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This week, we’ve seen a acquire refurbish from Dropbox, a new section for SkyDrive as well as a prolonged awaited presentation of Google Nessie. Is it usually Wednesday?

We’re really speedy by a reply we’ve perceived this week, as well as it’s tough not to be flattering happy when we listen to certain feedback upon all of a improvements we’ve made as well as the worth we provide vs. alternative solutions. But a most sparkling thing for us has been a reply from a customers. We’ve been anxious to listen to from we upon Twitter as well as blogs, as well as we’ve had an strenuous series of downloads of SkyDrive opposite Windows 8, Windows 7, iOS as well as Mac. We’re listening to your feedback for a future, as well as we’ll keep adding storage as well as bandwidth as quick as we can. Thank you!

What do some-more aged charts leave out?

With this week’s events, it can be fun as well as utilitarian to review facilities opposite services. We’ve seen these charts opposite a web, as well as of march we not long ago updated a own chart.

However these comparisons mostly slight a single thing. Is any provider essentially trying to set up identical experiences? As we demeanour during a category, we see a proceed with SkyDrive is increasingly unique.

We don’t consider people wish an additional jot down clouded cover to manage. They do not wish an app clouded cover scored equally to a single browser, amicable network or ad network. They do not wish nonetheless an additional exclusive device cloud. People wish a clouded cover which seamlessly connects their files to a apps as well as inclination they have make make use of of of each day.

Over a billion people rest upon Office apps as well as their Windows inclination each day to create, constraint as well as share from anywhere. That’s because we’re bureau building personal clouded cover storage for a commercial operation which functions seamlessly with Office as well as Windows.

Of march we know Office as well as Windows commercial operation have alternative inclination as well as have make make use of of of alternative apps. We wish them to suffer SkyDrive too, so we’re operative to have it accessible anywhere – but delay as well as in partnership with developers.

As we do all of this, there should be no disbelief which a commercial operation indication is aligned with your interests.

A couple of things to try today

So how only will SkyDrive let we work seamlessly with Office as well as Windows from anywhere? We suspicion we’d share a couple of things we can try today.

1. Word, Excel and PowerPoint: Work opposite web as well as desktop, online or offline – no conversions, no compromises

   With SkyDrive for Windows as well as Mac, we can simply work with papers regulating a Office apps we adore – Word, Excel as well as PowerPoint – from anywhere. Unlike alternative services, we can do this but converting in between formats or compromising upon features. Below is a reduced video to denote along with a few tips for collaboration.

2. OneNote: Capture notes, voice clips, scans as well as some-more upon a go. Access as well as poke after

   Over a years, people have called OneNote a hidden gem. Thankfully some-more people have been finding it with a launch of OneNote for Android, iPhone, iPad as well as Windows Phone. Use your phone to take notes, jot down voice clips, indicate papers as well as sync them right away to SkyDrive. Your things is pushed to OneNote 2010 upon your Personal Computer where we can classify as well as poke – even audio as well as images. You can share notebooks with your spouse, friends or teams who can have make make use of of of OneNote Web App – free.

3. Fetch files in Windows: Turn your Personal Computer in to a in isolation clouded cover to entrance any file, not only what’s in a clouded cover

   Moving files to a clouded cover offers most advantages – quite for pity as well as collaboration. However, we shouldn’t have to upload all only to entrance it anywhere. With “fetch”, SkyDrive functions seamlessly with your Windows Personal Computer so we can entrance any jot down from anywhere. You can even tide videos. Windows transcodes your video automatically to fit your connection.

4. Windows 8 Consumer Preview: Every app connects to a cloud, no setup compulsory

   With SkyDrive for Windows, a clouded cover is an additional printed matter upon your desktop. Any existent Windows app which can entrance a jot down complement can right away entrance SkyDrive. SkyDrive for Windows 8 additionally brings a seamless clouded cover knowledge to brand brand new Windows 8 apps. This opens up brand brand new possibilities, for example, regulating SkyDrive together with apps accessible right away in a Windows Store similar to Mail, Docstoc as well as Skitch.

