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IE11 Developer Preview for Windows 7: Enabling Next Generation Sites and Apps...
With the recent release of Windows 8.1 Preview, Internet Explorer 11 continues our vision of providing the best Web experience across the full range of Windows devices and screen sizes. IE11 on Windows...
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Windows Azure Mobile Services in Visual Studio 2013
With new tools for Windows Azure Mobile Services, Visual Studio 2013 helps you quickly build connected Windows Store apps. We’ve made it very easy for you to associate your app with Mobile Services,...
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modern.IE updated for IE11 – Parallels offer and free VMs for download
With the release today of the Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview for Windows 7, we’ve also updated modern.IE– a set of tools and resources that make developing for the web (and IE) just a little...
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Advise the .NET Framework Team
This post was written by Rich Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework team. He’s also the one posting as @DotNet on Twitter. Late last month, we released the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview. We’re...
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Use cache to turbo-boost LightSwitch App (Saar Shen)
Making use of a cache to turbo-boost the presentation of read-only data is a common solution. In this post, I'll walk with you to speed up a LightSwitch HTML Application.To make an example, I’ll create...
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Buffer Pool Extension to SSDs in SQL Server 2014
How many of you have been looking into ways of cost effectively improving the performance of your OLTP workloads, without having to buy new more expensive hardware? Most of you know already that memory...
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KB: PRO group names contain Chinese characters in System Center Operations...
In an English-language version of Microsoft System Center 2012, after you connect Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to Operations Manager you may notice that group names in the Performance and Resource...
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Pushing the 12K PC Gaming Boundary at 1.5 Billion Pixels per Second
PC gaming is all out extreme performance and eye-popping visuals. DirectX games on Windows are always pushing the boundaries of the latest graphics hardware and software technology that will bring...
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Q&A Feature of Power BI
At our Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston we unveiled Power BI for Office 365, a self-service business intelligence (BI) solution delivered through Excel and Office 365 which provides information...
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The new Fresh Paint comes to Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone
I am posting this on behalf of Ira Snyder, General Manager in the Startup Business Group. Be sure to also check out our previous blog post on Fresh Paint.Today we are shipping a preview of Fresh Paint...
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Deploying a VM to Windows Azure with Orchestrator leveraging the Service...
Hello readers! I’m Tiander Turpijn, I’m a Program Manager within the Customer Architecture & Technology (CAT) team here at Microsoft and I will start contributing to our Building Clouds team blog...
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Creating cool animated visualizations with Excel and Power BI
Our friends over in the Power BI Blog posted an in-depth walkthrough of the new features available as part of Power Query and Power View. In particular, how to create a cool time series scatter...
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Active Directory IT controls to manage risk when users access company...
Hi, I’m Samuel Devasahayam (you can call me ‘Sam’) and I am a lead program manager in the Active Directory team responsible for Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) In prior posts, you read how...
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Choosing the right Portable Power Phone/Tablet/Gadget Battery Charger
I travel a lot and I've talked about the importance of having power while on the go. I carry a small Four Outlet Mini Power Strip, for example, as well as an all-in-one travel plug adapter. I like...
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Visual Studio a leader in software quality suites
Visual Studio has always been a great tool for developers. In 2010, as we continued to expand the breadth of our Application Lifecycle Management suite, we made our first foray into tooling...
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The evolution of Ronvix: Private TCP/IP stacks
We recently discovered a new breed of the bootkit Ronvix that introduces a private TCP/IP stack. It seems this is becoming a new trend for this type of malware.The implementation of the private stack...
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Inside Windows Phone 59 | Nokia's Imaging SDK for Windows Phone
Two weeks ago, alongside the fantastic 41-megapixel Lumia 1020, Nokia announced the public beta of the Nokia Imaging SDK. The Nokia Imaging SDK is a library that developers can use to help them add...
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Happy 20th Birthday Windows NT!
Hey y’all, Mark here with a quick history post. Tomorrow July 27th 2013 will be the 20th birthday of Windows NT which is quite the birthday. It can almost drink legally! Just the thought of 20 years...
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Evaluating Windows Server and System Center on a Laptop (or two, or three) -...
Because we don’t all have six servers lying around!The System Center 2012 R2 Evaluation Guide says I need six physical servers, each with 24 cores and 128GB memory, just to follow along!I’m Dave...
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Kids!
We are gradually working our way into goats. Last year we bought a dairy goat and she had 2 kids. This year we bought 2 meat goats (Kiko breed) and one of them, “Pretty Girl” just had 3 kids. I...
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