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Jon Box posted a blog entry 1 day ago
Microsoft Students to Business, and Spring Webcast Series
I was recently asked to assist with our S2B program, otherwise known as Microsoft Students to Business. More details on what they do here. If you know of a student, share these links with them. Anyway, S2B has this webcast series, and each episode is comprises of a technical talk and soft-skills... more »
Jon Box posted a blog entry Feb 28, 2010
IE8: Fundamentals of Visual Search Providers
I’ve blogged a couple of times about Internet Explorer search providers: Create A Simple IE8 Search Provider and Buzztap, sporting news aggregator, leverages IE8. The browser search experience is excellent in IE8. Yes, we’ve supported search providers for some time; however, search is enhanced... more »
Jon Box posted a blog entry Feb 20, 2010
IE8: Building a Web Slice Does Not Guarantee Lighting Up the Button
What are IE8 Web Slices? Web Slices are small pieces of syndicated content that enable users to subscribe to pieces of Web sites and notify users when these pieces have been updated. This frees the user from having to periodically check the Web site for updates. (Video of web slice here) Based on... more »
Jon Box posted a blog entry Feb 19, 2010
Interesting Quotes on the Value of Internet Explorer 8
As I pointed out a few days ago, recent testing showed that Internet Explorer Officially Becomes World’s Most Used Browser. Lot of folks on the internet dislike these types of announcements, especially the MSFT haters out there. I mean, c’mon, chill. We’re real people over here and we want to... more »
Jon Box posted a blog entry Feb 18, 2010
Free Training: Next Generation Testing with Visual Studio 2010
Join us for a sneak peek at some of the new capabilities in Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010, a landmark release of the premier development and testing toolset for Windows®, Web and Cloud development. Microsoft has made significant investments to improve the Testing/QA tools in Visual... more »
Jon Box posted a blog entry Feb 18, 2010
McDonalds Leverages IE8 Web Slice and Silverlight for McNuggets Village
Wow, this is a cool. McDonalds, Tribal DDB (their agency on this project), and some of my DPE teammate have built McNuggets Village. This site will host a survey for the best dipping sauce at McDonalds, as well as introduce their new Sweet Chili Sauce. I’m a BBQ sauce fan myself, but I’ve got to... more »