Content current as of April 2009. Microsoft, with more than 60,000 employees worldwide, and with 2006 revenue exceeding U.S. $50 billion, generates a lot of internal data that the company wanted to centralize to provide it with a more integrated view of its customers. To fill this need...
I know, I know... I've been highlighting a number of Git related extensions recently. And I know all of YOU are using Git already (just like I am... um... errr.... um... kind of... yeah).
Okay, fine, so I'm a Git noob. Right now Git continues to gain support, mindshare and seems to one of those...
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I’m thrilled to announce our partnership with Election Systems & Software (ES&S). ES&S has chosen Windows tablets to power a new and innovative fleet of industry-leading electronic poll books!
We are so proud to be the technology of choice for a company doing such important work and on such a...
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I'm finding it very hard to find any information about how to actually use Cortana or what she is supposed to do in her current state.
In the video the speaker "Joe" says, "Hey Cortana, I'd like to send an email to (gives a name I've forgotten) and she opens an interface and asks what the...
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One of the stars of last week's Windows 10 Event was undeniably Cortana. Today we are going to share not one, not two, but three different Cortana dev posts...
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Kean Walmsley, long time Friend of the Gallery and AutoCAD .NET integration guy (if you need to use AutoCAD and .NET you've got to read his blog), who in his spare time, is also a Kinect enthusiast, recently released a four part series on the Kinect for Windows v2 Device, SDK and AutoCAD...
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Since we last highlighted this project in December 2013, Xbox Music API, it's been pretty quite. Until now.
The week before last the Xbox Music team jump started the Xbox Music API with a number of new features, capabilities and samples.
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In this episode Symon interviews Robert Reynolds (Principal Program Manager Lead) and Walter Oliver (Senior Program Manager) on the Windows Azure Pack (WAP) team, to discuss how WAP can be extended to 3rd party systems. The Windows Azure pack is a collection of Microsoft Azure technologies that...
With the coming release of the Kinect for Windows v2 device, which you can pre-order now, we should start seeing more of our favorite frameworks, utilities and tools being updated.
We've highlighted Kinect Common Bridge a couple times before, Kids, Kinect, Cinder and some C++ too... Meet the...
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The Social Care sample application provides a general interface and data model for automated conversion of social posts to Microsoft Dynamics CRM record types by using the social care generic framework feature.
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Good news to all! A barrage of updates has taken place and more are planned for the future. Specifically, we are looking at updating our database platform and the web server itself.
Here are the updates for May 19, 2014:
PHP has been updated.
Our database server has been updated with new...
Taking a breather from Visual Studio Extensions, today our Mobile Monday project shows you how you can build Cortana enabled projects...
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... You’ve likely already read about how Cortana will use the power of Bing to deliver personalized, natural experiences to users. What you may...
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We are pleased to announce additional updates to the website this month:
April 8, 2014: PHP Version 5.5.11
April 8, 2014: Forum software update (stability/maintenance release)
Our forum software has been updated today with an improved stability and maintenance release:
Added tool to test...
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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...
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Microsoft Windows 8.1 Gets October Release Date
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In a sign of Microsoft's commitment to a quickened software release cadence, Windows 8.1 will launch in less than a year after its predecessor.
The first...
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It has been decided that it is best that we transfer our blog system into the forums themselves. This will allow members to view, and in some cases manage, threads they have already created, create new ones, and allow for better visibility of your messages. A conclusion was made that the blog...
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