We've added a new section to the playground called Virtual Labs Express. The description from the page reads:These are 30-minute hands-on overviews of some of your favorite Microsoft products and developer tools. Try them out online now - no need to download full trial versions or ded…
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This is some very exciting news, James Lau announces that the Live Gadgets SDK is now available! As a moderator of the MicrosoftGadgets forums, I've gone through the difficulty of trying to help early adopters adopt without an SDK. I think when Jeff and I first met James, he may…
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Its here! The new documentation for SideBar Gadgets for Windows Vista Beta 2. Linked in the MSGadgets Build section you'll find the SideBar Gadget Development Overview and the Sidebar Gadget Object Model. I'm looking forward to spending some time making SideBar Gadgets. I don'…
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Tina and Laura have posted two very interesting videos on the training provided by the University of Washington School of Medicine. Part one covers a breathing robot with a heartbeat who's prone to heart attacks (that its the trainee's job to fix), and part two covers the training tool…
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This is very cool. emkaydubu, a member of the 10 community who's been working on entries for the Custom PC contest asked for a copy of the 10 logo in eps format to work with for creating new designs. I passed it along and in return I get this nice email including new icons for 1…
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There's a couple of good things going on here. First, I found a link to the new Mario site via eyesoncreativity (just jumped on the 9rules train), which was recommended for its fun design that works for the content and the crowd. A great example of how to use Flash well.Sec…
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I've had this entry rattling around in my head for a bit and after seeing Phil blog about it, its time to get it out.For my birthday my wife, with a bit of reluctance perhaps, gave me the gift of Oblivion. Now I was really looking forward to the game, I've always been a fan of fan…
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Man, I just found these thanks to my Feedster search for on10.net. emkaydubu has been busy recreating the 10 logo presumably for the Custom PC Contest. Very nice work!…
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Scoble brought up the issue of Firefox support not always making it as a requirement for the launch of Microsoft websites. He even suggests automatic low review scores for teams that ship without it. Luckily with 10 we cleared the bar and launched with Firefox support (on t…
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This is not my actual commentary about the redesign this is just a notice that it's happened. 10 has been given a design refresh! Its late and I'm tired but I had to get it out. Notice my previous blog entry was about a week ago, when do you think we started getting heavy o…
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