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In this episode of GoingNative, Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Gor Nishanov about what happened at the C++ standards meeting in Issaquah, Washington.
Trip report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting (Issaquah) – Herb Sutter
News, Status & Discussion about Standard C++ – isocpp.org
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Severity Rating: ImportantRevision Note: V1.1 (November 23, 2016): Revised bulletin to announce a detection change for certain servers running Windows Servers 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2016. Affected servers will not automaticall… Continue reading MS16-140 – Important: Security Update for Boot Manager (3193479) – Version: 1.1
Severity Rating: CriticalRevision Note: V1.1 (November 23, 2016): Updated the vulnerability description for CVE-2016-7222. This is an informational change only.Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe… Continue reading MS16-130 – Critical: Security Update for Microsoft Windows (3199172) – Version: 1.1
Today, we are pleased to announce that Office 365 is now available in 10 new markets, including Cambodia, Laos and Mozambique. This is the result of significant engineering work to expand the number of supported cultures and help every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.
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Microsoft Solitaire continues to be one of the most-played games of all time on Windows for more than 25 years. What’s more, the version of Solitaire you know and love on Windows 10 and Windows 8 PC and mobile devices, Microsoft Solitaire Collection, has reached more that 119 million unique players in the last four years alone! And now, those on iPhone, iPad and Android devices can play the popular card game for free.
Microsoft Solitaire Collection offers five of the best Solitaire card games – Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid and Tripeaks – all in one app. The game also includes Daily Challenges, where you can play guaranteed solvable challenges every day in all five game modes with multiple levels of difficulty, while earning cool awards.
Plus, with Xbox Live integration, you can sign in with your Xbox Live gamertag or Microsoft account to earn Xbox Live achievements and Gamerscore, compete with friends, and continue playing on any Windows 10, iPhone, iPad, or Android device while on the go since your progress and game data are saved in the cloud. If you’re not an Xbox Live member, signing up for a free membership through the game is easy and totally worth it.
In addition, to celebrate the global launch of Microsoft Solitaire Collection on iOS and Android, players on iPhone, iPad, and Android will receive one free month of Premium Edition ($1.99 value) now through Dec. 31, 2016, which includes no ads, game boosts and double coins for all Daily Challenges.
Download Microsoft Solitaire Collection from the App Store and Google Play today. It’s also available in the Windows Store. Continue reading World’s Most Popular Solitaire Game Now Available on iOS and Android
Small Basic is one of our favorite learning tools. Teaching and learning is one of our favorite things. Embracing everyone and anyone who wants to code is our goal.
When I saw this, I knew I had this week’s post…
Leveraging Microsoft Small Basic to teach future generations of women. Here is a video which tells how Microsoft Small Basic helps them to achieve more So please leverage Microsoft Small Basic to teach future generations of women, young girls. They can learn via Visual Programming, create programs, Games and improve their knowledge. Learn the programming concepts starting with the fundamentals and move your way up. Small Basic is based on .NET and what you learn here could be easily applied to other .NET programming languages like Visual Basic. And when you do graduate to Visual Basic, you can bring your existing programs with you using a built-in conversion utility.
Just to update you that Microsoft Small Basic puts the “fun” back into computer programming. Few of the interesting stuff I want to mention were,
- With a friendly development environment that is very easy to master, it eases both kids and adults into the world of programming.
- Small Basic combines a friendly environment with a very simple language and a rich and engaging set of libraries to make your programs and games pop.
- In a matter of few lines of code, you will be well on your way to creating your very own game.
- With a new and revolutionary IntelliSense®, Small Basic makes writing code a breeze.
- Now you can share your programs with your friends; let them import your published programs and run them on their computer.
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The ‘One Dev Question with Raymond Chen’ video series is part of the One Dev Minute channel. In this series, longtime Microsoft developer and semi-official Windows historian Raymond Chen covers a series of questions about Microsoft Windows develo… Continue reading Decoding Windows Build Numbers