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Microsoft sold 422,000 Xbox 360s in February, up 8 percent from a year earlier, researcher NPD Group Inc. said yesterday. Nintendo, which has said it experienced supply shortages, sold 397,900 units, a decline of 47 percent. Sony sold 360,100 PS3s, a 30 percent increase. BioShock 2 went on sale Feb. 10 for the Xbox 360 […]

Following the success of the BBC’s iPlayer and Channel Four’s ‘on demand’ service, Microsoft is launching its own free online video player. Viewers will be able to watch a range of programmes, including those from the BBC such as Hustle and Hotel Babylon, on the MSN video player, from tomorrow. Microsoft says that it will […]

Introduction PCs are very versatile in their connectivity with different devices. For instance with USB alone, you can connect thousands of different devices, many of which could be considered to be sensors of some kind. But what is a sensor, really? A sensor, in the Windows 7 sense, is a device that is capable of […]

Remember the case in which Microsoft was said to pay more than US$240 million in damages, because of infringing a patent owned by I4i?, well this is now round 2. The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals affirmed its original decision on Wednesday During the trial ( before the first appeal ), I4i said that Microsoft […]

The deal, in which Microsoft will provide search and map capabilities on Motorola’s new smart phones comes just in time for Microsoft, actually both. Microsoft seized the opportunity when there were rumors about Google pulling out of China, because of censorship issues; Motorola relied heavily on Google’s Android platform to push into the competitive cellphone […]

Even though Microsoft would love it when all their security problems disappear, they simply won’t. Face it, Microsoft’s operating systems are the most common, and hence, the main target. Hackers are more sophisticated than ever; everyday new holes are found in Microsoft products! Strange thing is, Microsoft is usually aware at least 9 out of […]

Getting started Tabs Studio supports Visual Studio 2005/2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (excluding express editions). After Tabs Studio installation you will see multiple rows tab bar with relevant tabs grouped together. You will never need to search for an open document in the drop down list any more. The following figure demonstrates tabs […]

Written by: Sergey Podobriy, Development Coordinator of Driver Development Team, Apriorit Inc. http://www.apriorit.com Contents 1.1. What is API hooking? 1.2. Local and global hooks 2. AppInit_DLLs infrastructure 3. Mhook library 4. Writing the code 4.1.Original function 4.2.Hooked function 4.3.Setting the hook 4.4.Unhooking 5.Running a sample 6.Limitations 7.Useful references   1.1 What is API hooking? API […]

Basic iPhone UI Elements by Paul Avery Introduction Since this is the first iPhone article published on CodeGuru, I thought it best to start from the very beginning. This article will address the creation of a new project from scratch and interaction with the following basic iPhone UI elements. UIView UILabel UITextField UIButton UIAlertView However, […]

While surfing the web you may have come across websites with images and other multimedia content that, when clicked, were displayed in a floating window that hovered above the web page. Perhaps it was a page that showed a series of thumbnail images of products for sale, where clicking on a thumbnail displayed the full […]

Comparing the new MSN with the old MSN, it is about time. In an effort to get more web surfers to use Bing, a desperate effort was made to “fix” MSN. The web is evolving, and web users are more savvy – people have been expecting a better design for quite some time. With the […]

Microsoft’s Mix 10 conference starts from 15 March 2010 and continues to 17 March 2010. Among the topics covered will be Silverlight, XNA game development and the XAML based Windows Phone 7 design language A full list of the sessions that will be covered can be found here The XNA Framework, an implementation of the […]