Nope, it's not a new email address -- it's a new blog.  The team responsible for incorporating speech technology into Windows Vista, among other products, has a new blog called Speech @ Microsoft.  Their blog started just this month and inaugural posts cover such topics as using speech APIs (COM or .NET) in applications and which ...

  When we talk about application compatibility for our large customers, it goes beyond making sure the latest game or end user application works. Our enterprise customers sometimes have hundreds of thousands of PCs to manage. That means a lot of different applications, from many different companies, some custom and some customized. To ...

Today MIX07 kicks off at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas with the keynote by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and General Manager Scott Guthrie. You can continue to catch live, on-going coverage at the Visit MIX website. Let me take a moment to quickly outline the many announcements that occurred today.   An updated Windows Live Dev ...

Last month we posted an update to the Windows Vista Gadgets Competition on Code Project.  Now that the competition is complete, the team behind it would like to thank everyone who entered.  The goal of the contest was to deliver 20 quality Sidebar Gadgets; we surpassed our goal considerably with a total of 29 gadget entries.  The ...

In the first part of my posts for the IFileOperation interface, I wanted to give an overview of what it is used for and leave the real meat for later.  Now it’s time for the fun stuff.  In this post I want to dig into the use of the IFileOperationProgressSink.   In the MSDN docs for IFileOperation, you will notice that some of ...

Yesterday we officially unveiled the name for what was previously known as the extremely catchy ''WPF/e'' (Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere) at the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters Conference.  WPF/e is now Microsoft Silverlight. OK, so what?  Just what is Microsoft Silverlight?  It's a new cross-browser, ...

In past versions of Windows, when a user encountered a file that is in use by another process, he would be presented with an unfriendly dialog like this:What process is using this file?  What should the user do?  There is nothing actionable for the user on this dialog.  Some savvy users may use a utility to determine which process ...

Our development team has put together a series of webcasts starting Monday 2nd April and continuing weekly through June.  These online-only Live Meetings are mainly for the developer crowd who's currently (or looking to be) building applications that run on mobile PCs.  Topics center on getting the most out of Windows Vista's mobility ...

We're only one month into the Windows Vista Gadgets Competition on Code Project, and already developers have exceeded our expectations in finding new ways to enhance the Windows Vista Sidebar experience via Gadgets.  Some of the cooler gadgets include a daily Dilbert cartoon display and a tool that places your email Inbox at your ...

OverviewWhen implementing a Shell namespace extension, a developer must provide an object that implements the IShellView interface. However, Microsoft® Windows® provides a default implementation of IShellView known as the System Folder View Object (colloquially known as DefView), that can be used in place of a custom implementation. This ...