We are very excited to announce that on Thursday, January 13th, Microsoft will be streaming their worldwide Enter the WebMatrix event live from CodeMash! Starting at 12:30PM EST (5:30pm GMT), you can tune in live to watch how Web development is evolving...

Some time ago I was a very active player in a popular MMORPG, and raided from time to time with the others in the game. When we raided and we were more or less successful we always wanted to record a video to share our progress. But at that time I...

At the moment I’m involved in two student projects that we manage through Windows Live Services. In this article I want to explain why we chose Windows Live as a working platform. We were looking for a solution to share documents and manage a project...

Hi all, This week I decided to make a blog post about the most impressive release of these last weeks: Xbox Kinect. I’ve been really dubitative about this project since its beginning but I finally bought it and did some test with it. This post...

Already a short time after it came out, the kinect game device shows that it could be much more than just a gaming tool. Several computer scientists and smart programmers found their ways to use the device for their own projects, out oft the intended...

Hi all, Microsoft has partnered with PreEmptive Solutions to provide for free Runtime Intelligence for Windows Phone 7. For those of you that have been publishing apps on the Marketplace, you might have noticed that the actual integrated reporting...

Back home from Berlin - 5 days filled with new technologies, new contacts to really cool people, lots of great ideas,.. Actually I planned to blog daily about things I've learned at TechEd. Really soon I've realized that this wasn't possible - nine...

Hello! This time I've got really exciting news; in fact its a bundle of great news: Windows Phone Marketplace is open for Windows Phone 7 applications http://create.msdn.com/ ...in order to submit an App/Game you first need to program it - here...

Hi @ all This is going to be my first blogpost here and my first blogpost at all ! So please don't expect too much ;) Last week I was presenting a little workshop for YMITS and how to develop applications for round two, as part of our...

Hi folks! Would be nice to see you at the Swiss PDC10@Trivadis event on 28th of october in Zurich! What is the PDC? Since 1991, the PDC has been the epicenter of Microsoft’s biggest platform announcements. This year will be no exception. Leading...

Hi everyone, I now use the new version of Windows Live Messenger for a longer time and like share my impression with you, especially when you haven't changed to the new version yet. The best and really nice feature is the integration of social networks...

Hi everyone, On Monday we had a great event at the ETH in Zurich to kick off the YMITS ’11 campaign! In the beginning we had a very special guest from Britain, Jamie Shotton, who works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He presented the astonishing...

Hello WP7 techies Some of you asked us if its already possible to submit WP7 apps to the Marketplace. Short answer: Not yet. Longer answer: You can try to request early access to the Marketplace submission process. Find more information on the official...

Hi all, The new edition of the "You Make IT Smart" is now live! We are now accepting submissions until March 31th. This year you can win 200 Microsoft lifeCam cinema webcams and 75 Windows Phone 7 smartphones. To have more information please check...

Hi everyone, You feel you`re still a beginner in the phone development …you would really like to start getting your hands dirty with code as soon as you can and you found some tutorials but they seem just too long… here are the video...

hi all, If you are going to participate to our upcoming « You Make IT Smart » campaign or you are simply interrested in Windows Phone 7 developpement. Here is the link of the blog of Jeffrey Blankenburg, he will publish one article about...

WordPress is one of the most popular open-source blogging, publishing, and content management systems. With a deep plug-in and theme architecture that allows for vast possibilities, WordPress also runs great on the Microsoft Web Platform. Microsoft is...

The Student Partners are working hard here at Microsoft preparing the third "You Make IT Smart" campaign. This year's competition is around building applications for the new Windows Phone 7 and will start October 11, 2010 - and there are great prizes...

I guess most of you have followed yesterday live show of the IE9 beta release (you can still see it over here ). But if you prefer reading, here are the high points of IE9 beta: HTML5!!! And wow it renders really well and really fast! Minimalist...

Hi all, This week, I’ve decided to continue to blog on XNA for Windows Phone 7 as it will be surely useful for some of you in “You make IT smart” ’11. If you already made a game for the Windows phone emulator, you have probably...

I had a closer look at the new cool paper from Microsoft Research about Image deblurring and compared MSRs approach with two other state-of-the-art image deblurring methods. What can go wrong while taking a picture? “In fact there are many...

Hi, I'll be continuing to share my experience with the Windows Live essential Wave 4 that can be download here . Today's post is about Movie Make since it has just received the Pcmag.com Editors' Choice Award . For those of you that don't yet know Movie...

Hi all, it has been now a little more than one week that Windows Live essentials beta came out here , and I wanted to share with you my first impressions and tell you all the new stuff I have discovered! My first post is going to be on photo gallery...

Hi all, As you have probably seen XNA 4.0 beta has been published this Monday along with the windows Phone Development Tools Beta. Even if this version doesn’t support Xbox 360 title for the moment, it’s interesting to take a closer look...

Turn your desktop into an interactive Windows Phone 7 Wallpaper. This looks absolutely fantastic and can be even useful in your everyday work. Check out this lifehacker.com blog entry for a step-by-step how-to. Enjoy, Tobias Studer, Lead Student Partner...