RiME Now Available on Xbox One

After years of waiting, it’s time to set sail! RiME, the highly-anticipated puzzle adventure game, comes out today on Xbox One! Experienced through the eyes of a young boy shipwrecked alone on a mysterious island, RiME delivers an emotional journey of exploration and discovery. The game takes inspiration from a variety of sources, including literature like The Little Prince, the films of Studio Ghibli and Ray Harryhausen, the art of Joaquín Sorolla, and the gorgeous terrain of the Mediterranean coast. Players will encounter wild creatures, ancient ruins, forgotten secrets and thoughtful puzzles that play with light, sound, perspective and even… Continue reading RiME Now Available on Xbox One

This Week on Xbox: May 26

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! Xbox Game Pass Launches June 1 with 100+ Games; Early Access for Gold Members… Continue reading This Week on Xbox: May 26

Episode 229: Azure Time Series Insights | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show

In this episode Thiago Almeida and Romit Girdhar are joined by OP Ravi, Principal Program Manager working on the Azure Time Series Insights service. It is a fully managed analytics, storage, and visualization service that makes it s… Continue reading Episode 229: Azure Time Series Insights | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show

How Starpoint Gemini: Warlords Found a Home on Xbox One

Back in 2007, three brothers who were hardcore gamers decided that playing games wasn’t enough. So, we started dismantling games and creating mods for popular titles. It was fun and creative, and after a while we decided to build an entire game from scratch. The genre was not in question — we all grew up on Star Trek and Star Wars — so making something in space was a childhood dream for all of us. In 2010 our first game Starpoint Gemini was released and following its relative success, we finally moved out from the old kitchen in our parent’s apartment… Continue reading How Starpoint Gemini: Warlords Found a Home on Xbox One

Introducing Windows 10 China Government Edition, the new Surface Pro and livestreaming platform Mixer — Weekend Reading: May 26 edition

A major Microsoft event in Shanghai on Tuesday revealed the results of a joint venture between CETC and Microsoft: the development of Windows 10 China Government Edition, which Lenovo will be one of the first OEM partners to preinstall for China government customers. The new Surface Pro and the new Surface Pen also made their debuts at the event. Microsoft also announced improved inking capabilities in Office apps that will … Read more »

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OpenZWave for UWP and .NET

Morten Nielsen posted some good news recently, which we’re very happy to highlight!

We first blogged about his OpenZWave work a few months ago, Opening UWP to OpenZWave.

Recently he posted that there’s now an “Official” OpenZWave UWP and .NET Library (and it happens to be his! 🙂

Announcing the first official OpenZWave library for UWP

“As a follow-up to my recent OpenZWave blogpost ( http://www.sharpgis.net/post/2017/01/20/Using-OpenZWave-in-UWP-apps ), a few things has happened since.

First of all I’ve worked closely with the OpenZWave team, and we agreed to consolidate efforts. My library is now the official OpenZWave library for .NET and UWP, and has been moved out under the OpenZWave organization on GitHub:

At the same time the older .NET library has been removed from the main OpenZWave repository, so they can focus on the native parts of the library, and I’ve taken over the .NET effort.

To successfully support UWP and .NET, I wanted to achieve as close code compatibility as possible, and for maintainability also reuse as much C++ code as possible…

However because of the many small breaking changes, the nuget package needs a major version increase.  I’ve just released the v2.0.0-beta1 package for you to start using. The API is release quality though, and should be very close to a final release. If you’ve done any OpenZWave dev, I encourage you to try it out and provide feedback.

Read the WIKI to see how to get started: https://github.com/OpenZWave/openzwave-dotnet-uwp/wiki 

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Check out the source here;

https://github.com/OpenZWave/openzwave-dotnet-uwp

An Open-ZWave wrapper for use with .NET or UWP apps.

This library was based on the OpenZWave .NET Library, but refactored to greatly simplify its use, as well as adding UWP Support.

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Interview with Charlotte Yarkoni, Corporate Vice President Growth and Ecosystem at Microsoft | GALs

In this episode, Soumow sits with Charlotte Yarkoni, Corporate Vice President of the newly created Growth and Ecosystem division at Microsoft.  Charlotte talks about growth and adoption of Azure and her career journey and the different roles she h… Continue reading Interview with Charlotte Yarkoni, Corporate Vice President Growth and Ecosystem at Microsoft | GALs