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 →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…
Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in Visual Studio 11 RC(Release Candidate)
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 […]
Read more →Kinect SDK for Windows updated to 1.0.3.191 *MINOR UPDATE ONLY*
Microsoft’s Kinect SDK for Windows version 1.0.3.190(released on 2nd Feb 2012) is replaced by 1.0.3.191 on May 2012. This is a minor update to fix the issue related to the installer certificate. The earlier version had the potential to produce certificate error messages during setup in limited scenarios. The issue was resolved in version 1.0.3.191. […]
Read more →Windows Phone Development–Background Agents in Windows Phone
Windows Phone came through long way after it’s initial release on Oct 21st 2010. Windows Phone 7.5 update release called as “MANGO” brought lots of improvements including Multi tasking capabilities etc. With the introduction of multi-tasking ( it is not true multi tasking, but an efficient application switching which ensures that only one application will […]
Read more →Windows Phone Development–Developing for 256 MB (low profile) Windows Phone Devices
Microsoft has announced that upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh code named as “Tango” will have low profile 256 MB devices which would make Microsoft’s entry in to mobile market by delivering low cost Windows Phone devices. All existing Windows Phone devices are having 512 MB RAM, considering the mid-range or low entry market Microsoft has […]
Read more →Announced: Windows Server 8 is now Windows Server 2012
Microsoft has announced the name for upcoming Windows Server 8(which is BETA now, and you can download it through MSDN Subscriptions) and it will be called as “Windows Server 2012” . Windows Server 2012 includes a number of new features or feature changes. It would be purely a Server for Cloud and User interface similar […]
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