What piece of software is used in Windows, Office, MySQL, and many other places? The Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset. But even better, did you know it's open source? And, did you know that it is…

Jeff Barr, Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, dropped by my office the other day and showed me the winners of the Microsoft/Amazon Web Service Contest. Cool stuff, congrats! More details are up on th…

Jim and Dan are two seemingly normal Microsoft employees who I've been watching from afar (they work for Microsoft Consulting Services). When hurricane Katrina hit they dropped everything in their li…

Over in building 50 there's a secret room. It's never been shown in public before. What is this room for? Testing audio devices. It is a special room where it's completely silent and the walls have be…

Recently I visited Richard Anderson's classroom at the University of Washington and watched how he used Tablet PCs to teach his computer science class. It is really cool. Students can send him notes, …

Ric, director of strategy on the top secret Motion Incubation team, runs the Motion initiative. What's that? It's a group at Microsoft that studies how businesses work and looks for opportunities to h…

April 1, 2006 -- Mike Hall uses Windows CE for everything. Including building a network enabled refrigeration device (NERD) with the NERD feature pack, released today.While you're watching that vide…

This is a second, deeper look at Excel 2007's business intelligence capabilities (Mike Arcuri was on Channel 9 a few weeks ago). Really cool stuff for helping your business see what is happening. The…

The Developer Solutions team invited Ken Levy over to check out their first 3 power toys for Visual Studio 2005. In this video, you’ll meet the team and catch demos of MSBee, Managed Stack Explorer, …

We continue our tour of the Dynamics team today with a few interviews. Here you meet Satya Nadella, who is the corporate vice president of the Dynamics team. Executive alert! But, he's pretty cool…

It's Dynamics Day on Channel 9. Here's Mike Ehrenberg, architect on the Dynamics team talking about what he's working on.

It's Dynamics day on Channel 9. Here we meet Jakob Nielsen, director of user experience on the Dynamics team. Wait a second. Don't enterprise apps always have ugly user interfaces? We talk about tha…

Oh, oh, it's one of those evil lawyers! *Microsoft has hundreds of lawyers, but one of our favorites is Don McGowan. He is now a lawyer over in the game division but worked in Windows for a long time …

Usually we have Microsoft employees on here, but Mike Hall met a talented MVP, Chris Muench, a Mobile and Embedded MVP. Here he shows how to write a managed Direct3D application for Windows Mobile dev…

Vijay works in the VSIP program that works with companies to help them convert to our latest technologies. Recently he, and the team he works with, was on campus (all the way from Israel) to port SAP …

Did you know that Windows Embedded operating system runs many of the world's cash registers? Well, Mike Hall takes his camcorder over to meet Craig Jensen, a developer on the Embedded for Point of Sal…

Otto Berkes is the architect (now general manager) behind the Ultra-Mobile PC team, code-named Origami. We have a conversation about Origami and the vision behind it. More on what was announced today …

Manuel Clement called us over yesterday to see the latest build of Microsoft’s new Expression Interactive Designer (aka Sparkle). He had some interesting news for us. Today Microsoft is releasing a be…

Note: To see all three videos, click on the headline. Does your code go 218 m.p.h.? The code on this project goes that fast and faster. In October we traveled to meet the Target Indy Race Team (Chi…

Note: To see all three videos, click on the headline. Does your code go 218 m.p.h.? The code on this project goes that fast and faster. In October we traveled to meet the Target Indy Race Team (Chi…

Ever been in the pits with an Indy race team? Well, the Target team invited us along. Here's just some raw shots we took while they were practicing for the Toyota 400. At about 4:30 in the video you'l…

Robert Fripp was on the Microsoft campus a few weeks back. He's the famous guitarist and composer, known for his founding role in the band King Crimson. Charles Torre (a big King Crimson fan) was …

Why use Commerce Server? Lots of big-name retailers do. But, what the heck is it? Now that the Christmas Shopping season is over we sit down with the team that builds the product that runs a lot of …