Please try these out today, share your feedback – as well as discuss it your friends. In a entrance months, you’ll see SkyDrive go on to move seamless personal clouded cover storage to Windows as well as Office that’s accessible anywhere.

This week, we’ve seen a acquire refurbish from Dropbox, a new section for SkyDrive as well as a prolonged awaited presentation of Google Nessie. Is it usually Wednesday?

We’re really speedy by a reply we’ve perceived this week, as well as it’s tough not to be flattering happy when we listen to certain feedback upon all of a improvements we’ve made as well as the worth we provide vs. alternative solutions. But a most sparkling thing for us has been a reply from a customers. We’ve been anxious to listen to from we upon Twitter as well as blogs, as well as we’ve had an strenuous series of downloads of SkyDrive opposite Windows 8, Windows 7, iOS as well as Mac. We’re listening to your feedback for a future, as well as we’ll keep adding storage as well as bandwidth as quick as we can. Thank you!

What do some-more aged charts leave out?

With this week’s events, it can be fun as well as utilitarian to review facilities opposite services. We’ve seen these charts opposite a web, as well as of march we not long ago updated a own chart.

However these comparisons mostly slight a single thing. Is any provider essentially trying to set up identical experiences? As we demeanour during a category, we see a proceed with SkyDrive is increasingly unique.

We don’t consider people wish an additional jot down clouded cover to manage. They do not wish an app clouded cover scored equally to a single browser, amicable network or ad network. They do not wish nonetheless an additional exclusive device cloud. People wish a clouded cover which seamlessly connects their files to a apps as well as inclination they have make make use of of of each day.

Over a billion people rest upon Office apps as well as their Windows inclination each day to create, constraint as well as share from anywhere. That’s because we’re bureau building personal clouded cover storage for a commercial operation which functions seamlessly with Office as well as Windows.

Of march we know Office as well as Windows commercial operation have alternative inclination as well as have make make use of of of alternative apps. We wish them to suffer SkyDrive too, so we’re operative to have it accessible anywhere – but delay as well as in partnership with developers.

As we do all of this, there should be no disbelief which a commercial operation indication is aligned with your interests.

A couple of things to try today

So how only will SkyDrive let we work seamlessly with Office as well as Windows from anywhere? We suspicion we’d share a couple of things we can try today.

1. Word, Excel and PowerPoint: Work opposite web as well as desktop, online or offline – no conversions, no compromises

   With SkyDrive for Windows as well as Mac, we can simply work with papers regulating a Office apps we adore – Word, Excel as well as PowerPoint – from anywhere. Unlike alternative services, we can do this but converting in between formats or compromising upon features. Below is a reduced video to denote along with a few tips for collaboration.

2. OneNote: Capture notes, voice clips, scans as well as some-more upon a go. Access as well as poke after

   Over a years, people have called OneNote a hidden gem. Thankfully some-more people have been finding it with a launch of OneNote for Android, iPhone, iPad as well as Windows Phone. Use your phone to take notes, jot down voice clips, indicate papers as well as sync them right away to SkyDrive. Your things is pushed to OneNote 2010 upon your Personal Computer where we can classify as well as poke – even audio as well as images. You can share notebooks with your spouse, friends or teams who can have make make use of of of OneNote Web App – free.

3. Fetch files in Windows: Turn your Personal Computer in to a in isolation clouded cover to entrance any file, not only what’s in a clouded cover

   Moving files to a clouded cover offers most advantages – quite for pity as well as collaboration. However, we shouldn’t have to upload all only to entrance it anywhere. With “fetch”, SkyDrive functions seamlessly with your Windows Personal Computer so we can entrance any jot down from anywhere. You can even tide videos. Windows transcodes your video automatically to fit your connection.

4. Windows 8 Consumer Preview: Every app connects to a cloud, no setup compulsory

   With SkyDrive for Windows, a clouded cover is an additional printed matter upon your desktop. Any existent Windows app which can entrance a jot down complement can right away entrance SkyDrive. SkyDrive for Windows 8 additionally brings a seamless clouded cover knowledge to brand brand new Windows 8 apps. This opens up brand brand new possibilities, for example, regulating SkyDrive together with apps accessible right away in a Windows Store similar to Mail, Docstoc as well as Skitch.

