The mission of the FailSafe Initiative is to articulate recommendations and approaches for delivering resilient and scalable cloud architectures. FailSafe delivers general guidance on building resilient and scalable cloud architectures, guidance for implementing those architectures on Microsoft…

FallFury is an open source 2D game for Windows 8. You are playing as a bear that falls down from the sky, collecting buttons, avoiding obstacles and fighting monsters. This project demonstrates the capabilities of Windows Store hybrid applications, leveraging both the power of DirectX and XAML. It…

Web mavens Christian Heilmann of Mozilla and Rey Bango of Microsoft (ergo, FoxIE) share their opinions on modern web browsers and standards. This four-part series covers a broad range of topics of interest to web developers and designers. Shot on-location in Miami…

Windows Phone 7.5 brings dozens of new platform features to Windows Phone. If you've previously built an application for Windows Phone, you are likely asking yourself, "how do I take advantage of all these cool new features in my existing Windows Phone application?" Well, this series will…

Video series for using HDInsight for Big Data processing.

Want to learn a different language? Over the course of 21 episodes, our friend Bob Tabor from www.LearnVisualStudio.net will teach you the fundamentals of HTML5 & CSS3 programming. Tune in to learn concepts about web pages, CSS3 styles and HTML5 features. We'll walk you through getting the web…

This video series is designed to educate, guide and otherwise inform our customers, solution partners and ISVs on the happenings we see within information protection space. You'll get a candid view of IP approaches, historical gaps, our investments, and over time, a set of solutions approaches for…

Office has a worldwide user base of 1 billion! Want to build a new class of apps for Office and SharePoint using standard Web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and OAuth? Tune in to learn concepts and see demos about developing apps for Office and SharePoint—apps that can then be…

Introducing Windows 8 is a series of videos to introduce developers, designers, and business decision makers on how to create Windows Store apps. This series showcases some of the new features in Windows 8 as well as how to setup a developer account, monetize your app, and track your apps…

Microsoft Technology Evangelist Symon Perriman and Principal Program Manager Jeff Woolsey deliver a fast-paced class showing how to leverage Hyper-V to perform essential tasks in the Windows Server 2012 platform. Key topics include: Hyper-V Infrastructure; networking; storage; management;…