We always enjoy meeting with Bill Hill, so we thought we'd drop in on him with our camcorder and talk with the ClearType team again and see what's the latest with the fonts in Windows Vista.Those Japa…

Bringing Windows Vista to non-English markets is a lot harder than just changing a text file. Here Michael Kaplan, technical lead on the US-Windows Globalization team, on the discusses some of the…

Now that Microsoft is investing a lot in Internet-based services we thought we'd go and visit a datacenter infrastructure company. So, off to F5 Networks, Inc. we went. After all, if your services do…

James Conard takes us on a tour of the Windows Workflow Foundation Offices. Something a bit different for Thanksgiving. Here we have a tour of the Workflow Foundation team. Don't know what Windows Wor…

Yet another reminder that Microsoft doesn't just build Windows and Office. Here we take our camcorder over and meet the team that's building Microsoft's Customer Relationship Management software an…

Chris and Jeff debug one of the largest Web sites in the world: microsoft.com. Millions of pages. More traffic than Slashdot.org. A huge data farm. We have an interesting conversation about how they d…

You might not know Dave Luebbert. He doesn't work at Microsoft anymore. He used to work on the Microsoft Word team (he was on the original Mac team).He was Dean Hachomovitch's mentor. Dean is the gu…

Windows Vista evangelist Ernie Booth came into my office a few weeks back and said "hey, let's go interview the MSI 4.0 team." Who's that? That's the team that makes the application install …

Are you into social bookmarking? OPML? RSS feeds? We go over and meet with the team that's doing The Working Network.com. You get a look at a few of their first projects, including the Community Ba…

Ken Levy took his camcorder over to see Jay Schmelzer, lead program manager on the Visual Basic.net team. They have a nice chat about what the VB team has been up to lately.

Mat Noguchi is a developer at Bungie. Don't know who they are? That's the Microsoft group that developed Halo 2. Halo 2!We get the first tour of Bungie's new offices. He talks about what it's like to…

Last month the MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) were on campus (they are folks who got noticed for doing a lot to help Microsoft's customers out) and we snuck into their meeting with Larry Hryb, ak…

Xbox.com is getting a major overhaul this week to prepare for the Xbox 360 launch. Here, Larry Hryb, aka "Major Nelson" shows the MVPs the changes. If you're a hard-core Xbox'er you'll wan…

Mark Boulter, PM and technical lead, and Brian Pepin, development lead, talk to us about Cider, a future version of the visual designer that'll ship in Orcas, future version of Visual Studio.They demo…

Andy Edmonds, lead program manager, and Erik Selberg are two of the geeks who work on making MSN Search better. They talk about how the engine works, and what they're doing to beat the competition. W…

Sidebar lives!But it's even better, here Sean Alexander, David Streams, and special guest Sanaz Ahari of the Start.com team, demonstrate the new sidebar and gadgets that come in Windows Vista. Plus, w…

Sonal takes us into meet John Lawrence, development manager on on the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation's Source Code Management team. You get to learn all about software project management and lif…

We're slowly getting around to see all of the Office 12 teams. Here you meet some of the people who work on InfoPath 12 and you get a good first look too. The InfoPath team has a blog, too, where …

Jeffrey Snover has been on Channel 9 before talking about Monad. That was a popular video so we thought we'd have him back on Channel 9 to give us some more thoughts on Monad. You can read more on t…

Do you use Visual Basic? Well, you should get to know Paul Yuknewicz. He's a program manager on the VB team (he's worked there for more than five years). Talks about his experiences working on the V…

This is the first of a series of videos we'll have on the Xbox 360 over the next few months.You might think that the Xbox 360 is only a game machine. But, here you'll learn it's a lot more than a game…

We're hours away from releasing to manufacture (our way of saying "ship it to the customers") Visual Studio 2005. This is a big deal for the developer division. There are tons of people wh…

Who said enterprise apps have to be boring? Check out Biztalk's future XSLT Mapper, which makes use of new information interaction technologies. Here you get to meet two researchers from Microsoft…

Sam Gentile and Ward Cunningham met up with us at the GotDotNet Code Slam event held recently in Microsoft's Visitor Center.You might know Ward Cunningham. He invented the Wiki. Sam was one of the…

This eLearning video features Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet from LogicBay demoing a prototype they built for 3M. The very cool thing about the app is the browser integration: it is probably the most…

Ken Levy takes his camcorder over to interview Lisa Feigenbaum and get a look at the new Code Snippets feature in Visual Studio.

