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Bill Hilf / MSDN Blogs:
Windows Azure Active Directory Processes 200 Billion Authentications - Connecting People, Data and Devices Around The Globe  —  At Microsoft, we have been on a transformative journey to cloud computing and we have been working with customers every step of the way.
Nov 28, 2012, 4:00 AMIn context
MSDN Blogs:
Kinect Fusion Coming to Kinect for Windows   —  Last week, I had the privilege of giving attendees at the Microsoft event, BUILD 2012, a sneak peek at an unreleased Kinect for Windows tool: Kinect Fusion.  —  Kinect Fusion was first developed as a research project at the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge …
Nov 5, 2012, 3:40 PMIn context
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Updating our built-in apps for Windows 8 … As we get close to the general availability (GA) of Windows 8, there are many things that the Windows team and other teams at Microsoft have been doing to get ready.  Of course, the most important thing has been working with PC makers to help …
Oct 4, 2012, 7:45 PMIn context
Antoine Leblond / MSDN Blogs:
Windows Store now open to all developers in 120 markets … At every major Windows 8 development milestone - Release Preview, Consumer Preview, RTM - we've added markets toward our commitment to a truly global offering.  We often hear from those who don't yet have support in their market, and we've said we'll keep expanding.
Sep 11, 2012, 3:40 PMIn context
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Collaborating to deliver Windows RT PCs … Windows 8 and Windows RT each reached the RTM milestone, and we are hard at work in collaboration with ecosystem partners, including PC manufacturers, Silicon partners, and other component suppliers, to complete high quality Windows RT and Windows 8 PCs that we think you'll love.
Aug 13, 2012, 5:55 PMIn context
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Releasing Windows 8 - August 1, 2012   —  Today marks an important milestone in the Windows 8 project.  The Windows 8 team is proud to share with you that a short while ago we started releasing Windows 8 to PC OEM and manufacturing partners.  This means our next milestone will be the availability …
Aug 1, 2012, 2:45 PMIn context
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Simplifying printing in Windows 8 … Of all the peripheral devices that you can connect to your Windows PC, printers are one of the most popular, and have been supported for the longest time.  In fact, Windows 1.0 (shipped in 1985) supported “a number of printers and plotters” and included a …
Jul 26, 2012, 6:45 AMIn context
Rob Copeland / MSDN Blogs:
Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics … In computer graphics, high performance is a guiding principle.  In the early days of personal computing, discrete, add-on graphics cards were mostly focused on specialized applications such as CAD/CAM and gaming.
Jul 23, 2012, 11:40 PMIn context
Antoine Leblond / MSDN Blogs:
Making money with your apps through the Windows Store … Currently, all the apps that are available in the Windows Store are free for customers to acquire—keeping with the preview nature of the Windows 8 releases to date.  At Windows 8 RTM (Release To Manufacturing), all developers signing …
Jul 20, 2012, 3:50 PMIn context
Brad Calder / MSDN Blogs:
Windows Azure Storage - 4 Trillion Objects and Counting   —  Windows Azure Storage has had an amazing year of growth.  We have over 4 trillion objects stored, process an average of 270,000 requests per second, and reach peaks of 880,000 requests per second.  —  About a year ago we hit the 1 trillion object mark.
Jul 19, 2012, 6:45 AMIn context

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Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API  —  The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR  —  Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review.  Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).