I work in one of Microsoft’s MSN development teams in London, and our team is looking for Software Testers. There is one role already advertised, and a Lead role that will be published later this week. If you are a developer or tester looking for a new challenge, and you would like to work for...

Software Tester Job Openings at MSN →

Microsoft's new financial year is just around the corner (July 1) and with it comes many new challenges for MSN International. We have a couple of open positions in the PM and test disciplines, and will likely open up developer positions as demand for work increases over the year. If you are interested...

Join Our MSN Team In London →

Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 . The release is intended for Web Developers and Designers so that they can be ready to take advantage of the new features that are offered. There are a number of important changes from a developer's perspective. The main areas (unashamedly cut-and-pasted...

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Released →

Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5 were released to manufacturing (RTM) on Monday just gone. Here is a link to the main Visual Studio 2008 Developer Center . Scott Guthrie has a blog posting about the VS2008 release here. More importantly, he has a posting about uninstalling Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008...

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released →

A while ago I came across a blog post on the Live Search blog called " Add Search to Your Site with the Live Search Box ". You can basically set up a fully featured site search using and simply include it in your page. You can select what "zones" to search (for example just your site, or your site and...

Adding Windows Live Search to your Site. →

Further to my post last week regarding the Visual Studio SP1 Beta, SP1 has now been formally released - links below. General Information . Visual Studio® 2005 Team Suite SP1 (covers Standard, Professional and Team editions). Visual Studio® 2005 Team Foundation Server SP1 Visual Studio® 2005 Express Editions...

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Now Available →

A couple of weeks back I blogged about getting Web App Debugging working on Windows Vista RC1 , and I mentioned an annoying "attempted to read or write protected memory" error when building your solution. Brian Peek (whose solution I originally quoted in my first post) kindly left me a comment with a...

Possible fix for Visual Studio 2005 build error on Windows Vista RC1 →

My good gamer-friend Darren just sent me this link to Game System Wars - it is a round up of various sales statistics for the 3 games systems, with the data pulled from Amazon. Right now, Xbox 360 leads the way in all categories (as you would probably expect, since it has been out for longer). It will...

Xbox 360 vs PS3 vs Wii and Zune in stores. →

I recently got a new laptop and am running Windows Vista RC1. I had been having a bunch of trouble getting Visual Studio 2005 to behave, particularly when trying to debug web applications. It took me a little while to figure out, and I had to pull together a few different resources from the web in order...

Windows Vista RC1, IIS7 and Web App Debugging. →

Microsoft released the beta of Windows Live Writer a couple of days ago. I thought I would do the "corporate thing" and give it a go. It looks really nice. I have used a few different tools in the past to post to my blog. BlogJet is an excellent tool, and let me do just what I wanted. Windows Live Writer...

Windows Live Writer →

There are two great pieces of utility software that I have purchased in the past 12 months – FolderShare and Onfolio. I have blogged about FolderShare before, but I don’t think I have mentioned Onfolio. Onfolio is a tool for collecting and organizing information; it integrates into your browser...

Windows Live Toolbar beta and Onfolio →

Ever taken what you thought was that perfect “family photo” only to develop it (or download it to your computer) to find Granny is grimacing, Uncle Joe looks like he has indigestion, baby Alice is looking the other way, your sister looks asleep or your mum looks wild eyed on some hallucinogenic...

Microsoft Research releases "Group Shot" →

I have posted a couple of times before about FolderShare , and it’s recent purchase by Microsoft . I just wanted to add two comments: 1) it is now totally free. I will be refunded a pro-rated amount for the remainder of my subscription year. This is excellent news, and if you didn’t sign...

FolderShare is now FREE! →

Mike Torres was asking how to integrate the Windows Desktop Search / MSN Search toolbar with the search on the new Windows Live homepage – http://www.live.com/ . Well, I can help with that… First, open up the Desktop Search options dialog (you can do this by right clicking the little magnifying glass...

Using live.com Search from Windows Desktop Search →

I have been using FolderShare for a while, and I love it. I love it enough to shell out $99 a year for the premium service. Turns out that Microsoft purchased FolderShare today. This is great news in many respects – and as a Microsoft employee I hope I get to use the service for free now! I hope...

Microsoft buys FolderShare →

The IE Developer Toolbar has been refreshed with some new features and bug fixes. The details from the download page state: This version of the Developer Toolbar is an updated version of Beta 1; it was updated on October 31, 2005. Several issues are resolved and some feedback has been incorporated. ...

IE Developer Toolbar Has Been Refreshed →

Just found out from the IEBlog that Microsoft have released a beta of the IE Developer Toolbar . It has some pretty nice features - you can view the HTML DOM of the current page, update attributes and styles of items on the page, toggle various useful pieces of info (such as image size, image path etc...

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar →

Microsoft and Yahoo! have announced an agreement to connect their messenger products together. This will mean that users will be able to include buddies from both the MSN and Yahoo! services in whichever of the two clients they prefer. Check out the press release here ....

MSN and Yahoo! Unite →

I just arrived in Shanghai, here for a week on business. I have only travelled East once before (to Thailand) so this is quite exciting! Not much to report as yet, except that the taxi drivers are completely insane. I am staying in the " world's highest hotel " which is pretty impressive. Outside my...

Shanghai →

My team at Microsoft put 3 new msn.com international homepages live last week that embrace AJAX technologies for page rendering. These homepages (found at http://malaysia.msn.com and http://ch.msn.com ) load their contents asynchronously, and allow real-time interaction with certain modules on the page...

New msn.com Websites Using AJAX Techniques →

Microsoft announced the official name for the next version of Windows, currently known as Longhorn. Microsoft Vista. Nice. I like it. It implies "the view outside of the window", the bigger picture. Check out the press release and video here ....

Windows Longhorn becomes Windows Vista. →