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Not only did this years Professional Developers Conference attendees get a free Windows Phone 7, Microsoft also announced that all of its 89,000 employees will get one also. No word on whether Microsoft will be picking up the tab for the monthly voice and data plans as well. Of course Microsoft isn’t the first software […]

Only one mention of Silverlight in the kick-off keynote at this years Professional Developers Conference and there was no lack of discussions around HTML 5. Clearly Microsoft has shifted their strategy towards Silverlight, now lets wait and see what the official word on the Flash Killer is going to be. Developers please stand by.

Introduction Some data elements usually go in a group. In classical programming languages like C++ programming, you would use structs. However structs were limited to containing value types only. The other choice was to create a tuple for every specific set you would like to create, otherwise you couldn’t be assured of data integrity. Tuple […]

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Microsoft to acquire Canesta, maker of the a technology used to enable human gestures to control electronic devices. Microsoft’s purchase of Canesta indicates a continues move towards natural user interfaces across all devices and further supports their commitment to the technology of Natural User Interfaces.

Microsoft’s Dutch website is hinting that that new Microsoft Windows 8 is almost two years away but already there has been a LOT of chat around what this new OS should offer users. Microsoft is already busy working on Windows 8 or whatever it ends up being called, will set sail in 2012 which ties […]

AT&T announced the availability of the HTC Surround and the Samsung Focus. Both of these devices will be available November 8th and will include the new Microsoft Windows Mobile Phone 7 OS. The HTC Surround is a media-centric driver that features Dolby Mobile and SRS surround sound and audience noise suppression with integrated speakers. Also […]

Reports are flying in all across the news sources that Microsoft is making a clear shift towards HTML5 and away from Silverlight. HTML5 received a huge push earlier this year when Apple declared the standard as their preferred rich client platform for the iPad and iPhone over Adobe Flash.

Introduction Developers are rapidly adopting Microsoft Windows Azure as their cloud. Because it is based on Windows and .NET, it presents a high degree of compatibility with their existing applications, making it easy to move an application to the cloud. There are two key phases that an application usually goes through as it is moved […]

The IE 9 Platform Preview 6 build is now available for download from the company’s IETestDrive site. This latest build of IE was developed using developer feedback and promises to delivers even better performance than the last build as well as more standards support for CSS3’s 2D transforms. Microsoft also has added several new demos […]

According to Microsoft, the software giant took home $16.2 Billion in the last quarter. That’s a 25% increase from the same period last year. And as one might expect Microsoft’s money pits included Windows 7 and Office 2010 and it doesn’t look like anyone will be buying into the new smartphone OS any time soon. […]

Microsoft has now added the ability to the Azure cloud computing service that really separates it from the other brands of cloud computing solutions. This addition will give Azure users the ability to launch a virtual server running an explicit instance of Windows Server 2008 R2. Developers can now configure the instance any way they […]