Architecture Azure Social Games

Windows Video – Building social games for Windows 8 with Windows Azure

Another video from Microsoft. Building a great social gaming experience for your users can be a challenging task. Your game has to be… more »

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Windows Video – Building scalable web applications with Windows Azure

Another Windows Azure video. Learn how to harness the power of both the modern browser and the cloud to build a lightning fast… more »

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Windows Video – Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8

New Windows 8 video from Microsoft. Xbox LIVE, Microsoft’s premier entertainment service, is coming to Windows 8. Whether you are developing a game… more »

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Poll – Should Microsoft spin off their Windows Gaming division?

There’s a fantastic article on seekingalpha.com by Dana Blankenhorn. He makes the point that Microsoft stock “will always be weighed-down by the volume,… more »

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Samsung unveils new chip – Exynos 5250

It’s very possible that Samsung will take a long hard look at building ARM tablets and notebooks with its own Exynos processors. It… more »

News How to proceed

What Does Microsoft Need To Do In Order To Succeed With Its Tablets?

Entering into the tablet market isn’t an easy affair. Tablets haven’t been a craze for very long and yet they have already had… more »

News Windows 8 tablet

Do Tablets Threaten The Big-Screen TV?

While going through my normal morning ritual of hitting Google Reader in search of interesting tech news for the various writing projects I… more »

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The evolution of the Windows 8 Login screen

The website Winunleaked released a series of screenshots showing the Windows 8 login screens from M3 to the most current pre-beta. As Tom… more »

Consumer Perception Do consumers pay attention to operating systems?

Do Consumers Really Care About Tablet Operating Systems?

So far, this week has been a tough one for Microsoft’s Windows 8 team. Forrester released their report that fewer consumers want a… more »

Architecture Intel Windows 8 New

Intel looking forward to Windows 8

From ZDNet. Intel CEO Paul Otellini seems to be extremely excited about Microsoft’s upcoming Operating System. So excited in fact that he said Windows… more »

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HP to allegedly launch a Windows 8 Tablet at CES 2012

I’ll be at CES 2012 in Vegas to get the first hand announcements about Windows 8 from Mr. Ballmer but it seems that… more »

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Microsoft will be releasing Office on the Ipad

The website The Daily is reporting that Microsoft is planning to port Microsoft Office to the Apple Ipad. They are also planning to… more »

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Microsoft reveal Windows 8 hard drive management improvements

Microsoft have released a new blog post on their Windows 8 development blog. The post, written by Bryan Matthew, a program manager on the… more »

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Xbox 360 and Kinect had a really really good week!

Yikes, this is bananas! The Xbox 360 just closed the biggest sales week in it’s history selling more than 960,000 consoles in the… more »

Cloud Computing Windows Azure Storage

Windows Video – deep dive into Windows Azure Storage

A new video from Microsoft. This time, they discuss Windows Azure. Windows Azure Storage provides a scalable and reliable storage service for accessing… more »

Training Windows 8 connected apps

Windows Video – Debugging connected Windows 8 applications

In Windows 8, the code allows you to connect your applications to the internet. There are times though when yor network code may… more »