Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live is a companion service for Silverlight that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale rich media as part of their Silverlight applications. The service offers web designers and developers...

Designing web pages for multiple browsers is a major pain point for most web developers. In addition to the time it takes to preview pages in multiple browsers, there are a host of other issues: Most browsers can’t have multiple versions installed side...

With the announcement of Microsoft WebsiteSpark , Microsoft also launched a number of Web Application Toolkits to the Web. Web Application Toolkits are designed to enable Web Developers to simply extend their web application capabilities by providing...

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the availability of a new program for Web Professionals called Microsoft WebsiteSpark . As the latest initiative in the ‘Spark’ family of programs, including BizSpark and DreamSpark , Microsoft is building upon a legacy...

The PHP on Windows Training Kit is a comprehensive set of technical content including demos and hands-on labs to help you understand how to build PHP applications using Windows, IIS 7 and SQL Server 2008. The current release includes the following: PHP...

At Tech Ed India 2009, Microsoft announced the PHP development kit for Azure cloud. The PHP SDK for Windows Azure, known as PHPAzure, is an open source project , is available for download from Microsoft CodePlex. The SDK “provides consistent programming...

Ramp Up ( www.MyRampUp.com ) is a free online learning program for developers. Microsoft recently launched three ASP.NET tracks: Web Development with ASP.NET Move from ASP to ASP.NET Move from PHP to ASP.NET These tracks, along with the other currently...

A couple of days back at MIX 09 Microsoft announced the availability of Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta and Windows Web Application Gallery. The Web Platform Installer (WebPI) is a simplified download/install experience for all of Microsoft’s free web...

As a developer, sometimes one has to make tough choices. One has to balance design and functionality, client requirement and usability, time constraints and budget. With PHP on Windows, one can get the best of all the worlds: interoperability that allows...

Quite a few of us who have installed Windows Server 2008 have found that as soon as you install the hyper-v role hibernate and sleep are disabled. This is because the once hyper-v service is enabled it disables the support for hibernate and sleep. While...

For the first time Microsoft shared the development progress on Windows 7 publicly at the Professional Development Conference 2008. Every PDC attendee would receive a pre-beta copy of Windows 7 (Milestone 3 build 6801). Microsoft used build 6933 at the...

The all India MSP boot camp 2008 for was organized in Goa - also called as the “Pearl of the Orient” and the “Rome of the East”. It was a two and a half day event attended by 107 MSPs from across the country. For most of the MSPs this was their first...

Since my childhood days I have looked up in the sky searching the skies for the planets, comets and constellations. Without any aid the best that I could do was to identify Ursa Major (aka Saptarshi in India) and Orion. But now these are things of the...

    In a unique first in India, Microsoft in association with the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) , at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is organizing “Innovation Accelerator Program”...

Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta  is a Web-based extension of Microsoft Office that lets people access their documents online and share their work with others. Office Live Workspace was among the first entries in the new wave of online services...

  RoboChamps is a new robotics programming league based on simulation, which removes the barriers to entry of robot availability, cost, and deep hardware knowledge. RoboChamps is more specifically built on top of the simulation functionality provided...

FolderShare is a probably the most unheard of all Microsoft Live offerings. However, in my opinion FolderShare is one the most useful service. FolderShare allows users to create a private peer-to-peer network that helps them to synchronize files across...

Most of you must know of the Xbox 360 and am sure that most of you must also know that you can develop your own games for Windows and Xbox 360 using the Microsoft Game Studio (If not please check out the XNA Developer Center on MSDN and XNA Creators Club...

Today Bill Gates announced the availability of DreamSpark in his speech to Stanford University. DreamSpark will allows students around the world download professional development and design tools for free. The following cutting-edge software will be available...