Please click on the links and check out these offers, they cost you nothing and might help you make money! Azure 90-day Free Trial: Get started or learn how to build cloud apps! http://aka.ms/socalacademic_90day_azure VS Express 2012 RC for Windows 8...

Get signed up at http://www.imaginecup.com NOW.  And it’s THREE, that’s right 3 $50,000 first prizes for Game, Innovation and the World Citizenship.  You don’t get to read the rules till you register, but if you are a real software person, you...

Check out this paper on Rich Interactive Narratives: An Interactive Multimedia Framework for Digital Heritage Narratives paper can be found at: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/144312/art23119s-adabala.pdf This is an excellent paper, only one image...

Don’t know about you, but I have clicked the NoReplyAll and made some serious career mistakes, so this button is now on my outlook bar. When you click on the Ribbon then the receiver will be unable to reply all.  This is NOT DRM, rather a lightweight...

It’s that time of year, back to school, end of summer heat, and surf is surf.  And that means you are likely thinking about how to write a great Windows 8 program.  I know I am.  Any great software application has to be able to front end...

Hey sign up for this free Hackathon, win prizes (as described in the link): Free Online Hackathon! Build that Windows 8 application and make big money! But I like this process, no spending long hours on Saturday in a room away from home.  You can...

Check out Touch Develop at: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/touchdevelop/ This is a totally cool way to program your phone and lead to you building apps for Windows 8.

Check this video out, it’s amazing!  Trying to figure if the library is available for use:

Check out the Orleans project at: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/orleans/ A paper on this advance concept can be found at: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=141999  

Either you are a student or you have relatives that are students or what the heck I declare everyone a student.  I can do that you know, since I am a technology evangelist that is focused on Education! Check out the Kodu Game Lab where your students...

In the current environment of game design you can get away with flash and dash game design, that is rapidly put together your game post it and make your money then move on to another project.  Many technologies go this way from time to time and then...

Yep.  Oh, maybe you haven’t heard about this great tool that has been quietly released by Research , not sure why they are so quiet about it.  If you are student or even engineer or researcher, this tool is freaking awesome. And it is unfortunate...

Well as far as I can tell have little to do with each other.  I liked Office Labs when they had some community outreach and did cool things like Community Clips, one of the best ways to show others how to do things.  Now the Office Lab site...

This is whining blog so you might want to come back later Sorry. Do you want some cheese with that Whine? HTML5/JavaScript security practices are one thing and most developers in HTML5 can safely ignore them.  They shouldn’t but come on, media stuff...

What are the top 5 ways people use search engines and the web for? Purposeful Use When users wish to accomplish a task quickly and efficiently. They may fire up a laptop or turn on their mobile phone in order to do so. Opportunistic Use Using the Web...

Microsoft has a whole group of PhDs that are working on the idea of elegant technologies for you to use to make your life less complex.  This fits into the philosophy of the Windows Phone 7: Use it less and get more out of the phone.  The mission...

If you wonder about how the AI works in the Forza Motorsport game, this link is the one to read a brief article on how it works.  Check out this overview article in case you need to justify your purchase of that new Xbox to someone.  Or if you...

  You got that cheap camera or a phone cam and there you are standing in front of an amazing vista.  Seems that no way are you going to be able to capture it with those kinds of cameras.  Image Composite Editor http://research.microsoft...

I recently went through the Windows 8 App Review for a game I am working on.  What I found out: WACK The application passed the WACK test, an automatic test that tests the inner workings of you project.  What I round is that the fails are not...

Check out this new open source application that let’s you control all kinds of things.  Say you are doing a Power Point presentation and you want the lights to dim.  If the lights are on the internet and you have a connection, then your power...

Link: Kinect Launches a Surgical Revolution I don’t know, is this a revolution or an innovation?  President Obama’s Healthcare plan is definitely revolutionary, whether you agree with it or not.  In fact that is usually a way to tell if something...

Ok, I copyright the idea of Irate Dolphins as a game series as of today: Irate Dolphins @2012.  So now I will describe the game: Top Line: A pod of dolphins decide to fight the land based caused pollution of the plastic garbage, noise, sewage, and...

Microsoft Research, using Infer.net have worked out a process to take the “pulse” of the emotions of the social networks. This is important, especially with the Presidential election coming up.  For example some of the exit surveys for big races...

What is Health Vault? Check out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault/jj128027 Microsoft HealthVault Ecosystem Overview http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault/hh922966 Health Vault SDKs (.NET, Open Source) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault...

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