Microsoft were looking for the arrival of Windows 8 to turn around the ongoing decline in PC sales, with the first sales numbers released, it looks like the hoped for turnaround hasn’t occurred… Since the launch of Windows 8, sales of Windows devices in the US have dropped 21 per cent compared to the same… Continue Reading
One of the more annoying omissions from the Microsoft Entity Framework is the out of the box ability to easily trace the SQL statements produced by the framework. In the past we’ve got around that using Community Entity Framework Provider Wrappers which includes EFTracingProvider that can log the generated SQL statements to the console or… Continue Reading
Last night Microsoft announced their new tablet, the Surface. There is a good summary of the key points here: The Only Post You Need To Read About Microsofts New Tablet. However it is an interesting move, as the article above says, this is a big change for Microsoft who aside from the XBox haven’t ever… Continue Reading
I grabbed this screenshot during an online conversation about some of the more bizarre coding people have seen that came about as a result of the ongoing nasty surprises Phil Winstanley (@plip) keeps turning up in his current work. This picture however shows some code that used to be in one of our systems, but… Continue Reading
Yesterday afternoon the internet was buzzing with details of the launch of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series in Barcelona. Only it wasn’t really a launch, it was more a demonstration of a preview version of the platform. It’s predecessor was only launched last autumn, and this pretty well complete rewrite of the Microsoft mobile phone… Continue Reading