Can you live on $2 a day? More than half the world's population does.Mike Murray used to be Microsoft's vice president in charge of HR (before that he worked at Apple on the original Macintosh team).…

Meet a large portion of the teams that make the Tablet PC and laptop/notebook features. We have a wide-ranging discussion from how to make battery life better (developers take note!) to new…

Next year there will be a new feature available on some laptops and Tablet PCs: auxiliary displays. This lets you do some things on your computer without needing to open up the computer and wait for…

If you were at the PDC last month you saw these plasma screens all over the place. They use RSS and the new Windows Presentation Foundation. Follow us along to to the PDC and meet the guys who built…

Today you get to see Gordon Bell's face light up as he shows you the second half of the Computer History Museum. He also takes us in the back where people don't get to visit.Oh, check out the computer…

Gordon Bell. The name is legendary among geeks. Just read his Wikipedia page to see his accomplishments.About 30 years ago he started collecting computers while working at DEC. That little hobby…

As part of our journey around Windows Vista teams, we wondered what was being done to Outlook Express. Well, for Windows Vista it's been renamed to Windows Mail. And that's not all.

How do you keep your secret stuff secret? Cryptography. Tomas Palmer and Tolga Acar sit down with Joe Smith for an interesting interview.

We did a hand recording of Raymond Chen's presentation yesterday at the PDC. Sorry for the shaky cam, we didn't have our tripod, but we had a few requests from Channel 9'ers to record this (it'll be…

Paul and Erik talk about what they presented this week at the PDC: Dynamic Programming in Visual Basic.

Here Paul and Amanda talk about the future of Visual Basic.

There's a ton of new things in Internet Explorer 7.0 that'll improve your security. Meet the IE team and learn what they are doing to protect computer users against phishing and malware and other…

The networking stack in Windows Vista has been completely rewritten. Hear about what's new. IPv6. Much better performance. Better firewall. Better security. Exciting stuff! Meet the team too.Also seen…

This is Larry Osterman's long-kept secret. The audio stack in Windows Vista has been completely rewritten so we can have cool things like per-app audio control. Anyway, Steve Ball talks to us about…

Ernie Booth took a camcorder over to meet the IO Cancellation team. What's that? They are working to make thread cancellation in Windows Vista better. Important for developers who work with Windows at…

We have a short conversation with Shawn Van Ness of the Tablet PC team and he talks with us about using ink with the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon).

This is one of the coolest applications we've seen at the PDC. Here's a video of the North Face demo that was shown off during Jim Allchin's keynote at the PDC. This demo rocks and it was all done in…

Microsoft, today, at the PDC, announced Microsoft Expression, which is a suite of three applications to help you build Web sites and new kinds of Windows applications.Here we meet the Expression…

We go into Mike Morton's office and have a chat about the next version of Sharepoint with PJ Hough, group program manager on Sharepoint Services Team. The team talks about the future of Sharepoint…

Meet the Biztalk Solution Designer team. Eddie definitely has the most colorful shirt we've seen on Channel 9 so far.

This morning at the PDC Microsoft announced Windows Workflow Foundation. Here Scott Woodgate and team (Abhay Parasnis and Paul Andrew) demonstrate the power of the new Workflow Foundation. It's all…

This morning at the PDC Microsoft announced several workflow initiatives. Rob Lefferts talks about how the Office system is helping information workers do their jobs easier. He talks about Windows…

At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated Office 12 in public for the first time. The news you'll hear is "they changed the user interface." So, we wanted to talk with the team who came…

At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated the latest version of Windows Vista. Here you get to meet the Shell team. Now, what does the Shell team do? They make the Explorer and do a variety of…

Chris Jones, corporate vice president on the Windows team, sits down with Jeremy Mazner to talk about what developers need to do to make a great Windows Vista application. Video length: 45:02.

