Today we are delighted to see the much anticipated arrival of Surface Pro into the UK market. This device extends the Surface range from Surface RT, and represents Microsoft’s entry into the full primary device market.  The UK market interest in...

If you missed our UK TechDays Online event a couple of weeks ago then don’t be sad, the content is now online, on demand. You’ll need to register to view the content, but if you already registered for the event the registration engine should recognise...

EcoPi – Monitoring boiler energy consumption using Windows Phone and Raspberry Pi Final year university student Lewis Greyson at the Lincoln School of Computer Science (LSoCS) recently showcased his dissertation project along with his fellow students...

  “The basic version of Windows Store will be free, so Win8 desktop/tablet/WP8 are all covered.  Also all users of Unity Pro will get the basic Windows Store product for free.” Andy Brammall, EMEA Biz Dev for Unity Announced by Unity is their...

Join Microsoft for this one day event to lean how Windows Azure can be used in curricula, support research endeavours, and enable student projects. Institution administrators can explore how to use Windows Azure for infrastructural and application needs...

From now until  June 30th, 2013, we are running a competition aimed at developers who have built PhoneGap apps and published in other stores – for example, Apple iTunes, Google Play, Blackberry World, Bada, Symbian, or Palm OS – to take any of their...

  As part of our on-going commitment to add value to the education community we serve, we are thrilled to be working with JaNET to provide additional support and services to their user base. JaNET provides and develops a network infrastructure to...

The right content for your role There are hundreds of thousands of topics in the Dev Center, http://dev.windows.com and http://dev.windowsphone.com . We know in any organisation discoverability and sharing of content is critical to success. So why not...

This week I had a very interesting meeting with Kim Blake from UKIE . Kim is a Next Gen Skills Talent Development Coordinator, and part of her role is to simply understand and explain the skills educators and game developers need to ensure that the maximise...

Cinder is a cross platform framework for C++ design engineering. In order to run and Apple, Android and Windows devices prior to Windows 8, the rendering libraries leveraged OpenGL as the open source, cross platform solution. Even though DirectX has...

So What is NEW at Design.windows.com ? A new UX Checkilist Checklist is a welcome addition to design.windows.com. It can empower designers when self-evaluating their app so they can better understand what is required and prioritize when they...

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Do you have a device running the latest Windows Phone 8 operating system? Are you a fan of the TouchDevelop app that enables you to create apps directly ON your mobile device? Do you love to try out the latest apps, and give feedback about what...

Rapid2D v1.3 introduces Rapid2D Pro which allows you to deploy to Windows Phone ! Now you can release your game onto desktop, tablets and mobiles with a single click! Y ou now have greater control over your game’s objects ; adjust the finer...

Businesses can empower employees, create new business opportunities and boost developer productivity by developing apps for Windows 8. See how leading companies including IHS, British Telecom and John Lewis are taking advantage of the latest Windows technology...

Our friends at our partner RippleRock are running a free one day hands-on training course on running scrum with Team Foundation Server 2012. The course will be held 24th May 2013 at the Microsoft Campus in Reading. Sign up can be found here: https://msevents...

Cloud, mobile and distributed software services have made “simulating production” impossible while production and release cycles are becoming more frequent. At the same time, communication and collaboration between development and operations has become...

Application exceptions offer a clear and undistorted view into an application’s quality, user experience and operational service level. In fact, unhandled, caught and thrown exceptions represent one of development’s only direct sources of user-driven...

I am pleased to confirm that Doctor Who, Matt Smith, will be hosting the Imagine Cup awards ceremony !  The Doctor's mastery of technology is only matched by his creativity, his compassion, and his sense of wonder at all the amazing things people...

Scirra have teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new Windows 8-based competition with some fantastic prizes ! Create a new game with Construct 2, or port an existing one, and successfully publish it to the Windows 8 Store by June 21st to be entered in...

On the 8th of May there was a very interesting Guardian article based on research that the Windows Phone team commissioned in the UK. The key finding of the research · Over a quarter of UK parents affected by their kids’ unauthorised app purchases · Eight...

$211 million is the amount of money that Iron Man 3 took in its opening weekend according to boxofficemojo.com . When Halo 4 came out for the Xbox last year it took $220 million in sales in the first 24 hours. Look at that number again. It’s massive...

Microsoft Research Connections announced the release of the book, TouchDevelop—Programming on the Go , available in print form, as an e-book, and on the web. TouchDevelop has reached new heights as the only programming environment on mobile touch devices...

  We’re excited to announce that Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President, Windows Server and System Center Program Management and Jon DeVaan, Corporate Vice President, Windows Development will deliver our TechEd 2013 keynotes. Meet the Experts TechEd...

Shhhhhh.... we've heard that lots of .NET enterprise devs are dabbling in app development in their spare time. We caught up with Julius Agweny to find out about the Windows apps he's been building... What's your background? What did you do before building...