Please try these out today, share your feedback – as well as discuss it your friends. In a entrance months, you’ll see SkyDrive go on to move seamless personal clouded cover storage to Windows as well as Office that’s accessible anywhere.

On Monday, we expelled preview versions of SkyDrive for Windows as good as Mac, along with updates for iOS as good as Windows Phone. With SkyDrive upon your desktop, we can right divided entrance files in a clouded cover right from any of your Personal Computer or Mac apps. And given we launched a API, we’ve been vehement to see mobile, web, as good as Windows 8 developers supplement SkyDrive to their apps.

A pass element during a back of a proceed we’ve taken with the SkyDrive developer platform is which whilst it should be seamlessly permitted from Windows inclination as good as apps, it should additionally be ready to capacitate developers upon any height to set up apps which have SkyDrive some-more useful. It’s your data. It should not be singular to apps for a singular browser or code of devices.

Given a brand brand brand new announcements, we longed for to echo how developers can confederate SkyDrive in to their apps as good as devices, showcase a couple of of a a a single preferred integrations as good as let people know about a couple of developer events we have been sponsoring in Amsterdam, NYC as good as Las Vegas.

Android apps

Developers of Android apps can have make have make have use of of of of of a Live SDK for Android to set up mobile as good as inscription apps which yield entrance to a user’s papers as good as photos in SkyDrive. The SDK supports Android versions 2.2 (Froyo) to 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Browser for SkyDrive (below) is a single of a most renouned SkyDrive apps upon Android. For some-more report see a getting proposed docs for Android development.

Desktop apps (Windows or Mac)

With SkyDrive for Windows as good as Mac, users can transparently cloud-enable their desktop apps though wanting to customize a apps given a SkyDrive printed matter looks similar to a unchanging printed matter upon a record system. This opens up literally millions of brand brand brand new possibilities for users.

In a little cases, a desktop app might wish to confederate though delay with SkyDrive, though relying upon a user carrying SkyDrive installed. For example, a SkyDrive tool for Xobni brings absolute cloud-based pity to Outlook, creation it easy to share vast files with email recipients though worrying about vast record distance limitations.

For some-more report see a getting proposed docs for desktop development.

iOS apps

In further to a SkyDrive for iPhone as good as iPad, SkyDrive business can additionally have make have make have use of of of of of any iPhone or iPad apps which have make have make have use of of of of of a SDK for iOS to confederate with SkyDrive. The SDK supports growth regulating Xcode 4.1 upon Mac OS X Snow Leopard as good as Xcode 4.2 upon Mac OS X Lion.

A good e.g. of an iOS app which integrates good with SkyDrive is DocScan. When there is no scanner available, DocScan lets we now indicate multi-page papers with your iPhone, afterwards annotate, as good as store them in a clouded cover for after have make have make have use of of of of of .

For some-more report see a getting proposed docs for iOS development

Mobile Devices

Not usually have been developers already delivering good SkyDrive apps which people can download to their Android as good as alternative phones – though a little of a greatest Android OEMs similar to HTC have additionally already built SkyDrive right in to their phones. HTC’s newest 4.0 inclination such as a HTC One X come with SkyDrive, vouchsafing we seamlessly work with your SkyDrive photos as good as papers from their local Mail, Gallery, as good as Polaris Office experiences.

We have been vehement by a unrestrained for SkyDrive of people creation alternative consumer inclination similar to cameras. Samsung’s brand brand brand new line of WiFi enabled SMART cameras (Amazon) enables users to never remove their profitable memories by uploading cinema to SkyDrive though delay from a camera.

Windows Phone apps

On Windows Phone, there have already been dozens of apps which have taken value of our SDK for Windows Phone. Apps such as HandyScan (shown below) enlarge SkyDrive’s seamless formation in to a Office as good as Pictures heart upon a phone by bringing personal clouded cover storage to a apps Windows Phone business have make have make have use of of of of of each day.