Kam Vedbrat is a lead program manager on the AERO team which redesigned the User Interface of Windows Vista (the next version of Windows). We spend half an hour looking at the user interface.

Adam Nathan is giving a talk at the PDC on Thursday about making an application "light up" on Windows Vista. To prepare for the talk he created WinFXHearts.com. Very cool version of the…

LINQ stands for Language INtegrated Query and in a nutshell, it makes query and set operations, like SQL statements first class citizens in .NET languages like C# and VB. Here we visit Anders…

Dr. Neil does the Via Virtual Earth site, among other projects for Microsoft (he also does work for the Tablet PC team). He's a consultant. He was on campus a few days ago and I invited him over to…

Alain and his team invited me over to talk about managing Windows with WMI. Windows Management Instrumentation. Sounds boring, right? But it makes Windows manageable. Ever want to do something on…

Mike Hall takes his camcorder over to talk to Anil about his media box that is controlled by his Bluetooth phone. Lots of fun, he built this for his house so he could party with his friends.

Are you a map hacker? Well, recently we invited some of the best map hackers onto campus to show us how it's done. Think you could do an even better hack? Then enter the Virtual Earth competition…

Meet the team that's building security into .NET. This is a video that every developer should watch. In the last third of the video the team gives demos of how to build secure apps.

Harry Pierson is an architect at Microsoft. We have a wide-ranging talk about Software Factories, among other trends in software architecture. Harry is well known among architecture circles and…

Doug Neumann is a program manager on Visual Studio Team System's Source Code control system. Join Beth Goza (on camera) and Technical Evangelist Grace Francisco as they talk about Visual Studio Team…

Bill Gates. Do we need to say anything more?Visit Bill in his office for a few minutes to talk about where he sees the future going. This is a fun interview, prepares you for the PDC that's coming…

Marc McDonald is Microsoft's first employee. Hired back in 1976. We recently caught up with him and talk about the old days at Microsoft as well as what he's doing on the Windows Vista team (he's…

When we went over to London for vacation this summer we took our camcorders and got a tour of Microsoft's research center in Cambridge, England.Here's who you'll see:Mitch Goldberg, Senior Programme…

Ian Dixon starts this one off. He's not a Microsoft employee but has a great podcast that talks about the Windows Media Center. We met up with him at the Microsoft Home in London. That's a showcase…

Since Summer is over now and kids are going back to school, thought it would be fun to do one of those "what I did over summer vacation" videos.Here, catch Austin Donnelly taking us around…

Lorin Thwaits filmed Scott Guthrie with his camcorder on May 19 in Scottsdale, Arizona at an event which was called "BetaDays". Scott was the keynote speaker, and did a tremendous job, Lorin…

The latest rage in Web site development is to "remix" or "mashup" services from a variety of different companies. Amazon's Jeff Barr invited us over to see how developers are usi…

Microsoft goes to Google? Yeah, Jason Shellen, of Google's Blogger team, invited us over to meet the Google Blogger team where they showed off a new feature that lets you edit your blogs from…

Bill Staples is the group program manager on the IIS 7 team. That's Microsoft's Web Server. We spend an hour discovering IIS 7 (the next version of IIS 7). Includes lots of demos.

Roger Grimes is a security expert and author (he wrote a free ebook: Keeping Your Business Safe From Attack: Passwords and Permissions and more than 100 magazine articles on security). Anyway, he…

Cool demo of the Windows Presentation Foundation that Ben Riga gave to a user group recently.

Are you coming to the PDC? Steven Woodward is working on the hands-on labs and gives you an update about what to expect and how to get the most out of the labs.

