Shows - Microsoft Conversations with J


Steven Lees demonstrates FeedSync[MP4] [0:13:47] [2007/12/07]
To accompany today's podcast with Steven Lees about FeedSync -- formerly Simple Sharing Extensions for Atom and RSS -- we recorded a screencast (Silverlight, Flash) in which Steven demonstrates…


Steven Lees on FeedSync[MP3] [0:23:00] [2007/12/07]
In today's podcast with Steven Lees we discuss FeedSync, formerly known as Simple Sharing Extensions for Atom and RSS. FeedSync can do two-way synchronization of item sets across a range of…


A conversation with Sean Nolan, chief architect for HealthVault[MP3] [0:36:00] [2007/10/27]
Today's interview with Sean Nolan, chief architect for HealthVault, continues the discussion that began two weeks ago with Peter Neupert, VP of Microsoft's Health Solutions Group. Topics…


A conversation with Peter Neupert about HealthVault[MP3] [0:30:00] [2007/10/05]
An announcement on Microsoft PressPass today reads: Joined by nationally recognized medical providers, health-management device manufacturers and patient advocacy organizations, Microsoft Corp.…


Marc Mercuri on platform incubation and Tafiti[MP3] [0:16:30] [2007/08/22]
Today on Channel 10, Larry Larsen interviews Marc Mercuri who announces and demonstrates an experimental Silverlight-based interface to Live Search called Tafiti. Marc works on the platform…


Kentaro Toyama on MSR India[MP3] [0:31:00] [2007/08/15]
This morning I spoke with Kentaro Toyama, the assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India, about the mission of Microsoft's Bangalore-based research center. Our podcast touches on all…


A conversation with Doug Mahugh about his OOXML world tour[MP3] [0:15:25] [2007/07/30]
Office Open XML evangelist Doug Mahugh has visited more places in the past few months than many folks see in a lifetime. I asked him to name the places he's been recently, to deliver workshops on…


A conversation with John Shewchuk about BizTalk Services and the Internet Service Bus[MP3] [0:40:00] [2007/07/21]
In today's installment of my Microsoft Conversations series I talked with John Shewchuk about BizTalk Services, a project to create what he likes to call an Internet Service Bus. The project's…


A conversation with Pablo Castro about Astoria's RESTful data services[MP3] [0:40:00] [2007/07/03]
In the latest episode of my Microsoft Conversations series I talked with Pablo Castro about Astoria, a layer of middleware that makes data readable and writeable by means of a RESTful interface.…


A conversation with Bill Buxton about design thinking[MP3] [0:46:58] [2007/06/01]
In the latest episode of my Microsoft Conversations series I got together with Bill Buxton to talk about the design philosophy set forth in his new book Sketching User Experiences. Nowadays…


A conversation with Justin Smith about syndication and REST in the Orcas release of Windows Communic[MP3] [0:17:38] [2007/05/29]
In version 3.5 of the .NET Framework, the Windows Communication Foundation will define a set of types that abstractly represent syndication feeds and items in feeds, and will provide mappings from…


A conversation with Allen Wirfs-Brock about the history of Smalltalk and the future of dynamic langu[MP3] [0:33:36] [2007/05/21]
More than 25 years ago, Allen Wirfs-Brock created one of the early implementations of Smalltalk. He was working at Tektronix at the time, as was Ward Cunningham who became the first user of…


A conversation with John Lam about the dynamic language runtime, Silverlight, and Ruby[MP3] [0:35:00] [2007/05/01]
On the Friday before MIX, I recorded this podcast with John Lam. He's the creator of RubyCLR and, as it happens, he joined Microsoft on the same day I did. John's been running silent since…


Jon Udell interviews Bill Crow about HD Photo[MP3] [1:07:00] [2007/04/03]
July 31 2007: Update from Bill Crow: This is a pretty exciting day for all of us working on HD Photo. Today, the Joint Photographic Expert's Group (JPEG) announced a new work item for the…


Jon Udell and Mary Czerwinski on interruptions, context reacquisition, and spatial/temporal memory[MP3] [0:42:55] [2007/02/13]
My guest for today's episode is Mary Czerwinski, a research area manager at Microsoft Research. Our conversation begins with a reference to the search strategy I used to recall Mary's name, which…


Jon Udell: Brian Jones on Office XML[MP3] [0:47:42] [2007/02/06]
Brian Jones has been working on infusing XML smarts into Office for six years. In this episode we discuss the history of, the current status of, and future prospects for XML-enabled Office…


Jon Udell: A talk with Marty Collins about blogs, architectural guidance, and technical marketing[MP3] [0:37:22] [2007/02/01]
Marty Collins is senior marketing manager with the solution architecture group responsible for msdn.microsoft.com/architecture and skyscrapr.net. She wanted to interview me about the relationship…


Jon Udell: Chris Wilson on IE7, Ajax, and web standards[MP3] [0:39:46] [2007/01/27]
Hi, this is Jon Udell. In this first installment of my new Microsoft Conversations series I got together with Chris Wilson. He's been involved with Internet Explorer and with web standards for over…