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The latest rumors suggest that a new cloud-based shop is likely to be dubbed the Windows Store and will deliver apps straight to the desktop. Link Removed

Link Removed due to 404 Error Come Monday, AT&T will begin restricting more than 16 million broadband users based on the amount of data they use in a month. The No. 2 carrier’s entry into the broadband-cap club means that a majority of U.S. broadband users will now be subject to limits on how...

If you want to understand what the Access Control Service is really about, look no further: this is the interview you want to watch. Justin Smith, Principal Program Manager Lead for the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service, worked on ACS from its very first version. From that vantage...

Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- In the technology world, a form of breaking bread can involve sharing hardware schematics. Facebook invited reporters, hardware makers and rival internet companies to its headquarters to debut a new initiative on Thursday for improving website infrastructure...

We've started a new Show on Channel 9 and it's the result of a conversation I had with Erik Meijer just after the Link Removed Erik told me that he wanted to go around the company and meet everyday devs—the folks who first and foremost spend their time at work designing and writing code. The...

The mobile phone is becoming the most popular consumer camera. While the benefits are quite clear, the mobile scenario presents several challenges. It is not always easy to capture good photos. Image-processing tools can improve photos after capture, but there are few tools tailored to on-phone...

John Mulhausen takes you from from zero to an Azure-hosted, push notification-sending web service and an accompanying phone app in 19 minutes. 1) Do you want to see how to send/receive every kind of Push Notification that there is for Windows Phone? 2) Do you want to know the certification...

Windows Roadmap Link RemovedLink RemovedSome are taking heart from a roadmap Microsoft was supposedly showing off during its recent Professional Developer's Conference (PDC), according to electronista. The map (click to enlarge it for a closer look) refers specifically to Windows Server...

Link Removed What's New in Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard Announcing Windows Small Business Server 2011 - The Official SBS Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs Microsoft has unveiled the names and price details for its Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011. In a...

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:26] Channel 9 - Voting for the Niney Awards is now open, so vote for This Week on Channel 9! [02:20] MIX11 - Voting for MIX11 sessions closes at 12PM Midnight PST on Feb 4, 2011 so Link Removed [02:57]...

I saw this article re' Windows 8 and thought I'd share.... Link Removed Only Microsoft knows how the next version of its Windows operating system will look and what it will be called, but big changes could be ahead for the OS observers refer to as "Windows 8." At this year's Consumer...

Last week we wrote about the services that Y Combinator startups use . For hosting, Amazon Web Services and Rackspace were the most popular services. Windows Azure was noticeably absent. But why? A topic turned up on Quora , citing our post and wondering why the lack of adoption. The topic has...

My Google Chromebook landed via FedEx just about an hour ago. Naturally, I couldn’t resist firing that puppy up. Now this isn’t a full-blown review, but immediate impressions of what I liked and areas that are going to take some work to get used to. The ultimate judge of this thing will be...

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at Link Removed In this episode: Wade Wegner rejoins us to talk about Windows Azure AppFabric Caching We learn how to get started with the AppFabric Caching service We discuss the...

Last week at the PDC the Link Removed was updated with a new release of the Service Bus. This release provides a "sneak peak" into capabilities that will eventually roll into the production service. Some of the announced features include a management service, load balancing, and durable message...

STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anticipating the release of the new line of Windows 7 phones, Rubberduck Media Lab, a subsidiary of Aspiro AB (STO:ASP) and Europe’s leading provider of streaming mobile TV services has developed an application supporting the new operating system. The first delivery...

Link RemovedOne of the thorns in the sides of all Internet users is the plethora of accounts they need to keep track of for the various websites they use throughout the day. Most of the folks running these sites don’t particularly want to create an account management system, but they need to...

Link Removed Windows 7 and overall PC growth buoyed Microsoft’s third-quarter FY 2010 earnings of $14.5 billion and .45 per share. As many news outlets and bloggers have reported, approximately 10 percent of PCs are now running Windows 7. Microsoft officials are crowing that “the business PC...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) fiscal third-quarter profit grew 35% as the software giant benefited from a strong response from the release of the company's Windows 7 operating system. "Business customers are beginning to refresh their desktops and the momentum of...

"...Besides browsers, Microsoft dropped an Link Removed - Invalid URL. It announced that the Office suite will compete with both free productivity suites like OpenOffice as well as Google Docs. As they make the online version of Office free to users, feature-limited versions of the suite will...