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While the ribbon control used in the current and several previous versions of the Microsoft Office interface, that seemed to translate well to the new touch input, it doesn’t mean that ever feature works great leaving several aspects to the current design of the new touch interface that still require additional considerations. PJ Hough, Corporate […]

The developer preview of WAAD was formally launched on June 7, and was incorporated into the spring release of Windows Azure, according to John Shewchuk, a Microsoft Technical Fellow focusing on Active Directory, in a blog post. However, the developer preview additions that were released this week support a couple of new features. One new […]

NBC announced today that they have re-acquired full ownership of MSNBC.com, purchasing the remaining shares of the site from Microsoft.  Currently the new plan is to rebrand the site as NBCNews.com while continuing to provide news information to MSN.com, a Microsoft news portal. For the short term, MSNBC.com is going to mirror the NBCNews.com home […]

The following is reprinted with permission. For more on this topic, check out Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# by Wallace McClure, et al. Chapter 2 Introduction to Mono for Android What’s in This Chapter? Introduction to Mono and Mono for Android Configuring the development environment Mono for Android tools for Visual […]

Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer announced today at the Microsoft World Partner conference in Toronto that Microsoft will officially retire Windows XP on the popular Operating Systems 15th Birthday, April 8th, 2014. “it’ll be put to sleep” Turner announced today. Over 400 million copies in use as of January 2006, XP was succeeded by […]

At the WPC earlier this week, Microsoft announced they would be including the Windows Azure Web Sites, VMs, Service Management Portal and the API bundled with the release of Windows Server 2012. Clearly a strategic announcement aimed at enterprise and large businesses this will have a significant impact on the Cloud market in the coming […]

Microsoft today touched on nerve today with most of their major partners about Office 365 Open which is a new product that will allow their partners to directly bill their customers whenever they sell the cloud application suite to a willing buyer thus offering their resellers a much simpler way to sell their products and […]

Tami Reller, Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Windows development announced to a crowd of thousands at the annual Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto this week, that Windows 8 is ready to be released in the final Release to Manufacturing or RTM versions by the first week of August and to […]

The following is reprinted with permission. For more on this topic, check out Programming Microsoft’s Clouds: Azure and Office 365 The Difference Between SQL Server and SQL Azure Unlike SQL Server where your Databases are the only ones on your Database server, SQL Azure may use a single physical server to host Databases from many […]

In a small paragraph included towards the end of last week’s big announcement about the new Windows 8 upgrade pricing, it would appear that Microsoft has made a significant change to its Windows licensing rules. Windows 7 shipped with clear rules around the software not being authorized for installation by end users and removed the […]

Currently dealing in broadcast, government, defense and higher education, sectors, has aquired Perceptive Pixel seemingly in an attempt to make that technology more affordable and mainstream for businesses and education. Microsoft used its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto Canada to put on a rather dramatic demonstration of the new technology by putting Windows 8 Metro […]

With the release of Windows Server 2012 Essentials, Windows Home Server will be no more. And while Microsoft admits the Home Server has seen great success over the years, it has reached end of life. However for this reason, some of the features that were previously included only in the Windows Home Server, such as […]