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A year ago, we announced Surface Book for customers who sought the versatility of a 2:1 device but yearned for a more familiar laptop form factor. The reception this product received was nothing short of amazing. While the existing product is perfect for most people, there is a subset of...

Today we’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing part of the Microsoft Edge WebGL renderer – specifically, the GLSL to HLSL transpiler. We hope that the source code is useful for everybody working on similar WebGL projects, and that this will help performance, correctness and...

PC Gamer is running an article which I found extremely interesting, almost shocking in some places. Well worth a read and I think perhaps you will be surprised about some of these expensive headsets and what's actually in them, I certainly was: We tested 23 mainstream gaming headsets to find...

I am looking for a certified copy of Windows 7 SP1 that someone does not need. I am currently unemployed, otherwise I would buy it myself. The copy has to be a legitimate product, with an original product key, and should have at least 1 install remaining on its license. I need to upgrade my...

Hello everyone I am Farris (aka DrWayne), I am a retired FM Radio Engineer From the US. Self taught when it comes to computers, had to ;earn quickly because they changed the way radio was headed. Good To Be Here! Farris

Hello guys, im writing engineering work, and i need some books(title of books, something that can help me), my topic is : identity management in server systems ( windows server 2012) , if you can help me i will be grateful. Cheers from Poland.

Hi everyone, We have another Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10586 which we’re releasing today to Windows Insiders in the Fast and Slow ring. This build continues to address feedback we’ve received from Windows Insiders as well as customers using our brand new...

Let's take two of our favorite teach, and just all around fun, tools, Lego Mindstorm EV3 and Small Basic and combine them into one awesome project! Link Removed shares EV3 Basic! Link Removed Using the EV3 extension for Small Basic 1.2, you can use Small Basic to program your Lego Mindstorm...

The Ops Team is a new weekly show where 4 Technical Evangelists specializing in IT Operations get together to give you the deets on their 4 areas of expertise: Microsoft Azure/Cloud, On-premises datacenter technologies, Enterprise Mobility / Windows and DevOps. This week on The Ops Team...

In this final video in the Windows 10 Isolated User mode series Dave takes us through several engineering aspects associated with trustlets. First he describes how lsass.exe (the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service responsible for enforcing security on Windows) now can have a companion...

In Part 1 of this mini-series we dove into the new Link Removed. In this episode Link Removed, a Senior Security Engineer here at Microsoft, takes us through some of the actual processes and features that come in Windows 10 thanks to this new Isolated User Mode concept. In essence it is a more...

Join Scott Klein and his guests Shawn Bice and Rohan Kumar, LIVE each month on SQL Unplugged, your avenue for chatting with the individuals who own the relational database at Microsoft. Tune in each month as Shawn and Rohan answer your questions and discuss the insights and inner workings of the...

Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series on Web Components by Microsoft Edge engineers Link Removed and Link Removed. To read more about our viewpoint and background on web components, please see part one, “Bringing componentization to the web: An overview of Web Components.“...

Hi everyone. A while back, we held a contest to give ten Windows Insiders a chance to win a trip to Microsoft headquarters here in Redmond. Winners were selected based on videos they submitted on what they like most about Windows 10 and the Windows Insider Program. As usual, Insiders came...

Today's project is another one of those, if you need this, you really need it.... Link Removed For those interested, I have developed a library of Labview VI's to access data from the Kinect V2. It seemed that such a library was not available even though one was developed for the Kinect V1...

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So, I decided to spend today dedicated to just optimizing my apps. Like shortening them, etc. So, I went through my older apps and oh my goodness thousands of lines of codes that were unnecessary. I managed to put all the common subroutines into a class and voila I shortened the codes by...

For over a year now the windows 7 search feature in file explorer fails (most of the time). Periodically it will work, but most of the time I can't rely on it. It is affecting my job and as an engineer with tens of thousands of files to search on regular basis I am pulling my hair out. Please...

Windows 8 has made the most noteworthy effect in the engineering business and is picking up prompt investment of innovation clients worldwide. The excuse for why it is picking up moment notoriety is the touch board and the included characteristics that it carries on top of it. The new Windows...

Microsoft Engineering team blog follows on from the building mail app blog: Link Removed and details the Calendar app. Full article: Link Removed