to meet Kirk and Mike, two of the guys on that team and they talk abo…

We know you’ve been waiting for this! Here is part two in the series where we chronicle one guy’s journey to get to PDC05. If you missed the first episode, you can view that first here The Nine G…

Today Microsoft announced the addition of several new RSS features in the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. The Longhorn Browsing and RSS team (the one we interviewed here) is also are ann…

PDC05 Road Trip - Episode 1 It is once again that special time that only comes around every so often. It is the chance to leave the office, travel to an exotic location, and mix with hordes of …

What's a Sony PSP doing on Channel 9? Well, Ken was showing us his new game machines and was bragging about how he watches Channel 9 videos on it. Oh, we're a sucker for stuff like that. Check out …

We gave a camcorder to Mike Sampson who went over to his coworker, Chris Smith, a software developer/test on the Visual Basic team, and asked him all about the generic bootstrapper that's in Visual St…

"Ken Levy, Visual Studio and FoxPro product manager, takes us through the latest Visual FoxPro 9 roadmap and gives us some of his trademark cool demos of how a future version of Visual FoxPro will inte…

David Ornstein is the developer who wrote the Wiki technology we use here on Channel 9 (it's called FlexWiki and is an shared source initiative so you can add your own features to the project). Here …

The tour of Microsoft Hardware labs continues. Now we check out the lab where hardware designs materialize: The Machining Lab. Enjoy. Running Time: 7:37

The tour of Microsoft Hardware labs continues. Now we check out the reliability lab. This is where our little mouse friends get thoroughly tested for durability and reliability. Enjoy. Running T…

Jean Paoli, XML Architect, and Brian Jones, Office PM, talk to Scoble about the new Office Open file formats. Enjoy. Running Time: 23:56 Download Size: 76 MB

The tour of Microsoft Hardware labs continues. Now we check out the scanning lab in this mouse making journey of discovery. Enjoy.

At this point, most of us take the common computer peripherals like mice and keyboards for granted. They're just always there. Ever wonder how one of these things gets made, from start to finish? Well…

Catherine Heller is a Technical Evangelist and works closely with the VSTO team, ensuring that they build the right product for customers. She knows quite about about VSTO and in this video she writes…

Great news: Now you'll be able to use VSTO to build managed Office add-ins for Outlook! Most cool. In this video, Catherine Heller, Developer Tools Technical Evangelist chats with Andrew Whitechapel, …

The USA finals of the Imagine Cup were hosted on Microsoft's main campus a couple of weeks ago. Dozens of teams competing to win and go onto the finals in Yokohama, Japan. Here we dropped by to mee…

Jean Paoli was bouncing around the offices here in building 18 today. Who's he? One of the co-creators of XML. Why was he happy? Because Office just announced their new file formats all built in XM…

.NET compatibility is a big issue. Will your 2.0 apps work on 1.1 runtimes? Or, will your 1.1 apps work on the new 2.0 runtimes? What about apps hosted inside Outlook? Jesse Kaplan, program manager…

The new Speech API is included in the latest Avalon bits that were just released last week. Robert Brown, here in this video, talks about the latest in speech and gives us a demo, and on his blog giv…

Are you a Visual Basic programmer? You gotta check this video out! It shows off a free refactoring tool for Visual Basic.NET 2005, beta 2. Brad McCabe has the details on his blog. Jay Schmelzer,…

Here we have a little surprise, we were walking around with Mick Stanic, founder of the G'day World podcast (a fun geek-oriented podcast done from Australia), and ran into Amanda Silver, program mana…

You might have heard about the Small Business Server. Well, we did (the sales people here tell us it's a hot seller) so we wanted to find out what it is and meet Sean Daniel, program manager on the …

What is Office Communicator? Well, Office Communicator team Director Andrew Sinclair sits down with us and tells us all about it. Enjoy Download Size: 66 MB

Karsten Januszewski and Robert Scoble heard that Simon Guest had built an app, using Microsoft's new Avalon technology, that works with mainframes. Hmmm, a shiny frontend for a mainframe app? Well,…

Last in the series of customer interviews at this year's VS Component Lab in Redmond. Here, we (Charles) talks to Stephen Dadoly and Tony Lombardo of Infragistics, Inc. They make some nifty ASP.N…

Here we talk with Michael J. Baldwin, President of Dart Communications. His company has written a suite of VS controls including a really cool xmlhttp-based ASP.NET control that makes aspx page refres…

We were recently at a VS Component lab on the Redmond campus and talked to some customers about the cool components they've built to extend VS functionality. Here we talk to Daniel Jebarat, Vice Presi…

We were recently at a Visual Studios Components lab here on the Redmond campus and ran into Raghavendra, an SDE on the Windows Forms team. He tells us a little bit about the Designer and how it's made…

Scoble talks to the MSN TV people. Don't know what MSN TV is? Watch this video. In it, they discuss MSN Remote Record Service, which lets you use your Media Center PC remotely. This video was recor…

Corey Hynes gives us the inside scoop of TechEd's hands on labs. TechEd has 195 of these labs. How and who sets these labs up? How much hardware does it take to run them? Download Size: 30 MB

Here's the second part of the conversation with Martin Taylor and Bill Hilf on Linux, Windows and Microsoft. Here we get some of the Niners' questions answered and go on a tour of Bill's lab. Enjoy…

Charles Torre sits down with Martin Taylor and Bill Hilf and chats about Linux, Windows and Microsoft. Martin Taylor is Microsoft's General Manager of Competitive Strategy. He's the guy that's been…

MVP Vinod M Kumar chats with us abot SQL Server 2005.

Ken Levy, a Channel 9 veteran interviewee, talks to us about the nifty XML tools in Visual Studio 2005. Download Size - 134 MB Enjoy

Karsten Januszewski, technical evangelist, presented recently at the Macromedia Flashforward conference. "What is a Microsoft technical evangelist doing at a design conference?" Well, …

Andy Gordon and Karthik Bhargavan (researchers from Microsoft's research center in Cambridge, England) take us out to see "Lake Bill" back on Microsoft's main campus in Redmond where we avoi…

Rick, general manager of Visual Studio Team System, responds to customer complaints about VSTS's planned licensing and pricing.

Karsten Januszewski, developer evangelist, took us over to meet with the Avalon team. Pablo Fernicola, group program manager (guy who runs the Avalon team), Arik Cohen, lead program manager, and Ro…

Tony Goodhew, product manager on Developer Marketing, is helping write the specs for the next NEXT version of Visual Studio. No, not Whidbey, the one that comes after that! Why are we already start…

Stefan Schackow is a program manager on the Web Platform and Tools team, is giving a TechED 401 talk and so we talk with him about what he'll be doing at TechED. TechED is in Orlando, FL, USA on June…

Tony Donno, test manager on the Virtual Server team (actually the Virtual Machine team) discusses what makes a great tester and the Virtual Server machine, which lets you run a variety of operating …

What's running on Ben Armstrong's machine? Linux? Yes! BeOS? Yes! OS/2? Yes! Windows 95? Yes! Microsoft Bob? Yes! Free BSD? Yes! And about 600 other operating systems. Come and meet the Virtual Mac…

Steve Millet is an architect on the Indigo team. What is Indigo? Millet says "Our next generation platform for doing Web services and messaging infrastructure." Then Steve spends the next…

Service Oriented Architecture. It's the current hype phrase for developers and architects. One day recently Robert Scoble ran into Steve Swartz, an architect on the Indigo team, and the conversatio…

Jon Pincus and Hunter Hudson talk about "Spot the Bug," which is a little game they play inside Microsoft on a mailing alias.

In this second part, Jon and Hudson talk about how programming teams can get their code quality up.

