azure-and-cloud-computing|Feb 3, 2015

Microsoft’s Most Popular Mobile Apps Aren’t Necessarily on Windows Phone

You may have heard that Microsoft has released mobile versions of their Office apps for Android and iOS, but that’s only scratching the surface of what they’ve published.  What’s more some of their apps are more popular on Android and iOS than Windows Phone. Microsoft’s recent move to open up the Office platform to Android…
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editorial|Dec 15, 2014

Fighting For the Cloud: Why Microsoft’s Battle Matters

Microsoft is fighting a US based court order demanding access to email stored on its servers in Ireland and has garnered support from major cloud players including Apple, Amazon, AT&T, and many others.  The results of this fight could change the shape of cloud computing forever. In December of 2013, the US Government hit Microsoft…
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News|Dec 11, 2014

Microsoft Acquires HockeyApp Mobile Platform

Microsoft has acquired HockyApp which provides  crash analytics and app distribution for developers building mobile apps on iOS, Android and Windows Phone.  The acquisition of Stuttgart Germany based HockyApp provides Microsoft with yet another developer tool for its ApplicationInsights service on Visual Studio Online.  HockyApp provides several key services for mobile developers building apps for Android, iOS,…
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net|Dec 9, 2014

.NET Open Source Explained

In a recently posted video on Channel 9, Microsoft’s Immo Landwerth and David Kean explain the reasoning behind making .NET Open Source. In this video, Dan Hernandez talks to Immo Landwerth and David Kean from the .NET Framework team to explain the thinking that went into the decision to open source the .NET Framework as…
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news|Dec 8, 2014

New Report Sites Significant Security Vulnerabilities in Android Devices

Security firm TrendMicro has released a new report that states that 75% of users are vulnerable to multiple attacks. In their latest Quarterly Security Roundup, TrendLabs calls out several key vulnerabilities in recent Android OS including the FakeID issue and Android Browser flaws.  The FakeID vulnerability was originally discovered earlier this year by BlueBox Labs and…
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wintellect-blogs|Dec 5, 2014

Seize the Opportunity of the Internet of Things

There are a lot of newcomers to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) space lately. Many of them love to speak authoritatively and often use vending machines as their favorite example use case to illustrate the value of IoT. When you see me use vending machines in a similar fashion, it’s…
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Blogs|Dec 4, 2014

My Introduction To Data Science With F#

You may have seen a big boom lately with web technologies, especially with all of the JavaScript frameworks coming out at a pace of around one a week. But there is another boom you may have heard about…data science. Now I’ll be the first t...
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Video|Nov 24, 2014

5 Questions with Naomi Moneypenny

At the recent DevIntersection conference we got a chance to sit down with speaker Naomi Moneypenny to discuss machine learning and how it can be used to create better connections.   Naomi Moneypenny is CTO at Synxi (a ManyWorlds brand) where she leads the development team for the adaptive recommendations & learning engine for SharePoint…
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News|Nov 13, 2014

Sneak Peek into DevOps in Visual Studio 2015

There were so many announcements at yesterday’s Connect() virtual conference that several great new features may have gotten lost in the flood of demos. While DevOps and Visual Studio Online played a big part in the demos, there’s a lot more under the covers that are going to make developing with Visual Studio and TFS…
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news|Nov 12, 2014

.NET Framework goes Open Source and Cross Platform

Microsoft is holding a virtual conference today called Connect() and it’s keynote is chock full of new announcements.  Chief among many is that Microsoft is going to make the entire .NET core stack open source with its next release as well as offering server side .NET implementations for Linux and OSX.  They are also furthering…
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Blogs|Nov 10, 2014

Using the F# Interactive

Another item that was on the F# Infographic was the use of the F# Interactive or also called the FSI. The interactive window is basically a REPL for F#. A few languages have these of their own, including Python and Ruby. If you’ve used the Interm...
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infographic|Oct 30, 2014

The Debugging Process

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