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Microsoft’s internal playbook has shifted sharply: in the space of weeks the company moved to narrow open employee forums, tighten campus access after a high‑profile sit‑in, and set a firm, phased requirement that many staff spend at least three days a week in the office — a package of changes...

Microsoft has told staff they must be back on-premises at least three days a week — starting in Redmond and rolling outward across the U.S. and then internationally — while giving employees who live outside their worksite a narrow window to request an exception or relocation. The change...

Microsoft’s Redmond campus erupted this week after a small group of protesters — including two current employees — forced their way into the executive suite and briefly occupied the office of company vice chair and president Brad Smith, an escalation that ended in arrests and immediate...

Microsoft confirmed it fired two employees after a group of protesters — including current and former staffers — broke into the Redmond office of company president Brad Smith and staged a brief sit‑in as part of an intensifying campaign over Microsoft’s ties to the Israel Defense Forces and...

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...

In a volatile escalation of employee activism and public scrutiny, 18 people were arrested at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, campus on August 20, 2025, after demonstrators — including current and former Microsoft staff — splashed red paint on the company’s signage, set up an encampment on...

Well, Windows 7 fans, here is something new I've never witness before. This came about when I couldn't get any WIN 7 Updates installed after I removed from Windows 10 back to Windows 7 Home. I remembered that I have burned three DVD of the Windows 7 Home OS, and had them other than the...

Experience what it’s like to enter B87, Microsoft’s top-secret dream factory. Link Removed Tucked away on Microsoft’s vast campus in Redmond, Washington, is Building 87, a nondescript building that houses some extraordinary hardware labs. Now you can take a virtual tour of Building 87 and...

Join your guide Link Removed as he talks to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. This week Cory is joined by Taylor Mullen from the ASP.NET Team. Taylor is coming on the show to do an update on the previous Tag Helper show. This show revisits some of the concepts that have...

Welcome back to Ping! We talk about more ways to use Cortana, some new games for Windows Phone, the world's very first 3d fabric printer, and more stories that 'softies are pinging each other about... Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Last Week... Link Removed...

Today, Scott welcomes Borko Novakovic back to Data Exposed and the Channel 9 studios. Borko, a Program Manager in the SQL Server team, is in Redmond all the way from his home in Belgrade, Serbia to introduce us to the new Temporal technology being introduced in SQL Server 2016. Temporal in SQL...

Join your guide Link Removed as he talks to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. This week Cory is joined by Daria Grigoriu and Galin Iliev from the Azure App Service team to talk about the DevOps Workflow available in Web App. Combining the use of Continuous Deployment...

Join your guide Link Removed as he talks to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. This week Cory is joined by Pranav Rastogi (ASP.NET Team) and Link Removed (DevExpress) to talk about ASP.NET Web Forms and the AjaxControlToolkit. The AjaxControlToolkit is an open source...

Link Removed The Channel 9 Guy made an appearance in the Build keynote this year and if you have a 3D printer you might want to know where you can get the model. Eden Soto was kind enough to provide us with a 3D model of the 9 Guy. Eden makes all the CGI intro videos that we use for shows on...

Just a reminder that there’s still time to enter our Windows Insider contest for a chance to win a trip to the Microsoft World Headquarters here in Redmond. We are inviting 10 Windows Insiders for a two-day event to have a unique opportunity to experience first-hand how we’re co-developing...

As Microsoft goes full speed ahead on Windows 8, a number of signs suggest that Windows 7 is fading fast in Redmond’s rear view mirror. read more Link Removed

The beta release of Windows 8 is just a few weeks away. It should be nearly feature-complete, and expectations will be high. So what’s keeping managers in Redmond awake at night? Here are my top five questions. Source: Yahoo! News

"Early milestone builds of Windows 8 have leaked onto the Internet, and considerable effort has been put into figuring out how they work. Though officially tight-lipped, snippets of information have escaped Redmond's walls. So far, it appears that Windows 8 development doesn't just look not bad...

Link Removed It finally happened! On Wednesday, we finally got a glimpse at what Microsoft has in store for its next version of Windows and how it plans to compete in the...

With Apple’s Mac OS X 10.7 promising the power of Mac OS X and the magic of iPad, it looks like Redmond’s photocopiers have been running so hot, they’ve finally managed to blend the desktop power of Windows 7 with the magic of the Windows Phone 7 experience, with 7 plus 7 clearly equalling 8...