LAS VEGAS — April 16, 2012 — At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2012 conference today, Microsoft Corp. announced new media services and guidance to enable content providers and customers to realize the power of cloud computing. The new cloud-based Windows Azure Media Services is designed...

Expression Encoder is an advanced audio/video-encoding and live-broadcasting application especially suited for generating content that takes full advantage of the rich graphic and interactive capability of Microsoft Silverlight playback scenarios. You can also generate Windows Media video and audio files...

Quad tuners, 2TB of disk space for 180 hours of HD recording? You had me at quad. See http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2011-06/tivo-premiere-q-headed-to-retail-as-premier-elite/ .  I’d love Window 8 in a box, but this might be in Santa’s sleigh this year.

Be sure to click Plains Milky Way or the picture above for Randy Halverson’s amazing video work.  You won’t be sorry.  When you start playing the video at his site, be sure to go full screen with the HD video.  Very kewl.

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Encoder4SP1_WhatsNew.aspx

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Bret Arsenault.  Bret is the Chief Information Security Officer for Microsoft and has been with the company many years.  In fact, if you look closely behind him, you’ll see the huge twenty year crystal behind him.  It...

Fun stuff.  Reminds me of all of the KINECT hacking taking place.

In this video I interview Richard Boscovich, Senior Attorney and T.J. Campana, Senior Program Manager both from Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit. Richard and T.J. discuss Microsoft’s legal and technical involvement in the Waledac botnet takedown.  This is a fascinating story.  See the details...

In this interview I sat down with Tim Rains, Group Product Manager from the Trustworthy Computing Group. Tim discusses the Security Intelligence Report and its relevance to the IT Professional. He also describes Botnets – what they are, how computers get infected and how to protect yourself and your...

Windows Phone 7 launched in Europe last month and is launching in North America next week.  You’ve seen the commercials.  You’ve seen the demos.  But have you heard much about the update infrastructure we’ve put in place for the devices? Probably not.  It’s isn’t as sexy as the glorious...

IIS Media Services 4.0 was released yesterday, just in time for Streaming Media West . Coming just one year after the previous major release, IIS Media Services 4.0 allows you to encode once and deliver adaptive streaming content to three screens across multiple file formats and protocols. Keep reading...

This week at TechEd 2010 Matt Hester , Chris Henley , Harold Wong and I had the pleasure of interviewing MVPs, customers and Microsoft staff on a variety of IT Pro topics including Windows 7, Windows Server, Windows Azure, SharePoint and others. We have a landing page at http://technet.microsoft.com...

As you’ll recall in February and March we launched a number of very visible changes to the de facto IT Pro portal, http://technet.microsoft.com . We also soft launched the Beta of the TechNet Wiki but I was under a gag order and not allowed to blog, tweet, or otherwise evangelize the project. The gag...

I submitted a panel proposal to this years South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference.  The title is, “ Screencasting Lessons Learned ” and I’ll try to do the subject justice with the knowledge I’ve accumulated over the past four or five years. I am getting ready to record a number of Windows...

I have not seen an official announcement so I have no idea if it’s real or a mock-up. But if it’s real, I want it. Especially if it works with Camtasia, Expression Encoder 3 and Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition 9 and above. My screencasts will never be the same and it’s looking like it’s time to buy...

I submitted a panel proposal to this years South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference.  The title is, “ Screencasting Lessons Learned ” and I’ll try to do the subject justice with the knowledge I’ve accumulated over the past four or five years. I am getting ready to record a number of Windows...

You’ve seen me do literally hundreds of Camtasia captured screencast demos.  One of the screencasts I did on Windows Server 2008 was captured using the Windows Media Encoder x64 product.  That product has now been depricated and the screencast below was captured with a new product called ...

  http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/seethelight/default.html [UPDATE] Apparently they moved some stuff around after I posted some of the links.  Thanks for the comments.  Enjoy the new tools!!!

Here’s another video test with some high bit rate video. The video data rate is just over 6MB so your internet connection is going to need to be pretty fat to play these back without stuttering or buffering. On the Silverlight 2 Standard Player with the controls that are always displayed, you’ll notice...

The Expression Encoder developers have released a new plug-in for Encoder SP1.  The new Silverlight Streaming plug-in allows you to easily publish video, screencasts, etc. to the silverlight.live.net service.  The plug-in is still a pre-release product but it’s working well for me. There are...

This is a test post to confirm SL2 SP1 template playback is working.

Looking for the best job in the entire world?  Are you a seasoned veteran of a wide variety of technologies?  Do you dig talking to customers in good times and bad?  Do you have the passion to be a Microsoft employee on the US IT Pro Evangelist team? Well I have good news for you!!! ...

Check out this interview with Glen Gordon who is a Developer Evangelist in the DPE organization.  Glen was on the MSDN team when it was part of my organization so we’ve known him for many years as this point.  He’s a funny guy to have around, even if you’re doing events in the cold of Alaska...

WARNING – this is a progressive download video. It is not streamed. Therefore the entire 400MB video is downloaded and played if you click the big START button above. What’d you expect for 60 minutes of video? If you want to download the video and play it offline, right mouse click the following URL...