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For some-more report see a getting proposed docs for Windows Phone development

Showcasing your apps

As we can tell, we’re unequivocally unapproachable of a little of a apps which have integrated with SkyDrive as good as would similar to to share them with as most people as possible. That is why, with a recover upon Monday, we’ve additionally launched a brand brand brand new app showcase. Now millions of SkyDrive users can find apps from third celebration developers which have it simpler to share or work from anywhere. The showcase is accessible from inside of SkyDrive.com, so users can simply find apps whilst regulating a service.

Every month, we’ll supplement apps to a showcase formed upon use as good as certain feedback from customers. Let us know about apps we similar to by telling us upon Twitter.

Bringing SkyDrive to we as good as your app

To recap, developers can sense some-more about the SkyDrive API by upon vacation dev.live.com. You’ll find links to code samples upon GitHub as good as overview docs, as good as we can additionally download a SDKs for Windows 8, WP7, iOS, as good as Android to facilitate growth upon your a a single preferred device platform. We additionally have REST APIs as good as a JavaScript API for web development.

To get a word out about how SkyDrive can assistance we as good as your apps, we’ll be in attendance as good as sponsoring a couple of developer events in a entrance weeks:

• 4/25 – 4/27: TNW – Amsterdam
• 4/27 –4/29: Mobile Dev Camp – NYC
• 4/30 – 5/4: Future Insights Live – Las Vegas

Let us know if you’ll be there! We’d adore to encounter you. We’ll be accessible to assistance with questions we have upon SkyDrive, as good as we’ll additionally have cold t-shirts to give divided as good as a little alternative special prizes for people integrating SkyDrive with their apps during these hackathons. Hope to see we there.

Dare Obasanjo
Lead Program Manager, Live Connect Platform

On Monday, we expelled preview versions of SkyDrive for Windows as good as Mac, along with updates for iOS as good as Windows Phone. With SkyDrive upon your desktop, we can right divided entrance files in a clouded cover right from any of your Personal Computer or Mac apps. And given we launched a API, we’ve been vehement to see mobile, web, as good as Windows 8 developers supplement SkyDrive to their apps.

A pass element during a back of a proceed we’ve taken with the SkyDrive developer platform is which whilst it should be seamlessly permitted from Windows inclination as good as apps, it should additionally be ready to capacitate developers upon any height to set up apps which have SkyDrive some-more useful. It’s your data. It should not be singular to apps for a singular browser or code of devices.

Given a brand brand brand new announcements, we longed for to echo how developers can confederate SkyDrive in to their apps as good as devices, showcase a couple of of a a a single preferred integrations as good as let people know about a couple of developer events we have been sponsoring in Amsterdam, NYC as good as Las Vegas.

Android apps

Developers of Android apps can have make have make have use of of of of of a Live SDK for Android to set up mobile as good as inscription apps which yield entrance to a user’s papers as good as photos in SkyDrive. The SDK supports Android versions 2.2 (Froyo) to 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Browser for SkyDrive (below) is a single of a most renouned SkyDrive apps upon Android. For some-more report see a getting proposed docs for Android development.

Desktop apps (Windows or Mac)

With SkyDrive for Windows as good as Mac, users can transparently cloud-enable their desktop apps though wanting to customize a apps given a SkyDrive printed matter looks similar to a unchanging printed matter upon a record system. This opens up literally millions of brand brand brand new possibilities for users.

In a little cases, a desktop app might wish to confederate though delay with SkyDrive, though relying upon a user carrying SkyDrive installed. For example, a SkyDrive tool for Xobni brings absolute cloud-based pity to Outlook, creation it easy to share vast files with email recipients though worrying about vast record distance limitations.

For some-more report see a getting proposed docs for desktop development.

iOS apps

In further to a SkyDrive for iPhone as good as iPad, SkyDrive business can additionally have make have make have use of of of of of any iPhone or iPad apps which have make have make have use of of of of of a SDK for iOS to confederate with SkyDrive. The SDK supports growth regulating Xcode 4.1 upon Mac OS X Snow Leopard as good as Xcode 4.2 upon Mac OS X Lion.

