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Kevin Remde welcomes back  Sr. Technical Product Manager Martin Booth for Part 2 of their System Center 2012 SP1 for Windows 8 series and in today’s episode they discuss device support improvements made in Configuration Manager as well as improvements to support user mobility. [1:58] What has…

Recently we announced a new preview feature Windows Azure Service Bus Notification Hubs.  In this episode Nick Harris and Nate Totten are joined by Elio Damaggio Program Manager II on Windows Azure Service Bus who provides a great overview, and demo of, Notification Hubs and…

At the Build 2011 conference I teased a prototype at the very end of my talk. That prototype was called Iguazu and was an attempt at creating a push notification abstraction for Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android that tackles the architecturally hardest challenges for developers…

This session talks about how to port iOS apps to Windows Store apps with mapping relations between iOS and Windows Store apps. We'll cover programming architectures, design principles, UI controls, application lifecycles, and data storage. After this course, you'll know the difference between these…

The Windows Azure Mobile Services team are excited to announce full support for iOS developers with a number of improvements to the native, iOS Objective C SDK and perhaps most significantly, support for Push Notifications via APNS. To try mobile services for free, sign up for the Free Trial and…

David Tesar met with John Vintzel, Senior Program Manager for System Center Configuration Manager, to discuss new enhancements in SP1 to support user-centric deployment of new applications like iOS, Android, App-V 5, and Windows 8 Apps.  We also discuss new features to support Windows 8…

The Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way of accessing Windows Azure storage from iOS-based applications.  The toolkit works two different ways: accessing Windows Azure storage directly or through proxy services running in Windows Azure.  You get can get…

Jeff Raikes left Apple in 1981 and became the visionary behind Microsoft Office. This is Part One of the Jeff Raikes story for The History of Microsoft series.  Jeff's entire story is told with great visuals; we dug through thousands of old tapes and photographs to…

Reader JenST responds to my recent analysis of "smartphone carnage", saying: "See BT purchased Ribbit.  This could be the first move of the carriers to take control from Google, Microsoft, Apple." JP Rangaswami, the guy at BT responsible for this acquisition, is one of my…

I can still remember meeting with people from RIMM 10 years ago, as they were a relative upstart compared to Palm, and were feeling out Microsoft’s intentions in the smart phone space.  Since then, a lot has happened.  Lots of new players and threats have emerged, and many have fizzled…