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Multi-touch Interaction Design for Kiosks and Architectural Experiences
At MIX10 Jason Brush of Schematic talks about the design considerations for creating successful...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/19/2010
Get your Daily Dose of the Huffington Post with IE8
Want to get your daily news delivered right to your browsers doorstep? IE8 Web slices allow...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/16/2010
Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP
At MIX10 Microsoft announced availability of Windows Phone Developer Tools. With the emulator, you...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/15/2010
Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework at Mix
Looking for a way to measure user interactions with Silverlight applications? Well, the wait...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/14/2010
ARCast.TV - IHI Shines Silverlight on Healthcare Improvement
Recently Bob Familiar had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Iantosca, CEO of eDefine, Paul...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/14/2010
Want to learn how to develop for Windows Azure?
In this blog post I cover the training roadmap for the Windows Azure Platform. This training roadmap...
Author: Wzack Date: 03/13/2010
Announcing the IE8 Innovation Showcase Web Slice
Looking for an “Innovative” way to stay connected with all the fast-paced updates...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/12/2010
Develop For Windows: A One-Stop Shop for Windows Developers
The Windows Team has launched a new web site named “Develop for Windows”, to help 3 million...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/12/2010
Windows Phone 7 Developer Experience Builds upon .NET, Silverlight, XNA and More
Microsoft executive Charlie Kindel revealed recently that the Windows Phone 7 developer experience...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/12/2010
The Future of NUI
Microsoft's Chief research and Strategy officer, Craig Mundie, discussed with Channel9 Laura Foy the...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/12/2010
Creating Games for Windows Phone Using Microsoft Game Studio XNA 4.0
engadget reports that Microsoft just demoed a pair of 3D games running on a ASUS Windows Phone...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/11/2010
IE 8 Leads in Malware Protection
According to a recent report by NSS Labs Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 outperformed four other Web...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/10/2010
Expectations Beyond Windows 7
While many users have just got their hands on Windows 7 or are about to, some people have looked...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/09/2010
got concurrency?
The free lunch is over! Multicore processors have become widely available, and single-threaded...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/08/2010
Counting Down to Seven: Exploring XNA
Looking to get started understanding exactly what XNA is and how you can use it? Microsoft XNA Game...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/08/2010
Windows Azure Compute and Storage Default Limits
This blog post (and the one that it references) will tell you pretty much everything that you need...
Author: Wzack Date: 03/08/2010
Your Rx.NET Prescription has been re-filled
The Rx.Net Team has announced a new version of Reactive Extensions for .NET. Rx is a library...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/08/2010
Protecting Users at Internet Scale with IE8
Malware has become the scourge of the Internet, and it’s not just the security experts who are...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/08/2010
Game On! Windows, Windows Phone, and XBOX 360
Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/08/2010
SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 to Launch May 12th
It’s official! In a blog post today, Arpan Shah officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/08/2010
Identity and Access Control Guide Released
Imagine a world where you don't have to worry about authentication. Imagine instead that all...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/08/2010
Exploring Multi-Touch in Silverlight
One of the coolest new features in Silverlight 3 (and now 4) is the ability to add multi-touch...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/08/2010
Webcast: Windows Azure Design Patterns
March 26, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Title: Windows Azure Design Patterns Abstract: One of the...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/08/2010
Webcast: Extending Your Sites Reach with IE8 Add On Features
March 25, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Title: Extending Your Sites Reach with IE8 Add On Features...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/08/2010
PETA Campaign: Animal Testing Breaking Hearts Petition Powered By Silverlight
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA’s) youth marketing division is constantly looking...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/08/2010
ARCast.TV - How Chyron Uses Silverlight for TV Graphics
Have you ever wondered about the production that goes into all the graphics that are shown during...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/08/2010
Microsoft's Courier 'digital journal': exclusive pictures and videos @ engadget
Nilay Patel @ Endgadget has posted new photos and video of Microsoft’s Courier ‘digital journal’....
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/05/2010
Microsoft Announces: We are “All In” the Cloud
In this blog post I discuss the recent announcement that Microsoft is “All In” the Cloud and how how...
Author: Wzack Date: 03/05/2010
Forrester Report: Lessons Learned from Windows 7 Early Adopters
Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein has recently announced that Windows 7 has sold 90...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/04/2010
ARCast.TV - Architects? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Architects!
Are software architects necessary? Nobody denies the need for software architecture, but many...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/03/2010
A Pragmatic Hybrid Approach to Cloud Computing
The paper on Cloud Computing that is referenced in this article (Outlook: Partly Cloudy with Sunny...
Author: Wzack Date: 03/03/2010
Microsoft Redoes Phone Software
Technology reporter Ashlee Vance of New York Times reports what Microsoft is doing to make its phone...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/03/2010
Microsoft Architecture Webcast Series
We are putting on a series of architecture webcasts this month. Please tune in. March 25, 2010 at...
Author: Wzack Date: 03/02/2010
3M Ports Library Software to Windows 7 and Realizes Improved Performance and Usability
The Track and Trace Solutions Department of 3M, a Fortune 500 company, recently migrated its library...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/01/2010
A Multi-Touch Open Source Project for Windows 7 Developers
Developers can create multi-touch enabled applications on Windows 7. However, Windows 7 comes with...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/01/2010
Windows Phone: What Microsoft Learned From Apple?
Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, writes at PC Magazine that “Microsoft is taking...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/01/2010
Internet Explorer 8 For Developers
Looking for a great set of resources to get your developers up-to-speed with all the new features in...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/01/2010
Best Practices for Improving VS 2010 and WPF Performance with Remote Desktop
It is increasingly common for users to run their client applications remotely, either connected to...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/01/2010
Publishing Silverlight Applications in SharePoint 2010
Want to see how easy it really is to publish Silverlight applications to SharePoint 2010 by using...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/01/2010
IE8: Fundamentals of Visual Search Providers
Visual Search Suggestions are suggestions which include an image and additional text. These can help...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/01/2010
Behind the Mobile View in SharePoint 2010
The Mobile “View” in SharePoint 2010 has been greatly enhanced from SharePoint Server 2007. Now...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/01/2010
Free Web Application Toolkits Released!
These FREE Web App Toolkits to help you complete common web development tasks and quickly add new...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/01/2010
LG's Windows Phone 7 Series Pre-production Prototype Unveiled
Nilay Patel revealed this first Windows Phone 7 Series branded device in his recent blog post at...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/01/2010
Patterns for Parallel Programming Released
The parallel processing team at Microsoft has released a new whitepaper that provides a detailed and...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/01/2010
Windows Azure Platform for Enterprises
This MSDN magazine article focuses on the use of Windows Azure in the Enterprise. Starting with the...
Author: Wzack Date: 02/28/2010
The Danger in Relying on the Electric Utility Model for the Cloud
Sitting in my nth Cloud symposium last week I again heard the argument that the Cloud should be...
Author: Wzack Date: 02/28/2010
ARCast.TV - Scalable Tax Solutions With CCH and Windows Azure
While it's income season for most of us here in the States, for CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business,...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 02/25/2010
Patterns and Practices - SharePoint Guidance
Microsoft's Pattern & Practices group has released a new, updated version of guidance for...
Author: jbarnes Date: 02/22/2010
Build Improvements with .NET Framework 4
With the release of .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 comes MSBuild 4.0. Among the many great...
Author: jbarnes Date: 02/22/2010
Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Using the Taskbar Button Overlay Icons and Progress Bars
This is the second screencast in a series of Windows 7 screencasts for showing developers how to use...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 02/22/2010