Month: February 2018

30 years ago, I was sitting at home watching Michael Jordan participate in the 1988 slam dunk contest as he took off from the free throw line in what would become the most iconic dunk in basketball history. Not only was it one of the greatest and most watched moments in basketball history, it launched a revolution — every kid (like me) from around the world would spend years experiencing the thrill of what it’s like to own the same sneakers as the Jumpman himself. Today I’m honored and humbled to announce a very special and unique collaboration between Air… Continue reading Xbox One X Contest: Limited Edition Air Jordan III Inspired Consoles→

Hands-Free Security Scanning Within .Net Applications  Rion Williams is a Senior Software Engineer at Bay Dynamics. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA and is passionate about making the developer community a better place. He’s frequently found answering questions on the ASP.NET Forums and Stack Overflow, writing blog posts, or contributing to a wide range of projects on GitHub. Follow… Continue reading Friday’s Here – Check Out Your New Friday Five!→

On February 16, Xbox is teaming up with basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal and top-tier players Chris Paul and Karl-Anthony Towns for a special Xbox Live Sessions episode on Mixer! Paul and Towns will join Shaq to feel the true power of Xbox One X, playing NBA 2K18 live on February 16 at 3:00 p.m. PT hosted on the Xbox Mixer Channel. Shaq, the 15-time all-star, will show off his gaming skills and answer questions from fans on Mixer. Then, Chris Paul will square off against Karl-Anthony Towns in a special Xbox Charity Challenge, which will air on this episode of… Continue reading Shaq Joins Chris Paul and Karl-Anthony Towns for a Special Xbox Live Sessions→

In this IoT Show episode, Olivier invited Davide Montanari, a developer in the Microsoft IoT Central team to explain and show how to connect a real device to Microsoft IoT Central, the new IoT SaaS solution. Continue reading Connect real devices to Microsoft IoT Central | Internet of Things Show→

The Microsoft Store team has updated the Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement and Microsoft Store Policies as of February 14th.   The new version (8.2) of the Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement is available here. This update is particularly relevant to developers based in New Zealand or Australia who sell apps and/or in-app products. For more info, view the change history. The next time […] Continue reading Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement and Microsoft Store Policies→

We are excited to announce that Microsoft Stream is Tier-C compliant in the Office 365 Compliance Framework which covers SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and EU Model Clauses. 
 
SOC 2 is an auditing procedure that ensures Microsoft Stream sec… Continue reading Microsoft Stream is Tier-C certified as per Office 365 Compliance Framework→

In this episode of the AI show Erika follows up her previous episode by showing the actual code behind training and using the music generation model. This includes the code for both creating the features from the midi file and returning a midi file fro… Continue reading Deep Learning for Music Generation – The Code | AI Show→

Kevin Gallo, VP of Windows Developer Platform, is hosting the next Windows Community Standup on February 22, 2018 at 12:00pm PST on Channel 9!  Kevin will be joined by Andrew Whitechapel to discuss the latest updates to the application model which will be available in the next update for Windows 10. Andrew and Kevin will discuss […] Continue reading Windows Community Standup on February 22, 2018→