I tell this to startups all the time. You need to test your sites and products against IE, even if that isn’t your preferred browser. CNET posted a story today that shows the increasing usage of IE on the desktop. You can check out the story here: Microsoft...

Guest blog by Ilana Bercovitz, CloudShare - Interview with Arpan Shah, PrintEco Arpan Shah is co-founder of PrintEco , a Microsoft BizSpark startup company that helps companies and consumers alike save paper and minimize their environmental footprint...

Blog by Steve Seow: On March 16 in Seattle, I partnered with Luis Aburto, CEO of Scio Consulting (a local Azure consulting group) to host Startup Conversations . Pitching in with organizing the event was Red Russak of Startup City with the exquisite...

Blog by Steve Seow: On March 16 in Seattle, I partnered with Luis Aburto, CEO of Scio Consulting (a local Azure consulting group) to host Startup Conversations . Pitching in with organizing the event was Red Russak of Startup City with the exquisite...

Guest blog by Ruud de Jonge When we lifted the hood on Windows Mobile 7 for developers a while back, there was a lot of excitement from the BizSpark startup community here in Europe. While we’d like to think that was just about the quality of...

Great new content from the expert team I’m involved with around Azure. Check out all the new content here: Windows Azure Learning Path We have aggregated a set of resources for a structured learning of cloud computing through a set of courses designed...

Guest blog by Ruud De Jonge The world of employment is changing. There is a huge trend towards contractor-based relationships, where employers use teams or individuals for specific projects or timescales. In the IT sector alone, our research shows...

By Claire Lee On Thursday, April 5, the Microsoft Silicon Valley team hosted Stanford’s StartX accelerator class in session for tacos and conversation. We’re stoked to see StartX (based in Palo Alto at the AOL campus) become the newest...

By Claire Lee The Windows team is in town this week from rainy Redmond to give you world-class, expert training on how to build Windows 8 apps that rock! If you haven’t heard, Windows 8 is currently in preview and is going to be the next version...

By Claire Lee This weekend – if you are signed up for the Gaming track at Mega Startup Weekend , you have the chance to meet with Adam Smith – Lead Developer, Kinect for Windows SDK. He and the rest of the Kinect for Windows team bring...

By Claire Lee If you are signed up for the Mobile track @Mega this weekend (starting tomorrow) we have a load of awesome expert engineers landing on our campus to talk to you about Windows 8 and Windows Phone. You can still sign up to attend the Windows...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...