Kunal Chowdhury shares a tip he learned while looking for a solution to his Microsoft Surface RT device not switching on. Even though the device was fully charged, he was unable to turn on the device. See his post for more info. If you want to learn more about Microsoft Surface, have…
Windows 8 dev... Have you every wanted to try it? With so many resources online (due in part to a huge push by Microsoft), you have a wealth of information at your fingertips. A good starting place is the following article by Mickey MacDonald. He talks about creating a Windows…
Today I start with a great animation of Star Wars Episode IV which condenses the whole episode to one minute. That is well worth the awesomeness. So take a spin through Star Wars: A New Hope. Incidentally, these are the same folks that brought us the sixty second remake of The Matrix.…
China fired back at the United States saying that it was “the real hacking empire”. This after a report from the Pentagon which said that Beijing was directly responsible for cyber attacks on the U.S. (Enter secret spy thriller music here). For those of you who are interested in learning…
Hello and welcome to more tech goodness. Beth Massi, a Senior Program Manager on Microsoft's Visual Studio team answers a couple questions she received recently. In particular, how do you add data to tables with a one-to-zero-or-one relationship in Visual Studio LightSwitch. Then you might remember that earlier in the week…
Some people are doubters, but WordPress core is probably one of the most secure platforms you can choose to put your site on. Jason Cosper clears up this debate once and for all. Then, Stephen Zaharuk brings us another 'Going from C# to Objective-C' post. Julie Larson-Green makes a rare public…
Today Simon Cooper talks about creating partial-trust appdomains and then Brian Harry discusses Visual Studio 2012.3 and reacts to a comment about VS 2012.3. Installing it should be quite smooth, so just run the installer for Visual Studio and TFS. If you have any questions, ask them on the Visual Studio Forums…
Having recently surpassed the 100 million licenses sold mark for Windows 8, Brandon LeBlanc talks to Tami Reller to provide an update on the progress since the launch of Windows 8. Then, on February 27, the General Availability date for Office 365 was reached, ending the preview period. The good news is…
Today Tareq Ateik announces the availability of Khaleej Apps. This is a one stop site where you'll find Windows Phone and Windows 8 applications in the Gulf as well as top International apps, top games, social and news apps to showcase to your customers, partners, family and friends. Be sure to…
Hey everyone. Welcome to a new week. Microsoft has completed moving user accounts from Hotmail to Outlook.com. During the 6-week transition period, Microsoft moved hundreds of millions of accounts and over 150 petabytes of email data. (That's a huge amount of data!) Paul Thurrott tells us more. James Michael Hare…