In the afternoon there was a lively session by TV fame (Cricket Commentator) Harsha Bhogle. He was representing his management consultancy firm Prosearch Consultants. The talk was on T20 Cricket game and the differences of the format with One-Day / Test cricket. The title was very apt as the Microsoft...

For last two days I am attending Microsoft India Partner Summit titled "T20" at Mumbai. Yesterday there was a written quiz on Microsoft Virtualization , I attempted just for fun. Generally I am not lucky to win any prizes, but today was my day. In the morning they announced my name as one of...

Yesterday in JAX India 2008 event at Bangalore I presented the Keynote on behalf of Microsoft India. The topic I choosed was "Living with Heterogeneity: Bridging the Worlds", covering on need for Interoperability and what is new now on this in the Microsoft world. It will cover four main areas...

I have been asked by many of you for the URL to watch the recordings of all the Mix '08 keynotes . Here it is : MIX08 Day 1 Keynote MIX08 Day 2 Keynote The page has an interesting video of MIX08 Keynotes in Hyperspeed, which is a timelape video to see the whole process from bare ballroom through...

Zumobi is a new free mobile widget application that's from a company spawned from Microsoft Research. They did the whole presentation in Expression and didn't use Powerpoint :-). The Zumobi application was basically organizing content in a easy to find, attractive format mostly in 4 x 4 grids...

I was in a Microsoft talk on the future of advertising. It started with how much potential there is to optimize and automate the advt buy/sell process in the industry for not only online, but for TV, Print, etc. It talked about how the future systems will be open, interconnected and automated. It touched...

Main action item is to check and ensure your sites work on Internet Explorer 8.0 since it will be standards compliant by default. Great Typographic foundation A new layout engine was built with CSS 2.1 spec in hand Deprecation of hasLayout When there are ambiguities in the CSS spec, the idea is to check...

Members in the panel: Don Dodge - Microsoft Kimbal Musk - CEO, Me.dium Robert Scoble - Fast Company Dave McClure - 500 Hats Kevin Rose - Founder, Digg Ryan McIntyre - Foundry Group (Representing Venture Capital in the panel) Social networks today don't make much money, and that is very crucial for...

In Silverlight Media is first class citizen. In Silverlight 1, you needed to use Javascript in browser as the programming model, now in Silverlight 2 there is managed code as an additional programming model. Silverlight 2 supports WMV 10 Pro Audio Codec IIS 7 Media Pack allows bit rate throttle to save...

Angus Logan, Sr. Technical Product Manager from Windows Live presented on: 400 million live id users, 1bn authentications / day All services free upto 1 million users / month Today you have to go login.live.com to sign in, you can customize the page for select msn/microsoft sites only today Windows Live...