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This week on Channel 9, Nisha and guest host Mat Velloso discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed New Azure services help more people realize the possibilities of big data [T. K. “Ranga” Rengarajan] Link Removed Azure: Machine Learning Service, Hadoop Storm, Cluster...

I am not going to go into a lot of detail here, just want to suggest that if you have not used OneNote take a look at what all this very handy & capable product can do & offer you. It has heaps of, really, practical, everyday uses & applications. Comes in both APP & Desktop versions. And...

Almost, but not quite If you still use a lot of desktop applications as I do, you know that some handle high DPI displays and the desktop scaling functionality in Windows 8+ better than others. To date, the worst offenders, by far, have been Adobe's creative apps, like Photoshop. But with this...

Okay so as an outsider to windows it seems that Microsofts move to come out with a new version of windows is both a laugh riot and a sad sight. I think Microsoft done goofed once more and maybe its time to see how it can undo its mistake. The key to the failure is Microsofts need to do a mobile...

I recently did an update of my machine from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. The update process did not show any errors or warnings and by the time it finished I was under the impression that everything went smooth. After the update I was testing the environment and discovered that one of my desktop...

Hi Here's some info about creating a recovery image that will retain your installed software, in Windows 8 that I didn't know about. This seems like a better option then restoring Windows and losing all of your installed programs. Everything You Need to Know About Creating Custom Recovery...

Thirty-seventh in a series. The app growth has slowed down considerably again in the past two weeks. This week growth made it past the 2,000 new apps mark, but barely with a total of 2,083 new apps. That's almost half the growth we saw two weeks ago in the Windows Store. The total application...

We are using easylifeapp. I am getting problems while activating this app, after doing all the steps right i am still not able to activate it. Every time i try to activate it i always got "Fatal Error" Please anyone help me...

Every time I download pictures from my digital camera while in the Desktop mode, the METRO Photo App pops up. I need to manually stop it from Task Manager, but... A few minutes later, I see that METRO Photo App is running again. When I want to save my edited picture, my the computer freezes...

Im not sure I really got the picture with how SkyDrive works and how its different than other storage and sharing services like Mediafire, DropBox etc. but one of thse days I was prompted to install skydrive even if the app from the startscreen was alrdeady there. And now I have a folder under...

Updates for the Skydrive desktop.. Reference: Update to the SkyDrive desktop app for Windows

Microsoft want to enhance multi monitor support and aim to: Taken from the latest 'Building Windows 8' blog, the full article can be found here: Link Removed

Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012, 0900 - 1700 PDT for an all-day Windows Camp focused on building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++. This event will be streaming live right here on Channel 9 (media player will be on this very page)! All sessions will...

Fixes an issue in which the composition window appears behind the main window of a RemoteApp program. This issue occurs when you connect to the RemoteApp from a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Link Removed

Describes how to resolve an incompatibility between Skype 3.8 IE Plugin and Internet Explorer 8. Link Removed

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

I have been trying to download some programs recently and they all come up with this same error. I've downloaded multiple things to my desktop and when i try to run them, a message pops up saying: These files can't be opened Your internet security settings have prevented one or more files...

Coming from XP, I've been really enjoying a lot of Windows 7 new features. One of which is the program Sticky Notes. However, I've got a strange problem, whenever the program gets minimized, it will never un-minimize. Each attempt to click on the icon results in an error/alert sound and...

Powerful multimedia processing and web video design software Socusoft Web Video Player is an interesting but powerful tool which I came across on a download site a few days ago. This program allows you to publish your video clips of various formats on your website, blog, forum and more...

Hello, I am developing a .Net desktop application (C# using VS2008). Since I upgraded last week from vista to Window 7, DateTimePicker’s in my system show Short format of DateTime as 2009/12/30 instead of 30/12/2009, it’s only in DateTimePicker not in property window or other...