Moving on from Microsoft and my next steps…
I have an announcement to make. I sent this mail over to my colleagues at Microsoft last week. Hi, After nearly 8 years with Microsoft wearing different hats, as…
Announcing BUILD 2012
Registration opens at 8AM on 8/8 so please mark your calendars. This year, the event is at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA. More on the announcement here
Using “Windows 8 on a USB”
I want to share my experience of running Windows 8 on a USB drive. This supported feature, dubbed, “Windows To Go” or WTG provides users of enterprise SKUs an option…
Filing income tax returns online if you are in India
I will take a small de-tour today from my regular blogging schedule on all things WinRT and C++. This post is all about filing your tax returns if you are…
Time to upgrade PC Graphics card?
I recently began writing the 4th chapter of my upcoming book on “Developing Windows 8 Applications using Microsoft C++”. The 4th chapter is all about concurrency and AMP. As I…
Mentoring summer interns building Metro style apps
I spent time at office today working with some of our summer interns. These interns are at the Microsoft Campus in Hyderabad and today was an opportunity for them to…
10 years of Trustworthy computing
Just realized that it is 10 years since Bill Gates sent the memo on Trustworthy computing. Jeffrey Schwartz summarizes the journey over the past decade http://redmondmag.com/articles/2012/05/01/10-years-of-trust.aspx
Update on blog maintenance
This past weekend I completed the blog maintenance as I mentioned earlier. I moved my domain registrar, migrated from a free wordpress.com blog to a hosted instance of wordpress by…
Upcoming Blog maintenance
I have been thinking of moving from a free wordpress blog, which is what my blog is currently, to a self hosted wordpress blog. I will be trying the move…