Luke Puplett

• TWC9: Windows 8 Store, Azure Event, SignalR and more

  Feb 01, 2012 at 7:10 AM

  Jenson's "8 traits" session at BUILD has had the Windows 8 app store sales projections, as quoted here (01:53) redacted.

  The figures are wrong. "point zero five" 0.05 "million dollars" is incorrect.

  $1 app gives a margin of about 70c (ignoring MS bonus efficiencies), so a market share of 0.05% gives 200,000 units sold and $140,000.00 profit.

  I think the speech writer didn't realise that 0.05 is actually 5%, since all the math is out by a factor of 10.

• Nokia stores retail experience: Coming Soon!

  Nov 11, 2011 at 2:08 PM

  I'm not privy to the market research to comment on the disco stores, but such loud outlets will undoubtedly draw much needed attention to the platform.

  Back in the 90s people used to say that Microsoft was a master at marketing mediocre software - I couldn't see it then and I definitely don't see it now. I think they let great products just die like they forgot to lift the lid and let some oxygen in. Lucky Xbox seemed to have a different team employed.

  The phone is a great example of this. It's taken Nokia's publicised downfall and subsequent rebirth to bring it to the attention of people on the street.

  I often show people amazing MS products they've never seen, or never would have if they didn't have a friendly programmer to show them, like Photosynth.

  Microsoft finally have shops, at least in Seattle, which is hopefully the start of a new era. Sometimes I get the feeling that there are some old heavyweights deep in the management structure in Redmond that hold the company back.

  P.S. Laura, maybe it was the jet lag but watch the folded arms, girl!

• The complete developer's guide to the SkyDrive API

  Nov 09, 2011 at 8:21 AM

  Get Started on Live SDK for Windows Phone

  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shelly_guos_ms_blog/archive/2011/09/20/get-started-on-live-sdk-for-windows-phone.aspx

• Building your own hand-held game console with, Netduino, C# and the PIX-6T4 project

  Sep 30, 2011 at 6:11 AM

  [applause]

• Microsoft Campus Tours - Building 4 Refurb

  Aug 21, 2011 at 3:59 AM

  Wonderful. And note the slant on the physical technology world going on.

  Would like to see how Redmond compares with regional offices.

• Microsoft Campus Tours - Microsoft Hardware Model Shop

  May 05, 2011 at 5:27 AM

  Can that 3D printer take a PhotoSynth point cloud? Just wondering...

• Silverlight TV 69: UX and Perceived Performance of WP7 Apps

  Apr 26, 2011 at 3:36 AM

  @Kang - I agree, my first thought was that this is a shortcoming of the phone's backstacking design - devs shouldn't really be performing clever acrobatics to avoid this.

  Definately one for MS - the stack should be JIT virtualised. Still, this SLTV episode was really valuable for this point alone.

  As for chat (Wiep) - I guess the show format has to strike the right balance between cold presentation and affable TV show.

• endpoint.tv - WCF Web HTTP (REST) Test Tool Preview

  Mar 19, 2011 at 1:06 PM

  Good work, Leo.

• Netduino Green Squared

  Mar 04, 2011 at 6:34 AM

  Super work. I'm having our barn conversion wired with multicore control cables so I can control everything later on with .NET MF boards. Love this kind of thing.

• The Garage Science Fair

  Mar 01, 2011 at 7:27 AM

  Cool video, love this shizzle.

   

  I heard Tony Stark didn't show up afterall.

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