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Microsoft announces the Xbox One media remote with the launching of the accessory to be on March 4th, 2014. The new media remote is something that Xbox fans have been wanting for sometime now. The Xbox One is not simply just a gaming machine, making this announcement a relief to fans who also use their console […]

In a project built with Visual Studio .Net 2013 and K4Wv2 API alpha bits that where released back in November 2013, it’s a simple example of how to listen for Kinect v2 API events using C++. The project was originally meant to be a sort of tutorial intended to demonstrate how to write modern C++ […]

In addition to Microsoft’s latest announcement about their added security features in Office 365, the same announcement featured the arrival of a new no-cost update for Office 2013 coming this year. Microsoft’s Office 365 update covers all Office 365 variants and subscriptions. In addition the new Multi-factor authentication adds another layer of security to the […]

Microsoft and Respawn Entertainment has just issued an update on Titanfall beta stating that the US and European servers are back online and while not yet at full capacity in the US, according to Vince Zampella, game director, the Eruopean servers at running at full capacity. In addition to this Titanfall Coder at Respawn, John […]

Pexip, a global disrupter in scalable videoconferencing technology, and Iluminari Tech, a leading provider of next-generation Microsoft® Lync® solutions, announce their partnership to jointly provide solutions to both customers and carrier partners that expand the video, voice and mobile capabilities of Microsoft Lync.Pexip extends the functionality of Microsoft Lync by providing unique capabilities to connect […]

Microsoft announced today via their company blog stating that while users have been able to convert currencies in Bing, they have now added Bitcoin to this list with a newly added feature that allows you to easily make the conversion straight from your Bing search bar. Microsoft explained that “a conversion will appear at the […]

Amid legal complaints brought on by a another trademark infringement case, this time filed by the Sky Broadcasting company, the single largest pay-per service broadcaster in the United Kingdom, and brought on over Microsoft’s naming of their cloud service, SkyDrive. And while Sky Broadcasting does not currently have a competing service in the Cloud Storage […]

Microsoft Access has now reached the commercial-grade and is ready for production use. Office 365 Government users will need to wait as that version of the app is still considered in the preview stage. Access apps are considered supplementary Web applications which are hosted on SharePoint. The new app works within Microsoft’s Access relational database […]

Satya reached out to his staff in a companywide email that went out yesterday, here is an excerpt…On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that longtime ‘Softie Satya Nadella will follow in the footsteps of Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates as the company’s third CEO. Who, exactly, is Satya Nadella, and what does he have planned for the […]

Adobe and Microsoft announced today that they have teamed up to deliver the complete NBC 2014 Winter Olympics coverage from the cloud. NBC Sports will be sending nearly high-def, and On-Demand streams live from the games in Russia. Microsoft of course will be leveraging their Windows Azure Media Services as the backbone to publish and […]

Bill Gates, now Microsoft’s former CE, again, succeeding Ballmer this time around, takes on a newly created role as Microsoft’s Technology Adviser. Microsoft’s share moved up slightly as the announcement ends a long search for a new CE after Steve Ballmer announced his intention to retire back in early August. The move makes Satya Nadella […]

With the new Microsoft Entity Framework, DynamicData control now requires you to create a new ASP.NET Dynamic Data entities web application, then simply add Microsoft.AspNet.DynamicData.EFProvider NuGet package. This simple process installs all of the required DynamicDate templates. Click here to read the full details of this update.