I tweeted recently about Ori and his Mesh car and today the Channel 9 video proving the existence of the rumoured vehicle and the amazing technology that the Amiga has bestowed upon it. Needless to say that as the Live Services Evangelist I need to get my car meshified without delay so as I leave LA...

LiveSide gave me the headsup on the new Windows Live Wave 3 Beta available here .  This version contains Movie Maker Beta which now falls into the Windows Live portfolio.  Previously, it was included with Windows Vista, but I get the feeling that not many people new it was there - perhaps this...

Stunning.

Loving the new TV/Picture frames from Sony – the E4000 Series as they call it - comes in various sizes up to 40”, is 1080p, comes with preinstalled art, can be used as a TV and you can upload your own art/photos via USB. All it’s missing is the Live Mesh client :-)

I’m heading off tonight to the Isle of Wight ( located here ), where I will be rocking out at the Bestival festival.  Apparently Amy is still due to headline – she’s been doing all her tour dates recently so fingers crossed! On the XBox 360 stage they will showing off Lips, Microsoft’s newest game...

Some rather cool PCs got shown off last week in Vegas at the PROJECT fashion show.  I really like the Asus F6V and the HP Touchsmart – the Asus even emits a scent! interesting! ComputerWorld has all the details !

I arrived back in San Francisco last night after a great conference in Atlanta, and despite being a little drained (totally my own choice) I couldn’t help be excited by two particular keynotes I saw.  Firstly Craig Mundie gave some insight into some of the advances we are making in Surface and showed...

Following the Vista After Hours events we did last year, it's great to see some training being put in place for partners looking to seize upon the opportunity in the consumer market.  Look out for some interesting developments in the consumer space relating to our Software + Services direction and...

Great news today that the Worldwide Telescope project is now unveiled and you can download the software yourself and explore amazing scenes in space.  It's based on some of the best telescopic imagery on the planet and provides a rich way of navigating around the sky whilst zooming in and out of...

I'm back! Well, nearly.  I couldn't resist a pre flight blog post (that's my plane above) to get me back in the swing of things when I touch down in the UK in about 10 hours.  My business trip/holiday has been great.  I've been staying with family out here just south of San Jose and have...

One of the technologies announced at Mix 08 this year was Deep Zoom as part of Silverlight 2.  It allows you to zoom into incredible amounts of detail in high resolution photos and cleverly only brings back the amount of data you need based on your current view and zoom level.  This allows...

I'm off tomorrow to California for a few weeks of holiday and also off to Mix 08 in Vegas next week.  If you're in the Bay area or the valley and want to meet up for a coffee then drop me a note at james@microsoft.com . I'll be checking in with the odd post here and there but I wanted to leave you...

What's the beef here then?  Well in a nutshell Diskless PCs and Vista Enterprise Centralised Desktop open up new methods for IT departments to roll out and manage their desktop estate.  These new methods introduce different benefits so allow me to describe the different technologies. The Diskless...

Last week - what a week! I was up and down the country doing events and speaking to customers and partners about a vast range of Microsoft software and solutions.  I also turned up at the Royal Lancaster hotel very early to help setup Microsoft Surface for Bill ( see my post on his talk ) which...

An historic moment happened over Christmas - Reading got Birds Eye View imagery on Virtual Earth!  Here's the Microsoft UK HQ in Reading - looks like a Friday as the car park is quite empty :-)  Building 5 (bottom left) is looking all shiny and new - no one has moved in there yet but the restaurant...

Via the LiveSide guys , I came across this neat video of software that allows users to zoom smoothly around photos and get more detail in a really rich way. This technology is based upon Silverlight and uses a technology called Seadragon which we first saw in Photosynth . This is going to provide a completely...

Woah been a busy past couple of weeks.  Been doing Windows Server 2008 events up and down the country and moved apartment so been up to my eyeballs!  Although I didn't move far it was fairly stressful and I'm now left with a weekend of unpacking.  Oh and joy, there was no BT phone line...

I mentioned on the blog recently that we were running a competition to find the best installation of Windows Media Center out there and last week we announced the winner of the competition.  CEPro has a detailed account of what went into the Media Center installation : "The installation, in...

Angus has just announced information on his blog about how to incorporate an IM chat window in a website, for example a blog. With this, as a Live Messenger user, you can receive IM's from people that visit your website which is a great way for people and businesses to get in contact. This won't be for...

At the Vista After Hours events we had lots of questions from companies looking to incorporate Media Centers and Home Servers etc into properties. This is a big growth area for us and as we look to expand our offerings and provide amazing home experiences with the ultimate digital lifestyles we are of...

I got an internal email come through at the back end of last week which talked about a technology coming out of Microsoft Research called InkSeine. When I first saw it I figured that it would be internal only but it turns out that the guys who developed it have also gone and posted videos explaining...

I'm hear today and tomorrow at the Future of Web Apps in London. If you fancy meeting up give me a call or text on 07970341385. Technorati Tags: FOWA

I'm just prepping a demo for tomorrow and am going to include the new panoramic photo feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery which you can download as part of the Windows Live Pack which wraps up all the various Live apps and puts them in a convenient and easy to use installer. With the new version of...

I blogged about the IBC 2007 conference the other day and James Clarke just posted a very nice demo of Interactive Media Manager (IMM) today which looks extremely sexy with AJAX, Silverlight and SharePoint. The ability to have rich editing capabilities within the browser is very interesting indeed and...

Jon Harris (Expression demigod), following the announcement about Silverlight 1.0 Release is demoing Silverlight and Expression at IBC 2007 this year and as well as showing off Silverlight, Microsoft made some other announcements that are very interesting if you are in the internet/rich media side of...