CodeGuru Staff

SkyDrive users will now have a better indication of who they shared documents with including who currently has access to those files. SkyDrive will also now feature improvements for users on touch devices with much better drag-and-drop support for all device types. Microsoft is also making several back-end updates that will make SkyDrive faster and […]

Microsoft’s big announcement is actually about 158 days out putting E3 at the end date and the very real possibility that this announcement may pertain to the next Xbox as Microsoft is believed to be preparing for a 2014 incursion into the next console generation and the new Xbox, or Durango as exposed by last […]

Microsoft had no choice but to admit that their new Windows Phone 8 isn’t working as well as other smart phone platforms on some of the most popular internet sites however they are not taking the blame lying down, because its Google’s fault! A good example of this claim would be Google’s YouTube. Google continues […]

Microsoft has recently acquired a start-up home-entertainment technology company called R2 Studios. Seemingly in an effort to improve their Xbox system. The company, id8 Group R2 Studios Inc was working on a new technology associated with distributing and displaying digital media on TVs. Seemingly a new arena for tech giants such as Google and Apple […]

Parallelism has become a buzz word in the .NET Framework world, making it important for every developer to keep up to date on the latest and greatest. The .NET Framework, version 4.5 has shipped with quite a number of updates and improvements to the parallelism features, many of which Microsoft implemented based on user feedback […]

Vector graphics drawing tool Expression Design 4 has been end-of-lifed. No new versions will be developed, and it’s no longer for sale. You can now download it for free, and it will continue to receive security patches as necessary until at least 2015. Microsoft is offering no replacement or alternative to users of the product. […]

Microsoft did the RTW of Visual Studio 2012 IDE on August 15th 2012–and it came with a handful of new features and nice enhancements. This article will take you through the top 7 things that were the eye-catchers for me as a developer when I had my first glimpse of Visual Studio 2012. 1. Visual […]

Humans Building the Tower of Babel may have caused us to have the different languages on Earth, fortunately we have Microsoft to overcome God’s punishment. Rick Rashid, Microsoft CEO, gave an inspiring demo of their live speech translation at an event in China. The idea of speaking to people who don’t speak your language is […]

Code Blue, Microsoft’s new code word for the Windows 8 successor with lots of unknowns, one of them is, will this Windows 9, or Windows 8.1? Time will tell but one thing is fairly certain, Microsoft, with Steve Ballmer at the helm, is not sitting around for a few years after the release of a […]

Microsoft dubs it the “Data Plant” and it will recycle common waste bi-products in order to power their cloud services housed there. By implementing a new biogas powered stationary fuel cell designed by the FuelCell Energy Company they are leveraging the unique ability to transform biogas into zero carbon electricity. The new Data Center, or […]

Microsoft continues to commit to the Bing search engine by adding more feature improvements and additions. Bing users searching for images can now perform their research faster because the images being searched no longer need to load in a new page when you click on them, the user simply clicks on the desired image and […]

Coding4Fun’s new Kinect Service v1.6 not provides support for the WinRT clients with native Windows Runtime Components. This is the first version which includes client services for Windows Store Apps, written as a C++ Windows Runtime Component, with binaries available for x86, x64 and ARM and the new Coding4Fun Kinect Service provide developers with the […]