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Improving Windows Server: the really hard problem

By tim, on November 9th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

At Microsoft’s Build conference last week I attended a Server 2012 press event led by Jeffrey Snover, the Lead Architect for the Windows Server Division.

He and others spoke about the key features of Server 2012 and how it justifies Microsoft’s claim that it is the cornerstone of the Cloud OS.

It is a strong

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Rubbish apps in Windows Store – encouraged by Microsoft?

By tim, on November 7th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Someone (and you wonder who) has taken it upon themselves to document rubbish apps in the new Windows Store. The stated reason:

Here we call out all the trash in the hopes that someone at Microsoft is listening and can remove them.

He or she has found plenty of examples – like the developer who

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Microsoft answers Windows Runtime questions

By tim, on November 5th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I watched the Windows Runtime (WinRT) “Ask the Experts” session from Build 2012; I did not get to attend in person as it conflicted with Herb Sutter’s session on C++. The session was chaired by Martyn Lovell.

Here is what I thought most significant or interesting.

Microsoft knows that certain types of apps

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Microsoft Build 2012 is done. Now the market gets to judge Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

By tim, on November 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I am just back from Microsoft’s Build conference, at the company’s headquarters near Seattle. This is a company in transition and the event had that feel to it. There was not much that we did not know about before, but this is the moment of full release into the market for some key products, and

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How to test and debug an app on Surface RT in a hotel room

By tim, on November 1st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I wanted to test an app on Surface RT this morning, though I am out of the office with just a Samsung Slate (has Visual Studio), the Surface, and hotel wi-fi.

You can do remote debugging on Surface RT as explained here, however you need a private network.

I set up an ad-hoc network from

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Investigating Surface RT performance: Counting primes in C# and JavaScript

By tim, on November 1st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

How is the performance of Surface RT? Tolerable but rather slow would be my quick summary. Surface RT has a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset.

In order to investigate further, I built a simple app to count primes, using essentially the code here. I ran the code both in JavaScript and in C#. This is

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