Thanks to Rob Caron for posting these great links for developers today . Keep coming back for this information if you are interested in developing on Windows devices or if you currently do develop using Microsoft products and software. Jason...

All sorts of guessing and excitement about the new Microsoft investment in Barnes & Noble today . One thing is certain, Microsoft is all about the cloud and putting apps on devices. From the press release: One of the first benefits for customers...

Pun aside, Wappwolf is based at Rocketspace on Fremont Street in San Francisco . It's run by Roland Trimmel, who is from Austria, and his team, also from Austria. They have an automation app for documents put into dropbox that is easy to use and that...

An Israeli startup called Soluto switched to Windows Azure to help it deliver Soluto to more than 3 million PCs worldwide, maintain its market momentum, and uncap its business potential. That's what happens when you win Tech Crunch Disrupt and people...

There's been a shift in how Microsoft interacts with the market. Locating a headquarters in Silicon Valley was a first clue. Now it's beginning to emerge that their relationships with investors and incubators means a lot more than brand presence. Real...

Your friends are really good at telling you what to wear, or whether your hair looks good in the morning. Why wouldn't they be good at giving tips at all the places you need to go to, or for the restaurants you want to eat? HashTip gives you instantaneous...

Startup culture. Highs and lows. Dread and exasperation. Glory and elation. What really sucks about running a startup? What do you love? We asked the startup community at our Microsoft BizSpark Facebook Page to take a read on their startup experience...

Written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Bizspark What is the most amazing thing about building a startup? Entrepreneurs tell us that more than anything else, it's the ability to change the world in some way. That's speaking kind of...

Startupbootcamp Amsterdam, the Dutch branch of the pan-European startup accelerator programme, is teaming up with Microsoft® BizSpark® . The latter will support the Amsterdam programme by allocating products, software services and organisational...

30 to Launch Opens Today If you haven't heard of this before, prepare to engross yourself in a new opportunity. 30 to Launch -- a thirty day boot camp to get your business-as-an-app up and running in the Azure Cloud, with a chance to win $4,000 while...

Written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft BizSpark Lise Quintana is a storyteller and a techie and she introduced me to some concepts this weekend that made me think about building apps in the cloud. I headed down to Santa Cruz this...

Back in February we had a great series of Windows Phone 7 talks we did at Seed Philly that culminated in a demo night where startups showed off some pretty interesting Windows Phone 7 applications. During the weeks that we held the event, we heard from...

After much anticipation, Microsoft Retail Stores opened its 15 th store Thursday at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California. The second Store in the Silicon Valley region was welcomed to the Palo Alto-area by local influencers, executives...

Guest blog by Ruud de Jonge This week sees The Next Web conference taking place in Amsterdam, so it is good timing for our local BizSpark champ, Mark Voermans, to give us an insight into start-ups and entrepreneurship in the country. But first, a bit...

Many of the nearly 50,000 startups hosted on the Azure Cloud may not know how much support and offers Microsoft is giving to those teams. Here is a link that puts it all in one place. BizSpark Partner Offers . Have a great weekend in the cloud....

Now You Know Why TourWrist Is Not Just a Panorama Photo App (Photo Credit: Rosefirerising on Flickr ) Written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist and Editor, Microsoft BizSpark Program TourWrist is an information translator that allows...

Robots are suddenly becoming a very attractive startup idea. Startup Weekend showed us that app development is a topical area that is chock full of ideas, but not well populated with executed business ideas. I will have a post on this later, but startup...

By: Ahmed Siddiqui, Startup Weekend San Francisco Bay Area Coordinator & Founder of Go Go Mongo! It seems like getting a technical co-founder is all the rage here in Silicon Valley. You have an awesome idea, and you have a killer application...

If you are a dreamer and an entrepreneur, and if you think that solving problems and making life better for millions of people is your idea of fun, then you need to apply for this next epic Launch event put on by Silicon Valley Forum. Launch: Silicon...

We went around over the past two days and asked entrepreneurs at DEMO 2012 what they were here to get done. Here are some videos of four of the entrepreneurs we found who are trying to build new companies and services for the people. Rohit Vashisht...

When a man running information technology for a limousine company started testing out Windows System Center 2012 cloud feature, he turned his car service company into a company that could help other businesses . The Wall Street Journal has a great...

Startup Weekend Tampa – April 13-15, 2012 (Quick Note – At Microsoft we do event reports when we participate in big community events so we can share experiences and let our co-workers know what we’re up. This was really a fantastic event so I wanted to...

Context Matters Matt Marshall jumps on stage and talking quickly and with gusto talks about his global jaunt looking for the best companies. He mentions Israel and says "context matters." He talks about Israelis being a little frustrated because...

Post written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft BizSpark It will go down as BikiniGate. A team of developers flashes images of bikini-clad women on screen during their pitch and Q&A with investors at MEGA Startup Weekend , and...

by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Bizspark Building Robots for the Blind, and Other Apps for Culture Whenever you see the name Ahmed Siddiqui, you think good things. He’s part of Startup Weekend, the organizer of the 54-hour...