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On January 25th, I wrote a blog post with instructions on Installing and Configuring VMware Fusion 5.02 on a Mac to do Windows 8 and Windows Phone development.  I am following up with a new post on Installing and Configuring Parallels 8 on a Mac to start developing Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps...

In Part 1 of 3, I documented the steps to install and configure VMware Fusion 5.02 on a Mac. In Part 2 of 3, I documented the steps to install Windows 8 from an ISO into a Fusion Virtual Machine. In this third part, I am documenting the steps to install Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 and Visual...

In Part 1 of 3, I documented the steps to install and configure VMware Fusion 5.02 on a Mac.  In this second part, I am documenting the steps to install Windows 8 from an ISO into a Fusion Virtual Machine.  To be honest, this is really not much different than installing Windows 8 in general...

I have had quite a few people ask me for help configuring Windows 8 on a Mac so they can do Windows 8 and / or Windows Phone development.  I worked with a few of my peers to document the steps for 5 different options – Boot Camp, Parallels, VMware Fusion, VirtualBox and Azure.  I took the lead...

On October 17th, I wrote a blog post about upcoming TechNet Events taking place in the West Region in the November and December time frame ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/haroldwong/archive/2011/10/17/upcoming-west-region-technet-events-in-november-2011.aspx ).  I am now writing a follow up post to...

So, Microsoft employees who don’t already work at the Microsoft Retail stores but who live in a city where a store exists were given an opportunity to sign up and spend a day working side by side with the main store employees.  I happen to live in such a city and so I signed up to spend a day as...

I had the opportunity to attend Tech Ed 2011 in Atlanta, GA from May 16th through 19th.  I thought I would recap some of my experiences from the past week.  Tech Ed is one of the best opportunities for IT Pros to gather and get the latest and greatest information on a plethora of Microsoft...

One of the common requests I receive from folks is around the Microsoft Technology Roadmap. Everyone wants to know what the future of a given product or platform will be so they can make better decisions around how to use (or buy) our technologies. I found out there is an event coming up on Thursday...