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Latest Blog Posts
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May 13
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In recent years one of the more entertaining parts of working for Microsoft has been watching some of the innovation coming out of Microsoft Research.
On the wires today is news of a beta release of the Worldwide Telescope project.
The tool brings together...
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May 11
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This aerial view in the Boulder, CO area was brought to my attention. Clearly this property is owned by an extremely intelligent person who recognizes advanced technology when they see it. I would be even more impressed if it were the Virtual Earth logo...
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May 11
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Frequently we get requests from customers interested in learning more about how to actually code with our Virtual Earth application program interface (API). As simple as we try to make developing solutions with Microsoft Virtual Earth, having someone...
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May 11
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I am occasionally receiving messages from readers whose communications preferences are not set to allow me to reply. I receive the following error: If you have left a message and have not heard back, please check your settings to ensure that you are allowing...
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May 9
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<!– ukey=”2F0471D3″ –> Listen to this post...
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May 7
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Go team XNA! We're delighted to announce that the Community Technology Preview for XNA 3.0 is here. Dave Weller has the full details on the release , on the XNA Team Blog . For those of you that are still here, highlights include the ability to push games...
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May 7
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I recently had the opportunity to visit Berkeley, California, to look at the "Silicon Valley" phenomena. How is it that Silicon Valley continually fosters innovative technology start-ups that often progress to become tomorrow's "next big...
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May 7
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Cast your mind back to last November and you may remember Microsoft committing to working with the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium to produce a translator to their DAISY XML file format (translating WordprocessingML to Daisy DTBooks...
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May 7
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While students have been able to get their own codes through Dreamspark , we've not been able to get these codes out to whole departments until now! So, if you're looking to get every single student, or every lab machine a Creator's Club subscription,...
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May 7
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Oh boy, one bank holiday, and there's more new software than I can cope with. Here's a quick summary Microsoft Office Labs The office team have been gathering up all the good ideas and mini-apps (I use the term 'mini' relative to Office here) and...
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May 6
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The Microsoft Virtual Earth product team has added another 22 TB of data to the Virtual Earth platform and published to the Live Search Maps site. Highlights in this release include medium resolution imagery of France, additional UltraCam aerial views...
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May 6
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Almost a week ago now Alex Brown posted the details of his “smoke test” looking at an ODF document produced by OpenOffice 2.4.0, checking conformance with IS26300 with the ODF 1.0 RelaxNG schemas, using Jing.
For most of last week nobody really...
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May 2
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I’m generally pretty easy going, there isn’t much that annoys me in life, but like most people I have a couple of unexplainable pet peeves.
This week has involved a series of meetings in Berkeley, CA and the hotel that I’ve been staying...
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May 1
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As he promised last week, Alex Brown has gone ahead and tested an ODF file saved by OpenOffice 2.4.0 against the RelaxNG schema for IS26300, and as you would expect the test failed. (just like his test of Office 2007)
Clearly there is still work to be...
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Apr 28
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Microsoft Virtual Earth partner IDV Solutions is offering free 2 day training for customers interested in building mapping applications using the Virtual Earth platform and IDV's Visual Fusion offering. The offer provides personal training for up to 6...
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Apr 28
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As an industry we have a lot more work to do to close the aptly named Digital Divide, some great work has taken place around a number of under served groups, but we need to work out how we help all areas of society in all parts of the world get access...
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Apr 24
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Here's a new Virtual Earth video that highlights what we have been calling the "version 2" enhanced 3D cities. Among other enhancements, these newest cities are denser (more buildings), have better, more detailed photo-realistic texturing, and...
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Apr 22
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Researchers in Cambridge University have been using the new spatial data types in SQL Server to help them better understand pre-Darwinian work on diversity and variation, originally recorded in the 1820's. This is a fascinating case-study that demonstrates...
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Apr 22
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ZDNet UK this morning carried a story headlined “Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test“, and in a subheading explains;
Word documents generated by today’s version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open...
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Apr 21
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As follow-up to last week's entry on the unveiling of Microsoft Boulder's 100% wind-powered data labs for powering the Virtual Earth 3D environment, here is a nice story run on Denver Channel 9 with some footage of the event, including some statements...
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Apr 21
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A link to this “World Clock” was sent to me in mail by a colleague recently. I’m not sure why I liked it so much, probably my uncontrollable fascination with numbers. Listen to this post...
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Apr 21
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Woah! We've had a busy few days getting all the books out of the door, and I'm pleased to report that they're all gone! You've cleaned us out. Apologies to those who couldn't adopt the book the wanted - this has been hugely popular. If you missed out,...
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Apr 21
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Well, vacations can be fun but at some point the holiday has to end and you have to return to work…
I’m sat here trying to catch up on everything from over the last two weeks.
For the first time in as long as I remember this vacation involved...
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Apr 18
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With Earth Day just a week away, Microsoft unveiled its new wind-powered container-based data lab yesterday at its site in Boulder, Colorado. The containers house data processing servers used in the creation of the 3D city models featured in Virtual Earth...
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Apr 17
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"Gadget Guy" Steve Van Dinter from WISC TV 3 is keen on Virtual Earth , especially the 3D city models. A clever lad, Steve immediately recognizes the benefit of mapping driving directions in 3D. My favorite quote: "As we move forward into...
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