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Channel 9: Windows 7 and OpenSearch

Brandon Live! — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:02:54 GMT

Got Windows 7? Try out OpenSearch!

Brandon Live! — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:04:43 GMT

As we announced as PDC earlier this week, Windows 7 includes rich search federation using the OpenSearch and RSS/Atom standards. I’ll be talking much more about it in the future, but I wanted to give you all a chance to check out the publicly accessible...(read more)

Heading home from PDC

Brandon Live! — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:18:09 GMT

It’s been a whirlwind of a trip here in LA. When I arrived I thought I’d be blogging, posting photos, and keeping in touch with the outside world the whole time. Well, that didn’t quite work out. There was always so much going on and...(read more)

It begins!

Brandon Live! — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:57:16 GMT

Just got through with the first PDC keynote a short while ago. Since then I played with a Surface computer and met Larry Osterman. At the Surface machine I was given a little card to take around to all the Surface machines in the convention center for...(read more)

Off to Los Angeles

Brandon Live! — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:32:51 GMT

In about an hour I’ll board my flight to LA, which will be my first on Virgin America airlines. I’m heading down a day or two early to visit my younger sister and enjoy a bit of warm sun before the conference kicks off on Monday. From what...(read more)

Desktop Search on the Win7 Engineering blog

Brandon Live! — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:18:22 GMT

About a week ago we posted an entry to the Windows 7 Engineering Team Blog about Windows Desktop Search, describing the motivation behind indexing files and what investments we’re making in that area of the system. It’s a good read so check...(read more)

Wall Street Journal butchers net neutrality issue

Brandon Live! — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:09:36 GMT

I was just reading this article from the Wall Street Journal and was struck by how it butchered an issue very important to everybody who uses the internet. Mind you, this isn’t a WSJ “blog” post, this is the full-on deal apparently penned...(read more)

Indexer Status gadget updated

Brandon Live! — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:29:22 GMT

I updated my Windows Search indexer gadget with a couple of fixes. If you run the gadget, you may want to update in order to fix issues with the play and fast-forward (“index now”) buttons not properly reflecting the state of the indexer back-off...(read more)

Countdown to PDC

Brandon Live! — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:25:36 GMT

PDC is only 26 days away! While I don’t have a session of my own as I’d originally hoped, I will indeed be there. The session representing my team’s platform work is already up on the PDC agenda. You can find it by narrowing down to...(read more)

What is a “leftist?” Am I one?

Brandon Live! — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:41:00 GMT

I support Barak Obama for president. Does that make me a “leftist?” It seems that these days this is the only qualification necessary to earn that label. It’s a label that gets tossed around as a derogatory and all-encompassing term but I can’t for the...(read more)

Political posts

Brandon Live! — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:12:22 GMT

You may have noticed a “surge” if you will of politically-oriented posts on this blog. I do apologize to those who feel I am polluting their newsreader’s technology folder, but ask that you understand this blog as being about my life and things...(read more)

Back from Italy

Brandon Live! — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:59:21 GMT

I realize I didn’t actually inform you, my readers, that I was going to be away for the last couple weeks. Whoops =) I spent the 11th through the 23rd in Europe, mostly in Italy, for my good friend Paolo’s wedding. He’s from the beautiful...(read more)

Campaigning from the gutter

Brandon Live! — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:10:10 GMT

McCain’s people must be getting really desperate. The American people are smarter than this. You can’t lie about what somebody said in the age of the internet where transcripts and video recordings are readily available. And please…...(read more)

I’m with Scoble, these start-up web sites suck

Brandon Live! — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:36:14 GMT

If you’re launching a start-up at Demo or TC50, you need to do better than any of these. If your home page links to a PDF “info sheet” you fail. Now, some of these suck for the sole reason that the start-up itself seems to be a pointless...(read more)

McCain’s Folly: Keeping up with the Palin debacle

Brandon Live! — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:28:02 GMT

I’m trying very hard to keep up with all the news, but it seems to be endless. Let’s see what we have so far. Governor Sarah Palin… 1) Was a member of (and still supports) the Alaska Independence Party, which believes that Alaska...(read more)