Hunter Hudson, development manager, programmer productivity Research center, and Jon Pincus, senior researcher on Microsoft Research, sit down with Charles Torre to talk about spotting bugs and code q…

Hey, Adam Curry, the Tablet PC Team released earlier this week the Experience Pack. I tell ya if Steve Jobs had this he'd have the Mac fans eating out of his hands. Check out the UI in this vide…

This comes in a little late, but better than never. Right? Part 3 is almost 11 minutes long and in it John talks about the challenges involved in building a V1 feature, how they dogfood, the best …

What is the one thing looked at more than anything else on your computer? Fonts! You never think of them, right? Well, that's by design: good fonts aren't noticed for the most part but they are…

Anders Hejlsberg is going to TechED in Orlando, FL on June 5-10, so we got Charles Torre to go over and talk with Anders about all the latest stuff happening in C# as a preview of what he'll talk ab…

Rico Mariani, architect on the .NET Common Language Runtime Team, knows a bit about making .NET perform. So, what about .NET? Can it perform? What are the tricks on making your apps run fast? Rico …

As part of our birthday celebration, we took a trip back to see Scott Guthrie, Product Unit Manager on Web Platform and Tools team, and get a demo of the next version of ASP.NET (er, Visual Studio 200…

I’ve personally been involved in several projects that started out with some great Visio diagrams for documentation that would eventually become stale as you progress in your coding. In part 2 Jo…

April 1, 2005 -- Two of Microsoft's most talented marketers worked during their 20% time nights and weekends to come up with Neutrino, a new toolset that will enable marketers to develop .NET code (a…

We heard Eric Lippert was talking with a bunch of customers over in building 20 (that's where a lot of teams meet with groups of customers to show them new technologies). So, we headed over there t…

I've now done a few interviews with my co-workers building Visual Studio 2005. I always like to ask "Aside from your own feature, What is your favorite new thing about Visual Studio 2005?" …

Now we get into some 64-bit code on the whiteboard and learn some things you need to think about when you move to 64-bit systems. Kang Su Gatlin is a program manager on the Visual C++ team and…

The conversation continues with Kang Su about 64-bit and what it means for developers. Next week you'll hear more from the Route64 Training Tour and see some of the things you'll need to worry abou…

Over the next few days we'll bring you video from the Route64 Training Tour when it visited Redmond. In this first part, you meet Kang Su Gatlin (again, since he's been on Channel 9 before). Kang…

This is our last video from our trip to the San Francisco based "Microsoft Bay Area Research Center." We wanted to end up with the developer working on the MyLifeBits project. So, meet Ro…

Gordon Bell has been a leading technologist for so long that we wondered "what did he miss?" If you don't know who Gordon is, he spent 23 years (1960-1983) at Digital Equipment Corporation a…

Here's another 24 minutes with Jim Gray. He's one of the big minds behind SQL Server. Terra Service. And so much more. In this conversation we talk about architecture of Terra Service, among other…

Jim Gray is a distinguished engineer in Microsoft's Scalable Servers Research Group and manager of our Bay Area Research Center. That doesn't even start to do justice to the role Jim has played in…

Recently the CLR team had a "Compiler Lab" which is where they meet with customers over in building 20 on Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, WA. Jeff Sandquist and Charles Torre took their …

Tomas Matousek and Ladislav Prosek talk about their PHP .NET compiler, Phalanger. These guys don't work at Microsoft, Charles Torre ran into them at a recent CLR compiler lab held on Microsoft's main …

Robin and Liangxiao complete their demonstration of the application designer in this video. Here you'll see the resulting Office Application querying a class library that pulls information from a w…

SQL Server is one of the most tested pieces of software in the world. If you remember from our tour they have four labs full of hundreds of computers that mostly do testing. Someone needs to write the…

We recently demonstrated the high level Distributed System Designers (Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3). Today we have a video that drills into the lower level of Application Design with Robin and Lian…

The interview with the gurus who work in the Bay Area Research Center continues. Here Jim Gemmell shows off a "sensecam" that'll capture pictures and other data in response to lighting and o…

Gordon Bell is one of the industry's top leaders and one of his most remarkable achievements, in our opinion, is the Comuter History Museum that's in Silicon Valley (it's about a block away from…

Charles Torre and Robert Scoble recently visited Microsoft's Research Center in San Francisco, CA (They call it the Bay Area Research Center) where Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell work. Don't know who…

In the second half of my chat with Ian we talked about his brief (so far) history with Microsoft, dogfooding the performance tools, analysis best practices, common performance mistakes made by…

I found Ian, a Developer on our Performance tools, because of his blog. He has been writing a great series of posts that preview the Performance Profiling tools you'll find in Beta 2 of VSTS. …

Mark Boulter continues his conversation about Smart Clients and Windows Forms today. If you're interested in .NET client development, you'll find this conversation with Charles Torre, of Channel 9,…

Mark Boulter is a technical lead on the .NET team. Windows Forms. Client. Translation: he knows more about Windows Forms and how .NET client apps work than almost anyone else. We spent an hour…

Charles Torre and Robert Scoble complete their two-part interview of Scott Guthrie here. Scott is the guy who runs the IIS (Microsoft's Web Server) and ASP.NET teams (programming environment for…

This is the more laid back interview portion of the show. If you have additional questions for Ali and Dmitriy after watching parts one and two that we didn't ask...post them here! - josh For…

In part two of this three part demo/interview Dmitriy shows how you can create diagrams that represent the logical structure of a data center for the purpose of communicating important information to…

Scott Guthrie is the Product Unit Manager in charge of the Web platform and tools team. That's the team that includes ASP.NET and Internet Information Server. Basically if you run a Web site that runs…

In January Ali posted a preview of the Distributed System Designers to his blog. The screenshots he posted are cool, but we figured it would be better if we went over for a live demo. We split this…

John Canning and Charlie Owen's passion for the Windows Media Center comes through in this segment. Here you get a full demo of what Media Center is. We give these two guys all of our…

Last month at the Consumer Electronics Show Bill Gates showed off the latest Windows Media Center. But we still had a bunch of questions. So, we headed over to building 50 to meet with John…

Chris Gray, a developer in the Windows Server team (yes, we've seen Chris before in the Windows CE videos) shows how to use managed code running on a Windows Mobile device to upload photo's from a…

This is a different kind of tour. It's of one of the most top-secret facilities Microsoft has (this is one of only a handful of buildings that Scoble's badge doesn't work in, for instance). It may be…

The tour of Microsoft Research continues...this is the final of three parts. Here we meet Raman Sarin, who was part of the team that did a cool little Seattle-area traffic reporting and prediction…

Logging bugs is easy. Logging “QA” quality bugs takes a little more time, energy, and focus. Logging a bug requires a well-written title and the fewest number of steps to reproduce the bug. In…

In this segment you meet Eric Horvitz. Who is he? Microsoft's top inventor (he is responsible for more patents at Microsoft than any other person). Getting a glimpse into Eric's office is like…

Now that the test case owner knows why the test case has failed, the information, usually in the form of a bug id, is entered into Maddog. This tracking allows everyone, not just the test case…

Last year, you might remember, Kevin Schofield gave us a tour of Microsoft Research that was one of our most popular video series. So, recently he asked us back over for another tour. How could…

Whenever a test case fails in a test case run, the owner of that test case needs to verify why the test case failed. It could have failed because of a product bug or a test case issue. The sooner a…

In this segment Herb takes us on a tour of a small part of the Visual C++ team. In there you'll meet Jonathan Caves. He's a compiler developer on the VC++ team and he likes coffee.…

C++ is the language that most of Microsoft's big-name products are developed in and one of the most widely-used languages in the world. So, we wanted to meet some of the big minds behind…

Maddog is the internal tool DevDiv uses for test case maintenance. Maddog provides version control for test cases and allow users to configure test case runs. In this clip, MHagman,…

Hotmail. It's a service that's often overlooked at Microsoft. But hundreds of millions of people use Hotmail every month. Billions of email messages flow through its datacenters every…

Brian Groth and Mark Berman can be found in building 25. They work across the hall from a datacenter (not everyone at Microsoft has so much hardware within arms reach). What caught our attention…

Milind Lele, program manager on the Visual Studio data team, shows off some of the power of the next SQL Server, code-named Yukon, when combined with the next version of Visual Studio, code-named…

Here's the final part of the tour of the .NET CLR BCL team. Check out the books that Brian Grunkemeyer likes reading. If you missed them, the rest of the tour is here: Part I Part II

In this part, you'll jump right into a meeting with Brad Abrams and Joe Duffy. You can see how they think through an issue with the .NET CLR's design.

