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By Eric D. Boyd & Nathaniel Clark In the previous article, Storing and Accessing Data in the Cloud, you learned how to create a database using Windows Azure SQL Database to store a holiday shopping list. In that article, I walked you through the steps to setting up the database, creating the tables, building the […]

The Microsoft Software & Systems Academy aims to offer America’s veterans the opportunity for new careers in the growing technology field. American service members possess the drive, self-discipline and problem solving skills that are essential for the technology industry, said Microsoft Executive Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith. The Microsoft Software & Systems Academy […]

Microsoft has just announced the release of the new Azure SDK 2.2 with support for Visual Studio 2013 through an informal but technically extensive blog post. Scott Guthrie, who is corporate vice president in the Microsoft Developer Division, explained that this new version of the SDK is intended to help developers target Azure for every […]

By Eric D. Boyd & Nathaniel Clark Overview If you are already developing web and mobile applications, it is a common next step to start using data in and from the cloud. In this two part series, you will learn how to setup data in the cloud and use it within an application. Since the […]

Microsoft is shutting down the desktop programming interface for Skype, effective the end of this year. Microsoft made the decision to kill the desktop API back in July, informing developers of that decision back then. But the shutdown hit the mainstream fan over the weekend, when the following warning began appearing as users log in […]

The folks at AnandTech installed the update and ran it through their own testing regimen, concluding that the firmware update improves the battery life of the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 by almost 25 percent. They re-ran their battery benchmarks with web browsing and video playback tests, and both showed improved battery performance compared to earlier […]

Today, at ARMA Live! Conference 2013, Acaveo, the pioneer and innovator of a new category of information governance solution, announced it has launched DataClassifier, a low-cost data privacy and classification software for unstructured data. With Microsoft SharePoint search already running in an environment, DataClassifier is the most simple, affordable way to execute regular expression searches […]

Microsoft’s announcement today was brought to us by Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of the Data Platform Group, Quentin Clark who stated “The impact of this is beyond just making businesses smarter and more efficient. It’s about changing how business works through both people and data-driven insights,” Clark went on to say that “Data will drive the […]

by Jerry Nixon You have your idea. You are developing your app. It’s coming along great. You can see the finish line. But do you need to do more than just develop your app? Here are 5 things you should do before you publish. Even if everyone around you speaks English, the rest of the […]

By: Jerry Nixon, DevRadio, ChrisCaldwell Jerry Nixon welcomes Principal Program Manager, Tim Laverty to the Dev Radio show as they talk about the Windows Phone Proximity API. Tune in as they chat about how you can enable NFC (Near Field Communications) and Bluetooth features in your apps and device as well share best practices for […]

By receiving audio data from a microphone and sending that audio data to a web service for analysis, and then returning that interpretations of the audio data of user speech as text back to that device, Microsoft Bing provides the user with on-the-fly speech recognition using Microsoft’s new Speech Recognition Service for Bing. Installing the […]

by Stacey Mulcahy   The Name Says it All Ugh. Yep, that’s the exact feeling you have when you are sitting around, staring at a blank computer screen trying to name your new little bundle of application joy. Suddenly you become lazy, and your code name becomes the real name before you know it and […]