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Recently we had our Kinect launch with a special Channel 9 Live event. Just prior to this we held a 24 hour Code Camp to allow developers to play with the Kinect SDK for 24 hours and see what they could come up with. I interviewed the teams after the event to take a look at their project and get...

Recently we had our Kinect launch with a special Channel 9 Live event. Just prior to this we held a 24 hour Code Camp to allow developers to play with the Kinect SDK for 24 hours and see what they could come up with. I interviewed the teams after the event to take a look at their project and get...

Early this month, Microsoft dropped something of a bombshell on Windows developers: the new Windows 8 touch-friendly immersive style would use a developer platform not based on .NET, which Microsoft has been championing for the past decade. Instead, it would use HTML5 and JavaScript. Since then...

Last week we had our Kinect launch with a special Channel 9 Live event. Just prior to this we held a 24 hour Code Camp to allow developers to play with the Kinect SDK for 24 hours and see what they could come up with. I interviewed the teams after the event to take a look at their project and...

Today we are exciting to announce the release of the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP which includes capabilities that make it easy for developers to build, deploy, manage and monitor multi-tier applications across web, business logic and database tiers as a single logical entity on the Windows...

Microsoft’s Windows 8 may be nearing beta with new screenshots leaked today from a Milestone 3 copy. The interface was first demoed at the D9 conference by Microsoft Windows chief Steven Sinofsky and even shown running on prototype tablet hardware at Computex 2011. For developers anxious to get...

Metro Dynamis is an early alpha release library based on JQuery for designers and developers wishing to build HTML5/CSS/JavaScript websites in a style similar to the Metro UI used by Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 . You can get an early look at it by signing up for the newsletter. Meanwhile, some...

As Steve Ballmer said last year, Windows 8 is a huge risk for Microsoft in a lot of ways -- it will offer a new look, run on different hardware, and break backwards compatibility with millions of existing Windows apps. Source: Yahoo! News

Channel 9 and Microsoft Research are excited to announce the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta available to download at Link Removed To mark the launch we've hosted a 24 hour CodeCamp on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. Fueled by coffee and pizza, 30 lucky developers were given a Kinect...

Tech giant is accused of fostering 'fear, uncertainly and doubt' by emphasising HTML5 and CSS3 for writing apps for tablets Independent developers for Microsoft's platforms are increasingly concerned about the lack of clarity from the software giant over the future direction of its programming...

When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive and thoughtful. And, in a first for a Microsoft desktop operating system, it’s finger-friendly. Source: Yahoo! News

When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive and thoughtful. And, in a first for a Microsoft desktop operating system, it’s finger-friendly. Source: Yahoo! News

When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive and thoughtful. And, in a first for a Microsoft desktop operating system, it’s finger-friendly. Source: Yahoo! News

In an attempt to make the operating system more 'finger friendly' Microsoft seems to be getting ready to move away from plaform technologies such as Win32, COM, MFC, ATL, .NET, Silverlight, and... Source: Yahoo! News

There's a full-blown panic going on in Microsoft's core third party developer community. After the big Windows 8 demonstration earlier this month where HTML5 and JavaScript were touted as a new way to create applications for Windows 8, speculation has gone through the roof - with developers...

Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows The new Windows 8 user experience has triggered excitement in the Windows user community, but also some fear and loathing for competitors and their supporters, and for developers. I'm happy to see Microsoft's competition on the run for a change, but the...

Smart people develop for the future, not the past; they write software for OS X and iOS... Source: Yahoo! News

When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive, and thoughtful, and in a first for a Microsoft desktop operating system, it's finger friendly. Source: Yahoo! News

Ars Technica says Microsoft's apparent shift of focus toward HTML5 and JavaScript for Windows 8 coding has got Windows developers in an uproar. Link Removed

When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive, and thoughtful, and in a first for a Microsoft desktop operating system, it’s finger friendly. Source: Yahoo! News