Brandon Watson

Here in the developer platform product management team, we have kicked off a new campaign about the .NET Framework.  There are so many people doing so many amazing things with .NET, and we want to hear from you.  The site linked to above has stories from some of our customers doing some very unexpected things with the .NET Framework. Those stories were submitted by our field, but now we’re asking you directly.  Are you a .NET developer?  Have you done something cool you want the world to know about?  Great, come share your story and get featured on the wall of fame.  Free traffic and visibility is never a bad thing. For those of you willing to create a demo of your product using Impresys’s DemoMate, you could win a car or a 12-day Galapagos Islands trip.  You heard me…... (more)

Find Me A Product Manager Get Free Windows7

In an effort to bolster the economy one job at a time, I have a position on my team that I need to fill.  We’re looking for smart, capable people who know how to get shit done, and have fun doing it.  You must have a passionate desire to make the lives of developers easier, and help get our products to market, and make them the best option for developers.  If you know anyone who might fi... (more)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Released

Now that I am back as insider at Microsoft, I guess it would be uncool of me to poke fun at the length of the names that we have to squeeze in to our headlines for product releases.  Nothing will ever top my personal favorite “Windows Live One Care Family Safety Settings Beta."  Yeah, that happened. Awesomeness ensues for MSDN subscribers who can download the beta bits on Oct 19th, and ge... (more)

Amazon, Google, Microsoft - Big Three Cloud Providers Examined

Brandon Watson's "Many Niches" Blog There’s been quite a bit of chatter on the web about the Azure Services Platform. Obviously I’m excited to see people talking about our new platform, especially when there is plenty of good, some bad, and some good if not somewhat rambling. There will be no shortage of guessing as to what Microsoft is “really up to” with our development efforts. I wanted... (more)

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Install Fails In Boot Camp

I ran into an interesting bug this past wee when trying to install the beta 2 build of Visual Studio 2010.  I tried both the web bootstrap install and the full ISO download.  I also tried the Ultimate version as well as Professional.  Nothing seemed to be working. It turns out that my machine configuration was the problem.  I am running a MacBook Pro for my personal dev machine, mostly so... (more)