Microsoft Student Partner 2012-2013

Hii all This was My round 1 video submission for Microsoft Student Partner

Do like it or feel free to comment about the video...:P

Visual Studio 2012 rc Error

Hi guyz i was installing visual studio 2012 and the installation was shown successful but when i launched my visual studio 2012 rc it showed mw a nice error "The procedure entry point_Atomic_fetch_sub_4 could not be located in the dynamic library: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe".Then i tried to repair my studio but it doesn't work .After some research on Google i found a update from microsoft which fixed my problem.

Here is the link to download update:Microsoft July Update

Outlook.com takes on Gmail directly with first ad spot

Microsoft has made it clear that they’re ready to brush the Hotmail off their shoulders and get back to business with Outlook.com, a direct competitor for Google’s Gmail service. We’ve had a bit of a hands-on look at the public preview they’ve released earlier today and found it to be nothing less than clean, refined, and surprisingly easy to use. What Microsoft has done between the release earlier today and the media blitz that’s happened in the interim is to release their first advertisement video spot, complete with a few pointed cut-downs on Gmail with visual cues.

What you’re going to see in this spot is a rather friendly, “Dear Email, why have our expectations become so low? It’s time for something new.” And with that, they’re off to the races, having a peek at what’s quite obviously a rendering of Gmail with the name “OldMail” attached to it. This chalk drawing is quickly analyzed and tossed out with comments such as:
• Clutter
• Redundant
• Creepy Ads
And replaced with a layout that, with sticky-notes, Microsoft is claiming will contain a list of great abilities and features.
• Connected
• Modern
• Smart & Powerful
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Skype
• Clean UI
• Intuitive
• Modern Devices
• Office
• Skydrive
• Sweep
From here it does a lovely montage of these features with Skype video chat, some easy to use photo galleries, and nothing but lovely looks as its blue and white dominate the screen while photos and video are left to hang nicely in the stark gallery-like environment. This environment is, again, made to rather directly take on Gmail, and Microsoft isn’t shying away from that idea either. You can jump right in with your own email address to sign up, use your Microsoft account to move around, and hook up with Twitter and Facebook while you’re at it.

Windows Phone users will very soon be encouraged to use Outlook.com for their email needs while Microsoft finally makes a great effort to leave Gmail behind. Skydrive and Skype are already onboard here so you can connect with your Windows Phone easily, and we’re going to go ahead and make a wild guess and say that there’s a new Outlook email app on its way for all mobile devices, too. We shall see!

Microsoft Office 2013 Customer Preview Released

Microsoft has official released Office 2013 Customer Preview. This is one of the biggest customer preview releases after Windows 8. Microsoft is making big bets with this release. They are taking some bold initiatives with this release. This release is basically targeted for the touch based devices like Mobiles, Tabs etc.

I have tried the Customer Preview. The very first impression is awesome...It has a beautiful interface and stability in its use. The Customer Preview comes in two models:

a. Office 365 Model where we use the Customer Preview as a Cloud Service.
b. Offline method (traditional .msi installater)

I am running the customer preview for the last one day without any crashes and glitches. And to add on, the Customer Preview automatically picked up my Outlook data and One Note Data.

Can't wait for the final release now.....

Blown Away By Lumia

So its Nokia blowing all the phones which are having much more hardware config.

A small and a best nokia add .........:P

Now are you adapting to windows phone 7 or stick with dumb smart phones ???.   

Apple Co-Founder: Windows Phone 7.5 ‘More Beautiful’ Than iOS, Android

Steve Wozniak recently had some kind words to say about Windows Phone 7.5. The Apple co-founder stated Microsoft’s mobile product is better than Android, and most surprisingly, offers a better app experience than both Android and iOS, according to PC Magazine.
In surprising comments recently made to A New Domain’s Dan Patterson, Gina Smith, and Todd Moore, Wozniak says Windows Phone 7 beats Android in terms of “looks and beauty.” So much so, he would recommend Microsoft’s product over Android.
When speaking specifically of the new Nokia Lumia 900, which comes with Windows Phone 7, Wozniak states:

“I’m kind of shocked on every screen — much more beautiful than the same apps on Android and iPhone. “

Wozniak’s most glowing comment for Microsoft is when he stated:

“I also surmised that Steve Jobs might have been reincarnated at (Microsoft) due to a lot of what I see and feel with this phone making me think of a lot of great Apple things.”

As The New York Times recently noted, Microsoft has been underwriting developers’ costs for building Windows Phone apps. In other words, apps that would have cost developers $60,000 to $600,000 to create were 100 percent supported by Microsoft.
Does this matter? Absolutely not. In fact, kudos to Microsoft for creating a mobile OS that received praise from an Apple co-founder. Perhaps Wozniak’s comments will cause Cupertino to rethink iOS 6.0 and make it even better than we know it will be.
Finally, it’s worth noting that despite Wozniak’s comments, the “number-one phone in his geeky heart” remains the iPhone.
Are you surprised by Wozniak’s comments?

