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Jeff Sandquist - Microsoft Evangelist

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Supporting Web Standards With MicrosoftDecember 8 2008

 

Today, my team has released Oxite. Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content management platform that can run anything from blogs to big web sites. We are releasing this as our second edition of the Mix Online web magazine that focusses on web standards. 

Oxite began as a side project of Adam Kinney and Duncan Mackenzie and is a subset of the Channel 9 source code. When it was time to do a reboot of the Mix Online web site Duncan and his team created an experience where could release the source code (a popular customer request of Channel 9) that used ASP.NET MVC to have 100% control of the resultant HTML.  Yes Virgina

Watching Microsoft PDC From HomeOctober 28 2008

I promised that I would be back.

I am.

It has been a very exciting time with Microsoft PDC week now here. One of the things that is new from my team is the PDC live event coverage.

On the homepage of the PDC Website, you are able to watch the day 1 and 2 keynotes live. We’ve also superimposed recent activity from Twitter alongside the keynote stream. This is one of my favorite parts of the experience.

For the breakout sessions where we go deep with technical content, we did a complete reset on the user experience. The PDC Session browser, in its new form should make it a lot easier to pick your sessions at PDC.

For those following along at home we will publish all keynotes and also the breakout sessions live within about 24 hours of them taking place. These will live on Channel 9, but you can use the PDC Session Browser to find them.

If you want the “unplugged” or “directors cut” as I like to

Is this thing on?August 21 2008

Apparently it is. :-) I'll be back soon, stay tuned. Meanwhile you can follow me on FriendFeed and Twitter.

Bill Gates Transitions To The FoundationJune 23 2008

This morning we posted a very special interview on Channel 9 with Bill Gates. In this video interview, Charles Torre sits down with Bill Gates and they talk about everything from philantropy, the CSA role, competition with Google and platforms.

I believe this will go down as one of our greatest Channel 9 interviews of all time and with a little over 1600 videos produced to date, that is saying something. I've been lucky to be near Bill during some key moments during his move from Microsoft Full Time to the foundation and chairman of Microsoft. Definitely some stories stories in there that I'll tell my grandchildren about.

The first one is when Charles Torre and I went over to interview Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer on the day we helped announce the upcoming change. We had no idea going over to interview these guys what they were about to announce. After that interview was filmed Steve Ballmer asked if we would like to sit in on the official press announce.

We accepted the invite :-)

Charles and I sat behind Melinda to watch the Bill and Steve announce the upcoming change. You could feel the emotions in that meeting, I saw the friendship in Bill and Steve. I saw Melinda as a proud wife. It was

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