Welcome to The History of Microsoft.  A video series that gives you a rare glimpse into the story behind the software giant.  Using rare footage and never-before-seen photos we break down Microsoft's history by year. Every Thursday we will air a brand new episode beginning with…

Short, concise and targeted videos, designed to get you up and running with Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) for Windows Phone 7.5.

This is an hour long documentary that takes you behind the scenes of Microsoft's "Visual Studio".  We go back to the very beginning when Alan Cooper sold Visual Basic to Bill Gates in 1988 and take you into the future of the yet to be released Visual Studio…

Async involves some new concepts. They're not difficult; just unfamiliar. Over the past year Lucian Wischik has been watching how people use Async in C# and VB. This series distils out the three essential async patterns and anti-patterns.

In this series Ben Riga from Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism group presents various topics that will be of interest to developers building on the Windows Phone platform.  The aim is to provide short videos on topics that will help you raise the quality of your apps and raise the…

During this Jump Start, two of the industry's most popular SharePoint experts, Bill Baer and Brian Alderman, lead a demo-rich exploration of SQL Server settings, SQL Server system database settings and configuration options that will improve SharePoint 2013 performance, availability and security.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 provide the communication platform for developers to rapidly build solutions that integrate and extend communications into their business processes based on familiar tools and skills. This Unified Communications “14” Training Kit…

This accelerated certification prep Jump Start will help IT Pros with their Windows Server 2008 certification to upgrade their skills to Windows Server 2012 in preparation for exam 70-417 (supports MCSE: Desktop Infrastructure; MCSE: Server Infrastructure; and/or MCSE: Private Cloud).

This Jump Start covers the latest approaches to desktop virtualization, the business cases for each, guidance for choosing appropriate virtual desktop types according to requirements and architectural guidance for building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with appropriate sizing, scalability…

Want to learn a different language? Over the course of 25 episodes, our friend Bob Tabor from www.LearnVisualStudio.net will teach you the fundamentals of Visual Basic programming. Tune in to learn concepts applicable to video games, mobile environments, and client applications. …