Michael's Coding Den: Evangelism

MS bloggers in Australia

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:13:39 GMT

There is a list of bloggers from Australia MS

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/acoat/archive/2008/01/22/want-to-stay-connected-to-the-aussie-dpe-team.aspx

Do you want to test Windows Live Messenger beta? Contact me

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:29:27 GMT

Windows Live Messenger beta is available for testing. Everybody who is interesting contact me by email nemtsev[at]msn.com or leave info in comments.

First step to learn WPF(Avalon)

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:36:58 GMT

Tim Sneath published the resources for the first-steps on the WPF

Read here: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/02/16/533301.aspx

WinFX Beta1 Image Download

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 05:59:21 GMT

Thanks to Keith Swem from MS WinFX Team who give a link to the image version of WinFX Beta1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=64193cc5-d566-402c-a211-ba48b312cf6d&displaylang=en

Moreover, I thank him for help in resolving some problems related WinFX RC beta1 and real Beta1 - this two version dont like each other and overlap some installed feature, help for example.

WinFX: Giving Computers a Voice

Fri, 05 Aug 2005 08:32:43 GMT

I'd like to post some links to the articles and samples of how to use SpeechAPI in WinFX.

First article, small FAQ, one more FAQ, and now Speech synthesis example and Speech grammars example.

To start it working u need: 32bit WindowsXP + SP2 + WinFX SDK + WinFX Runtime Components + SAPI SDK.

U cant use notepad and SDK's csc.exe to compile samples.

The real WinFX geek's tool kit :)

PS: SAPI isn't working on 64bit platform

Windows Vista hardware requirements

Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:53:10 GMT

What do u think about Vista requirements?

Let me introduce u some history.

April 30, 2004: "Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today"
July 27, 2005: "a modern, Intel Pentium- or AMD Athlon-based, one with a dedicated graphics card featuring DirectX 9.0 support, and 512 MB or more of RAM. Minimum system requirements will not be known until summer 2006 at the earliest"
Robert Scoble: "Beta 1 seems to need a nice video card (128MB or larger) to be able to turn on all of the features"

I'm anxious about finishing downloads of Vista to test it on my home comp (Athlon-64bit 3.2GHz/1GbRAM/6800GF 256Mb). I'll post test results a bit later.