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Amazon announced Windows Server 2012 as a new option for users who want to host Windows on Amazon Web Services providing them with the ability to use Windows Server 2003 R2, 2008 and 2008 R2 and now Windows Server 2012 as part of the AWS Free Usage Tier. This provides them with 750 hours of […]

Microsoft’s Windows application development tool gets its very first update which can now be downloaded from Microsoft’s website which includes some additional support for making SharePoint applications, as well as more support for agile teams and more support for testing apps, with Somasegar. Plus Cross-browser testing is now supported and the ability to record tests […]

Microsoft’s timing of this test release may seem strange, with the “release-to-Web” version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 having already been released last month. IE 10 for Windows 7 has taken a great leap forward after many months in which Microsoft reported little about its progress. Last month Microsoft had indicated they would […]

SkyDrive launched a new set of APIs and, over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s cloud storage service also rolled out SDKs for virtually every major platform. Today, Microsoft is launching a set of new SDKs for .NET and Windows Phone 8 developers. Continue reading here.

Microsoft announced an update for the Kinect for Windows motion controller device called  Kinect Fusion. This turns your Kinect into a 3D scanner, allowing users to pick up their Kinects and move them around any 3D object, anything from a person to an entire room or space, and instantly create a 3D model of it […]

Microsoft Corp. today kicked off WOWZAPP 2012: Worldwide Hackathon for Windows, the first simultaneous global hackathon for students, startups and professional developers in the company’s history. Following the recent Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 launches, more than 100 locations across five continents will hold weekend-long hackathons for students and other participants to create apps […]

Microsoft has announced updates to both Napa and LightSwitch with Napa still being the codename for their new Office and SharePoint DTK that they have been working on diligently since July of 2012. On November 12, Microsoft officials announced availability of Preview 2 of Napa, which can be downloaded and installed into Visual Studio 2012 […]

The announcement was made by Microsoft Brasil CEO Michel Levy in a ceremony in the country’s capital Brasília in the presence of science, technology and innovation minister Marco Antonio Raupp, and education minister Aloizio Mercadante, the company said in a statement. The set of initiatives also includes the launch of a development center for MSFT’s […]

Microsoft is focusing on shortening its own development cycles and releasing new updates and versions at a faster cadence. Communication with embedded developers would be more frequent and clearer. Visibility into the platform and processes would increase. Feedback would be incorporated much more quickly and they are now offering custom built intelligent end-to-end business solutions. […]

Why would Microsoft offer the world’s most popular office productivity suite to its largest competitor? Good question but even though it seemed very unlikely only a few months ago, Microsoft is still planning on releasing Office for iOS in the near future. The company’s product manager Petr Bobek recently announced the official March launch of […]

BUILD 2012, a sneak peek at an unreleased Kinect for Windows tool: Kinect Fusion.

In Asp.Net 4.5 asynchronous HTTP Handlers and Modules can be created with ease at the same time with less code complexity. In this article I will explain about the advantages of introducing asynchrony on the HTTP Pipeline and creating them in Asp.Net 4.5. A Background on HTTP Module and HTTP Handler HTTP Modules are the […]