Duncan Mackenzie.NET

Brian and I just posted a demo of the wireless sharing features in the Zune, so if you are into that sort of thing you should check it out.

Wow, very cool stuff. Another fun example of how little Microsoft employees know about Microsoft products (I learned about this game from gamespot!) but still, very exciting. Another RTS for the 360 too; I'm playing Battle for Middle Earth now so I'm looking forward to the idea of a second RTS to […]

Some people have great ideas, like Tom Werner's Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) site... a single place on the web to upload an avatar that any blog software can then retrieve using a fairly easily constructed URL. Neat stuff, I think I'll add it to my site. […]

He's performing in Seattle, so we're going to head down with our cameras and see what we can get on tape (or disk in the case of our newest camera). […]

This time we are shipping the latest update to Microsoft 10, fun stuff... and an example of exactly how far from normal our team can be.

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I went over to 360Style.net today to find that it has been totally redesigned... same great content, much easier to find your way around. While I was there I picked up a new background for my Vista box. The wallpapers that ship with Vista are beautiful, but they can't compare with this... […]

Which isn't a big deal, but it is amazing to me that the same comic can sometimes make me produce some form of giggle/snort/outburst every single time I see it. After viewing this comic once, I was going back and forth between browsers and it ended up coming up a few different times. Maybe […]

In a recent post on Microsoft 10, Alfred talks about the idea and controversy around having students equipped with laptops. Check out his post for the full details, but to summarize... it can work well, but it has to be done right, with the right software and teachers... I agree with Alfred on this, […]

I've created a quick and simple list of the 10 team's various blog feeds... so if you'd like to follow along with their personal musings (including mine) then you can grab the OPML file here.

I love working at Microsoft and finding out all my information about our products from Engadget :) […]

(also available via the Xbox Live marketplace on your 360) […]

With the release of Scramble today, I noticed something odd on the game detail page on Xbox.com. Along the left hand side is a listing of the specs of the game (# of players, does it work with Live, etc.) and it includes this interesting line: "HDTV 480i"   Hmm.... while I've never subscri […]

These aren't from an official source, as far as I know, but they look pretty legit to me :) […]

As someone who works on a video based Microsoft site, you'd think I would have already found this... but I had no idea it was out... description from the site itself: […]

A friend of mine from my MSDN days is over in MSN (oops, Windows Live I guess) land now and is working on a new product that is just going into beta... if you are interested, and perhaps would even like to be involved in the beta... check out her post on the program here. […]

Now that the site appears to be stable, I wanted to mention that my ultra-cool green banner was done for me by Chris from 360Style.net. If you haven't seen his site yet, check it out... my desktop wallpaper is always one of Chris's images

I think we have a real design flaw here... one of those 'neat ideas on your dev box' that maybe shouldn't have really been implemented. […]

For quite some time I've thought Pageviews were a mostly useless number to be tracking for any web site. This was very clear at MSDN, where such stats are tracked very carefully... spreadsheets are created... charts are made... and yet, none of us really believed in the Pageview #s. Instead we used […]

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Fixed now though... sorry to anyone who posted a comment (and received a nice "your comment was posted!") ... it was lost into the magical ether.

As I've mentioned before, I have a Gamefly subscription and I get new games every few weeks... a great way to play a lot of games without the risk of paying $60 for a stinker (OverG Fighters for example... oh so happy I rented that instead of buying). Anyway, my most recent game is Chromehounds and […]

I was browsing on www.xamlog.com and I found this tutorial on "Reflection using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask", which shows you how to produce this effect: with very little code/markup.   Hmm... now that I finally have Vista up and running, it might be worth giving it a try. […]

Not that it affects you, the reader, all that much... but I'm getting around 9000 spam comments a day now. It is crazy. I'd add code to avoid them, but I'm just finishing up a move to some new blog software that Adam and I wrote (you can see it running on Adam's site already) and I don't really want […]

This is crazy, I watch SciFi channel all the time and I never saw an ad for this! (of course, I skip all the commercials :( ) […]