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Microsoft’s C# language and Xamarin’s development tools will provide .NET developers with the ability to write apps that run natively on iOS, Android, and OS X, as well as Windows. With the partnerships key element being to increase collaboration and deepen integration between Microsoft’s and Xamarin’s tools and services, this should mean better support for Xamarin’s […]

Hachamovitch has been Mr. Internet Explorer at Microsoft for years now as he headed up the development of the browser rendering engine and the apps for Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox. Joe Belfiore will assume some of Hachamovitch’s responsibilities for Internet Explorer as Belfiore will lead a team focused on the app side of Internet […]

by Jerry Nixon What Designers Had Better Know About Windows 8.1 Let’s be perfectly clear, the Windows Design Guidelines in Windows 8.1 are, at a high-level, identical to those in Windows 8.0. However, in their practical and tactical guidance they are so different, that idyllic Windows 8.1 apps would potentially fail Windows 8.0 Store Certification. […]

The digital interface innovation has become one of the most exciting areas of research for both developers and engineers alike. And now a new project leveraging the ever expanding possibilities of Microsoft’s Kinect has emerged called inFORM. Crafted at the MIT Media Lab, inFORM offers a peek at an even richer interface dynamic for future […]

Microsoft is keeping up with the demand for updated and easy to access development capabilities with the launch of Visual Studio 2013 aka VS2013, as well as the new NET 4.5.1. This is partnered with the release of a new set of software development services known as Visual Studio Online and a new development environment […]

In normal Asp.net web applications, writing precise unit test cases with high code coverage is difficult because of the strong coupling of the GUI and the server code. But Asp.Net MVC is a framework that Microsoft has built in a completely unit testable way. 100% unit test case code coverage can be achieved in Asp.Net […]

Microsoft’s new Windows Azure Import/Export service solves the challenges and on Monday, Microsoft announced a preview of their new Windows Azure Import/Export Service. Users of the Azure platform that is hosted in Microsoft’s data centers can now import and export data by shipping their hard drives to Microsoft. This means users can move large amounts […]

Microsoft announces that they are unifying the registration process for both Windows Store Developer and Windows Phone Store. This means developers can now develop applications for both platforms while conveniently being logged into just one Microsoft account. Phone Store dashboard for their apps, but the main registration process has now unified to become one. Read […]

Microsoft has announced that they’ve signed a 20-year deal with the Keechi project and they move forward to close the gap with other tech giants by agreeing to buy up all of the electricity produced by a Texas wind project to power one of its data centers. The 20 year deal to purchase all of […]

Microsoft’s announcement states that a projected investment of nearly $900 million, based on the individual prices of the Office 365 subscriptions, this is Microsoft’s largest scale education agreement in the history of the software giant. The program will begin on December 1st and offers students who sign up for the service access to Office 365 […]

Microsoft announced in October, that these discounts would go live on November 1st and they did, right on time. In the October announcement, Microsoft officials said that these prices would “be better than Amazon’s on commodity services like compute, storage and bandwidth.” The new Server and Cloud Enrollment, or SCE, offers a subscription option for […]

by Ryan Joy I’ve built an app. Now how do I get people to download it? There is not a secret recipe. There’s no “one weird trick” that will suddenly bring in millions of users. Hopefully your app is unique and provides value to users. Even still, all apps can benefit from basic marketing tips. […]