Demo of PowerPivot with PDW.

Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to…

Yesterday, Google's Vic Gundotra proudly exclaimed that "I'm not interested in screwing over developers" as he piled on top of Dalton Caldwell's post accusing Facebook of being naughty on the platform front. I'm not here to defend Facebook or Twitter or anyone else who takes lumps in…

The kinds of the things I see the Kinect used for never ceases to amaze me, but this one really takes the cake... Kinect-controlled trashcan tracks and catches airborne wasteThere's no shortage of automated trash collectors on the market today, but Japanese modder FRP has taken a slightly different…

Host Jonathan Rozenblit goes through the monthly developer news: Announced today: Windows 8 officially RTM'd Save the date: Windows 8 General Availability - October 26, 2012 Windows 8 Upgrade offer Announcing //build 2012 - Registration opens 8.8.2012 at 8AM PDT (stay tuned to buildwindows.com)…

News: Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have reached RTM milestone! Also, GA announced.Build conference announcedIPv6 version 3 book outTechnical Interview: At [01:38] David met with Dan Zarzar, a Senior Program Manager for Office Web Apps, to discuss the new enhancements to Office Web apps in…

Today is a huge day for Windows! Our latest client and server operating systems have been released to manufacturing (RTM). This means they are fully baked and out of the oven! Windows 8 has started to roll out to our OEM partners today ("OEM partners" are the folks who build the PCs and…

Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at: MonstaFish PhotoSynth LinkedIN Droplitz Delight Treasure Face Free Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks!

In this episode, Beth Massi joins us to demonstrate some cool new features in LightSwitch. First, she shows us how LightSwtich now has built-in support for OData. Then, she shows us how to use the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview to build a cross-browser, mobile web client.

Anand Lakshminarayanan, Senior Lead Program Manager with Lync, provides an overview of architecture and management of Lync Server 2013 Platform Preview. Anand covers the investments that were made in high availability, scale, disaster recovery, and topology—as well as how Lync supports enterprise…