Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Tomorrow and on Friday I'll be at the Start Something! Tour in Turin, hosted and organized by Microsoft, in collaboration with TTG - Torino Technologies Group community. They will be two open days for people who want to write and test their applications on Windows Phone devices (in collaboration with Nokia) or Series 5/Series 7 Tablets and Notebooks with Windows 8 (in collaboration with Samsung).

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Here's a little update about the Blend 5 issue I had on Windows 8 Consumer Preview. See this post for all the details.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Microsoft just released the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Embedded Standard 8 (WES8)!
It can be downloaded here and a detailed datasheet can be found here.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Like many software developers, these days I'm very excited and eager to get started using the Consumer Preview on a daily basis, both at work and at home. But Windows 8 is still a preview release, which means that there could be some sort of software incompatibilities. Prior to completely switch my workstation to the next version of Windows, yesterday I started to play with Windows 8 Consumer Preview 32bit on a secondary laptop (a DELL XPS M1330) with just a unique goal: verify which development tools work and which don't.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Windows 8 Consumer preview and VS11 Beta are now available. If you want, you can download and try them by yourself!

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.