Month: April 2018

The Xbox One Defiance 2050 Closed Beta kicks off April 27th – April 29th and select Xbox Insiders have been chosen to participate! Defiance 2050 is a free to play, futuristic shooter in a massive post-apocalyptic sci-fi world loaded with alien ark technology. Form a squad with allies, engage in epic co-op events, and complete compelling story missions together as you fight on. Selected Xbox Insiders can download Defiance 2050 now and get ready to play on April 27. To see if you’ve been selected, please follow the steps below. 1. Sign in and launch the Xbox Insider Hub on… Continue reading Defiance 2050 Xbox One Closed Beta→

The IoT Show was invited for a tour of the AI and IoT Insider Labs on the Microsoft campus. If your organization is developing an IoT and/or AI solution, you may be able to use Microsoft’s IoT & AI Insider Labs to help accelerate bringing your prod… Continue reading A tour of the Microsoft AI & IoT Insider Labs | Internet of Things Show→

Today, Microsoft announced its third-quarter earnings, including commercial cloud revenue of $6 billion, up 58 percent from last year. As always, this growth is fueled by the innovation and success of our customers and partners. Today, almost every company is a tech company, and below are a few examples of companies working closely with Microsoft…

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This week, James is joined yet again by friend of the show Matt Soucoup, who shows us how to add amazing animations to your Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms app using the cross-platform animation library Lottie. Lottie offers a wonderful a… Continue reading Using Lottie for Beautiful Animations with Matt Soucoup | The Xamarin Show→

This is the second of a two part series where Robert is joined by Aditi Dugar, who shows how and why you can modernize existing .NET applications by containerizing them and moving them to the cloud. This brings significant deployment and DevOps improve… Continue reading Containers and Existing .NET Apps Part 2 | Visual Studio Toolbox→

I get asked by users all the time, “Why should my company use cloud storage?” I always respond by saying that “cloud storage is great but, you need more than just storage and that’s where OneDrive comes in. OneDrive is all about enabling people to easi… Continue reading OneDrive Brings New Sharing and Collaboration Features to Mac, iOS and Android→

Application Insights is powerful Application Performance Management (APM) service for developers building application hosted in Azure, on-premise or elsewhere.In this episode, we are joined by Michael Milirud (@micwebnet) who is a Product Manager … Continue reading Analyzing your applications with Application Insights | On .NET→

One of the hottest games on Xbox One is about to get hotter as Miramar, the desert-themed map in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), is now available to play on a dedicated test server, ahead of its launch in the Xbox Game Preview version of the game in late May. To access the Miramar test server, download the standalone “PUBG Test Server” client directly from the Microsoft Store and prepare to experience the latest addition to the most intense battle royale game on Xbox One. Note, you must own PUBG on Xbox One to download and access the Miramar test server. The… Continue reading PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Miramar Map Now Available on Test Server→