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At [06:25] Symon Perriman and Rick Claus talk through an end-to-end deploy of a Hyper-V cluster using entirely free tools (without any evaluation bits—you get to keep everything!). First Symon introduces the free tools, which include Hyper-V Server 2012 (http://microsoft.com/hvs), Microsoft…

In a race to optimize everything, developers often go to extremes to build software that performs routine tasks. MissionControl is a system that allows users to program a control center that stores interfaces with attached hardware sensors, allowing the users to control any other devices that can be…

Following up on our announcement of the Build conference, we're excited to announce that Build registration is now open, register now! For those of you who cannot make the conference, we will be streaming the keynote, select sessions, and live Q&A sessions on Channel 9.   Update: Build 2013…

Build 2013, is taking place June 26-28, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.   Save the date and mark your calendar for the opening of registration at 9:00 AM PDT on Tuesday April 2, 2013 at http://buildwindows.com. At Build, we'll share updates and talk about what's next for…

Windows Store Weekly highlights 5 of the coolest apps in the Windows Store each week. In just 5 minutes you'll get to know what's new, what's hot and what you should be checking out in every app category out there. Please add your suggestions for awesome Windows 8 apps in the comments section. This…

In this video I show you just how easy it is to work on the HP 8770w workstation PC. I'll demonstrate how you can swap out two RAM DIMMs and two hard drives in about 3 minutes with this machine.

The Build hackathon is underway and loads of developers are hard at work creating apps for Windows 8, Windows Azure and Windows Phone 8. I stopped by just as they kicked off and caught some of the pre-event excitement. Take a look!

In this video, I give a demonstration of using REDCINE-X Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to work with 4K digital cinema footage shot with the RED EPIC camera.

Chris Anderson, long-time UI architect at Microsoft (Windows Forms, WPF), discusses the innovative new standards and features introduced in Windows 8, that enable web developers to build Windows 8 apps more easily. Chris has been focused on the Windows Libraries for JavaScript and urges developers…

Joe Stegman talks about creating XAML UI for Windows Store apps.    He mentions the flexibility of XAML being accessible from C++, VB and C#, and the great performance you will get out of the engine (which is written in native code).  Learn more about the new XAML UI…