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.