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June 26 It's a roundup of MP3 players for listening to podcasts. This is probably my number one use of the Zune and so I would tend to agree. :) Best MP3 players for podcasts | MP3 Insider - CNET Reviews 1. Microsoft Zune : A fantastic podcast option, the Zune even ekes past the iPod for the top spot. The software is excellent for podcasts: You can manage how many episodes you want to sync to your device on a subscription-by-subscription level, meaning you can update three episodes of Buzz Out Loud, but only one of MP3 Insider and so on. You can also unsubscribe from podcasts directly from the player, and there's an option to wirelessly sync new podcasts when you charge your player at night. The Zune also offers accelerated fast forwarding and passive bookmarking to automatically to automatically remember your spot in each podcast. Good stuff. The story of the WorldWide Telescope | Jon Udell | Perspectives The WorldWide Telescope was first shown to the public at TED 2008, in a joint presentation by project leader Curtis Wong, manager of Next Media Research for Microsoft, and Roy Gould, a science educator with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. In this interview they discuss how -- and why -- the WorldWide Telescope combines many sources of astronomical data and imagery to create a seamless view of the night sky. June 23 Interview up on Channel 9.
Bill Gates has been at the helm of Microsoft for the entire existence of Microsoft. It's the only place he's worked and he's getting ready to step down from his day to day responsibilities in his office on the Redmond campus. Bill's employment future will be centered around running his philanthropic enterprise, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill is fundamentally shifting his focus from achieving his dream of "a PC in every home" to helping realize the vision of "healthy people in every country". He talks about how each one of us can help make this dream come true by donation of time, expertise and, of course, money.
Last week we did an event around World Wide Telescope for some bloggers around the world. The video is below. This was a great event and I learned a lot about how WWT works and how it was put together.
Recorded LIVE
On Tuesday (June 17 2008) a small group of bloggers from across the globe were invited to participate in an online, interactive discussion with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay; the gentlemen behind World Wide Telescope.
Along with Ambika Singh from the Microsoft team here in Redmond, we placed Curtis and Jonathan in the Channel 10 studios and streamed them live to the web via Ustream with a web chat system powered by Windows Live Translator where they fielded questions about and provided demos of World Wide Telescope.
We recorded two sessions to accommodate for global time zones. Here is the PM session recording for bloggers from Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific.
Tags: Windows Live Translator, World Wide Telescope
June 18 Downloading this now. I'll send out another note when I get a chance to install it on my UMPC. There's a demo page here. I'm pretty excited about this release. I know a lot have people have been looking forward to it.
 Download details: Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0
Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0 contains these four programs for an ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) running Windows Vista:
- Origami Central
Central gives you instant access to all your media, programs, and the Internet, with the touch of a finger.
- Origami Now
Now gives you one-touch access to the most important information at any given time and place.
- Origami Picture Password
With a Picture Password, you can log on to Windows and unlock your computer by tapping a sequence of targets on a picture, instead of typing a password.
- Touch Settings
Touch Settings combines several settings in Windows Vista into one place to make it easier to customize a touch screen.
June 17 This came through my inbox today. I'm still laughing. 
June 15 Steve Lindsay has posted a note regarding the availability of the release candidate of Windows Home Server, Power Pack 1. Read more details, including how to get the RC, at Steve's post below. 
Windows Home Server PP1 RC available to the public. | Media Center and Home Server Global HotSpot | Channel 10 Microsoft have released a publicly downloadable RC of PowerPack 1 for Windows Home Server.
You can grab it right now from the link at the end of this blog post.
Windows Power Pack one is stuffed full of cool features and enhancements heavily influenced by community requests and feedback.
PowerPack 1 also fixes the 'corruption bug' in Windows Home Server which affected a small set of Windows Home Server users saving to Windows Home Servers with multiple drive configurations.
This public release candidate follows the Windows Home Server teams die hard approach to taking customer feedback very seriously and the team looks forward to any and all feedback from the community regarding this release candidate. June 05 The Windows Live Writer team released an update to the SDK earlier this week. You can check it out here: Writer DevZone: Technical Preview: Now Available for Download The biggest changes are the additions of two new plugin types: publish notification hooks and header/footer content sources. Publish notification hook plugins allow you to execute code before and after Writer posts content to a weblog. They can examine the contents of the post and have the option to cancel the publish operation. Header/footer source plugins insert headers or footers during publishing. Headers and footers are not directly editable by Writer users and do not appear in Writer’s editing views, but are visible in the Preview view (and of course, on the published blog post). It includes a Twitter sample, which I haven't tried out yet.
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