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Rohan Kumar and Scott Klein are back LIVE on SQL Unplugged. Great topics (including SQL Server 2017, SQL DW, Built-in AI, Postgress/MySQL, and more!) and some great audience questions!This show is your avenue for chatting with the individuals who own t… Continue reading SQL Unplugged – July 2017 Edition | SQL Unplugged
Aven Colony is a city-building strategy game about mankind’s first colony on an alien world, on a moon orbiting a gas giant 10 light years from Earth called Aven Prime. As the Governor of humanity’s first colonies outside the solar system, your goal is to build and protect one small, vulnerable human settlement into a huge, sprawling, and prosperous sci-fi metropolis. There are many kinds of city-builders and Aven Colony is unlike any you may have played. As you begin, you’ll have over a dozen colonists depending on you for their survival from the outset (doesn’t help that the harsh world… Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to Aven Colony on Xbox One
Summer Spotlight is back and it’s time to celebrate! From July 25 to September 4 the Xbox Store will have over 30 new games coming to Xbox One, including the most anticipated titles of the Summer like Fortnite, Tacoma, and Sonic Mania. That means new games every week so be sure to check the Xbox Store every Tuesday to discover all the new games to play. But that’s not all! Now through September 4, you can earn 4,000 Rewards Credits for diving into the best of Summer Spotlight. Simply spend $40 on featured pre-orders, game previews, and new digital releases… Continue reading Summer Spotlight: Play the Hottest Xbox Games and Earn Rewards Credits
Hello Heroes! Have you heard the good news?! Fable Fortune has just launched into Xbox Game Preview and we are thrilled to welcome you all back into Albion. If you aren’t familiar with Fable Fortune the let me tell you that it is quite possibly the greatest Fable themed collectible card game you’ll hear about today! Featuring not just PvP but also a full co-op mode where you can team up with an ally to take on classic Fable bosses such as the legendary Nostro. Now I’m sure you are all eager to start smashing people in the face with… Continue reading 7 Things You Need to Know in Xbox Console Exclusive Fable Fortune
“I see a paradigm shift in IT at Edwards Lifesciences with the deployment of easy-to-use Office 365 services that usher in a new way of working for our employees, and free up time for IT to focus on more strategic initiatives and serve as stronger business partners.” —Sal Chiovari, CIO for Edwards Lifesciences
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Today, Adobe announced that Flash will no longer be supported after 2020. Microsoft will phase out support for Flash in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer ahead of this date. Flash led the way on the web for rich content, gaming, animations, and media of all kinds, and inspired many of the current web standards powering […] Continue reading The End of an Era – Next Steps for Adobe Flash
This is the fourth of an eight part series where Robert is joined by Phil Japikse to discuss design patterns. A design pattern is a best practice you can use in your code to solve a common problem. In this episode, Phil demonstrates the Observer … Continue reading Design Patterns: Observer and Publish-Subscribe | Visual Studio Toolbox
Only the top 32 teams advance from the showcase to the quarterfinals. Now they have to pitch and demonstrate their projects and business plans to a panel of experts.
Watch with the world on July 27th as the top student team wins over $200,000 in prizes! http://imagine.microsoft.com
Imagine Cup is all about innovation, transformation and what comes next. Through Imagine Cup, Microsoft provides student developers with the opportunity to mold the world of tomorrow in their eyes by combining their ideas with the power of technology. The next big thing could come from you. Facebook and Twitter started as student projects. Your ideas could be next. The Imagine Cup is here to help you take the first steps. It’s a global contest for the most original student applications, games, and solutions and the winning team will take home $100,000 (US).”
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