Some glance on visual studio 2011

                    Visual Studio 11 Beta

With Microsoft readying a beta version of Visual Studio 11, the next major upgrade to the company's IDE, developers are interested in HTML5 backing as well as in basic functional fixes. Visual Studio 11, available as a developer preview since last month, is set to feature accommodations for the upcoming Windows 8 OS, as well as the Windows Azure cloud computing platform, along with capabilities such as code cloning and enhanced unit testing. No release date is yet scheduled.
"I do like the HTML5 stuff they're showing and also some of the intelligence enhancements they have for CSS [Cascading Style Sheets] 3," says Joel Padot, a developer at Florida Farm Bureau Insurance. His company is looking at HTML5 and Web applications as way to support mobile devices. (HTML5 features are planned for the HTML editor in Visual Studio 11.) Padot also praised code review capabilities planned for the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server application lifecycle management server.
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But Microsoft's IDE could use some basic functional improvements, says Funmi Bajomo, a software developer at Ledge Light Technologies, which does custom software development: "Visual Studio 2010 has a tendency to freeze a lot. You have to reset your computer quite often to get it to run properly." She hopes Visual Studio 11 fixes that issue.
Bajomo also questions Visual Studio's pricing and upgrade cycle. Her company spent more than $10,000 for five developers to use the current version, which was released in April 2010. Microsoft releases a new version about every two years. "In this economy, do we really want to be asked to actually pay for another version so soon?" she asks rhetorically.
Stacy Shaw, a developer at aerospace firm Triumph Structures, is happy about the promised deeper tie-ins between Visual Studio 11 and Microsoft SharePoint collaboration platform: "I think it's going to be a lot easier to develop." Shaw also is looking forward to better ease-of-use in Visual Studio 11 and wants better compliance with standards such as HTML5 and CSS.
Ease-of-use is one of Microsoft's focus areas, says Cameron Skinner, Microsoft's general manager for Visual Studio Ultimate. "How do we just remove some of the complexities in the environment itself and keep you guys focused on the job at hand?" is the question Microsoft's developers were asked to address. Thus, Visual Studio 11 requires fewer tool bars and tool windows to get a job done, he says.

Windows U Crew Tour In Lpu

The tour of Microsoft windows 7 u crew division was awesomely held at our college .We had lots of fun and lots of goodies had been distributed during the event .
There was so much crowd who attended to our sessions  and they got to know about so many technologies like windows(7,8) ,Skydrive, Xbox-kinect, Windows Live essentials , and the main part metro applications and windows phone apps .
Thanks to other(renu and apoorv) crew members who helped in this event.

SQL Server 2012 Available For Downloads(Generally Available)

Microsoft is excited to announce the general availability (GA) of SQL Server 2012 for purchase and download. SQL Server 2012 has already been deployed for production use by hundreds of global, industry-leading customers, such as Volvo Car Corp., Revlon, the HSN, Klout and LG Chemical.
SQL Server 2012 delivers a powerful new set of capabilities for mission-critical workloads, business intelligence and hybrid IT across traditional datacenters and public and private clouds. This includes:

• SQL Server AlwaysOn, a new high availability solution delivering increased application availability, lower TCO and ease of use.
• xVelocity, in-memory technologies significantly boost data warehouse and analytics performance by up to 100x.
• Power View, a web-based, highly interactive, data visualization and presentation solution designed to enable business users and decision makers to quickly discover meaningful insights from their data.
• Data integration and management, new and enhanced tools to deliver credible, consistent data to the right users at the right time, including new SQL Server Data Quality Services and enhanced Master Data Services.
• Enhanced PowerPivot functionalities enable customers to leverage new advanced analytic capabilities and further ease of use while still working within the familiar tools provided by Excel.
• The new Business Intelligence (BI) Semantic Model provides a single, scalable model for BI applications, from reporting and analysis to dashboards and scorecards.
• SQL Server Data Tools, a new tool that unifies SQL Server and cloud SQL Azure development for both professional database and application developers.

Customers can download the latest version of SQL Server 2012 here. Also, for a deep dive on all things SQL Server 2012, check out the SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event. All content from the Virtual Launch Event will be available until June 30, 2012. The event features 30+ webcasts from SQL Server 2012 experts in addition to a number of other multimedia features from Microsoft partners.
We are also pleased to announce the release of the second Preview of our Hadoop based service for Windows Azure. We are expanding capacity of this service by up to 4x to accommodate exceptionally high demand.  This preview provides an elastic Hadoop service with more reliability through disaster recovery of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) NameNode, and support for advanced analytics through Hadoop projects like Mahout.  In addition, it provides actionable insights to everyone through familiar tools like Office, SharePoint and award winning BI tools like PowerPivot and Power View in SQL Server 2012.  This preview also enables customers to enrich their data by connecting to data and intelligence outside their firewalls.  Customers interested in signing up for the latest preview should visit http://www.hadooponazure.com.

IE9 Pin Task

Microsoft finally released its first public beta of its much anticipated browser IE9. The browser is touted to be more faster as compare to others because of its new javascript engine code named: "Chakra".  The UI is also changed a lot and reflects more of Chrome kind of look. Other features are:
1. Full support of HTML 5
2. W3C complaint.
3. New and Fast Javascript rendering engine.
4. Uses GPU for full hardware acceleration.
5. One bar for url and search.
6. Tabs can be directly pinned to the windows task bar and it uses full utilization of jumplist.
7. Favorites icons being displayed for the most visited web sites.
Download link:
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
http://www.microsoft.com

Thumbs up for making such a nice and stable public beta. Hope fully Microsoft may be launching the browser by Jan, 2011. Highly recommended.

To Pin a Website to the Taskbar

NOTE: This option is not available in Vista, and is only available in Windows 7. 


1. Go to Address bar and drag the Picture before the website 



2. Then Drop it to the Taskbar 




To Unpin a Website from the Taskbar

NOTE: This option is not available in Vista, and is only available in Windows 7. 

1. Right Click on the Website and click on Unpin