Imagine Cup 2016 is coming up

Hey everyone, i have a video to show you all regarding Imagine Cup. If anyone of you want to get to know about Imagine Cup competitions and challenges must follow this video.

This video is made by our fellow MSP, Hina Sohail. We thank her for her efforts.

Only Pakistani in Microsoft as Internee!

It has been a great feeling for me to write and it should be proud for all the viewers to know that Pakistan has been a part of Global Internship Program of Microsoft. The only Pakistani is, Omer Ahmed from NED University, Karachi.

Omer had been shortlisted among thousands to work at Microsoft Research Center located in Cairo, Egypt. The internship program nourishes undergraduates to work in a fully facilitated environment along with experienced employee on latest technologies of Microsoft.

Let us all congratulate once again to Omer Ahmed of being an only Pakistani to get selected as internee in Microsoft.

Not Google, its time for Bing Search

 Microsoft expands its partnership to new levels with AOL as it has been decided that Bing Search is going to replace Google. Bing will be used as searching sites for AOL and advertisements sites. This agreement between Microsoft and AOL will long to 10 years.

This deal is going to validate the efficiency of Bing search results and its performance in marketplace. Microsoft will reach to its peak in searching engines efficiency as AOL has acquired Bing.

Reserve your Windows 10!

Microsoft new and probably the last operating system, Windows 10 is around the corner. According to Microsoft, Windows 10 will be officially released on July 29, 2015.

Those users who have Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 7 SP2 will get a free update to Windows 10 for a year only. Be alerted if you get a notification of Windows 10 update. Do reserve it for your system. Don't miss it!

Skype for Business

At Skype, it was just bringing people together but now it has moved a little more further by bringing businesses together from all over the world. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared his vision for business transformation, including the role of tools that enable people to connect with each other for work.


                                          

With Skype for Business,you can bring together the well-loved, familiar experience of Skype, with the enterprise security, compliance and control that businesses expect from Microsoft. Skype for Business will transform the way people communicate by giving you the opportunity to connect with your colleagues and anyone who has a Skype login.

Kodu Game Lab

                                               

Kodu game lab is the new Visual programming language focused on the development of games. Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and Xbox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.


The games made on Kodu is supported by Windows 8 or 8.1, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. All you need to install is the game lab which is a free software tool easily available for download. This lab will work as an IDE for the games. The official link where you can find all the latest updates, resources about the Kodu is Kodu Game Lab.

Windows 10 - Universal Apps

A First look at the Windows 10 Universal Apps

Windows 10 represents the culmination of our platform convergence journey with Windows now running on a single, unified Windows core. This convergence enables one app to run on every Windows device – on the phone in your pocket, the tablet or laptop in your bag, the PC on your desk, and the Xbox console in your living room. And that’s not even mentioning all the new devices being added to the Windows family, including the Holo Lens, Surface Hub, and IoT devices like the Raspberry Pi 2. All these Windows devices will now access one Store for app acquisition, distribution and update.

With Windows 10, we are leading a new path forward for mobile experiences – breaking out of the limited box of just mobile devices and empowering customers take full advantage of all of the screens in their life. For Windows, these mobile experiences are powered by our one Windows core and the universal app platform. As we built the universal app platform, we set out to ensure that all Windows developers would equally benefit from this one core. The platform enables a new class of Windows universal apps – apps that are truly written once, with one set of business logic and one UI. Apps that are delivered to one Store within one package. Apps that are able to reach every Windows 10 device the developer wants to reach. Apps that feel consistent and familiar to the customer on all devices, while also contextually appropriate to each device’s input model and screen size. The new universal app platform completes our developer platform convergence by providing you with the ability to finally create one app that can run on mobile, desktop, console, holographic, and even IoT devices.

Office for Windows 10

Microsoft's latest edition in the Windows which is the Windows 10 has the new kind of Microsoft Office. Yes! It is true. Users will going to experience something different in the Office products they use to work on later Windows versions. This time, Microsoft has announced that Office will have its products like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint to some big level and to make them accessible to even mobile devices running Windows 10. For this purpose, they have made these applications universal. Microsoft is taking its all products to the slogan they created "mobile first, cloud first" and now its Office turn to get on it. It will empower the workings done on Microsoft Office which has never thought of before. Do you want to see what Microsoft Word will look like? Below is the image of MS-Word released few days ago by Microsoft on the launch of technical preview of Windows 10.

Microsoft and Samsung are friends again!

Back in August 2014, Microsoft took Samsung to court seeking enforcement over the royalty payments on Android devices. The two tech giants had signed two contracts in 2011. But in February 2015, the two giants have announced in the court of U.S that they both have agreed upon on a "confidential" agreement and their dispute has now ended. Do not know how, but back-channel talks has worked it out or maybe it is because of Satya Nadella's peacful mind!.

 

Imagine Cup

Microsoft has a primary task to get the developers from all over the world to one platform and compete each of them to one-another so there will be a grand competition where developers has to code better than the other. This kind of competition is termed as Imagine Cup, where developers "imagine" the code which is best of the best and then they defend their code or program or any project to their rivalries.

It all started in 2003, from the beginning till now, there has been more than  358,000 competitors that has taken part in this cup from around the world.

So if you have the passion, enthusiasm and you think you can code the best. Be a part of this competition!

Visual Studio is for all ...

From Web Applications to Windows Applications and now moving towards Mobile Applications, Visual Studio has been and still in drastic use for programming. The previous versions like Ultimate 2013 Update 4 had many great features and much more user friendly environment but it has not stopped now. Let me tell you all about some outstanding features that are about to come for developers of Visual Studio 2015! Yes, you read it correct. Microsoft is going to launch a newer version of Visual Studio this year!

The top features that are most awaited by the developers will be:

1. Custom Window Layout:

It does not matter if you use a 17" monitor or LCD or if you are using Surface Pro, you can apply the layout of Visual Studio considering the screen size and vision you have. Isnt it interesting? No more, boring same layout all the time! Change whenever you want and whatever your screen will adopt.

2. Better Code Editing

Do you face difficulties in writing the code? Do you get confuse while coding? You do not need to be anymore, VS 2015 will going to have Roslyn compiler now. A "bulb" feature which will be lighted up as you make any mistake in syntax. Just click that "bulb" and it will suggest you the correct code. Simple, isnt it?

3. Blend for VS 2015

Blend for Visual Studio 2015 will going to be as rocking as before. The custom window layout, Intellisense in XAML, Source Control and NuGet Packages are going to be more enhanced as before.


These features are just a preview but i think there will be more in VS 2015 that we expecting. :)