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Overview of the Power View feature of SharePoint 2010 SP1. Here is a brief description from : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3726.power-view-overview.aspx  Power View, a feature of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC 0) Reporting Services Add-in for…

In this "Hello Azure Part 2" episode of How DO I series, let's package and deploy our Hello Azure application. Key Points: You need Windows Azure SDK for .NET and Visual Studio Tools for Windows Azure (download from here) Run Visual Studio as Administrator to be able to use…

In this "Hello Azure Part 1" episode of How DO I series let's create a simple Windows Azure application (say Hello Azure), debug it and run it locally. In Part 2, let's package it and deploy it to Windows Azure. Key Points: You need Windows Azure SDK for .NET and Visual Studio Tools…

In this "Free Trial Acount" episode of How DO I series let's see how to sign up a free 3-months trial account of Windows Azure. Key Points: Free for 3-months Does require a Credit Card but comes with a  default spending limit of $0 Monthly allocation includes 750 Small Compute…

Boys without Foys is back....so, take from it what you will: Microsoft and the White House New MS store opens to cheers and crowds Holodesk Project bring us closer to Star Trek Microsoft's YouTube Channel hacked

Laura and Paul manage to put their differences aside for the greater good- which is, of course, bringing you all these hot stories: Perfecting the 3D human face Windows 7 in 94% of new PC's in 2011 Microsoft dresses up the ladies The Excel Competition and just for fun.... Kinect Jockey

Long time Niner Lili Cheng shows us her workspace at Fuse Labs. Fuse is an interesting area at Microsoft that sits within the part of Microsoft Research that operates closer to shipping products than looking at the future. Fuse is a few blocks off the main campus and has a rich history, this is the…

Whilst I’m pretty sure that most of you that hang out at Channel 9 are wise enough to install anti-malware protection on your computers, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of PCs out there that remain unprotected – many of them in small businesses. PCs taken out by viruses not only…

Yesterday saw the first birthday of Microsoft Security Essentials, the free anti-malware suite that protects against viruses, spyware and other online nasties. Whenever I build a new PC, or reinstall Windows (which actually happens quite a lot), it’s the first software to go on the machine once the…

Yesterday, Microsoft announced a partnership with blog specialist Automattic that will see 30 million Windows Live Spaces users upgraded and transitioned over to Wordpress.com accounts. The move doubles the size of the Wordpress.com user base which is now one of the largest free blogging platforms…