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Last week, the MSDN Team updated the MSDN home page hoping to make it more valuable and easier to use. We made tons of little changes and few bigger ones like: More better bloggers in the featured section (and an all new Featured Bloggers page) Downloads...(read more)

Not sure if technical certification is right for you? Think it is the right thing, but not sure where to start? Next Tuesday, November 18, Microsoft Learning will be hosting a 60-minute Live Meeting to help you answer questions like these… What can a...(read mor

Ever wonder what people are actually bookmarking using MSDN and TechNet Social ? Check out the Ticker and find out! With the Ticker, you can quickly see what’s being bookmarked by the technical community right now, today, yesterday, or over the past week....(read mor

Ramp Up is a free learning program from Microsoft that provides community-driven learning paths or “routes” for building your skills with Microsoft developer tools and technologies. Ramp Up routes are authored by experts from the technical community,...(read m

In support of the pre-beta version provided today at PDC2008 , the MSDN team has updated the Windows developer center on MSDN to include new Windows 7 resources.   Featured content this week includes the new Windows 7 Developer Guide , which can...(read more

"Oslo" is the code name for Microsoft’s platform for model-driven applications. The goal of Oslo is to provide a 10x productivity gain by making model-driven applications mainstream with domain-specific models, a new language, and tools. To...(read mor

In coordination with the announcements this week at PDC2008 , MSDN has launched a new developer center for Azure Platform Services . This new center is THE go-to MSDN site for cloud-computing, including resources for SQL Data Services, Live Services,...(read more)

This year’s Professional Developer Conference – PDC2008 -  is kicking off today in Los Angeles, and is shaping up to be one of the most significant developer events from Microsoft in a long time. In addition to major technology announcements around...(read

Every quarter or so, we’re going to start providing the MSDN and TechNet communities with some insights about activity on the global websites. Yesterday, I posted on MSDN – today is TechNet. As a member of the TechNet community, I hope you find this interesting....(read m

Part of running a global network of websites is looking at numbers – lots of numbers. Recently, we had a look at metrics from MSDN and TechNet from July to September. Here are some highlights on MSDN. Next post will be TechNet. As a member of the MSDN...(read mor

In September, Microsoft launched v1 of MSDN Social and TechNet Social supporting social bookmarking in 12 languages. This week, the Brazilian Portuguese version is getting a workout at TechEd Brazil in Sao Paulo. Awareness and excitement about our social...(read more)

Millions of customers visit MSDN Forums and TechNet Forums each month (more than 9 million visitors in September) for technical discussions and answers to technical questions. Earlier this year, the team released an all-new Forums application featuring...(read more)

This week, we released an update to CodePlex - Microsoft’s open source project hosting site - that enables project owners to better brand their project pages with project-specific logos and titles. Here’s an example: Compared to the previous layout, the...(read m

One of the things we did last week when we launched our new social application was to create new Facebook pages for MSDN and TechNet. As a fan, you can connect with other fans from around the world, and get the latest updates about our sites...

This week, several members of the MSDN and TechNet team will be attending the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC. I'll be blogging from the event, and will also be trying to Twitter throughout the week. My teammates below will also be attending: Husain Shambhoora :...(read more)

In May, we released a preview of our social bookmarking application. Today, we released v1.0 of social bookmarking for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression. Renamed "Social" (e.g., "TechNet Social"), v1.0 offers social bookmarking and provides several important new capabilities. ...(read more)