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To avoid consumer confusion, Microsoft made the decision to drop the RT brand because the company failed to create a distinguishable brand with the Windows RT line of tablets, over that from Microsoft’s Windows 8 Surface. Microsoft had originally chose the Windows RT brand as a way to promote the fact that the software giant […]

by Jerry Nixon There are two version of PianoTime for Windows 8 – a successful title from a Colorado publisher. The free version sponsored by ads, and the $3.48 ad free version. Do people purchase their way out of ads? Yes, they do. Do most people. No, they don’t. So, is it worth it? Freemium […]

 Microsoft is really making concessions for XAML application developers with this round of updates for Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2013 users. With many new and requested features for Windows like the abity to assemble XAML natively within the OS using the build in XBF (XAML Binary Format) and improved render time using deferred loading […]

By Jerry Nixon, DevRadio, Chris Caldwell In this Microsoft DevRadio video, Jerry Nixon welcomes Sr. Program Manager Thomas Fennel from the Windows Phone team as they discuss the inner workings of Notifications for your Windows Phone. Tune in as they chat about how to make your apps dynamic with live tiles and push notifications by […]

Dell’s Venue 11 Pro will open with a starting price of about $550. That unit will feature a 10.6-inch 1920×1080-pixel display and be powered by Intel’s Atom quad-core Bay Trail-based processor. It will sport a removable battery and carry up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Not bad when compared to about the […]

Microsoft tooted their own horn by announcing they have joined the short list of approved cloud service vendors for the United States Federal government this week. By passing a major hurtle known as FedRAMP or Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program security certificate testing, specifically for P-ATO, or Provisional Authority to Operate, you gotta love […]

Microsoft announced this week that they plan to maintain the current pricing scheme for the new line of Visual Studio development suit options. Visual Studio 2013 prices will remain mostly unchanged from that of the previous version. And of course all those developers with active MSDN accounts for their Visual Studio subscriptions will simply be […]

Embarcadero Technologies today announced that registration for this years online CodeRage event has been opened. The CodeRage 8 Delphi developer conference will be held online beginning October 15th thru the 17th. The technical conference will offer over 30 free sessions including those covering such topics as Android and iOS mobile app development, Multi-device development, Avoiding […]

Microsoft announced today at the JavaOne 2013 conference in San Francisco that Microsoft Open Technologies and Azul Systems have released Zulu OpenJDK for Windows Azure. Zulu is presented as Azul’s new build of the community-driven open source Java implementation, or OpenJDK and designed for Windows Server running on Azure.  A Zulu technology preview is available […]

Microsoft announces the release of their all new open-source testing tool for JavaScript frameworks and libraries, BrowserSwarm. Designed to assist developers with a fully automated testing tool for their JavaScript frameworks and libraries, BrowserSwarm provides testing across devices and browsers all in a single link. Microsoft worked with both AppendTo and Sauce Labs to help […]

by J. Michael Palermo IV When Windows 8 was first introduced, a huge opportunity opened up for web developers. How so? Anyone with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills could now apply such skills to developing apps, not just sites. This is due to Microsoft supporting the development of WinRT apps with either C++, .NET, and/or […]

Giving both users and developers a common set of tools and UI is certainly a novel concept. Microsoft wants to give people one set of developer APIs on all of their devices, including the apps and the UI they run on. Clearly an ambitious goal for the new Operating Systems Engineering Group which Microsoft formed […]