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1. Who is the target reader of this article? Recently I faced one very interesting task. I had to port an application from one platform (Windows) to another (Linux). It is an interesting topic. First, knowledge of several platforms and writing the code for them is a good experience for every developer. Secondly, writing an […]

The impact of this platform battle on companies in the media and advertising world, and the developers who serve them, is significant. The most prominent question is whether video and rich media online will shift towards pure HTML and away from plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight. In fact, certain features in HTML 5 make it […]

Expression Media is a leading digital asset management application used to catalog and organize photos, video and music for effortless retrieval, presentation and sharing. Expression Media will join Phase One’s product lineup, which includes open-platform-based, medium-format camera systems able to render up to 60.5 megapixel resolution, and Capture One raw-conversion and image-editing software, which supports […]

Redmond has its share of problems in the rapidly evolving consumer tech market. While Microsoft continues to dominate in its two core, and highly profitable, software markets with Windows (desktop operating systems) and Office (productivity software), it has failed thus far to match the success of key rivals Apple and Google in the mobile arena. […]

Introduction SharePoint – the buzz word for web portal that is browser based and drives towards effective management of data with ease. Also termed as one of the effective collaborative tools helping offices of all sizes to share the information effectively and manage day-day office processes through elegant workflows. This article outlines few of the […]

“Cloud computing represents the next frontier,” Ballmer said at an annual gathering of corporate chief executives at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington. “We’ve been betting or investing in the cloud for about ten years and in earnest for about six or seven years.” Cloud computing gained momentum during the economic downturn as people and businesses […]

Microsoft Money may be headed off into the sunset, but Redmond has one last version to offer those who are still using the personal finance product. The so-called “sunset edition” of Microsoft Money was released earlier this month. Although it has fewer features – stripping out all of the online capabilities – this new version […]

The world’s largest software maker, which has been brushed aside by Apple Inc’s iPhone and Google Inc’s Android operating system in the fast-growing smartphone market, may announce the changes at its entertainment and devices division as early as this week, the Journal reported. Microsoft declined comment. J. Allard, the unit’s chief technology officer – a […]

Introduction In my last article we covered many of the basics for using and configuring the Microsoft Chart Control for the .NET Framework 3.5. Similar to the previous article, we will primarily focus on ASP.NET functionality of the Chart Control. For this ASP.NET tutorial we will dive into the AJAX capabilities of the Chart control […]

If Microsoft’s goal was to hear Bing used as a verb, there are signs of success. In April about 12 percent of all Web searches were performed using Microsoft’s year-old search engine. While that doesn’t exactly make Bing a Google killer, it seems to be holding its own. Searches on Bing are up 4 percent […]

Microsoft also made available a beta release of BizTalk Server 2010, which supports Windows Server AppFabric. BizTalk Server 2010 is due to be released to manufacturing – which happens shortly before the product is made generally available – in the third quarter of this year. Using distributed caching, Windows Server AppFabric offers speed, scalability, and […]

Earlier this month, Microsoft issued its second developer-oriented preview release of Internet Explorer 9.0 You can take it out for a test-drive or see the demos on the test site, which displays performance enhancements, HTML5 interoperability (Flash and Silverlight’s latest rival?), and graphical demonstrations. In a quest to amend the company’s reputation for ignoring Web […]