Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Microsoft Expression Web Designer CTP 1 Public

Microsoft Expression Web Designer CTP (Community Technology Preview) number 1 has now gone public and is available for download along with a Microsoft Expression Web Designer CTP 1 help file! Web Designer CTPs are incremental builds designed to provide customers an opportunity to try Expression Web Designer throughout the development cycle. Given the nature of the software development and feedback process,

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PIX (Photos and Imaging eXperience) Team at Microsoft

The PIX (Photos and Imaging eXperience) Team at Microsoft have now started a PIX Team blog: Welcome to the inaugural entry in the PIX team’s blog.  We are the Photos and Imaging eXperience Team at Microsoft.  OK, the acronym is a bit of a stretch, but it beat out my personal candidate for a team name, PIG (Photos and Imaging

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Windows Live Mail M6 is now here!

Windows Live Mail M6 is now here, changes include: Firefox support (still a little limited) Policy Changes Performance Signatures Don’t auto select first message Change colors on the fly Subscribe to contact updates Contact display name choice Compose from anywhere More Classic Hotmail improvements Related sites: MS Discussion | LiveSide.net | Live Mail TeamBlog

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Windows Live Session UK 2 Tomorrow!

Tomorrow I will be attending the Second Windows Live Session to be held in London this year, I enjoyed the first one and I’m sure I will enjoy this one just as much! I live in the south east of the UK in Kent so London isn’t far for me to travel so I will probably arrive in London at

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Gtalkr instant messaging client is no more!

The Gtalkr instant messaging client is no more as yesterday the founders, Wes Carr and Dudley Carr who are brothers, shutdown Gtalkr to pursue new projects as Google employees. Thank you for your interest in Gtalkr. Unfortunately, the Gtalkr instant messaging client is no longer available. The Gtalkr website has been taken down while we pursue new projects as Google employees.

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Want to work on the BCL?

Would you like to work on the BCL (Base Class Libraries) for Microsoft, if so then read below for more information: Since Whidbey shipped, our team has been trying to fill some open headcounts in all discipline. The open headcounts are to replace people have moved on to other things and to fill some of our expanded charter. We have

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Google wants special treatment in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)

Google seems to want special treatment on Internet Explorer 7, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. His remarks centered on the default search engine in the Web browser. Right now, when people update their version of IE to IE 7, the software won’t change their default search settings. “If you pick Yahoo, it will stay on Yahoo,” Ballmer said in