Category: Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…

An early update on Windows Phone 7.8 release–coming in Q1-2013

Yesterday Microsoft Windows Phone Team announced the availability of Windows Phone 7.8 to existing Windows Phone 7.x family of devices by early 2013. Some of the interesting features announced are:…

Download – Windows Phone 8 Training Kit

Hands on Labs for the Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform. The hands on labs in this package immerse you in Windows Phone 8 development, by walking you building a set…

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1–Available Now

Microsoft has released the Update 1 for Visual studio 2012 RTM. The key features available with this update include: SharePoint development: additional ALM capabilities in SharePoint – such as Load…

Just Released – Windows Azure Training Kit – November 2012 Update

The November 2012 update of the Windows Azure Training Kit includes: Updated labs to use Windows Azure SDK (October 2012) Updated labs to use Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8…

WP8 Developer Series–Getting to know Common API’s for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8

  Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system by Microsoft, officially announced the release to manufacture on 29th OCT 2012. Previous Windows Phone…