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Microsoft announced that they have reached an agreement to purchase Parature, an engagement provider, giving the technology giant much needed access to an ultramodern knowledge base with self-service capabilities. Microsoft’s new acquisition represents a seamless fit for businesses enabling the software giant to offer customers one of the most advanced cloud based self-service portals on […]

In this article I will be taking you through the new features of Visual Studio 2013 IDE, which was released by Microsoft in early November 2013, and provide the readers with insight about the enhancements done to the IDE. The First Look At the first look of Visual Studio 2013 there doesn’t seem to be […]

The acquisition of Parature solutions will help Microsoft to build on their customer care solutions built into the software giant’s Dynamic CRM product line. With the possibility of Parature being integrated with the next release of Microsoft’s Dynamic CRM, currently code named LEO, will combine sales, marketing and customer service functions, competing with products from […]

Gizmox, the HTML5 development tools company has announced the release of their new Visual WebGui Version 7. The updated version includes a new mobile feature tool set, a code assessment tool for analyzing legacy desktop apps, and more importantly now includes integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. WebGui was built for MS Visual Studio developers […]

Dell used their annual tech conference, aka, the Dell World conference last week to announce cloud-related partnership with their partners such as Microsoft, Google, Dropbox and Red Hat. Michael Dell used the opportunity to declare cloud computing as the new model for technology at Dell. In the announcement, Dell stated that his company will be […]

Microsoft had first announced the plan-switching option back in August of 2013 however the option was limited to within certain plan families. The restriction has been removed and cross-family switching is possible among the plans. It’s even possible to jump from the lowly Exchange Online “kiosk” plan to the more expensive Office 365 Enterprise plan. […]

Representing an important move forward in Microsoft’s cloud services expansion strategy, as well as their commitment to the country of Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean in general, Microsoft is investing over a billion dollars US in Azure. Currently available in 89 countries, Brazil is one of the software giant’s top ten most important global […]

Planet Technologies has developed an enhanced system monitoring dashboard on Microsoft System Center. Designed to support compliance, asset management and security, RECON addresses the need for real time information on IT system assets in conjunction with Microsoft’s announcement to “end of life” support for Windows XP later this year. The Planet Technologies team set out […]

Get up and running quickly with a Windows Phone app that builds on the effort you’ve put into creating your mobile website. Table of Contents Introduction The Hybrid Web App sample Customizing the Hybrid Web App sample Creating a hybrid web app Resources Introduction Smartphone users love apps! But developing apps for multiple platforms can […]

There have been a couple of interesting developments around Microsoft’s “Midori” operating system project. One of those being that Microsoft brass have given Joe Duffy, one of the Midori team members, working under Executive VP Terry Myerson, the green light to go public with at least some information on the non-Windows based Operating System. The […]

You have one very small window to convince a potential consumer that your application will do whatever they need: entertain them, educate them, connect them, even solve world hunger and win the latest Power Ball with just a single click to download.

Purpose Are you an Android app developer? If so, you can use the info throughout this section to take your existing Android app development skills and start applying them to developing great apps for Windows 8. In this section Topic Description Getting started Provides a series of short, hands-on walkthroughs for Android app developers to […]