Command All Units in the Halo Wars 2 Demo Today

In case you’ve been in cryosleep, Halo Wars 2 recently launched on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC! Fans have been eagerly diving into the battlefield, fielding armies of Scorpions, Warthogs and more. However, if you haven’t had chance to put your strategy hat on yet – surprise, the Halo Wars 2 demo is now live on Xbox One and coming soon to Windows 10 PC! Included in the demo is a first look at the campaign with mission one, “The Signal,” as well as Blitz Firefight where you can test your mettle against waves of AI using a pre-built… Continue reading Command All Units in the Halo Wars 2 Demo Today

eBay makes a bid for flexibility in the workplace using Office 365

“At eBay, we were built on the belief that we can empower and connect people to create more opportunity, specifically through commerce. Within our own company, we’ve mirrored that same belief by leveraging technology and tools that enable our employees to easily connect and collaborate with one another.” —Read more about how eBay enabled employee productivity by selecting Office 365 E5.

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Learning Tools for Word Online and OneNote Online now available, plus new languages

We are pleased to share that Learning Tools are now available in new languages to all customers with Office 365 or a personal OneDrive account. Previously, we announced that we would deliver Learning Tools to Word Online and OneNote Online, so users on any device can experience the same reading and writing benefits people see using Learning Tools for OneNote.

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Chess Ultra is Coming to Xbox One This Spring

Hi everyone! You might recognize us as the publisher of some awesome indie titles on Xbox One, including Pure Pool, Pure Chess, and Stick It to The Man. I’m here today to reveal that Chess Ultra, a brand-new game from Ripstone, is coming to Xbox One this spring! Chess Ultra is a sequel to our original hit chess game Pure Chess, and has been built completely from the ground up by the internal development team here at Ripstone. We’ve reached a level of visual fidelity that is not just a massive improvement on the original title in every way, and… Continue reading Chess Ultra is Coming to Xbox One This Spring

Middle-earth: Shadow of War Coming to Project Scorpio, Xbox One, and Windows 10 This Year

Talion and Celebrimbor return in Middle-earth: Shadow of War, sequel to the smash-hit Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, available as an Xbox Play Anywhere title on Xbox One and Windows 10 beginning August 22, 2017. The title will also be available for Project Scorpio following the console’s launch this holiday season. Players will wield a new Ring of Power and confront the deadliest of enemies, including Sauron and his Nazgul, in a monumental battle for Middle-earth. With an original story featuring our two heroes from the first game, Middle-earth: Shadow of War will have you going deep behind enemy lines to… Continue reading Middle-earth: Shadow of War Coming to Project Scorpio, Xbox One, and Windows 10 This Year

Last Week on Channel 9: February 20th – February 26th, 2017

While everyone is gearing up for the Visual Studio 2017 Virtual Launch event happening on March 7th (more information at https://launch.visualstudio.com) our authors still delivered. Here’s just a select 22 episodes, shows and post from last week here on Channel 9 

TWC9: New Azure Functions, 5 Awesome VS 2017 Features, VS Launch Event and more…

This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Shen discuss the week’s top developer news, including; …

Microsoft Teams Is Here! Presented by Microsoft, Avanade, and AvePoint [Webinar]

Hi ya’ll! There’s been a lot of buzz in the past couple of weeks since the announcement of Microsoft Teams. Personally I’ve been using Microsoft Teams with my teams at AvePoint and we all think it’s a phenomenal technology around collaboration!

I’m very, very privileged to have had the opportunity to present an hour long webinar with two of my colleagues and friends from the industry, Matt Berg  from Microsoft and Wictor Wilén from Avanade. …

Top Quax of 2016: My Favorite Quotes from Microsoft Influencers

Top Quax of 2016 – Rounding Up Our Favorite Dux Quax Quotes About Microsoft in 2016 from Tech Superstars …

Episode 223: Azure Managed Disks with Chetan Agarwal

In this episode Chris Risner and Hannah Krager are joined by Chetan Agarwal, Principal Program Manager on the Azure Compute Team.  Chetan joins us to talk about Managed Disks, a greatly simplified way of managing storage accounts used with VM disks.  When using Managed Disks, you just specify if you want Premium or Standard storage and the size of disks you want and the service handles everything else for you.  Managed Disks also offers new features such as availability set isolation, snapshots, and images. …

92 – Valentine IKEA Meatballs

It’s time for another LiveStream Episode of the Patch and Switch show!!! Two IT guys (Patch and Switch) who are talking about whatever comes up. Can you say Tangent! Ultimately it’s the Chat Room where everyone hangs out and contributes to the show, so make sure to load it up during the LiveStream! 

Who let all of these visitors in here? Another great guest joins us on the show fresh from his New Employee Orientation-ness with his new role at Microsoft.