Our tech guru, Charles Torre, takes us over to meet Kit George and the rest of the .NET CLR BCL team. Don't know what that is? Well, it's the class library that all .NET applications use. We start…

In part II of our Visual Studio core team tour, Josh and I talked with members of the Editor, Extensibility, and Help Integration teams (Part I is here). Today you meet: Sean Laberee | Sara Ford …

Meet members of the Visual Studio Core team who work on the Help System, VSIP, MSBuild, and other shared IDE features. We've split the video into two parts; second part will come tomorrow. Today Josh…

Omri Gazitt is the product unit manager on the advanced Web Services team (now Indigo) at Microsoft. Here we asked him to draw a picture of the Web Services world. If you ever wondered what Web…

Who are the people on the front lines when a security problem gets disclosed? The Security Response Center. Here you get to meet those folks. By the way, what's the proper way to let the world know…

Daniel is a software design engineer on the Avalon team and he's responsible for the 3D features of Avalon. Here he gives us a demo of Avalon 3D. Really cool stuff. Originally designed to only run…

What's this? A Macintosh on Channel 9? Are we gonna get fired for this? Nah. It's the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft. Meet some of the folks behind Virtual PC and Entourage and get a look…

Jean Paoli, senior director of XML architecture, and co-creator of XML, gives his vision of XML in an interview with Channel 9's Charles Torre and Robert Scoble. This is the second part of the…

Jean Paoli, senior director of XML architecture, sits down for the first half of a two-part interview with us about his role in creating XML, among other things. He was recently given the…

Next week Josh will give us a tour of the Visual Studio core team, but today he's giving us a tour of a few things that Visual Studio developers might be interested in.

This is the last part of the interview we did with John Pruitt, usability lead on the user experience team, talks about who is the target user and how knowing that will help designers and testers…

John Pruitt explains the development cycle at Microsoft -- the interview takes place inside the "watching" part of one of our usability labs where teams can videotape and watch everyday…

"Do the developers really listen to anything you say?" we asked. Who is saying it? The users who come through the user testing labs at Microsoft. John Pruitt, a usability lead on the…

Visual FoxPro 9 is here. Ken Levy chats with us about its development and gives us a demo.

"Wicked," is how interviewer Robert Scoble reacted when he saw the MSN Toolbar Suite demoed. Today Microsoft announced the MSN Toolbar Suite beta. You can get it now…

Today Microsoft announced the MSN Toolbar Suite beta. You can get it now at http://beta.toolbar.msn.com. The Toolbar Suite team took some time out of their busy schedule last week and here they…

While we were at the Topcoder contest last month handing out Nine Guys we met Alex Kipman (he is lead program manager on MS Build). He has a cool demo of using Visual Studio to build a system for a…

Don Box is well known for giving highly-rated presentations at industry conferences. One year he gave a presentation in a bathtub. Another year he gave one wearing just a T-shirt. Mike Hall took…

Soner Terek takes us behind an HP SuperDome computer. A terabyte of RAM. 2,500 hard drives. 64 64-bit processors. Then Jamie Maclannan talks about data mining and gives us a demo. This is the…

Here's the second part of the SQL Server team tour. Here you'll see a customer lab (Corinna Bolender and Bren Newman show you around), MVP posters, the SQL Server team's ping-pong table, the…

Huh? What happened to Part II? It's coming Monday, had some technical problems that we needed to fix first. But this one is fun. You get to meet more of the team that makes SQL Server (notably…

Building 35 is a mysterious place. Hundreds of Microsoft employees. Thousands of computers. What's cool about building 35? It's where they make SQL Server! So, we wanted to get a tour of…

Here Michael Connolly and Jim Horne demonstrate the new MSN Spaces. Oh, and this service wasn't supposed to be turned on for two more hours, so you are getting a world-wide first look at MSN Spaces…

Just launched! MSN Spaces. You can get your own blog/photo sharing "space" at http://spaces.msn.com. This integrates with the new MSN Messenger that also will be released later…

The Enterprise Engineering Center works with big companies. Emphasis on big. You know, banks, oil companies, and other companies with huge data centers. What do they do? They help big companies…

Joe Morris, lead program manager on the Windows XP Embedded team, demonstrates the security enhancements made for developers in Windows XP Embedded.

Joe Morris, lead program manager, on Windows XP Embedded has a chat with Mike Hall about Windows embedded about what's involved in developing for XP embedded. If you're interested, take a listen, or…

Sorry for taking a week off. We ate and ate and ate during last week's Thanksgiving vacation. Don Box gets us back on air with something short and fun. More videos coming shortly.

"Show us the architecture of .NET on the whiteboard," is what we asked Jason Zander and that started out an interesting discussion of what .NET is. That led into a discussion of .NET's…

"What about those buttons on the Tablet PC?" That got Bert Keely to talk about a future input device he helped design that might show up on Tablet PCs. (Bert is one of the visionaries…

Hear the roar! Oh, that's just the CLR team's lab where they are testing 64-bit versions of the .NET common language runtime. But, first, we drop into Adam Nathan's office where he shows us…

Here Jason Zander continues his tour through the CLR team's offices. Do you know how hard it is walking backward while trying to aim a camcorder properly? What is that that Kit George is…

Turns out we were confused about what Smart Clients were. So, we went looking for the answers. First visit? The MSDN Smart Client Developer Center. Things came clearer into view. Then, we were guided…

Gabriel Torok is CEO of Preemptive Solutions. They sell the Dotfuscator, which lets developers protect their programs against reverse engineering while making them smaller and more efficient. Here…

Alan Griver, Steven Lees, and Jay Roxe are off to visit user groups in India in about a week. So, we visited them as they were hanging out at a .NET user group that meets at Microsoft's headquarters…

Mike McKay drives the ship room for the next version of Visual Studio. He talks about what he and his team does to get Visual Studio to get to Zero Bug Bounce (ZBB).

Exit criteria are the shipping rules that a team sets for itself. For instance, one of the rules is "we won't ship with a known security issue." Mike McKay is a program manager on the…

Mike Hall took his camcorder over to the mobile devices team and met with Constanze Roman, a programming writer. They talk about what working as a documentation writer is like.

VOIP to SOIP. That makes us laugh. But, how the telephone is changing is no laughing matter. Combining video, voice, and data are changing the way we work. Balz Wyss, product manager for Windows…

Since Bert Keely is one of the visionary behind the Tablet PC, we wanted to know what he'd like to see developers do to take the Tablet PC further.

Did you know that a new Toshiba Tablet PC has three microphones? They call them "array microphones." What is the reason? What could they be used for? We asked Bert Keely, one of the…

Bert Keely is one of the visionaries behind the Tablet PC. Over the next week or so you'll get to hear more from Bert and see his passion for the Tablet PC. One of the more interesting things he…

We hope you've enjoyed this week of getting to know Larry Osterman a bit better.We asked Larry about times he's had working interactions with Bill Gates (co-founder of Microsoft).Larry remembered one…

We usually don't run commercials here, but since Halo 2 is coming next week, we thought we'd give you yet another shot of hype. In addition to the video commercial, linked to above, here's an…

Larry Osterman has worked through tons of tough technical problems in his 20 years here. So, we asked him what the toughest one was that he remembered working on. Turns out it was the Exchange 2000…

Over the 20 years that Larry's worked at Microsoft he's seen a wide variety of pranks played on people here. So, we wondered, what were the ones he remembered? What are the funniest pranks you've…

Larry Osterman has been working at Microsoft for 20 years as a software design engineer. 20 years, think about that one for a while. When he started working at Microsoft Ronald Reagan was the guy up…

Code separation is now done via a feature called partial types. See Amanda demonstrate how that'll help you in your Visual Basic development with the next version of Visual Basic, code-named Whidbey.…

Whidbey is the code name. But, what does Amanda think is really cool in the next version of Visual Basic?

Here's a small team that shipped a cool product today, Photo Story 3, that helps you make great "stories" from your digital photos. We sat down with the team who wrote the product so…

Microsoft, today, released a new version of Photo Story. It's a really great new way to share your digital photos with other people. Try it out, it's free (for people who own Windows XP). In this…

We didn't realize it, but Flight Simulator is 25 years old. We don't know whether its birthday was in October or November, but Bruce Artwick started Flight Simulator as his master's thesis project…

Bugs, bugs, bugs. Everyone thinks they know what a bug is. But, a bug isn't just a product defect (you know, those little buggers that get your system to crash). Here Chad Royal, lead program…

Here the Channel 9 team was invited to sit inside a bug triage meeting. This is a unique view into how bugs (which include, but are not limited to, product defects) are dealt with. Process, process,…

Flight Simulator is one of Microsoft's coolest products. After all, what's cooler than being able to fly a Boeing 747 around the world? It might not sound geeky enough for Channel 9, but there's a…

Amanda Silver is a program manager on the Visual Basic team. We wondered what VB 6 programmers needed to know about Visual Basic.NET. We also asked her to tell us the three things that make a…

Basic was Microsoft's first product. So, when we met with Amanda Silver, program manager on the Visual Basic team, we thought we'd ask her about that lineage and how it affects her thinking about…

If you're a geek you can skip this video. It isn't for you. Well, on second thought, do you have anyone in your life who doesn't yet have a computer? Who is scared of computers? Who you'd like to…

This is a different kind of video. It's not of someone talking about a Microsoft product. It's about a Microsoft employee's hobby. We think you'll find his hobby to be pretty darn interesting,…

Last week you saw Jeffrey Snover talking about Monad here on Channel 9. Here's his demo of Monad. Monad is the code-name for a new command shell for Windows. In this video Jeffrey talks about the…

If you were at the PDC last fall you might have heard about Monad. That's the code-name for a new command shell. Jason Nadal, on his blog, said he was "blown away" by what he saw. So, of…

We thought we'd put Paul on the spot and ask him: "Fill in the blank, a great VB programmer does _____." Here's his answer. In another video that we just posted we asked Paul to…

Can you make your Visual Basic.NET applications perform even faster? Since Paul is on the VB team, we thought we'd ask him for some tips. Do you have any that you've found in your work?

