Joel From Canada

I normally let the product groups blog about their announcements – they do a much better job at blogging anyway.. however, I wanted to make sure that everyone is going to check out Channel9 this week as there is some great content coming.

Some of the 3d views in Live Earth are stunning (especially if you live in a major US city).    Mark Brown talks about the camera technology that sits behind it.  Very cool.

Over the next few weeks, Imaginet will be hosting a series of public Webcasts on various different topics...The first of this series is Steve Porter on process template customization for Team System.

I noticed today that live.com has changed.  My first experience - silly fast!  I was impressed.  My second experience was impressive as well - I performed a vanity video search - up popped a few results - simply hover your mouse over the video thumbnail - and it started playing.  That feature actually gave me a startle, since I wasn't expecting it and all of a sudden my computer was talking to me.

Requirements Management is something very near to my heart. So, is Team System.  Wouldn't you know that there is now a white paper out from Microsoft that talks about both!!!

Nice....

Just heard that Ray Ozzie will also be talking at Mix this year.  If you don't know, Ray Ozzie is Microsoft's Chief Architect - taking over after Bill Gates. I've followed Ray's career for a very long time - since the days of Lotus Notes (which he created) and Groove (which is still ahead of its time... even though Microsoft has done absolutely nothing with the product since they purchased it - which is sad).

Good watch...