C4: Container, Code, Cloud & Context
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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…
Abstract: The purpose of this blog post is to provide some insight in to hardware’s and software’s required for kinect for windows development. Introduction Kinect for Windows PC is a special set of Kinect hardware released by Microsoft, that designed to use with Windows PC. You require this piece of hardware of production usage of […]
Read more →The Kinect for Windows Developer Toolkit contains source code samples, Kinect Studio, Face Tracking SDK, and other resources to simplify developing Kinect for Windows applications. Kinect for Windows Developer Toolkit v 1.5.2 is an incremental update to previous Kinect for Windows Developer Toolkit 1.5. The release of Developer Toolkit update v1.5.2, which includes: WPFD3Dinterop. This […]
Read more →Microsoft has released Windows Live Essentials 2012 which includes the latest version of Live Messenger(2012), Live Writer(2012) and included Microsoft SkyDrive application as part of the bundle. Removed windows live mesh from the package as it is getting deprecated. Microsoft made some new Movie Maker additions, including a new video stabilization option made especially for […]
Read more →SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available for download. SQL Server 2008 R2 service packs are cumulative and can be used to upgrade all releases of SQL Server 2008 R2 to Service Pack 2. SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 contains Cumulative Update 1 to 5 from SQL Server 2008 […]
Read more →Microsoft has released Kinect SDK for Windows – Version 1.5 on yesterday which includes improvements over skeleton tracking and facial tracking features. The Kinect for Windows SDK enables developers to create applications using C++, C# or Visual Basic, which support gesture and voice recognition using the Kinect for Windows sensor and a PC or embedded […]
Read more →Go through this Visual Studio Team blog about upcoming improvements to Visual Studio 11 User Interface. This will be included as part of Visual Studio 11 RC(Release Candidate) and probably will be released soon by end of May or in June 2012. For more updates visit the Official blog link below http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/08/visual-studio-11-user-interface-updates-coming-in-rc.aspx Kudos to Visual […]
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