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Paul and Laura take a look back at the big news for Microsoft this year- and in no particular order they are...Windows 7!!!VM ware vs. MicrosoftThe Cloud! The Cloud!Windows Mobile grabs headlinesMicrosoft gets a retail store! Inspires dancers...Bing the decision engineLaptop Hunter ads pack a…

Laura & Paul did their homework this week and brought you a jam packed episode of Ping. Here are the top stories:Windows Live EssentialsDeploying Azure AppsColbert Bings!E3 is here...yay!...and just for  FUN

Here is an introduction to a new Tower Defense game called Pirates Love Daisies. If you like TD games, I think it could keep you very busy over the holiday break. It was written by Grant Skinner at GSkinner.com. Grant is a Flash developer and this was his for project for HTML5. That's right, the…

Just what is Windows Azure?  Join me in this brief video for an introduction to Windows Azure.  We'll explore its components, the key features, and discuss why you should care. Suggested Additional Content Windows Azure Storage Overview  Related Videos How Do I: Get…

At the PDC last year, you may have seen that NASA and Microsoft made a number of announcements.  New data APIs in Codename Dallas, a Silverlight+ASP.NET MVC 2 site on Azure...but did you realize they also launched a programming competition? NASA has hundreds of thousands of images from…

Back in action, Laura and Paul bring you the hottest stories that are being heard around Microsoft Campus this week. Stories include: Cloud in your car Kinect window amazes Stitch together your videos Microsoft stores...yay or nay? WP7 Challenge  

David Gristwood engages David Chappell in conversation about Windows Azure and cloud computing, and explore which applications are great candidates for Windows Azure, and, interestingly which ones don’t, as well as discussing the differences between Infrastructure vs Platform as a Service, and…

Infosys Technologies Limited has created a data integration hub which is built on top of Azure platform.  Principal Architect of Infosys, Jitendra Pal Thethi, demonstrates how the hosting platform of Windows Azure can provide a solution for closer collaboration with your company’s…

WEI Share ("We Share") is a Coding4Fun code sample that takes your Windows Experience Index score and shares it with the world (anonymously) to an Azure website with a Silverlight front end and lets you post your WEI score to Facebook for bragging rights. Why would you…

After 3 days of non stop coding the hackathon participants are ready to show off their hard work. This video showcases the top finalists and announces the winner- what an amazing group of developers creating magic in 72 hours. Enjoy!