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Download Free Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2 Books from Microsoft Press
Last Updated on Monday, 14 May 2012 11:19 Written by Mire_B Monday, 14 May 2012 11:19
Microsoft Press is offering a rather interesting collection of free books for download. Just follow the links on the images below and enjoy content on Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008, Virtualization, and Office 365. Via here.
Getting an Idea on the Size of the Office Team
Last Updated on Sunday, 13 May 2012 01:00 Written by Mire_B Sunday, 13 May 2012 01:00
With Microsoft employing close to 100,000 people, it’s quite unclear just how many people are actually working on the company’s cash cows. Microsoft does offer approximations, and here’s one from a job post: some 2,500 engineers are responsible for in excess of 100 million lines of code that make up the Office suite, I’m guessing both desktop- and server-side, not sure about Cloud.
Software Development Engineer II, Office, 793539
Job Category: Software Engineering: Development Location: United States, WA, Redmond Job ID: 79353981160 Product: Office Division: Microsoft Office Division
The Office product spans client applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, server products like SharePoint, and web applications like the Office Web Apps. There are teams working on applications that have been around for decades, and there are teams working on v1 products. There are more than 2500 engineers working on more than a hundred million lines of code. We are the team that brings order to this diverse set of technical work and keeps it running efficiently by developing tools and systems that scale well, are consistent, reliable, robust and easy to use.
Our mission includes creating a fully automated build system for all of Office that provides a level of service that is unparalleled anywhere else, to improve our test automation framework and to provide a foundation for all developers and testers to create robust tests that keep our product quality high, to improve all our development and test tools to reach a new level of efficiency in the day to day work of all Office engineers, to enable engineers in regional development centers around the globe to work efficiently, to improve the code quality across all Office applications and services by using tools like static code analysis, and to integrate our feedback and telemetry systems into our core engineering processes.
Microsoft Exploits LCD Viewing Angles Limitation to Enable Concurrent Dual View
Last Updated on Monday, 7 May 2012 11:58 Written by Mire_B Monday, 7 May 2012 11:58
There’s a saying about one man’s trash being another man’s treasure. Watch the video embedded below to see this truism come to fruition. Microsoft Research exploited a common fault in LCD screens, namely limited viewing angles, to enable concurrent dual view. Via Steve Clayton.
