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Starting tomorrow, Eric Larsen and his 3-person team of adventurers will start off on an epic journey to traverse the Arctic Ocean from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole. The goal: break the current expedition speed record that was...

Today, Dell has announced the new classroom-ready Latitude 13 Education Series laptop that is built to meet the needs of any student computing program. This laptop is designed to be tough to withstand heavy use by students in classrooms – it has been...

I love show Top Gear. So when I saw that BBC had released the game Race The Stig today, I quickly downloaded it from the Windows Phone Store . It was the reason why I was late coming into work this morning (woops!). The game is super fun. You essentially...

This week’s Inside Windows Phone was written and recorded by Matthijs Hoekstra, senior product marketing manager for Windows Phone. -- Larry In this week’s Inside Windows Phone, we talked with Rob Tiffany about publishing apps for Windows Phone for the...

The Windows architecture allows developers to create apps and easily make then available to people all around the globe. This process, known as globalization , requires that developers primarily design an app with culturally-neutral behavior. Windows...

Last night, an article written by Cal Borchers at BetaBoston was sent to me that was too awesome to pass up doing a short blog post about and linking to. Cal recently stopped by Microsoft in Cambridge and met one of Boston’s newest developers: 8 year...

Across Microsoft we are committed and passionate to making that technologies are usable in education. We understand that education environments have specialized needs and deployment scenarios. With this in mind we have created a series of deployment guides...

Last week at Mobile World Congress, it was announced that Facebook Messenger was coming to Windows Phone. And today it’s here! You can now download Facebook Messenger from the Windows Phone Store . With Facebook Messenger, you will be able to see who...

Apart from web workers and background tasks that run as web workers, all JavaScript code in a Windows Store app runs on what we call the UI thread . That code can invoke asynchronous WinRT APIs that perform their operations on separate threads, but there...

Do you want to learn how to deploy Windows 8.1 the right way? We’ve got just what you need to get started with your deployment, the Windows 8.1 Deployment Jump Start . This Jump Start from the Microsoft Virtual Academy is presented by MVP’s and deployment...