We were hanging out in building 41 in Microsoft's headquarters the other day and saw a wall of customers' photos and a bit about what they were using Visual Studio for. So, we tracked down the guy…

How do you make programming fun? How do you make it relevant? Paul Vick talks about the challenges that Microsoft has ahead of it to remain the language for the next generation of developers. Why…

Paul Vick, technical lead on the Visual Basic team, talks about some of the language enhancements that are being made in the next version, code-named Whidbey.

It's Visual Basic days on Channel 9 (over the next week or so you'll learn more about the next version of Visual Basic from Paul Vick, technical lead, and Amanda Silver, architect, on the VB…

If you're a Visual Basic 6.0 programmer, why would you consider moving to VB.NET? Paul Vick, technical lead (translation: smart dev) on the Visual Basic team talks to us about the trials and…

"Go to Slashdot and I guarantee you that on almost any Microsoft post someone will be making a Clippy joke," Tony Goodhew says. He's one of the guys planning out a future version of…

Yeah, yeah, the next version of Visual Studio isn't even done yet. You know, the "2005" version that's code-named "Whidbey." So, why we talking about the version after that? Its…

Andrew Herbert, managing director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, discusses the kinds of work that they are doing. Thanks to our guest video guy, Mike Hall, for getting lots of…

Ken Wood runs the interactive systems group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. He discusses wearable computing and other research his team is working on.

Ori gives us the one-minute pitch for what he thinks will really excite developers. How about wirelessly deploying apps to your phone via Bluetooth? If you want a little bit more than a one-minute…

What kinds of applications will you be able to build with the next version of Visual Studio? Ori discusses the kinds of apps that'll take advantage of WiFi and cellular phone technologies. What…

Ori Amiga, program manager on the Visual Studio for Devices Team, demonstrates the next version of Visual Studio for Whidbey. Drag and drop and, bang, you have a Web browser control right on your…

Ori discusses the emulator that's built into the next version of Visual Studio. This makes developing apps for PocketPCs and SmartPhones very easy.

SmartPhones. PocketPCs. How do you build applications for them? With Visual Studio, of course. There's a whole team of people who are building the next version of Visual Studio for devices. You…

Ori Amiga, group program manager on the Visual Studio for Devices team, takes us to meet his coworkers. The video was shot on a "bug bash" where the team members were cranking to fix as…

Here's a look at Microsoft's new Portable Media Center with Brett Bentsen, product unit manager of the team that built the Portable Media Center.

Mike Hall recently visited Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, and took his camera around. Here he interviews Gavin Bierman, who is doing research on database query languages.

Blogging and social software areas are seeing a decent amount of venture capital funding lately. So, we wondered what advice Larry Gregory would give a software developer could build a business that…

How can an entrepreneur make a big impact? What kind of software project should you start? What are the opportunities to build new companies? That's what we wondered when we had a chance to sit…

Rich Davies, program manager on the SPOT team shows us around the latest MSN Direct watches.

Our guest video guy, Mike Hall, took his camera on a trip to Microsoft Research's labs in the UK. Hey, it's just like Redmond: rainy. Glad to see that. Anyway, here Mike visits with a couple of…

Larry Gregory is the host of Microsoft's ISV Show. The most recent show talks about Business Intelligence. So, we thought we'd turn the camera around and interview him about his view of the…

Track your salesforce through their mobile phones? Figure out where your shipping trucks are? Is the cell phone ready for the enterprise? Steve Lombardi, evangelist on the Mappoint team, thinks so.…

Joe Stegman, lead program manager on the Windows Forms team, talks about some of the mistakes that developers make and gives us some tips for building great UIs for .NET. He also talks about how to…

Mike Hall, our new video guy scores again. Mike takes his camera over to meet Chris Gray who is a software design engineer with the Windows networking team and gets a cool demo of a remote desktop…

We've heard lots of rumors about Windows Forms and what'll happen to that technology on the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. Will WinForms still work? Will they still be useful? Is…

Connected applications. Rich clients. Smart Clients. Windows applications. Great looking applications. Higher productivity applications. Whatever you call them, there is a whole world of…

Joe Stegman, lead program manager on the WinForms team (.NET client) has one of the more impressive demos we've seen.Check this out. You can build a clone of Outlook in 100 lines of code (using the…

Every week in the Platform Lab (also known simply as "building 20") you'll find various development groups from around Microsoft meeting with customers. We wondered just what went on there,…

Hmm, we found more video from Don Box's tour of the Indigo team. Here you will meet lots more people like security guru Chris Kaler. Just a fun way to start the long weekend. The first part of the…

Phishing attacks are becoming more frequent. What's a phish attack? When a criminal makes an email that looks like it came from a company like eBay. Tricks the user into entering passwords or credit…

Developers are being asked to create more secure code. The next version of Visual C++, code-named Whidbey, will introduce several new security-protection capabilities. Here Scott Currie, Scott…

The next version of the electronic picture frame demonstrated. This one, based on Windows CE, has lots of new features -- like sharing on a physical Windows CE device so you can upload pictures to…

In templates all your specialization is happening at design time, in generics it happens at runtime. That's just one of the differences between the two. Hear Scott Currie, program manager on the…

Stephen Toulouse works in the security response center at Microsoft. This is the group that goes to work when a new vulnerability or attack is discovered around the world. During a crisis they'll work…

Scott, program manager on the Visual C++ team, shows off a demo of Quake running on .NET and talks about what that took to do that and more about Visual C++.

Microsoft's Security Response Center gets a lot of email sent to its secure@microsoft.com alias. Stephen kept talking about "responsible disclosure" with us so we wanted to find out just…

Stephen, who works in Microsoft's Security Response Center, talks about what a virus is. Want to be protected? In a separate video he discusses how to protect your computer.

Viruses. Hackers. Bad guys. How can you protect your PC? Stephen gives the official Microsoft view. It all starts at www.microsoft.com/protect.

Scott Curry, program manager for Visual C++, talks about improvements that are coming in the next version of Visual C++, code-named Whidbey.

Jim Allchin is the Group Vice President for Platforms at Microsoft. The Channel 9 team sat down with Jim yesterday and asked him to share his thoughts on the updated Windows "Longhorn" plan…

Deepak Gulati, Microsoft's community specialist, talks about working with software vendors in India. Localizing software is one of the things that Deepak works with ISV's on and he talks about the…

Deepak, Microsoft's India community specialist, gives us a tour around Microsoft's Indian Web sites. In this video he also talks about, and demonstrates, a keyboard which transposes Hindi…

Stephen Toulouse is a security program manager with Microsoft's security response center. The security response center is the team (and place) that goes into action when a new vulnerability or…

Mike Hall took his camera over to interview Stewart Tansley, program manager on Research's University Relations team, and get a tour around Research's recent faculty summit. Lots of interesting stuff…

Scott Currie, program manager on the Visual C++ team likes fooling around with other languages too. Here he shows off a demo of mixing VB, C#, and C++ in the same application. Very…

Scott Currie is a program manager on the Visual C++ team. Here he talks about what magic Visual C++ does with the .NET CLR.(talking about the next version of Visual C++,…

Mike Hall took his video camera over to Microsoft Research's faculty summit recently and met up with Stewart Tansley. Stewart gets us a demo of a new "touchlight" prototype. It's a new…

