It is available here … Windows 8 is simply beautiful!!! With Windows 8 RP you will experience tens of thousands of refinements across the product, such as increased personalization options for the Start screen, improved multi-monitor support, refinements...

Are you interested to volunteer your technical expertise to help address global challenges? If so, sign up for and attend one of the RHoK events near you this coming weekend (June 2-3, 2012). More detail at http://www.rhok.org/events Atlanta GA  ...

In a recent post Persistent Systems introduced CloudNinja for Java -- a multi-tenant reference application designed to help the Java community develop Java applications for Windows Azure. It is available at github . This application is built on several...

Download the SDK here . Below is a summary of new and improved capabilities of Kinect for Windows. Kinect Studio , our new tool which allows developers to record and play back Kinect data, dramatically shortening and simplifying the development lifecycle...

In this white paper, Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology officer (.NET Technologies) at Applied Information Sciences, Inc., addresses many common and not so common concerns over moving applications to the cloud and highlights recent advances in cloud technology...

The Bing Search API is now available on the Windows Azure Marketplace ! With this service, you can embed web, image, news, and video search results, as well as related searches and spelling suggestions, to create unique applications and services. You...

ANNOUNCING MOBILE AMERICA - THE PEOPLE HACKATHON Microsoft Public Sector DPE announces the launch of a nationwide mobile application development campaign today to bring citizens and developers together to build MOBILE AMERICA. Mobile A m e r i c a – the...

A few weeks ago I delivered an afternoon keynote “Embracing Cloud Computing Power in your Next Generation Applications” at Green IT and Cloud Computing Summit. The recording is now available at youtube .

The user experience design team at Microsoft dev tools division has made several improvements to Visual Studio 11 user interface after gathering significant response and feedback from the community. The changes focus primarily on the following three areas...

Watch the video below and Check out the some interesting stats here . Note: In the video Ben uploaded the picture to facebook. If you don’t see facebook, you will see SkyDrive. You can change the settings if you like. Detail here . Download Windows Phone...

Cloud DC is inviting to explore another Platform as-a Service (PaaS) solution with hands-on session. We will also cover the rapidly spreading node.js programming and how Windows Azure supports it. Sign up here . Date/Time: Thursday May 17, 2012, 6:30...

I will speak at two seminars hosted by Angelbeat next week, one in Baltimore on 5/14 and one in DC on 5/17 . I will talk about why cloud computing is important to the next generation apps ranging from SaaS to high performance computing apps and what cloud...

PaperTracer , a Jacksonville, Fla.-based document-management service that assures compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, has moved to the Windows Azure cloud platform to deliver its services to customers...

Developers can use the SkyDrive API to bring personal storage capability to any app, any platform, any device, from Andriod apps, to iPhone apps, to Windows Phone apps and to Windows and Mac apps. For more detail, read the Windows Team Blog post “ SkyDrive...

CloudPro reports that Microsoft has signed a deal with a start-up Twilio to offer its voice and SMS APIs to developers working on Microsoft’s Windows Azure apps. Developers working on apps needing features such as interactive voice response,...

iFactr is a cross-platform mobile framework created by ITR Mobility . With iFactr as a plug in to Visual Studio 2010, developers can create iPhone, Android and Windows Phone apps by writing C# and .NET code. Essentially iFactr compiles the code to a native...

  5/1/2012 6pm – 8pm EDT Reston, VA Microsoft Public Sector Live - Win8 At Night: The Windows 8 platform for Metro style apps 5/1/2012 2pm – 3pm EDT Webcast Public Sector – Top Apps Marathon 5/2/2012 2pm – 3pm EDT Webcast PubSec TechBytes - Win8...

It’s easy! If your app is ready and you want to be among those developers who get to submit to the store early, simply attend one of the 100s of free Application Excellence Labs that DPE and Windows are holding around the world. Follow these steps to...

1. Visual Studio Professional, Premium or Ultimate with MSDN subscriber you get free access to Windows Azure each month, and up to $3,700.00 in annual Windows Azure benefits at no extra charge. Click HERE for more info or HERE to download the Windows...