Will Windows 10 Continuum Lure Developers Back to Windows Phone?
Microsoft is pushing Windows 10 into every corner of the globe with more than 75 million devices running Windows 10 across 192 countries. It’s next big push coming ostensibly as part of their October hardware announcement will be Windows 10 on phones, and with new hardware comes a feature called Continuum. Continuum allows the latest…
Make Seamless Office App Interfaces with Office UI Fabric
Whether you want to build apps that run in the Office ecosystem or just look like they do, Microsoft has released a new framework to help called Office UI Fabric. This framework consists of JavaScript and CSS that allows you to style your applications using the same styles used by Microsoft for Outlook.com, OneDrive, and Delve. …
Microsoft Outlines Windows 10 Privacy Policies
Microsoft has been dealing with a bit of a backlash regarding its new policies under the “Windows as a Service” concept in Windows 10 including some significant concern coming from Torrent trackers regarding Microsoft’s ability to block pirated software from executing, although labeling blocking stolen software a “privacy concern” seems a bit of a stretch.…
20 Years After Windows 95
It seems like much more than 20 years have flown by in the ever-changing world of technology since the debut of Windows 95. That iconic release was ushered in by a $250 million campaign that included a Jay Leno at the launch event and a terrible cyber-sitcom with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry learning about Windows…
Azure DocumentDB Adds JavaScript Language Integrated Queries
Microsoft is continuing to build on it’s cloud based document database designed for web applications and today is announcing support for JavaScript Language Integrated Queries. Azure DocumentDB’s database engine is purposefully designed from the ground up to provide first class support for JSON and JavaScript. Our vision is for JavaScript developers to build applications without having…
Windows Server 2016 Preview with Containers Support Released
Microsoft has released its latest Technical Preview for Windows Server 2016 which includes support for Docker Containers baked in as well as new features and functionality in its Nano Server edition. Today we are excited to release the first preview of Windows Server Containers as part of our Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 release.…
Windows Phone Developers Can Get Xamarin for Free
The folks at Xamarin are showing some love for Windows Phone developers with an offer for a free Xamarin licenses. The offer is targeted at individual independent Windows Phone developers who have currently have an App in the Windows Phone app store. This free community edition includes Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android as well as Visual Studio…
Visual Studio Code Updated
Microsoft has released an update to their multi-platform code editor Visual Studio Code. This release brings improvements in documentation, PHP snippets, and support for Roslyn based quick fixes. Documentation improvements include better organization and additional information about how to extend VS Code. Since VS Code was released there have been a large number of questions…
Windows 10 IoT Core Released
Microsoft has released another Windows 10 version this week with support for the Rasberry Pi2 and MinnowBoard MAX devices. Dubbed IoT Core, it’s designed for embedded devices which may or may not include a screen. This version doesn’t include the usual user shell experience and so you have to write a Universal Windows App as…