software development

Windows 7 has been a resounding success for Microsoft, helping to push customer satisfaction levels to an all-time high. The boys in Redmond aren’t resting on their laurels, however, and work on Windows 8 continues at a rapid pace. There’s been talk of Microsoft showing Windows 8 off at the...

While it is not June yet, its time to be prepared. We continue to provide the latest internal builds of vBulletin for all members on both http://windows7forums.com and Windows 8 Forums. These builds are still in development, but include fixes to the existing editor code we began running some...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confirmed the next version of the company's operating system will be out in 2012. Link Removed

At a developers' conference in Japan, Steve Ballmer revealed two points about the next version of Windows. It's called Windows 8 -- at least now -- and it's coming out in 2012. Source: Yahoo! News

Even though we're at least a year away from Windows 8, Early builds of the operating system are still being picked apart. So far, there are a bunch of credible rumors floating around, including tablet integration and an app store. Source: Yahoo! News

Instead of trying to port Windows 8 on to the ARM chip, Microsoft should try doing something other than Windows and stop playing games. Source: Yahoo! News

There are two STLs: the Standard Template Library and Stephan T. Lavavej Link Removed Advanced STL covers the gory details of the STL's implementation -> you will therefore need to be versed in the basics of STL, competent in C++ (of course), and be able to pay attention! Stephan is a great...

Over at The Register there's a piece about Windows 8 and how the ARM flavor of that OS won't run legacy apps. The same article also features the revelation that Windows 8 will feature a 'Windows 7... Source: Yahoo! News

In this video, Nikolai Tillmann and Michal Moskal, from the Research in Software Engineering group (RiSE) at Microsoft Research, present Link Removed for Windows Phone 7. TouchStudio is a radically new Windows Phone software development environment, bringing the excitement of the first...

Anders wanted to hear from you to get a sense of what's on your mind with respect to C#. We asked you for questions and, as usual, you delivered -> this is your interview, Niners. Link Removed Thanks for the great questions. Special thanks to Anders for taking an hour out of his insanely busy...

Anders wanted to hear from you to get a sense of what's on your mind with respect to C#. We asked you for questions and, as usual, you delivered -> this is your interview, Niners. Link Removed Thanks for the great questions. Special thanks to Anders for taking an hour out of his insanely busy...

Microsoft employees are often as passionate about their hobbies as they are with their work. Salvador Patuel is an ADM out of our UK office during the day, but he's a hobbiest commercial airline pilot at night. Salvador loves flying so much he decided to build an elaborate controller to make his...

Microsoft employees are often as passionate about their hobbies as they are with their work. Salvador Patuel is an ADM out of our UK office during the day, but he's a hobbiest commercial airline pilot at night. Salvador loves flying so much he decided to build an elaborate controller to make his...

While Microsoft has not announced the release date, or even the official name, of its follow-up to Windows 7, an early pre-beta version of the OS has surfaced on the Internet, the second version to appear within a month. Link Removed

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I have a custom app which is written in C#, and its basic job is to talk to USB port, send/receive data from an external device. This works fine with Vista but not with win7. Application refuses to launch/crashes soon after. Are there any API changes to Win7 which would cause this kind of...

The recent Visual Studio Async CTP SP1 refresh includes many core improvements, bug fixes and new support for WP7 and VS Express. Architect Stephen Toub digs into some of the updates and explains how making your own awaitable types has gotten easier in this release. As usual, Stephen covers a...

If you want to understand what the Access Control Service is really about, look no further: this is the interview you want to watch. Justin Smith, Principal Program Manager Lead for the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service, worked on ACS from its very first version. From that vantage...

In this video, Nikolai Tillmann and Michal Moskal, from the Research in Software Engineering group (RiSE) at Microsoft Research, present a new Windows Phone 7 application: Link Removed. TouchStudio is a radically new Windows Phone software development environment, bringing the excitement of the...

Microsoft's next Windows could be a cross-platform OS in the style of Apple's iOS or Hewlett-Packard's webOS, if supposed early builds are to be believed... "Bloggers Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott, in a series of April postings on Rivera’s Within Windows blog, have described the various...