Out Of The Box
The blog of Jon Box, an Architect Evangelist in Developer & Platform Evangelism, based in Tennessee
The Windows 8 ecosystem provides several ways to discover app’s. First, every Windows 8 machine has...
Date: 11/30/2012
Yesterday, Tami Reller brought some enlightenment about Windows 8 at a technology conference in...
Date: 11/28/2012
At some point, your submitted Windows Store application may be crashing. And the store Quality...
Date: 11/15/2012
While we wait for the Surface Pro to arrive, I just had to have a Surface RT device. And I really...
Date: 11/15/2012
Introducing Windows 8: Snack-sized introductory videos – 30 videos and 2 hours of content Build your...
Date: 10/28/2012
So, my blog has been fairly quiet as we’ve been doing the early evangelism of Windows 8, but now I...
Date: 10/27/2012
Coming this week, July 19-20 (THUR/FRI). Register here for Day 1 Developer Camp, and here for the...
Date: 07/17/2012
Wow! There’s a lot going on Microsoft, and it’s tough for me to keep up. Thought that I...
Date: 06/10/2012
See my DPE colleague Doug Holland’s post, Upgrading the BUILD PC to Windows 8 Release Preview.
Date: 06/05/2012
Yes, there’s a new O/S coming from Microsoft. It’s more different than any Windows before. Windows...
Date: 05/26/2012
Ascendum invites you to hear the latest from Microsoft about next generation server operating...
Date: 11/03/2011
Memphis SharePoint Users Group Meeting on Thursday, October 27th from 3:30 – 6:30pm at the Crescent...
Date: 10/06/2011
Check out site pinning on my blog. You’ll obviously need Windows 7 and IE9. To get started, follow...
Date: 10/04/2011
You hear more and more about slow loading pages, and one of the big factors for this is downloading...
Date: 08/18/2011
Here’s the video and source code to a project that connects Kinect and WP7 Mango device, via NodeJS....
Date: 08/05/2011
Check out the Visual Studio Web Standards Update which brings a ton of HTML5 & CSS3...
Date: 06/16/2011
Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) worked closely with the Internet Explorer product...
Date: 06/15/2011
Well, it’s an exciting time to work at Microsoft, with so many cool things unfolding before us. As...
Date: 06/07/2011
Wow! Another cool web experience, that runs better with IE9. Check this out: Disney TRON: Legacy...
Date: 06/03/2011
Jared Bienz is giving a FREE online event. You can register here:...
Date: 05/31/2011
This was my second session at TechEd. (I described my first here.) This session is obviously focused...
Date: 05/27/2011
This is a short recap of my presentation at TechEd, on . Video is here. This talk was practical...
Date: 05/26/2011
I’ve had a few customers ask me about an IE9 situation where Flash app’s are appearing in the top...
Date: 05/24/2011
More good news for Windows Phone 7 today. You can download later today. Other news coming out during...
Date: 05/24/2011
Working on a WP7 application and want some help? Check out Dave Bost and his teammates, who...
Date: 05/02/2011
We believe that HTML5 and related technologies, in conjunction with faster and faster...
Date: 04/21/2011
Anyone noticed the HTML5 articles appearing at the HTML5 Development Center at HTML...
Date: 04/20/2011
As announced at MIX last week, we’ve started shipping previews of IE10 (download) – just like we did...
Date: 04/20/2011
I’ve seen a little buzz on Office 365, but hadn’t really looked into it yet. Then, someone on...
Date: 04/20/2011
Recording, April 12, 2011, 3:30PM PST, Session: MED02, Speakers: Alex Zambelli What Changed?...
Date: 04/19/2011
Organized by Microsoft’s Doris Chen, Microsoft is hosting a joint HTML5 event with Silicon...
Date: 04/18/2011
Yes, we were just outside the IE9 Launch Press Conference. But, I was with customers. I could see...
Date: 04/09/2011
In IE9, the presence of the compatibility button means that a site is defaulting to IE9...
Date: 03/27/2011
IE9 PressPass, including Launch recording IE9 Launch Transcript March 14, 2011. Remarks by...
Date: 03/17/2011
Lots of good stuff going on with Site Pinning. And our DPE team has been working to promote this set...
Date: 03/16/2011
Saw this in a internal email and had to share. Some of this information may surprise you! 1....
Date: 03/15/2011
I like IE9 site pinning! I really think that if a site takes advantage of this, IE9 users will be...
Date: 03/05/2011
In my last post on site pinning where I wanted to make sure folks were aware of a “gotcha”, I closed...
Date: 02/19/2011
IE9 is running hot these days, with a hot start with the beta and now the recently released RC....
Date: 02/17/2011
With every Internet Explorer release, we’ll get asked about what does IE do this time to break your...
Date: 02/17/2011