During an interview for a technical position at Microsoft your interviewer might turn to you and ask you to write some code, or work out a problem on the whiteboard. Here's a mock whiteboard…

Here's the second part of "interviewing at Microsoft" with Gretchen Ledgard and Zoe Goldring. In this part of our interview experience we meet Pat, a recruiting shuttle driver, who drives…

Joe Marini is a program manager here at Microsoft working on a technology that'll run on Longhorn. Here he talks about XAML, the new declarative programming language for Longhorn. He's built some…

Don Box takes Channel 9 on a tour of building 42 at Microsoft. What's there? The Indigo team. Code-name for a future set of .NET technologies that'll help you build and run connected…

"Teens need more security," Dan Appleman says. Here's the other videos from Dan: On a security crusade. Where are teenagers feeling computing pain? What are some security tips? How…

"Make a list" Dean Hachamovitch says. He's the guy who runs the Internet Explorer team. But, it's a little more involved than that. Listen to Dean talk about some of the things his team…

Way back when PCs used to be a nightmarish mess of IRQs and IO Ports (remember that?), a few nutty guys in the industry went off and came up with the idea of making a plug-and-play bus. That turned…

Dan Appleman is a software developer. But he wrote a security book for teenagers. So, we thought it'd be interesting to ask him to compare the security needs of both. We're talking, by the way, of…

Dean Hachamovitch, the guy who runs the Internet Explorer team, seems to have a particularly tough job. Just read all the comments over on the IE Blog. Just how tough is it? After all, everyone…

Want to work on the Xbox Live team? Boyd is hiring developers and testers. Hear what he's looking for.

XBox Live makes extensive use of .NET and SQL Server, so we asked Boyd what lessons developers could learn from the Xbox team (particularly about building secure systems).

"Is your computer acting strange?" Then you might be a teenager who hasn't secured your computer. Dan, co-founder of Apress books, talks about the kind of computing pain that…

Dan Appleman is on a campaign to secure every computer in the country. To help in that goal he wrote a book: Always Use Protection: A Teen's Guide to Safe Computing. But that's not why we put him…

This is a different kind of interview for us. Dan Appleman doesn't work at Microsoft -- he's the cofounder of the Apress book publishing company. So, why is he here? Well, he's on a crusade…

Whenever we meet a developer we wonder what he or she is most proud of in their code. What source code would you like to see at Microsoft and why?

Kenneth is working as an intern here at Microsoft for the summer on the Office team as a tester. He uses Visual Studio to find bugs (and to code on his own time). He writes emails in Outlook. Does all…

Ever wonder what it takes to build a game for the Xbox? His answer? Game development today is dramatically different than it was back in the old days when a developer or two could make a bleeding…

We ran into Bert Keely, one of the visionaries behind the Tablet PC (he's an architect on the Tablet PC team), recently at dinner and he started showing us how he had souped up his Tablet…

C#? SQL Server? What place do these things have in a world of videogames? A lot, Boyd told us. Listen in.

Larry Hryb, aka "Major Nelson" talks about how you join in an Xbox Live game. This is a continuation of his previous demo of Xbox Live. So, if we got a Channel 9 Xbox Live game going,…

A fun video of a recent Windows Embedded conference competition where attendees programmed robots to fight against each other. Near the end of the seven-minute video attendees talk about what they …

Alan Cooper, in his books and speeches in the 1990s, pushed a design methodology of starting with personas to help design new software. (You might know Alan because he designed the prototype of what…

"Longhorn lives," says Iain McDonald in reaction to our question of what the biggest suprise of the next year or two will be. (He is one of the guys at the center of the company -- he ran…

Boyd shares his secrets of how to build a great development team and the types of developers you should have on a team. It's a lot like building a great band, he says. Boyd runs the Xbox Live…

"Being frickin honest," Iain tells us is one of the secrets to being a good leader. What does Iain know about leadership? He led the Windows XP War Room. Just a small little product you…

Boyd runs the Xbox Live development team and he has some interesting insights into what makes a great developer. Actually, we asked him whether he was using any of the latest development…

Iain McDonald ran the Windows War Room. That's the room where a few dozen representatives of development teams would meet every day to keep Windows XP's team moving toward shipping. "Windows…

Our new camera guy, Mike Hall, found a robot enthusiast group where Stewart Tansley gave us a tour of some interesting robots that employees at Microsoft are building (or modifying) in their spare tim…

You do realize that Channel 9 is partly about finding out who has the coolest job at Microsoft. We can't think of many that'd be cooler than Larry Hryb's. He's in charge of programming at Xbox Live.…

Larry Hryb, director of programming for Xbox Live, demonstrates Xbox Live. Over the next week you'll get to know a bit more about how Xbox Live's system was developed (the backend was done in C#…

Boyd Multerer is development manager on the Xbox Live team. You'll get to know him more this week, but here we wanted to get to know a little more about what Xbox Live is all about.

Length of Video: 1:30 Visual Studio Express Editions excite Mythreyee because now students and beginning programmers can use to learn them to learn the latest development techniques. Mythreyee talks a…

Mythreyee Ganapathy - Recommendations for Indian students

Kam is helping to build the graphics and animations for the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. Recently he went back to India to visit his relatives. He has interesting stories about his tr…

Kam recently visited the Taj Mahal and we wondered if that influenced his work on the graphic design of the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn.

Length of Video: 3:20 We wondered what differences between India and the United States Kam saw on his recent trip to India. Kam is working on the team that's designing the graphics and animation f…

Iain is one of the most colorful characters at Microsoft. He ran the "war room" for Windows XP. Basically, any changes to the operating system had to go through him and his team -- and it…

Andrew has three tips for developers trying to build Office applications with Visual Studio Tools for Office.

Developing apps for Microsoft Word and Excel hasn't been as easy as it could be. That's about to change with the new Visual Studio Tools for Office. Andrew Clinick gives us a "first look"…

We continue the tour in the Microsoft car that we started yesterday. Today you see a lot more about how you'll interact with cars in the future. Driving directions. Cheapest gas. Movie theaters.…

ClickOnce is a new deployment technology in the next version of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2005, aka "Whidbey"). ClickOnce lets you deliver .NET apps with just a single click off of a…

Our new camera guy, Mike Hall, goes and visits Chris Gray, software development engineer with the Windows CE networking team. Chris has built a small file server with the new Windows CE 5.0. In…

Mike Hall (remember his tour of the Windows embedded lab?) took his camcorder over to get a look inside what the Windows Automotive group is doing. Check out this car! (Er, it's a Hummer that's…

Dan Fernandez, here, demonstrates how to build a cool little application in Visual C# Express Edition (you can download that from the Channel 9 Express site). Follow along as Dan takes you…

How do bad guys work to figure out security holes? Michael Howard, Microsoft's top security guy, talks about how the bad guys go about their work. This video is from an earlier interview we did. He…

Daniel Fernandez demonstrates and discusses Visual C# Express Edition -- for beginning programmers. Visit the Channel 9 Express site for more information on how to get started with programming the…

Want to build a Web site? You've gotta check out the new Visual Web Developer Express. The Channel 9 team has been playing with it internally and it's amazing how easy building a Web application is…

Familiar with Java, but unfamiliar with Visual Studio? Brian tells us about what the experience of using J# Express will be like for you. Visit Channel 9's Express Center for more info.

Digital photography. It's one of the hottest product categories. It seems like everyone's getting a digital camera lately, but managing those photos is really hard. Some of us on the Channel 9…

The tour of Microsoft Research continues. In this visit you get taken into the VIBE group (Visualization, Interaction, Business and Entertainment). Think large screens. Multiple screens. There…

Here's the final part of the late night session with the Burton team (Visual Studio Team System). In this segment, Jason and Tom answers questions from the customers who attended the presentation on…

The tour of Microsoft Research continues. In this segment, Kevin Schofield leads us through the social software group (Lili Cheng gives us a demo of Wallop), the cafeteria, the hardware lab, and more…

What happens when a passionate program manager, Jason Anderson, kidnaps a handful of customers and a Channel 9 camera guy? An interesting discussion about test driven development. In this segment…

Part II of "Late Night with the Burton Team" takes you further into the new world of Visual Studio Team System. If you missed it, Part I is here. (The clip here is the second 30-minute…

Kang Su Gatlin, program manager on Visual C++, talks about the challenges that Visual C++ programmers have when moving to the managed code environment of .NET. He also discloses…

Trying to learn the new features in SQL Server Express with Rajesh George, the program manager for SQL Server Express. For more information on the Express Editions, visit Channel 9's Express…

Brian teaches you how to work with data in the new Web Developer Express Edition. For more info, visit the Channel 9 Express Center.

