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Microsoft is still in the innovation business. If you don’t think so, you haven’t heard about Microsoft’s open source electronics prototyping platform called Gadgeteer. Try it before they cancel it for no one using it
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Don't worry it will not happens 
I have a Fez Spider, the best toy I ever bought.
They can't cancel, or if they do, it does not matter.
Gadgeteer is a open source design spec for these pluggable micro controllers, Microsoft doesn't make the components.
GHI Electronics and Netduino takes care of building the real hardware and shipping the modules.
There is a small hobbyist community around these products, it is a great place to be.
I highly advice you to give a try, you'll feel empowered !
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mmSticky wrote: What's the definition of a idiot
Don't tempt me to reply on that.
You do know that this is the insider news forum. Your incoherent rant has absolutely nothing to do with news.
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mmSticky wrote: What's the definition of a idiot
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=10251739[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Apply cold water to burned area 
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I prefer 'iDiot'. You need to get with the times.
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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mmSticky wrote: What's the definition of a idiot
mmSticky wrote: can only express their opinion with violence, negative comments and damage.
Oh, sweet irony.
Shouldn't you be back posting in the SoapBox?
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That would be very clever (so I might have trouble believing it from that company).
With Elop in charge of Nokia (at least the phone division), I'm not sure. He might have made Microsoft think he was going to switch, but I don't think they had it in them. They had re-tooled from Symbian not very long ago.
Bankruptcy on the other hand: yeah, that was a good possibility.
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TTFN - Kent
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And the new name is Micro-phone?
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Robotics engineer Taylor Alexander needed to lift a nuclear cooling tower off its foundation using 19 high-strength steel cables, and the Android app that was supposed to accomplish it, for which he’d just paid a developer $20,000, was essentially worthless. "This is Radio Clash from pirate satellite"
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In the last several years, we’ve seen a rapid shift in software and app interface design, from 3-D and skeuomorphic to flat and minimal. Although this trend has become nearly ubiquitous, let’s take a moment to consider how we got here and what influence it’s having on interface design as a whole. You can never be too flat or too thin?
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We can develop and deploy the equivalent of a cloud-connected security expert on every computer -- and stop the bad guys cold. Step 3 is Profit!
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"Let us be your bad guy. It's better the bad guy you know rather than the bad guy you don't know."
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By leveraging MVVM, some other common design patterns, and a few tricks, you can write a cross-platform presentation layer that will work on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, as Brent Edwards explains. YMMV, but FYI on MVVM. OKdOK?
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The ASP.NET Framework has been around for over ten years, and the platform has enabled the development of countless Web sites and services. As Web application development strategies have evolved, the framework has been able to evolve in step with technologies like ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API. As Web application development takes its next evolutionary step into the world of cloud computing, project Katana provides the underlying set of components to ASP.NET applications, enabling them to be flexible, portable, lightweight, and provide better performance – put another way, project Katana cloud optimizes your ASP.NET applications. "That really was a Hattori Hanzo sword."
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By purchasing Nokia’s smartphone division, Microsoft has killed its signature strategy. Well, that's it folks. They've called it. Time to put away VS and brush up on those Linux internals
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I don't know man: some random guy at Slate says they're dead, they must be dead. Game over man, game over. 
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TTFN - Kent
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The Nokia that remains after it sells its phone business to Microsoft will be a considerably smaller and lower-profile company. Like the highly valuable galoshes market
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What's that programming language? There are some messed up language designers out there
Alas, I only got 33%
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