If you are as excited about Windows Phone as I am, you might find yourself itching to develop your own application and <dream>make bazillions of dollars and retire to your private Caribbean island and sip Mojitos all day long</dream>. Well...

During this morning's Windows Phone 7 launch keynote, Steve Balmer unveiled nine Windows Phone devices from Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung. In this video, Steve Guggenheimer discusses some of the unique features of each of the phones. If you would like to...

Always delightful … wonderfully mine was the tagline for the Windows Phone 7 launch event in New York today and if you were not able to watch the keynote live stream, you can watch a recorded version on the Windows Phone Newsroom . Steve Balmer opened...

The processing and certification of the initial batch of applications into the Windows Phone Marketplace has been underway for the last few days. Certain best practices and common issues have been uncovered that is worth sharing with other developers...

To succeed with Windows Phone, it is not only essential to deliver a great consumer experience, but in my opinion, it is also essential to deliver a great developer experience as the SmartPhone race heats up. On Thursday, Microsoft released final Windows...

Over the past few months, I’ve had the privilege of working with some very smart and energetic people at the Tribune on an initiative to consolidate their content into a single repository running in the cloud. What made this project particularly intriguing...

One marketing channel that has become increasingly popular over the past couple of years is the mobile channel. I engage with marketing and technology strategists a lot in my role at Microsoft, and I have found that a number of these people consider mobile...

Attendees of the South by Southwest (SXSW), the country's biggest music, film, and interactive festival, will have the opportunity to win $5,000 just by sharing information with one another using Microsoft Tag. During the interactive portion of SXSW,...

Chuck Thacker, a pioneer in computer science and a technical fellow with Microsoft Research, has been named winner of the 2009 A. M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in computing. Chuck is a technical fellow in Microsoft Research and the pioneer...

The Microsoft Professional Developer Conference ( PDC09 ) kicked off in Los Angeles yesterday. This is a significant event for the Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy since this it marks the official release of the Azure platform and consequently much...

A major announcement was made today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. After a long wait, we finally have the pricing for Azure which I am happy to report is very competitive with other cloud service provider offerings. Windows...

It's been a while since I've blogged partly because I got some new responsibilities that took up much of my time over the past year and partly because I'm not inclined to post short meaningless entries - I use Twitter for that (follow me on http://twitter...

QUICKLY ITERATE THE FINAL USER INTERFACE, GRAPHICS AND FUNCTIONALITY OF YOUR SILVERLIGHT APPLICATION WITH EXPRESSION BLEND Designers and developers can work seamlessly together, sharing Silverlight projects, code, and designs for better productivity and...

UTILIZE THE HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE CONTROLS TO QUICKLY DESIGN A CUSTOM LOOK AND FEEL FOR YOUR APPLICATION WITHOUT BEING FORCED INTO CODE The online consumer expects a much more dynamic and fluid experience when they use the web today. Silverlight enables...

DELIVER COMPELLING USER INTERFACES WITHOUT RESORTING TO BITMAP GRAPHICS BY UTILIZING REAL VECTOR GRAPHICS, GRADIENTS AND ANIMATION Customers have come to expect compelling, functional and easy to use interfaces wherever they interact with a company, whether...

USE THE TOOLS AND LANGUAGES YOU ALREADY KNOW AND LOVE. CODE IN VISUAL STUDIO USING JSCRIPT, IRONRUBY, IRONPYTHON, VB.NET, C#. The Microsoft Visual Studio development system is a suite of development tools designed to aid software developers—whether they...

SILVERLIGHT HAS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE RUNTIME ON THE WEB TODAY. EXPLOIT ALL THE RICHNESS OF THE .NET BASE CLASS LIBRARIES INCLUDING XML, LOCAL STORAGE, INPUT/OUTPUT, GLOBALIZATION AND GENERICS. The Common Language Runtime (CLR) provides the underlying...

HARNESS ADVANCED SUPPORT FOR 2D GRAPHICS, ANIMATION, LAYOUT, HIGH-DEFINITION VIDEO, DATABINDING, NETWORKING AND CONTROLS TO CREATE RICHER EXPERIENCES THAN PREVIOUSLY POSSIBLE. Building a modern Rich Internet Application requires a set of technologies...

CALL ON MILLIONS OF EXISTING DEVELOPERS AND THOUSANDS OF BUSINESSES ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH .NET DEVELOPMENT TO HELP CREATE AND DEPLOY SILVERLIGHT APPLICATIONS. Silverlight has gained strong industry support from content creators, distributors, software...

CREATE APPLICATIONS THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE, DISCOVERABLE BY SEARCH ENGINES, AND SECURE. Microsoft Windows is the most accessible operating system platform and with the standard controls, Silverlight aims to continue this accessibility seamlessly from desktop...

INCREASE REPEAT VISITS AND BRAND LOYALTY WHILE DRAMATICALLY REDUCING CUSTOMER SUPPORT COSTS THROUGH COMPELLING, INTUITIVE, HIGH PERFORMANCE WEB EXPERIENCES. For many businesses the Web has become a key means of communicating with existing customers and...

UNLEASH THE CREATIVITY OF YOUR DESIGNERS AS THEY COLLABORATE WITH DEVELOPERS USING THE INTEGRATION BETWEEN EXPRESSION STUDIO’S CREATIVE TOOLS AND THE VISUAL STUDIO FAMILY OF DEVELOPMENT TOOLS. Talk to anyone building interactive applications, and they...

PROTECT YOUR PREMIUM CONTENT WITH A CHOICE OF CONTENT PROTECTION TECHNIQUES: WEB PLAYLISTS, SILVERLIGHT DRM, WINDOWS MEDIA DRM, AND THIRD PARTY DRM PROVIDERS. With the explosive growth in streaming online video and rich internet experiences it’s critical...