Are you a DirectX game developer? Well, you might check out PIX, which stands for Performance Investigator for DirectX. Mike Burrows demonstrates the tool and how you'd use it on Windows games to…

Jeffrey Richter is a co-founder of Wintellect, and is a consultant with a variety of Microsoft's .NET teams.He's also a popular speaker and trains many people on .NET. Charles Torre sat down with him…

Iain is one of Microsoft's more colorful and controversial personalities. Here we sit down to talk about a variety of things from why to use Server 2003 R2 instead of Linux to what makes a good…

Last week Shishir invited us over to have a chat with the WinFS team. Imagine our suprise when Quentin Clark, director of program management on the WinFS team, started the interview by handing…

We visit the worldwide headquarters for Channel 9 (otherwise known as Jeff's office) to talk about the Channel 9 redesign. You meet the geeks behind the technology that brings you Channel 9 (new team…

Joe Duffy, program manager on the .NET CLR team (that's the technology at the heart of .NET apps) and he takes us on a tour of the CLR team. You meet some of the smartest people at Microsoft (and most…

With this second segment of our CLR Team pre-PDC tour we start out with Rico Mariani where we talk again about .NET performance and how to wring the most out of your .NET code.Then we head off to meet…

Arik Cohen, lead program manager on the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly known as Avalon) is one of the guys who'll be demonstrating the WPF stuff at the PDC next month. Here's a rare time…

Brad Abrams is a lead program manager on the .NET Common Language Runtime team. You've seen him on Channel 9 before. The PDC is sold out, but tons of you will be there and Brad shares what excites him…

Ever wonder what it'd be like to intern at Microsoft? Think that interning at Microsoft might be boring? No, we don't give our interns menial jobs that no one wants to do (many of our best features…

Faris Sweiss is an SDET lead on the Web Platform and Tools team. The folks who bring you ASP.NET. At about 31:00 he takes us on a tour of the ASP.NET testing and meet the folks who are making sure…

Microsoft recently released the Microsoft Education Pack for Tablet PC. What is it? It's a free group of applications for students. Just in time for school to start.Cool video to watch just to see…

Mike Sampson took his camcorder over to software design engineer -- he works on Visual Studio core -- Rusty Deschenes' office. Got a demo at about 8:40. Audio is a bit low. Sorry about that.They talk…

Michael Rys, a program manager on SQL Server's engine team, talks with us all about XML in the upcoming SQL Server 2005.He gives us some demos about 27:22 into the video.

Bill Crounse, a medical doctor who works at Microsoft, as the global healthcare industry manager, invited us over to see Kent Hargrave, CIO at Overlake Hospital Medical Center. I had an opportunity…

Our game expert, Dave Weller, was also at the recent Microsoft Meltdown conference, and sat down with Steve Lacey, developer on Flight Simulator.The two of them talked about how far DirectX graphic…

Our new videographer, Beth Goza, attended the Microsoft Meltdown conference recently (it's a conference aimed at game developers) and interviewed Brian Benincasa, lead evangelist on the gaming and…

XPS (formerly code-named "Metro") is a new XML-based file format that we think you'll find interesting -- it's a great way to build a file that's easily interoperable with other applications…

Cell phones are starting to become really powerful computing devices. They are getting high res cameras, GPS's, better screens, more APIs, and even hard drives. To find out what's the latest we…

Why does Rob Barker care about SmartClients? Listen in and hear why.He has a demo of a cool Web site that he turns into a SmartClient at about 13:30. Translation, unless you're a geek skip ahead to…

On the Channel 9 team we get a ton of email. It's overwhelming at times, actually. So, we were very interested when Eric Horvitz (Microsoft's most prolific inventor) said "I have something that…

After shooting this interview with Sanaz Ahari and Steve Rider I wrote a fun blog post titled: Hadi Partovi, what are you thinking?That's cause this small team (now three people) is doing an…

