Month: December 2016

In honor of the 2016 International Day of Persons with Disabilities, all Office 365 users are invited to lay the foundation for a more inclusive digital environment by discovering and using accessibility capabilities built into Office 365. —Read on to learn about new capabilities such as accessible templates, image description controls, link display name controls and accessibility checkers.

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Get better results and show your employees you value their time by selecting the right meeting type for your goals.

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Good Morning America’s new segment, “Boosting Your Business,” sponsored by Microsoft Office, provides entrepreneurs with simple tips and tools to help grow their businesses. Watch small business expert and host of Office Small Business Academy provide advice on employee engagement, front desk management and appointment scheduling and introduce Microsoft Bookings, a new service as part of Office 365 to help address scheduling woes.

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After the Thanksgiving holiday, we came back to work to discover news about Microsoft’s participation in a $3 million fundraising effort to shelter homeless families, how quantum computing can help end world hunger and how one couple has figured out how to convert used cooking oil into soap. Microsoft joined The Starbucks Foundation, the Schultz Family Foundation and many other businesses to support the annual No Child Sleeps Outside campaign by Mary’s Place. They’re part of … Read more »

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Today’s Hardware Friday post is meant to “teach you how to fish find your own cool projects”

hackster.io is a great community that is all about learning hardware…

“Hackster helps people everywhere learn how to design, create and program Internet-connected hardware. By bringing together our network of close to 200,000 engineers, makers and hackers, 90 technology partners, and 100 Hackster Live ambassadors, we hope to support the creation of technologies that impact meaningful issues, such as a healthy environment, wildlife preservation, and our own welfare.”

While that by itself is something great to blog about here, the icing on the cake is that there’s a Microsoft focused community on Hackster…

Microsoft.hackster.io

The final bit is that many of the projects have complete instructions, parts list and details…

Robot Kit

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You are about to embark on a journey, and we are excited to be part of it! Get ready to make and program your robot using Windows 10 IoT Core!  

By the time you are done with this project you will gain the following experience:

1. Understand how Windows 10 Universal Windows Applications (UWA) work
2. See how the same application can come alive and change behavior by running on the robot via Windows 10 IoT Core on a Raspberry Pi 2 and on your Windows 10 Desktop PC
3. Control digital GPIO from your Raspberry Pi 2
4. Process keyboard, mouse clicks and touch events

We are excited to embark on this journey with you – Thank you from the Microsoft IoT Team!

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That has to be enough projects here to keep you busy throughout the holiday period and beyond…

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In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Thomas Dohmke, Group Program Manager on Visual Studio Mobile Center.  Thomas joins us to go over the features of the new service and the features it provides mobile developer… Continue reading Episode 219: Visual Studio Mobile Center with Thomas Dohmke | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show→

If there’s one thing to be certain about in the Halo universe, it’s that there’s no rest for the weary. New threats seem to pop-up overnight and heroes are always called upon to save the day. Being outmanned and outgunned is a way of life for Spartans and usually they pull through. However, that’s not always the case. In addition to the surprise announcement that early access to Halo Wars: Definitive Edition will begin rolling out on Dec. 20 for anyone who pre-orders the digital version of Halo Wars 2 Ultimate Edition, a world-exclusive trailer for Halo Wars 2 was… Continue reading Atriox Smashes Through in New Halo Wars 2 Trailer at The Game Awards→

Get ready to discover the mysteries of Harvest once more! In a surprise announcement at The Game Awards, 343 Industries revealed on stage that early access to Halo Wars: Definitive Edition, available to anyone who preorders the digital version of Halo Wars 2 Ultimate Edition, begins rolling out to Xbox One and Windows 10 PC on Dec. 20! Halo Wars tells the tale of the UNSC Spirit of Fire and its intrepid crew as they battle against the Covenant on the planet Harvest, set over two decades before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. Released back in 2009, Halo Wars… Continue reading Fight With Forge Again in Halo Wars: Definitive Edition on December 20→