Go download the J# Express Edition (visit the Channel 9 Express Center) and then Brian, here, tells you how to get started.

Have you tried any of the Express Editions of Visual Studio yet? Dan Fernandez talks here about what's cool in C# Express. For more information, visit the Channel 9 Express Center.

This is a different kind of video for Channel 9. Two weeks ago Robert Scoble, one of the five guys who works on Channel 9, held a geek dinner. He holds those regularly at a food court near…

Kang Su Gatlin, program manager on Visual C++'s compiler team, talks about parallel debugging. What is that? It's when you need to debug a program running on multiple processors at the same…

Over the next week Kevin will take us through several parts of Microsoft Research. The first part of the tour took us through the University Relations group, where we stopped in on Sarah Revi…

Kevin Schofield, general manager at Microsoft Research, has a unique job. He's responsible for helping move technologies out of Microsoft Research and into Microsoft's products. Recently he…

Since Kang Su Gatlin is a program manager on Visual C++'s compiler team he has a unique viewpoint into the future of computing (the guy who develops the compiler knows what kinds of…

We wondered what kinds of improvements we're going to see in exceptions in future versions of .NET. Here's Christopher Brumme's answer (he's an architect on the CLR team).

The other day you saw Jason demonstrate Windows Media Connect. In this video Jason gives a few more details on Media Connect and how it works.

Kang Su Gatlin, program manager on Visual C++, explains some of the advantages that C++ has over C# or VB.NET for writing managed code.

Kang Su Gatlin is a program manager on the Visual C++ compiler team and talks with us about Phoenix, the code name for new compiler technology that his team is working with Microsoft Research…

The "My" namespace in the next version of Visual Basic promises to making programming .NET applications easier. Here's an article on MSDN about it and Robert Green, program manager on…

Frank Swiderski is a security software engineer at Microsoft and wrote a threat modeling tool. So, we got a demo of the tool and discussed it, and threat modeling in general, with him. Threat…

Microsoft's first product was a Basic compiler. Robert Green talks about the future of Visual Basic.

You might not have heard of Windows Media Connect technology. Jason Flaks, program manager on the Media Connects team, invited us over for a neat demo. He shows how CD and DVD players and other…

Hey, he played a key role in the development of .NET, so we wondered just what Christopher Brumme was proudest of.

Congratulations to the French team. They were named winners in the Imagine Cup competition. It was a long road to Brazil for the teams. More than 10,000 students competed to be invited to…

Here's video from onsite at the Imagine Cup on Day One of the competition. Meet the competitors from around the world.

Robert Green, program manager on the Visual Basic team, talks about what is exciting people in the next version of Visual Basic. How does he know this? He gives demos to user groups (that's how we…

We asked Christopher what he wished developers wouldn't do, and he turned it around and talked about what he wishes Microsoft hadn't done.

Robert Green, program manager, on the Visual Basic team, gives us a demonstration of the data features in the next version of Visual Studio (Visual Basic 2005, aka Whidbey).

Christopher Brumme, architect on the CLR team, is probably one of the most knowledgeable guys on the planet about how .NET works. During his interview we wondered about the kinds of questions he was…

Dave Mendlen, director of Web services marketing, talks about how Web services go through the standards ratification process and what that means for developers who are looking to use WS-*…

Now that MSDN has a Product Feedback Center where developers can report, and look up bugs they've found in Visual Studio 2005, we wondered if there were any bugs that would be pulled out of the…

Dave Mendlen, director of Web Services marketing, talks about what Indigo is (the future of Microsoft's Web Services infrastructure). If this gets you interested, last month we posted a bit more about…

Chris Brumme, an architect on the CLR team, talks about the CLR exception model.

Sara Williams, head of MSDN, talks about how to write a great bug report. MSDN, earlier this week, turned on the MSDN Product Feedback Center, which is where you can report (and look up) bugs in the…

Dave Mendlen, director of Web Services marketing, talks about how Dell and other companies use Web Services. How are you using Web Services?

Christopher Brumme, architect on the .NET CLR team, talks about the long-range future of Windows. Charles Torre wants to know if a managed kernel is possible.

Christopher Brumme, architect on the .NET CLR team, has one of the more famous Microsoft weblogs. His posts often run 11,000 words and everytime he writes a post he gets lots of links from all over…

.NET's garbage collector has a tough job. It manages your memory usage, always looking to "collect" unused memory and give it back to the system. Obviously this is a pretty important…

Christopher Brumme is an architect on .NET's Common Language Runtime, aka CLR, team. His weblog is famous for 11,000 word highly technical posts. That makes sense. The .NET CLR is at the center of …

You've seen Mike Hall give a tour of his lab. You've seen him build an operating system for a new device. So why do we need a new operating system? Why can't Windows XP do everything? Mike…

Holy cow! Look at all these devices. Across the hall from Mike Hall's office is the Windows CE device lab. Mike, Technical Product Manager on the Windows CE team, gives us a 10-minute tour of the…

"We built for the future," Anders says. It wasn't an easy road that brought us to .NET, though. Listen in as Anders explains how .NET was born (and how it differs from COM).

Longhorn is at least two years away from shipping, so why would Microsoft release a preview of Longhorn so early? What advice would he have for developers who want to try out the previews released…

Anders Hejlsberg, the distinguished engineer who is one of the key designers on the C# team, talks about the languages and other things that inspired the development of C#.

Chris Anderson, architect on Avalon, shows us a little bit about how XAML will be different from using HTML and CSS to build applications.

Neil Enns discusses the challenges of releasing mobile phone software today and what we are doing to make it easier going forward.

Chris Anderson, a Software Architect on the Avalon team, discusses some of the possible first experiences programmers will have with Avalon. He demonstrates a XAML Hello World and discusses possible…

Anders talks about a feature he's working on for C# 3.0 that aims to make data programmable in a general purpose and truly object oriented syntax; something that just doesn't exist today.

Anders Hejlsberg talks about one of the biggest new feature in the next version of C#: generics. Charles Torre interviews him in the middle of Microsoft's museum. What are you going to use…

Richard Turner, program manager on the Indigo team, has worked in Java and other languages and platforms before he got to Microsoft so we asked what his advice would be to someone starting out in…

Anders Hejlsberg is a distinguished engineer here. At least that's his official title. But that doesn't do justice to the role he's played in the industry (first at Borland, where he ran the team that…

Do you have executives who virtually watch you while you work? Are you one of a handful of guys who are at the center of building a product that generates multi-billions of dollars in revenue? Are you…

Richard Turner, program manager on the Indigo team, gives developers advice about what to do today to get ready for tomorrow. Hint, it's spelled ASMX. What if you've already invested in remoting?…

Jason Sutherland is a program manager on the developer division's release team. Translation: his team builds the .NET technology and hands it to the Longhorn team, which then builds that into…

Richard Turner is a program manager on the Indigo team (Indigo is the code-name for the technology that you'll use in the future to communicate between applications or services). What would be the…

Robert Williams is an executive with the Tablet PC team and he talks about how the Tablet PC team works to come up with new features. This team is representative of many that work at Microsoft.…

We sat down with one of the guys who runs the Longhorn build process, Jason Sutherland. He, and his team, has one of the more important jobs at Microsoft: making sure the next version of Windows…

Richard Turner is a program manager on the Indigo team. Indigo is the upcoming platform that'll let you build service oriented systems (translation: it's how your code will talk to the rest of the…

Robert Williams is an executive on the Tablet PC team, and since the Tablet PC has been on the market about 18 months now, we wondered what he's learned from the process of building a new product.

The newest SmartPhones come with the .NET Compact Framework. Neil talks about what he'd love to see Developers do with the framework. Anyone try building a SmartPhone application yet? We'd…

Robert has been at Microsoft for over 16 years and has seen a lot of change. Learn why he came and some of the changes he has seen at Microsoft.

Rebecca answers an age old question about development, can you make everyone happy?