Login to LinkedIn using Xamarin.Auth

Learn how to login to LinkedIn in iOS and get user profile information using Xamarin.Auth nuget package. …

Innovation Tour with HP Chief Technologist Mike Nash

HP’s Mike Nash, Chief Technologist and VP of Portfolio and Strategy gives us an insiders tour through their latest device innovations. We’ll see their new privacy-focused Elitebook 2-in-1s, the new premium Spectre laptops as well as their new AiO PCs. Perhaps most fascinating is the Sprout PC Pro which combines an all-in-one desktop with a 3d scanner and a touch-sensitive projection surface. The educational, R&D, AR & VR, manufacturing and maker possibilities are endless. …

SQL Unplugged – February 2017 Edition

Rohan Kumar and Scott Klein are back LIVE on SQL Unplugged. Great topics (including SQL Server v.Next) and some great audience questions!

This show is your avenue for chatting with the individuals who own the relational database at Microsoft. Tune in each month as Scott and Rohan answer your questions and discuss the insights and inner workings of the SQL Server engineering team. Be sure to follow this show on Twitter (@SQLUnplugged) for updates and information on upcoming shows. …

DocumentDB Support for Aggregates

In this episode of Azure Friday, Aravind Ramachandran talks with Scott Hanselman about support for aggregate functions at global scale in Azure DocumentDB. Aravind explains how you can perform low latency aggregation queries against large datasets without schema definitions or secondary indexes, and other improvements in the DocumentDB query engine like reduced request units and support for polygon indexing. …

Sha1 Breaks

MD5 was broken with a stack of Playstations. SHA1 was broken with a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Doesn’t seem as much fun, right? But either way, it’s time to update our encryption settings. …

Using Spinnaker’s Release Pipeline for CD to Azure

Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, shows Donovan Brown how to continuously deploy containers using the Azure Spinnaker to Kubernetes QuickStart Template (http://aka.ms/azk8sdeploy). …

Eric Mellino – A .NET Core Game Engine and CrazyCore

This week we chat with Eric Mellino about his .NET Core game engine, and the game he built: CrazyCore! Watch a walk through and demo on Linux where we edit a level.  …

Cortana, Planet Earth II, and more

This Week on Windows: Cortana is coming in hot with reminders to help you stay on top of life, we’re showing you how to get the most out of your day with the calendar app and we say aloha to Moana and Planet Earth II! Specific topics covered in this episode include: …

Using Espresso Tests

In this episode, Donovan Brown is joined by Adam Barlow, who shows how to use Espresso tests with Xamarin Test Cloud and Visual Studio Team Services. He shows how to leverage your existing Espresso tests with in your continuous integration build. …

Doing DevOps with Blue Green deployments on DC/OS and Jenkins

In this video, we will go through a real case scenario application, hosted on Azure Container Services (ACS) using DCOS and Docker.

We will go through the C.I and C.D first and then show how you can do smooth deployments on your cluster using Jenkins pipeline without any interruptions for the users. …

Host Spinnaker on Azure

Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, stops by Azure Friday to talk with Donovan Brown about Spinnaker, a continuous delivery platform from Netflix OSS. Arun shows how using Azure QuickStart template (http://aka.ms/azspinnaker) makes this quick and easy. …

The Xamarin Show 16: Polished UI for Xamarin.Forms with Sam Basu

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Sam Basu, Developer Advocate on the Telerik team at Progress, who introduces us to Telerik’s DevCraft UI for Xamarin to create polished user interfaces. We discuss several roadblocks that developers run into when creating mobile applications and specifically focus on user interface controls that developers need such as charts, graphs, enhanced list views, and more. …

Tuesdays with Corey – more AzureCLI 2.0 Goodness

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team goes ROGUE and decides to cut Rick out of the creation process in order to record his own #AzureTwC on the new AzureCLI tooling. …

Web Notification API

Martin and Martin look at the Web Notification API to send notifications to your users via your browser. …

(Part 1) Windows Server 2016 – Shielded Virtual Machines Overview

In this video we will take a look at the new security feature in Windows Server 2016 – Shielded Virtual Machines. This feature is much more than just encryption but rather a Hyper-V powered virtualization guarded fabric that brings a more comprehensive security approach to Virtual Machines on Windows Server that brings benefit to not only locally hosted VM’s but cloud based VM’s as well. Watch this video to learn what it is, how it works, deployment scenarios and requirements. …

Network Performance Monitor Deep Dive

Get visibility into network latency, performance and availability within Azure and beyond

As you manage your cloud applications, it is important to get visibility into the virtual network connections to help troubleshoot performance. Ideally, you have a unified experience that gives you network visibility in Azure and on-premises. Network Performance Monitor, now generally available, gives you near real-time visibility into network performance…

Episode 82: Catch 2 and C++ the Community with Phil Nash

Episode 82 of CppCast is live! In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Phil Nash, Developer Advocate at JetBrains, to talk about updates to the Catch Unit test library and new features coming to CLion and ReSharper for C++. …

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