Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft – but why?

By tim, on November 13th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has announced that Windows chief Steven Sinofsky is leaving the company:

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky will be leaving the company and that Julie Larson-Green will be promoted to lead all Windows software and hardware engineering. Tami Reller retains her roles as chief financial officer and chief

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November 13th, 2012 | Tags: , | Category: .net, development, microsoft, software development, windows | 5 comments

A simple example of async and await in C# 5

By tim, on September 23rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I have been playing with the Visual Studio 11 developer preview and exploring its asynchronous features, specifically the async and await keywords which are new to C# 5.0. These features have actually been available as a CTP (Community Tech Preview) since October 2010, but I had not found time to try it.

I like to

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September 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: .net, microsoft, professional, software development, visual studio, windows | 10 comments

This is why people ignore security warnings: IE9 blocks official Microsoft update

By tim, on June 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has released a Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010, with new HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript support.

I look forward to trying it; but Internet Explorer 9’s Smart Filter was not keen.

What you cannot see from the screenshot is that the option to “Run anyway” is hidden by default. You have to

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June 16th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: microsoft, security | 6 comments