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is about 270MB. So, we asked Rebecca "why so big?" Some other resources on Windows XP SP2 Technical Preview: 1) Download it. 2) Learn what it means for…

It's Friday so we thought we'd do something a little more fun than we've been doing lately (if riding around with Senior Vice Presidents isn't fun enough). So, we asked Robert Hess what a cocktail…

Kam Vedbrat, the guy who runs the team designing the graphics and animations for the next version of Windows, has a unique view of how people are changing their approach to their computers now that…

Rebecca Norlander gives us a thorough demo of Windows XP Service Pack 2. Takes about 10 minutes. There's a lot in SP2, and this will get you up to date. New wireless features. Tons of security updates…

Robert Hess has been teaching programming for decades (and has worked at Microsoft for 16 years) so we wondered what people get hung up on when learning programming. What hangs you up?

Eric Rudder, senior vice president (in charge of server and tools business) gives Lenn Pryor a ride around Microsoft's campus in his truck and you can listen in on their conversation. Lenn Pryor is…

Rebecca Norlander, group manager (translation: she's way higher on the organization chart than we are) in charge of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 effort invited us over to chat about the upcoming…

Robert Hess has been around Microsoft for a long time (16 years at last count). You've probably seen Robert before, since he hosts the .NET show on MSDN. But there are a few other things that…

Ward Cunningham, architect on the pag team here at Microsoft, sees the world of communication changing rapidly. He talks about blogs, coder inspiration, Wikis, and more. Do you see a revolution…

Robert Williams is an exec on the Tablet PC team. So, we thought we'd ask him for his version of the influences (and influencers) that brought about the Tablet PC.

Neil Enns talks about what's cool about his SmartPhone. Music? Sure. But not looking like a dork in an airplane? Even better!

Kam, head of the team that's doing the graphics for Longhorn, talks about how his team works with the usability team to make sure that graphics in Longhorn are not just pretty, but help users be…

Kam Vedbrat is heading the team that does the graphics and animations in the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. Since he lives in Longhorn all day long, we wondered what he found…

Peter Loforte, general manager of the Tablet PC group, discusses what technically is happening when you put your pen on the digitizer, and what API's are available for developers to use. Discussion…

David Winkler is the developer who built much of the new user interface for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. He's a bit shy, as you can see, but we think it's important to get you to know him cau…

Through the history of computing, we've seen various development tools come out that tried to change how programs were written. Apple's HyperCard, for instance, or the first version of Visual Basic,…

Michael Tsang writes the drivers that run the Tablet PC, so we were wondering what kinds of skills someone would need to write drivers. Any other driver writers hang out here? How do you see your…

When we were interviewing Neil Enns, who works on the SmartPhone and PocketPC teams, we wondered how he'd pitch the different technologies to end users. Here's his answer.

Ward, inventor of the Wiki, says he's learned 100 programming languages, so we wondered if he feels particularly strongly about one of them over the others? What's your favorite language? Did it…

When we were over visiting the Tablet PC team, we noticed that Michael Tsang used the command line to do nearly everything. Seemed like a throwback to the DOS days, and thought it'd make an…

One of the questions the SmartPhone team gets a lot is how does their development platform compare to others. So, we wondered what Neil would say. How would you decide which platform to use if you…

Jim is a co-author of Nunit and Ward invented the Wiki, and both are believers in the "Extreme Programming" methodology, so we asked them to explain why it's so important to them. Jim covers…

The newest SmartPhones come with the .NET Compact Framework, so we wondered just how different it'd be developing applications for the SmartPhone vs. a desktop PC. Plus Neil says you can try…

On our Tablet PCs we noticed that sometimes our cursor gets out of alignment with the tip of our pen. So, we asked the guy who designed the software for the digitizer why that happens, how he tried…

WinFS is the new file storage system in Longhorn and we're wondering about some ways that application developers might use it. Samuel talked about how Outlook Express will change due to WinFS. How…

It's not often that you get a general manager at Microsoft to admit that he brings his computer to bed. But that's not the only way the Tablet PC has changed his life, in this video he explains how…

Why develop software for Microsoft's new SmartPhone operating system? Plus, how well is Microsoft supporting cell phone standards? We wondered what what Neil would say, so we asked him "what's…

Kam, and his team, are building the new user interface for the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. One of the complaints we hear from people is that the computer is too controlling. In other…

Michael Tsang is the guy who writes the drivers for the Tablet PC's digitizer, so if there's one guy who really knows how it works, it's him. By the way, if you are a developer interested in…

Today's Tablet PCs get about three hours of battery life. We wondered when, or if, that'll improve. Burt Parker works with OEMs on just this issue and his answers are encouraging. Do you see a…

Ward, the inventor of the Wiki and now an architect at Microsoft, is one of the more accomplished programmers we've interviewed, so we wondered how he would approach programming if he were to start…

How complete is WinFS in the latest Longhorn developer preview release? Samuel, a development lead on the WinFS team, gives us the harsh news "the bits are hard to work with." In other…

The Japanese and European cell phone users are seen as far more advanced than those in the United States. So, we wondered if that put Microsoft at a disadvantage, because Microsoft's headquarters…

Samuel Druker, development lead on the WinFS team, talks about how programmers can prepare for the file system changes coming in Longhorn in their apps today. WinFS is the file storage system in…

Jim Newkirk is one of the co-authors of NUnit, a unit-testing framework for all .NET languages, so we asked him about how it was developed. Jim happened to come along during our interview with Ward…

Neil Enns works on the SmartPhone team (the guys who build the operating system that runs cell phones) so we wondered "why would anyone want a cell phone with a camera in it?"

Susan Cameron, group product manager, for the Tablet PC group, shows off a yet-to-be-released PowerToy for the Tablet PC that converts all the fonts used on the desktop to your own handwriting -- she…

Michael Tsang is a software design engineer on the Tablet PC team. What does that mean? He's the guy who wrote the driver software for the digitizer. He also wrote the software that handles what…

Ward Cunningham, who now works on the PAG team here (platform architecture guidance), was the guy who invented the Wiki. Even Channel9 now has a Wiki. So, we owe that feature to Ward. Here we start…

One of the questions the Tablet PC team gets a lot is "is it really ready to use with only a pen?" Robert Williams is the executive in charge of working with OEM partners. He does a lot of…

Brad Abrams, program manager on the .NET CLR team, in his final video in his interview series, takes on the question of "what's the future?" He raises the potential for yet another wave…

Hot tubs? Coffee holders? Burt Parker is the OEM Product Manager on the Tablet PC team and he shares the most interesting things he's seen a Tablet PC used for.

Peter Loforte, general manager of the Tablet PC team, shows us what is cool about the upcoming Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 software update (code-named "Lone Star.") This is a free…

Neil Enns is a lead program manager on the team that develops the SmartPhone and PocketPC software. This is a great chance for us to finally get a look at Microsoft's new SmartPhone. More on the…

Kam Vedbrat heads the team making all the graphics for Longhorn. The icons. The animations. The Aero/glass look. You saw a piece of his team's work if you were at the PDC last year and saw Hillel…

We wanted to know what searching would be like on Longhorn. Sam gives us a preview. He mentions "intermediate searches." That's worth going into further here. Imagine typing in your…

Samuel, of the WinFS team, gives a short preview of how WinFS might handle your digital pictures.

We wanted to know what the .NET CLR is missing. So we asked Brad and got interesting answers. He covers both stuff that's coming in Whidbey (the next version of the CLR/Visual Studio) as well as…

Sam Druker, development lead on the WinFS team, answers some of the questions that Channel9 readers asked about WinFS (the new file storage system in the next version of Windows, code-named…

As we go around Microsoft, we wonder how employees see their customers. So, we asked Euan Garden who he imagined his customers to be. The team, he says, actually spent a lot of time thinking about…

"Simplicity," Brad says, when asked what themes guide him in the development of CLR features. Hear the other things that Brad thinks about when coming up with new features for the .NET…

Euan, product unit manager on the SQL Server team, talked about why he still writes code every week. For instance, he needed to understand .NET because he needed to know what his team was in for…

Euan Garden takes on SQL Server myths. For instance, have you heard someone say that you need to be a .NET programmer to use the next version of SQL Server? Or, have you heard that SQL Server isn't…

"It is so much more powerful to quote a customer," Brad Abrams says. Hear how feedback from blogs and forums like those on Channel9 is changing product design decisions at Microsoft,…

Eric Gunnerson, in the final video segment of his interview, talks about how much abstraction should be built into a language, er magic. For more discussions with Eric, visit his blog.

Interviews at Microsoft are famous for being tough. Brad talks about why he applied to work at Microsoft, the process of getting interviewed, and his first job as release program manager on the…

Eric Gunnerson, who is on the C# team, talks about why there are so many different computer languages. "Why isn't there only one kind of saw," he asked back.

