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Windows

Microsoft Hackathon

Last year I attended my very first hackathon. It was hosted by Microsoft and Adesso, and focused on developing Windows 8 RT and Windows Phone apps. I took the opportunity and tried my luck on the WinJS HTML5 framework for Metro apps. Being completely new to WinJS, creating properly working page transitions already counted as huge […]

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Windows

Mail Delivery from Microsoft – The Windows 8 Student Developer Club Welcome Package!

I’ve been getting a lot of mail from Microsoft lately and I can’t say I’m not excited every time. Look what arrived this morning! I’m now a very official member of the Microsoft Student Developer Club. They sent me a nice letter, a huge sketch book with Windows tablet stencils, a stylish membership card with […]

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PC The Web

Enjoying a new beautiful photo wallpaper everyday with Bing Desktop

Everyone knows, Microsoft’s Bing search features amazing photography on its front page. Recently, Microsoft also decided to publish a PC software, that automatically loads the daily Bing photo and sets it as your personal desktop background. Although I previously got great photo wallpapers from sources such as Interfacelift, I couldn’t bother to frequently change it. Bing […]

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PC The Web

Many Changes for Microsoft SkyDrive, Storage Space and Desktop Client, Update

Today, Microsoft pushed a big update to its cloud storage solution SkyDrive. They finally released a desktop client for Windows and Mac machines, allowing Dropbox-like features of having an integrated folder on your harddrive, which constantly keeps in sync with your online storage. With the client release, Microsoft also introduces several storage size offers.

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PC

“A more beautiful web” – Cool Internet Explorer 9 TV Commercial

I’m just sitting here in my living room and working on NoteCraft, when I see Bing on TV. For Microsoft I find it a pretty decent commercial, especially with the cool music by Alex Clare, Too Close. So why not share it as a nice artistic work and improve the image of IE at the […]

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Windows Phone 7

Nokia Lumia Windows Phone

On its Nokia World conference, 2 days ago on the 26th October, Nokia finally introduced its Windows Phone 7 lineup, including the gorgeous Lumia 800. I just want to post some videos about it as for me it is probably the best designed smartphone to date. Lets see if Nokia can get its impact on the […]