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Virtual side have done an interview with Angus Logan the Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live (I know him!)

He talks about:

• Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
• Windows Live Messenger IM Control
• Windows Live Platform Quick Applications
• Windows Live Spaces Photo API
• Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta
• Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live

The Windows Live team has been going nuts lately developiing new toys applications for us to play work with.

The latest is the Windows Live Calendar

Check it out! 

World of Warcraft fans got really into the spirit of things at the 2007 Blizzcon event

BlizzCon 2007's costume contest was among the most interesting events.
From the impressively intricate to the strangely disturbing, fans of
Blizzard's World of Warcraft MMORPG flaunted some wild costumes.

Some amazing costumes!

Jean Philippe Bagel works for Microsoft. He has written some great tips for Excel 2007.

Of course the right click on the sheet tab navigation buttons will work in older versions of Excel and is a great way of navigating rapidly through large workbooks. Navipane provides a great alternative that is not as limited as Excels built in display of available sheet tabs.

Excel 2007 has some very advanced and easy to use conditional formatting and Jean explains one very well. However please be very careful with using this feature in any Excel 2007 workbooks that need to be viewed or edited on a Excel 2003 or lower machine. The conditional formatting in 2007 inst backward compatible. In fact it is quite different in both how it works and how it displays to previous versions of Excel.