Got a shared computer? You know, one that sits in a library, a school, a store, or a lobby where lots of people will share one computer?Well, the Shared Computer Toolkit makes it really easy to…

Eric Deily, program manager on the IIS 7 team, talks about some of the things that excite him about IIS 7. IIS (Internet Information Services) is Microsoft's Web server. He says…

David Anderson writes the Agile Management blog that's been getting quote popular (and wrote a book on the same topic). He's been working with teams inside Microsoft to get them to ship software…

Steve Cellini, blog here, heads the PDC team. The PDC is the most important event Microsoft will hold this year. Steve introduces us to the PDC team: Jeff Sandquist (community), Jeremy Mazner…

Steve Winfield heads the US System Builder team and is a lot of fun. Check out "Black Comb" and "Longhorn" in his office and meet Victor Mux. We sit down for a short chat about the…

Jeff recorded Robert getting ready for the Steve Ballmer interview. Just something fun for your Friday afternoon. Dang, I have to clean up my office. You get to see the video equipment we use here on…

Mike Swanson wanted to use XAML and the new Avalon, but was having trouble getting his Adobe Illustrator files ported over so he wrote his own converter.This thing is awesome for graphic designers who…

We just had a short chat with Steve Ballmer in his office (we filmed the interview today, July 7, at 1:30 p.m.)Questions?Why does Microsoft care about developers?01:11 Why does Microsoft have an…

Kim Cameron has caused quite a stir with his Identity Blog. He came out with a whitepaper called "the Laws of Identity" which has caused quite a bit of conversation.So, we went over and…

Chris Pratley and Owen Braun, two of the guys who run the OneNote team, talk about how they came up with, and built, OneNote. Don't know what OneNote is? It got a nice review in the Chicago…

I spent some time today interviewing the Virtual Earth team. This is MSN's answer to Google Maps, coming in July 2005. As you see in the video MSN Virtual Earth goes noticeably further than Google…

Yesterday morning we sat down with Vice President Jim Allchin (aka the guy who is responsible for developing Windows).Here's an index of the questions we ask. We talk about Longhorn and the recent…

Rick, general manager of Visual Studio Team System, defines what team system is. This is the first of two parts. The second part of the interview with Rick, which you can download here (or will…

Anil Dhawan, a Program Manager in the Windows Mobile group, provides a look at Bluetooth programming on Windows Mobile devices and shows remote control of PowerPoint from a Smartphone using Bluetooth.…

How do you succeed as a software developer for 20 years? Especially one working at a single company like Microsoft?He tells an interesting story about when his boss yelled at him for trying to pass…

How would you react to this statement: "the Web is taking over all development?"That's what we asked Joe, program manager on the Windows Forms team.How would you answer that? Do you believe…

We wondered why all apps couldn't be done in the Web browser. Joe, a program manager on the Windows Forms team, tells why the browser can't do it all.

You've heard the hype about what Winforms can do, but what about what WinForms isn't good at? Joe Stegman answers that.

One of the questions we often get is "how can I know whether or not Microsoft is listening to my Visual Studio 2005 bug reports?"Thanks to MSDN's new Product Feedback Center you can…

Christopher Brumme, architect on the .NET Common Language Runtime team, gives his view of what nirvana for a programmer should be. This post is sorta like Chris' blog. Lots of words and if you…

Tetsuo Seto, Tablet PC team's East Asian program manager, demonstrates the new Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005's ability to recognize handwriting done in multiple languages.We've also filmed this de…

Tetsuo Seto demonstrates the new Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005's ability to recognize handwriting done in multiple languages.This video is in Japanese.

Mike Hall builds and debugs a Windows CE operating system for a new device right in front of you. All in less than 10 minutes.

Bill Hill talks about the difficulties in making the reading experience on the screen good enough so that people will read entire books on the screen. (He claims that ClearType got people…

Dare, who is a program manager on the XML team, recommends visiting MSDN's XML Dev Center to learn more about XML. How about you? What are the best places to learn about XML (and subsets like RSS)? …