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On Tuesday the Bing team added video to the type of results it will return in the Bing for Windows 8 app. The Bing Search blog describes the experience and if it’s anything like the News app then it’s sure to be a winner. There’s a team within Bing that develops all of the group...

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  A few weeks ago I got the chance to chat with Ira Snyder, General Manager of Fresh Paint . If you've not yet had the chance to try Fresh Paint, the new painting app for Windows 8, it’s available for free in the Windows Store and has over a 4 star rating...

A great addition to the Windows Store last week – the official Khan Academy app . For those not familiar with the Khan Academy, it’s an online phenomena that enables you to learn almost anything. For free. It's the focus on a story on Forbes.com titled One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students...

Okay…now I wish I was in New York. The Windows launch took over the screens in the square, lines formed at our store in the same location and when the curtain dropped to open the store it was mobbed with customers eager to see and buy Surface and Windows 8. The photos below, culled from folks...

I often tell people I’ve got one of the best jobs at Microsoft; I get the opportunity to meet and talk with the people here who brew the special sauce that is Microsoft. Last week I got to meet and talk with the guy who first created the sauce. Following a Microsoft event to celebrate 30 years...

- this is fast becoming my favorite key in Windows 8 . I’ve been upgrading all of my machines to the release version of the software over the last week and in particular enjoying the experience on my Sony Vaio Z when connected up to two monitors at home. My system flies along and every day I find...

[a Fresh Paint creation from my 3 year old daughter - click to see the hi-res version and the level of realism] When I heard about Fresh Paint on Windows 8, I wondered how it would be different from other applications out there that use touch. Many people are familiar with Paint, an application that...

I was in the process of writing up a post on all of the keyboard shortcuts I have found in playing with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview yet I had this nagging feeling that the list must exist somewhere. A quick hop over to the Windows Experience Blog confirmed that. In a post by Kent Walter that covered...

It seems appropriate to end the week with this Windows 8 video. If you haven’t had chance to try out the Consumer Preview , why not spend the weekend joining the million who already have? Tweet

I’m still working my way through the //BUILD sessions – all of which are online and many accompanied by slide decks. My recent favorite is Sam Moreau’s session titled Designing Metro style: principles and personality . I’m a real sucker for anything related to design given...

Following the demo and discussion at the D Conference yesterday, Mike Angiulo took to the stage at Computex to show off a range of devices running Windows 8 and gave some details on the hardware design points. I found this slide particularly interesting which led me to head off and read up on UEFI –...

This afternoon at the D9 conference , Steven Sinofsky talked publicly about Windows 8 for the first time and was followed with a demo from Julie Larson Green. Without a live video feed, I sat and “watched” the show via Twitter as a cast of hundreds (it seems) live tweeted the even giving...

Hot on the heels of the @brandonfoy video for Windows Phone shown during the day 2 keynote at MIX11, comes this video titled Detention – the winner of the Windows video contest in association with MOFILM . Contestants were asked to submit a short video aimed at students with the chance to win over...

Long Zheng spotted this video a while back and it’s now officially released it seems – my buddy Brandon posted about it over on the Windows team blog last week. He has all the details there but the basic story is the Windows team documented the creation of a new song my indie artist Andrew...