Ever think about working on the SQL Server team? We did too. So we asked Euan, who is a product unit manager on the SQL Server team.

Performance is something we all care about a lot. So we asked Brad Abrams "when are we going to see better performance in .NET?" and "what's missing from .NET and WinFX (the managed…

Euan and his team are building the next version of SQL Server. So we wondered "what kind of equipment is under his desk?"

Euan works on the SQL Server team, so we asked him "what do we need to know about the next version of SQL Server?" If you only have one minute, here's everything you need to know about…

Lots of people tell Microsoft what they'd like to see in future versions of C#, but what feedback is really listened to? Eric Gunnerson, program manager on the C# team, talks about the best kind of…

To continue the theme (since Greg Robinson told us not to ask people what working at Microsoft is like) here we get into Eric Gunnerson's daily routine. Eric is a program manager on the C#…

Lead Program Manager Brad Abrams, who works on the CLR team, talks about what his day is like. The CLR (Common Language Runtime) is what .NET applications run on and Brad's working with both the…

Euan Garden is a product unit manager on the SQL Server team (he's working on the data management tools in the next version of SQL Server, code-named Yukon). In this first clip from his interview, we…

During the interview Sara Ford noted that she's always having to learn new things to keep up with her job. Listen to what she's been learning lately. How do you keep up to date on this industry?

Eric Gunnerson, program manager on the C# team, talks about what the big challenges are for programmers in the future.

This is a hot topic on the blogosphere lately so we asked Sara about how she got into computers and how to introduce more women into technology fields. Here's some other blogs on this…

Sara Ford, tester on the Visual Studio team, hasn't met a product that doesn't have a bug that she can find. Find out why she doesn't think she'll see a perfect product in her lifetime.

Eric Gunnerson talks about how the C# team decides on new features to add to the C# language. What features would you like to see the C# team add?

Eric Gunnerson, a program manager on the C# team, opens up his interview series by talking about the change he's seen in his years working at Microsoft (he was previously on the C++…

Testers find bugs. Developers need to fix them. Right? But not all bugs are the same. There's a difference between a bug that every customer would hit and a small display problem that only happens…

Sara Ford, who is a tester on the Visual Studio team, talks about how many bugs she finds a day. During the interview she also reveals that there's such a thing as a "cool" bug. Find out…

Sara Ford likes to play the bad guy. She's a tester. But what does that mean? It's an important role and it's one that places her in conflict with developers. After all, who likes to be told…

Sara Ford thought that she'd have to work 12 to 14 hours a day at Microsoft. But that's not the only misconception she had of life at Microsoft and she talks about what she learned. What do you…

Sara Ford, software design engineer and tester on the Visual Studio team, introduces herself to Channel9 (the rest of her interview will run over the next week here on Channel9). She has an…

Developing for Mobile Devices is starting to be hot and one of the things that Scott Swanson likes most about the next version of Visual Studio is the aides for building applications for the new…

Getting new updates in the hands of customers is hard. Hear how the Visual Studio help team will handle help updates in Visual Studio 2005, code-named Whidbey. One thing Scott wanted everyone to…

Scott Swanson, lead program manager on the Visual Studio team, talks about how the help team works to internationalize their content. They've learned some interesting things. What? For instance,…

Focus groups. Conferences. Blogs. Newsgroups. These are among the ways that Scott Swanson's team gathers feedback from customers. Hear him explain how the team took all that feedback and turned it…

Bill Hill runs the team that came up with ClearType, so we thought we'd ask him how ClearType actually works and what Bill Gates' reaction was when he first saw it.

Since Dare runs the XML team at Microsoft, we thought it'd be interesting to get his take on standards and how Microsoft works with the standards bodies.Now it's your turn, how are we doing when it…

Chris Sells tells us what the most suprising thing is that he's learned about software development in the year he's been working at Microsoft: that Microsoft is organized chaos. Listen to him explain …

Dare, who is a program manager on the XML team at Microsoft, tells Channel9 about what he'd pitch to Bill Gates if he had the chance.What's his answer? It revolves around social computing,…

Scott Swanson, who is a program manager on the Visual Studio 2005 team (code-named Whidbey) talks about the help SDK that developers will be able to use to plug in their own help…

Bill Hill, the head of the typography/advanced reading technology group here, talks about ClearType and why it doesn't work for everyone. He also talks about why it's so important that you…

Scott Swanson talks about part of the new help features in the next version of Visual Studio, code-named Whidbey. What do you think? Will this be helpful?

Since Dare runs the XML team here, we wanted to know what he thought about the new syndication formats.Channel9, you might notice, uses RSS 2.0 almost everywhere. What's your favorite news aggregator?…

Michael Howard, Microsoft's top security guy, talks about how to protect yourself (and your friends) from the bad guys. Here's a hint: he doesn't let his mom run in administrator mode. Sorry for…

Scott Swanson, lead program manager on the Whidbey Help team (Whidbey is the code-name for the next version of Visual Studio, aka Visual Studio 2005) talks about his history here at Microsoft and…

Chris Sells, program manager at MSDN and the guy who runs the Longhorn Developer Center on MSDN, talks about how you too can write for MSDN.

Dare Obasanjo discusses what's hard about programming XML right now and when we can expect it to become easier.

Chris Sells, an MSDN program manager who runs the Longhorn Developer Center, takes us on a tour of MSDN's offices. You too can jump into one of Sara Williams' meetings, walk down the hall and learn a…

Chris Sells, program manager on MSDN (he's the guy who runs the MSDN/Longhorn developer center) talks about how he's reworking Solitaire for Longhorn. Solitaire is, he says, the most used Windows…

Matthew Carlson, program manager on the Alerts team, tells us what he's learned in his two years of working at Microsoft. Alerts are those messages that come up on the bottom of the screen if you've…

Matthew Carlson, program manager on the Alerts team, talks about the privacy policies that are in place on MSN to protect customer's data. "Is Microsoft big brother?" Alerts let enterprise…

Matthew Carlson, program manager on the Microsoft Alerts team, talks about what happens when a key service at Microsoft goes down. Alerts are the messages that pop up at the bottom of your screen if…

Pat Helland, architect at Microsoft, lets you in on the service oriented architectures are essential. "People need to drive themselves toward SOA." Pat also has a blog where he responds to…

Joe Beda, development lead on the Avalon/Longhorn team, talks about the 3D capabilities that will be delivered in Longhorn (the next version of Windows). Avalon is the next-generation graphic…

Joe Beda answers "what hardware will Longhorn need?"

Joe Beda of the Avalon team answers the question "how should developers prepare for Avalon/Longhorn?" He also covers whether or not to write for Windows Forms.

Joe Beda answers how much of Avalon is actually written in .NET code itself.

Joe Beda, a development lead on the Avalon team (the graphics display technology in the next version of Windows), talks about whether Avalon's APIs are all "managed" which is really like…

Pat Helland,is one of our favorite story tellers at Microsoft. In this video Pat talks how IT has evolved a lot like cities. Interesting? Check out Pat's entire Metropolis webcast where he…

Joe Beda, development lead on the Avalon team at Microsoft, discusses whether Avalon will be the technology that Microsoft uses to replace the Web. Joe also has a weblog where you can keep in touch…

Michael Howard, program manager on Microsoft's security team, discusses how the Internet Explorer team used threat modeling to reduce the attack surface of its software.

Michael Howard, Microsoft's top security official, notes that many college graduates need to get remedial security training.

What if Michael Howard's job became obsolete? After all, he's the top security official at Microsoft. What would the bad guys do if the system itself became unattackable?

Michael Howard, Microsoft's top security official, talks about the risks that exist when you turn on your computer.

Eric Lippert takes on the belief that .NET code doesn't perform as well as code written with other methodologies.

Eric Lippert, Microsoft's "scripting guy," opines on what makes .NET better than, say, old-style Visual C++.

Hear Eric Lippert, software design engineer here at Microsoft (we know him as the "scripting guy" because he wrote VBScript and JScript technologies) talk about .NET code.

Jeremy Mazner asks, "What are things that couldn't make it into the product and how did you decide to put it off until next version?"

Robert Scoble asks,"Why doesn't Microsoft have complete transparency on developer tools?"

Welcome to Channel 9. We are five guys at Microsoft who want a new level of communication between Microsoft and developers. We believe that we will all benefit from a little dialogue these days.…