Windows 8

Interested in seeing how Windows 8.1 line of business (LOB) apps are transforming commercial industries (e.g. retail, hospitality, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing) and public sectors (e.g. education, public safety)? Check out this multi-part LaunchPad series on Channel 9 where we will…

Massiel Scheibner from WeatherSphere share with us their app they developed for the Windows platform. Listen in and and learn how this one of a kind app can show rain in real-time, along with snowfall, lightning strikes, tornadoes, hurricane forecast tracks, severe weather warning areas, clickable…

Unity is a cross-platform game engine for creating games and apps on multiple platforms: including Windows and Windows Phone. It's available in free and professional versions, and is the ideal way to quickly create 3D and 2D games for all your favorite devices. This video will quickly introduce the…

In Windows 8, you can see the Start screen animation at first login, but cannot see it if you switch to Start Screen from Desktop or from any other app. This video shows how to force Windows to show the animation each time you access Start screen.

Multi-level master/detail listbox allows you to display a few lists that let users quickly drill down to the items of interest with a few selection of data in a hierarchy. In this video, we'll show you how to make a master/detail listbox in a universal Windows app.

Windows 8 provides you the option to manage Startup items that will run when Windows starts. You can easily disable or enable a Startup item in Task Manager. But adding items to Startup is not as easy as dragging an app shortcuts to the Startup folder like in previous versions. In this video, we'll…

Interested in seeing how Windows 8.1 line of business (LOB) apps are transforming commercial industries (e.g. retail, hospitality, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing) and public sectors (e.g. education, public safety)? Check out this multi-part LaunchPad series where we will spotlight…

James Quick and Joshua Drew kick off a two part series today where they show us how to easily and quickly develop an an app using the free Windows App Studio tool. Tune in as they showcase a few apps from consumer to enterprise that could be developed using a simple drag and drop method to then…

Lex Thomas welcomes Mark Simos, an Architect for the Cyber, Security and Identity team here at Microsoft, to discuss tools, techniques and services that are available to help mitigate “Pass-the-Hash” and other forms of cyber credential theft. Tune in as they give us an in-depth overview of the…

Alan Fisco, Executive Vice President for The Seattle Times, discuss their app that they created for both Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 Download it today! The Seattle Times Windows app offers the latest news and insightful, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism, optimized for quick and easy reading on…