Month: March 2017

TWC9: Xbox Dev for Everyone, Game Pass, Windows Mixed Reality and more… | This Week On Channel 9

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This week on Channel 9, Nikola and guest host David Catuhe discuss the week’s top developer news, including;

Picks of the Week!

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Celebrating Award Winning ID@Xbox Games From 2016

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This past year we have experienced an embarrassment of riches with the quantity of incredibly high-quality games that have shipped through ID@Xbox — everything from deep, immersive narrative experiences to amazingly addictive party games. This week we wanted to highlight just a few of the award winning and nominated ID@Xbox titles that came out in 2016; they’re all on sale right now so there’s no better time to check out any of these fantastic games that you may have missed. Heart Machine’s Hyper Light Drifter, an action adventure role-playing game with a unique modern/retro visual style picked up the awards… Continue reading Celebrating Award Winning ID@Xbox Games From 2016→

This Week on Xbox: March 3

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We know you’re busy and might miss out on a day (or three) of the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you can feast your eyes on our weekly video show below. Either way, be sure to come back every Friday to find out what’s happening This Week on Xbox! Introducing Xbox Game Pass: Unlimited Access to More Than 100 Games At Xbox, we… Continue reading This Week on Xbox: March 3→

Microsoft Philanthropies inspires, the cloud holds disease-fighting promise and a marvelous athlete returns to Special Olympics – Weekend Reading: March 3 edition

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The last week of the year’s shortest month was a busy one at Microsoft, with an inspiring reflection on Microsoft Philanthropies’ first year, new insight into how the cloud could help fight disease, and the launch of a wealth of innovative new devices at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Microsoft Philanthropies was created to harness the promise and potential of technology for people worldwide. In 2016, its first year of … Read more »

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Sparking, Seeding and a some Pie – IoT Azure Starter Kits

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We chatted about the Azure IoT Starter Kits before, Azure the AT&T IoT Starter Kit, Get your Grove on… and Windows 10 IoT Core Starter Kit and Win 10 IoT News.

What I didn’t realize was just how many kits were current;y available until I read Dave The Engineer’s recent post;

IoT Starter Kits for Azure

“Microsoft has worked with a number of vendors to build a series of starter kits to help you get your internet “thing” up and connected to Azure with minimal effort. These are in essence kits which contain a hardware board of some description, a breadboard, a number of connectors and sensors.

The board that is contained in these kits all support running Windows 10 IoT Core, the minimal version of Windows 10 for small devices with low memory onboard.

Microsoft Premier Services uses the Adafruit Raspberry Pi 3 Kit with all our customer engagements when helping them get started with IoT and Azure.

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Dave also shouts out to a great Channel 9 video on it…

The Maker Show: Azure IoT Starter Kits

This lengthy episode contains a ton of good information about IoT in general, about Azure IoT and the services that it brings this category of computing, and finally about a number of starter kits designed and built for Azure IoT that you can use to get you building connected devices very quickly.

I doubt you’ll have any questions remaining on IoT or how to get started by the time you finish this video. You’ll learn…

  • what is IoT
  • what does Azure offer you when you’re working on an IoT project
  • which device should you start with
  • what language should you choose getting started
  • what sort of projects should you do when you’re first learning IoT
  • where to find a bunch of starter project code on GitHub

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Okay, okay, what kind of kits are available? Check all these kits out…

Microsoft Azure IoT Starter Kits

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Looks like something for everyone… Now get Making!

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