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88% of people who took the “Meet Your Match” challenge prefer Windows Phone
A few weeks back we kicked off “Meet Your Match”, which is an informal head-to-head customer challenge of many popular smartphone features. It’s a new take on “Smoked by Windows Phone” and it shows...
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WhatsApp for Windows Phone 8 arrives; Facebook updated
Over the weekend, updates for two popular apps hit the Windows Phone Store. WhatsApp, a popular cross-platform messaging app, released an official version for Windows Phone 8—something I know many of...
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Downloading the .NET Framework and Visual Studio Express Editions and SDKs
We see a lot of daily traffic through the .NET blog and the .NET dev center on MSDN. It is clear from the web traffic data that a key task for many of you is downloading more .NET software, to expand...
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RemoteFX-Enabled Certification for Thin-Client Devices
Hello, everyone! This is Jeroen van Eesteren from the Remote Desktop Virtualization team. I want to take this opportunity to highlight the RemoteFX-enabled certification program and direct you to a...
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HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2D Reach Candidate Recommendation Status
Today marks an important milestone for Web development, as the W3C announced the publication of the Candidate Recommendation (CR) version of the HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2D specifications. The...
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Extreme 4K Multi-Mon Video Editing on Windows 8
I am amazed by the image quality that’s possible with today’s 4K digital cinema cameras. It’s like watching full-res images from a DSLR playing back at 24 fps on the big screen, 4K footage is just...
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Tech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat with Sarah Carey of Martha Stewart’s Everyday...
With the holidays in full swing, we know that entertaining is top of mind. In fact it’s something I often struggle with. I love to throw my share of holiday cocktail parties but it is difficult with...
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SharePoint 2013 Snippets
SharePoint 2013 brings in Machine Translation Services, which provides automatic content translation or packages up content in a standard format for human translation. For the automated translation, it...
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Big hits from the Office Webinars
Your questions and creativity are inspiring. Over the past year of Office 15-minute webinars, we've shown you quick ways to get the most out of Office (like Excel Pivot Tables and Slicers or What's...
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HADR Tutorials for SQL Server in Windows Azure VMs
Hi Folks,For those interested in how to do SQL Server HADR in Windows Azure VMs, we have published a set of tutorials on Azure Documentation. A conceptual article gives you the overview for the subject...
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Trip Report: Eastern Canada LightSwitch Speaking Tour
Wow! What a great trip! I got back late last week from an amazing 10-day tour through eastern Canada (and Vermont) spreading the LightSwitch love. Thanks to all the user group leaders, conference...
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Cooking up a great Windows Store app
It’s exciting to see so many developers embracing the innovations of Windows 8 to create great apps that provide exceptional experiences. We had a chance to talk to the creators of the Allrecipes and...
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Going global: Language support in Windows Phone 8
“When will Windows Phone support my language?” As a member of the phone’s international engineering team, it’s a question I once heard nearly every day. Not anymore. It’s hard to believe that just over...
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This month’s Windows Phone Photo Challenge: Happy Holidays!
It’s been a busy past few months here on the Windows Phone team. We’ve had some great new devices hit the market, many of which have spectacular cameras built into them. I’m really looking forward to...
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Humanitarian Organizations Use Windows MultiPoint Server for Building Education
Recently, we released Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 to manufacturing. Last week, Microsoft announced a great example of how Windows MultiPoint Server is helping to bring access to technology in some...
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The New and Improved Schedule Webpart
Project Web App empowers a mobile workforce by bringing the power of Microsoft Project Professional to the browser with web-based project scheduling via the Schedule WebPart. Web-based scheduling...
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‘Paste JSON As Classes’ in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC
‘Paste JSON As Classes’ is a cool feature in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC. This feature will help you generate strongly typed classes in C# or VB.NET from valid JSON text.With ASP.NET and Web Tools...
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Group Policy Deployment: Core Network Companion Guide
We have a new document in our technet library. The Core Network Companion Guide has a section specifically about Group Policy Deployment. Check it out! Or just take a look at James McIllece’s blog post...
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APM Agent Throttling settings and other APM Overrides in SC2012 Operations...
So, the APM Wizard is great. We put a lot of effort in simplifying the most common scenario for configuration, as described in earlier posts such as this one...
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SSIS 2012: Creating a Simple ETL Package Tutorial
There is now a SSIS 2012 version of the "Creating a Simple ETL Package Tutorial". The tutorial and lesson packages work with the AdventureWorksDW2012 database. And, the tutorial includes a new Lesson 6...
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