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Hello from day 2 of Link Removed in San Francisco. David Treadwell and I just gave the audience a peek at many of the new capabilities the new Universal Window Platform will enable, along with the associated tools and services. We also provided more insight into the Link Removed announced by...

Hello from Build 2015 in San Francisco! Earlier today we revealed more details about Link Removed and shared the new ways for building more personal mobile experiences that you can monetize across one billion Windows 10 customers. During the remainder of the conference, we’ll go deep into each...

Hi everyone from the Build 2015 conference happening right now in San Francisco! If you haven’t already, Link Removed about all the Windows 10 announcements we made today. If you’re at Build this week or at Ignite in Chicago next week – keep your eye out for me and say hello! Today we have a...

Starting today at Link Removed in San Francisco, we’re going deep on details around Windows 10. This morning, Link Removed described our goal to bring Windows 10 to a billion devices over the next two-three years, and showed off a number of innovations that will help us reach more individual...

Today, I had the honor of speaking to thousands of our development partners at the Build conference about our plans to make Windows 10 the most attractive development platform ever. It is always thrilling to see so many developers excited about Microsoft – and this year, about Windows 10. If you...

I installed Build 10061 about 3 days ago ... which broke lots of things that worked in Build 10041 Weather, eXcel Preview, Word Preview And most importantly Windows Store (Beta) -- without this you cannot install/update any Win10 apps. I found three fixes [1] from Win+R (Run) wsreset.exe [2]...

Hi everyone, Today we are releasing a new Technical Preview build for PCs – 10061. This build will be available to the Fast ring, and will be delivered via Windows Update. You can wait for your PCs normal installation time for Windows Updates and it will install automatically, or you can go to...

This guest blog post is the final post of a 3-part series written by Windows developer Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original 3rd post on Jani’s blog Link Removed, and refer to Part 1 Link Removed and Part 2 here. Moving the ship When we’re doing a universal app, we have to take in account...

I've mentioned that with the Kinect for Windows v2 SDK you can now create Windows Store apps, Kinect to Windows Store App development. Recently the Kinect Team highlighted three real world examples of this... Link Removed In case you hadn't noticed, the Windows Store added something really...

While I've not highlighted frameworks and such recently, when Brian Lagunas reached out to me about today's news I knew I had today's post. I've used Prism myself in a couple WPF LOB app's and found it pretty darn cool and useful. If you're building complex applications, with multiple team...

I guess it's Peter Daukintis week. :) Today's project he's showing off the openFrameworks. Reminder about openFrameworks? openFrameworks is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries, including: OpenGL, GLEW, GLUT, libtess2 and cairo for...

Today PayPal Here is available to download for free from the Windows Store. Now you can get paid on your Windows PC, laptop or tablet with the PayPal Here app. Getting started is easy, simply download the app and sign up to request your mobile card reader. Link Removed Easily select your...

I use FRAPS to record videos, but when i open an app installed from the windows store onto my pc, the FPS don't appear in the corner and im not sure if the video records. Is there a way to record apps from windows store? If so how? Thanks

This guest blog post is the first of a 3-part series written by Windows MVP Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original post Link Removed, and stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3 coming soon. I believe that games are still one of the most fun ways to get to know a new programming language. Since there...

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...

Hello. I would like to know what is the format of app that are in Windows Store , For example at Google Play Store , they are .apk. And here?

Microsoft release demo's of Office 2016 Touch Preview Ref: Link Removed Download links: (You need windows 10 in order to run these demos) Word Link Removed PowerPoint Link Removed Excel Link Removed

The Windows Store continues to grow, with great new titles and fresh updates every day. Don’t miss the latest versions of these favorites: Age of Empires: Castle Siege Choose your civilization, then choose your battle in this game that takes you from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance. In the...

Microsoft really needs to improve it's various security, both in it's software and on it's websites, before it thinks about releasing Windows 10. I'm by no mean's a Microsoft hater. I've used Windows since 1995 with my 1st pc that had Windows 95, I've use 95, XP, Vista, 8, 8.1 and 10. I've also...

I just ditched Bright House Cable this morning. I replaced it with DirecTV Xtra tv service. Could someone recommend a reliable DirecTV app for Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center x64 and Windows 8.1 x64 ? I found a actual DirecTV for my Nokia Lumia 521 w/Windows Phone 8.1 in the Windows Phone Store...