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The U.S. House of Representatives is moving from restriction to adoption: an Axios exclusive reports that Microsoft’s Copilot AI will be made available to House members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize congressional operations, with Speaker Mike Johnson set to introduce the tool...

Balfour Beatty is taking its AI ambitions stateside with an employee hackathon aimed at translating prototypes into construction-ready AI tools — but the most consequential news in this story is the scale of the firm's Microsoft partnership and its strategic investment in Microsoft 365 Copilot...

Microsoft engineers once built a proof-of-concept Windows experience specifically for handheld gaming devices during an internal hackathon — a prototype that showed how Windows 11 could present a gamepad-first, console-style interface and make Xbox Game Pass, Steam, Epic, and other storefronts...

Here’s a summary of the article “Lokesh Asks Microsoft for Experiential Zone in AP” from M9.news: Key Points: Meeting in Singapore: Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh met Microsoft executives during his Singapore tour and visited the Microsoft Experiential Center there. Request for...

This spring, the corridors of Punahou School buzzed with pride and anticipation as the Cyber Education Leadership Team (CELT) prepared to represent Hawai‘i at the prestigious CyberPatriot 17 National Finals. Held in Bethesda, Maryland, the competition stood as the nation’s largest high school...

In a remarkable display of innovation and technical prowess, H One, a leading Sri Lankan IT solutions provider, secured the top position at the regional Microsoft AI Hackathon. This achievement underscores the company's commitment to leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to address real-world...

NTU's recent HOYA Chatbot Hackathon 2025 has become a vivid testament to the transformative power of hands-on learning and innovative problem-solving. NTU students, with their keen insights and relentless determination to bridge theory and practical application, have set a benchmark in the realm...

Link Removed Figure 1 Sign-up at Link Removed On the heels of the Build conferences these last few years, we have had the pleasure of meeting thousands of developers around the world. Their feedback and technical insight has helped us to continue the tradition and explore more technical depth...

Back in early August I was pleased to announce the Windows Insider release of Windows 10 IoT Core, a version of Windows 10 targeted towards small, embedded devices that may or may not have screens, and the response from you has been tremendous. We’ve received a lot of feedback that has helped us...

This week on Channel 9, Vlad and guest host Ben Lower discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Ben Lower Link Removed Pop Quiz Link Removed Kinect Hackathon – Austin, TX Link Removed MWC and GDC 2015, Link Removed Link Removed A look at the history of Xbox Live [Larry...

Larry Larsen, Eric Havir and Jamey Tisdale take a tour of the newly renovated Building 20. This building is the home of the Channel 9 studio and it is now used to host designers, partners and developers to run workshops, executive engagements and hackathons. In this video, we learn about the...

Mike Taulty, long time Coding4Fun Friend, recently presented at a London Kinect Hack Event on how to quickly get started developing with the Kinect for Windows v2. Lucky for us, he's shared it with us...; Here are just a few times we've highlighted Mike's work; Just face it... with these two...

Link Removed, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, fills in a Kinect for Windows v2 sample gap, providing a means to connect to a Kinect web WebSockets and thereby a web browser... Link Removed For the older Kinect v1.0 there was a sample included with the Link Removed which provided browser...