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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

It is now possible to receive all the recent news and highlights from the blog directly on your Windows Phone, instantly.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

For a master degree thesis project about NUI (Natural User Interfaces) by Marina Sabetta, student at the Polythecnic of Turin, a home-entertainment embedded system is in development stage: its purpose is to let elder and non-technologic people browse the web, send/receive e-mails, interact through Instant Messengers and use a mobile phone, in a simple and intuitive manner. The prototype is based on Windows 8 Developer Preview and consists mainly of a .NET Metro-style app which acts as Windows system shell.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

An amazing and mind-breaking game to spend your idle times: simple designed, but really hard to play.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Yesterday Microsoft has released full details on Windows on ARM (or WOA).

Saturday, February 4, 2012

This is the third post of the Umbraco on Windows Azure series. In the first post, I introduced Umbraco CMS, Windows Azure and the reason why you would like to host your Umbraco site on Windows Azure, with a brief manual installation walkthrough. In the second post I presented the open-source helper Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco, which let you to deploy the site on Windows Azure in less than an hour. In this post, we'll see how to solve its thousands daily storage transactions issue.