Ever wanted to build your own website?  Maybe you’ve already built a site as part of a school/uni project...  Now you can create a website in no time using Microsoft WebMatrix.  It’s a free tool to make things very simple for you! WebMatrix...

Seven New Features in Windows Phone 7 Mango The first Mango device is out today, we take a look at some of the new features. by Justin Rubio, November 2, 2011 Today marks the official release of the HTC Radar 4G, the first new Windows Phone 7.5-powered...

I’d like to share with you a blog that one of my colleague’s has had running now for the last couple of years, the Microsoft Now Blog, and unofficial blog about Microsoft, and more specifically, Microsoft Qatar. Shijaz Abdulla, the founder and author...

Excited to announce SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC) . SQL Server 2012 RC is the first release which is feature complete and delivers additional enhancements and capabilities built on the already robust CTP3: Greater availability. AlwaysOn...

If you haven’t registered yet for the Windows Phone competition to Seychelles, please do it now!  We are holding our kick-off event for you….to talk about the contest, propose probable apps, and talk about how to develop apps on a Windows Phone. ...

Windows Phone MVPs Rob Miles and Andy Wigley train developers to build amazing applications and games for Windows Phone 7. Andy and Rob provide a good bit of humor along with their incredible depth of knowledge. There are 19 self-paced sessions in...

This training course is geared for beginners who want to get started with developing applications for the latest Windows Phone operating system. Even if you don’t know Silverlight or XNA Framework, you’ll find this Training Course useful....

VMware is claiming they’re doing current vSphere 4 Advanced customers a *favor* by upgrading them for “free” to the Enterprise license when they upgrade to vSphere 5, since Advanced is no longer offered. Now, despite this claim of “free upgrade”, what...

There is a healthy competition ecosystem in the technology sector.  Consumers have many choices when it comes to laptops, phones, music players and other gadgets. I read this blog post about “Why Windows” and loved the walkthrough from the early...

Mango offers a lot of new capabilities for developers to create even better, more immersive user experiences on Windows Phone. This course will give you hands-on experience with important developer features in Mango. After completing this course, you...

Windows Azure SDK 1.6 was released a couple of days ago - it's the November release. It includes updates to the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure Libraries for .NET, in addition to other fixes and performance improvements. ...

Ten Startups.  Three Months.  Unlimited Innovation. If you are a developer or existing team/startup focused on building a business that takes advantage of the Kinect and Natural User Interface technologies, then the Kinect Accelerator is where...

As Windows Phone 7 Marketplace surpassess 40,000 apps, we know that more and more developers are choosing to develop awesome apps for Windows Phone 7! If you haven't done so already, make sure that you download the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 online here! This...

Microsoft has released new tools to accelerate development of custom components in Dynamics CRM 2011 solutions. At the same time, we have published an update to Dynamics CRM Online that includes better integration with Office 365 and the introduction...

Want to build a Windows Phone 7 app?  Not sure how to start?  Check out this great project that was built to allow you to easily update the content and the appearance to match your university, technology club, student association ,etc… ...

Join us on Tuesday for this month's Agile Testing Webinar hosted by Microsoft and Testhouse, THE software testing experts! This month's webinar features "Functional Testing with MS Web Performance Tests." You'll even have the opportunity to participate...

A year-long independent test of cloud service providers was recently wrapped up by Compuware. Among the providers tested were the three big dogs: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. And although the Azure cloud platform is still fairly young, it fared quite...

I stumbled upon this article and was really amazed at what people are doing using Kinect.  This project, developed by Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute, looks like something from a science fiction movie.   Check out the full...

F# 3.0 debuted at the Microsoft BUILD Conference in September after a developer preview was made available as part of the preview-release of Visual Studio 11! F# is a productivity accelerator—it is used by a growing community to solve analytical...

Do you want to build your own Private Cloud infrastructure from scratch? Want to shape the nature of business and IT conversations? Microsoft is launching a Private Cloud Community Evaluation Program (Private Cloud CEP). This program will provide IT professionals...

“In this ToolBox module you discover principles of good UX design. You also discover how to start and build your prototype using the SketchFlow Template for Windows Phone. Along the way, you find out how to add sample data, and customize the look and...

Microsoft ads showcase social impact of Kinect by Matt Chapman, 02 November 2011, 9:00am Microsoft is launching a global campaign highlighting the wider social impact of its technology, as it celebrates the first anniversary of Kinect for Xbox.  ...

What is Windows Azure SDK for PHP? As part of Microsoft’s commitment to Interoperability, this open source project is an effort bridge PHP developers to Windows Azure. The Windows Azure SDK for PHP is an open source project to provide a software development...