Microsoft has announced Windows Phone 8

Yesterday Microsoft has made a major announcement few days right after the announcement of Surface Tablet.   NFC, MicroSD, dual-core support, more memory  – oomphh!!!! I am gonna love new windows phone. Windows Phone 8 is going to be a game changer and Microsoft has revamped it to fit with modern mobile user needs. As per Joe Belfiore’s announcement […]

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New revamped Windows Azure released and new Windows Azure SDK v1.7(JUNE 2012)

Microsoft has made significant changes to existing Windows Azure to make it more user friendly and customer friendly. The new Windows Azure was officially released in an online event Meet Windows Azure (MeetWindowsAzure.com) , in this event ScottGu(Microsoft VP)  has walked us through the new Windows Azure features. You can have a quick look at […]

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Microsoft Windows 8 Release Preview is out

Microsoft has released the latest version of their Windows product called as Windows 8 and it is in RELEASE PREVIEW now. Release Preview is actually a Release Candidate build, just some changes to the terminologies. Windows 8 Release Preview is available for download through http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/release-preview  and MSDN Subscribers can download from the MSDN Subscription downloads. […]

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Kinect for Windows SDK – Version 1.5 Released

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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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