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Disclaimer: I do not work for Microsoft, but I am a Microsoft MVP.  The following is all derived from public information, and any inferences or extrapolations are entirely the work of my imagination, and is not something that I know that Microsoft is working on.  If I knew Microsoft was working on things like this, it would be covered ...

Well, well, well, Pablo Fernicola finally has a blog.  Pablo is a Group Program Manager for the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly called Avalon).  He will be presentation the following session at the PDC: PRS309 - Windows Presentation Foundation (''Avalon''): Overview of Windows Vista Graphics September 14, 1:45 PM - 3:00 ...

I recently began the process of reviewing the sessions for the PDC 2005 and setting up my schedule (which I never seem to follow).  The way I normally do this is to scan the speaker list, searching for my friends and those that I have mentally tagged as must see speakers, and checking out what/when they are presenting.  Once I have the ...

First off, I really, really wanted to love Microsoft’s latest graphics tool, codename Acrylic.  I down loaded and install the first public beta, and wasn’t impressed, but hey, it’s an early view into what they are doing, so I decided to cut them some slack (it is based on Creature House Expression, which MSFT bought in 2003).  I ...