This November I gave a keynote address at the NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco. Later I chatted with Andy Plesser, founder and CEO of Beet.tv, about Microsoft’s IPTV efforts and opportunities for entrepreneurs. Some highlights from my talk with Andy: The biggest area where we've placed a big bet, and we've been at it for a while, is ...

Social networking is here. And thanks to Leverage Software it is on popular public sites and major private community sites for some of the strongest and most innovative brands in the world, including The New York Times, Dwell Magazine, Charles Schwab, Apple, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Ingram Micro and even Microsoft. Founded in 2003, and already ...

Why do startups choose Microsoft technologies? We decided to ask them, and share the results. This is the first in a series of ongoing interviews we’ll be conducting with Chief Technology Officers from our partner companies. Our intent is to showcase the advantages and key differentiation that the Microsoft platform and various technologies ...

UPDATE 4 Oct 2007 For those who weren't at the UK Microsoft Startup Accelerator Programme launch event (or fell asleep during my introduction and didn't wake up) on Monday the 1st of October, here is, in order of appearance both some pictures and videos.   Ryan Carson   Lars Lindstedt - Video   Brent Hoberman ...