A good e.g. of an iOS app which integrates good with SkyDrive is DocScan. When there is no scanner available, DocScan lets we now indicate multi-page papers with your iPhone, afterwards annotate, as good as store them in a clouded cover for after have make have make have use of of of of of .

For some-more report see a getting proposed docs for iOS development

Mobile Devices

Not usually have been developers already delivering good SkyDrive apps which people can download to their Android as good as alternative phones – though a little of a greatest Android OEMs similar to HTC have additionally already built SkyDrive right in to their phones. HTC’s newest 4.0 inclination such as a HTC One X come with SkyDrive, vouchsafing we seamlessly work with your SkyDrive photos as good as papers from their local Mail, Gallery, as good as Polaris Office experiences.

We have been vehement by a unrestrained for SkyDrive of people creation alternative consumer inclination similar to cameras. Samsung’s brand brand brand new line of WiFi enabled SMART cameras (Amazon) enables users to never remove their profitable memories by uploading cinema to SkyDrive though delay from a camera.

Windows Phone apps

On Windows Phone, there have already been dozens of apps which have taken value of our SDK for Windows Phone. Apps such as HandyScan (shown below) enlarge SkyDrive’s seamless formation in to a Office as good as Pictures heart upon a phone by bringing personal clouded cover storage to a apps Windows Phone business have make have make have use of of of of of each day.

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For some-more report see a getting proposed docs for Windows Phone development

Showcasing your apps

As we can tell, we’re unequivocally unapproachable of a little of a apps which have integrated with SkyDrive as good as would similar to to share them with as most people as possible. That is why, with a recover upon Monday, we’ve additionally launched a brand brand brand new app showcase. Now millions of SkyDrive users can find apps from third celebration developers which have it simpler to share or work from anywhere. The showcase is accessible from inside of SkyDrive.com, so users can simply find apps whilst regulating a service.

Every month, we’ll supplement apps to a showcase formed upon use as good as certain feedback from customers. Let us know about apps we similar to by telling us upon Twitter.

Bringing SkyDrive to we as good as your app

To recap, developers can sense some-more about the SkyDrive API by upon vacation dev.live.com. You’ll find links to code samples upon GitHub as good as overview docs, as good as we can additionally download a SDKs for Windows 8, WP7, iOS, as good as Android to facilitate growth upon your a a single preferred device platform. We additionally have REST APIs as good as a JavaScript API for web development.

To get a word out about how SkyDrive can assistance we as good as your apps, we’ll be in attendance as good as sponsoring a couple of developer events in a entrance weeks:

• 4/25 – 4/27: TNW – Amsterdam
• 4/27 –4/29: Mobile Dev Camp – NYC
• 4/30 – 5/4: Future Insights Live – Las Vegas

Let us know if you’ll be there! We’d adore to encounter you. We’ll be accessible to assistance with questions we have upon SkyDrive, as good as we’ll additionally have cold t-shirts to give divided as good as a little alternative special prizes for people integrating SkyDrive with their apps during these hackathons. Hope to see we there.

Dare Obasanjo
Lead Program Manager, Live Connect Platform

Back in Mar during Internet Explorer’s Badger Palooza eventuality during the 2012 SXSW Interactive legal holiday we denounced an colonnade appurtenance using Internet Explorer 9 featuring an HTML5 diversion formed upon the renouned charcterised reduced movie “Marshmallow People” from FilmCow. It was so popular, we’ve done the game, grown by Bradley as well as Montgomery, accessible for everybody – be certain to check out Marshmallow People: Bored to Death

Bored To Death is an colonnade character soldier dictated as the reversion to colonnade games of the past as well as powered by JavaScript as well as HTML5.. The diversion has the wearied Marshmallow people using around the personification sourroundings perplexing to keep themselves from literally being wearied to death. Even cooler, the second player can stick upon the diversion upon the same earthy keyboard. For those meddlesome in the colonnade setup, we’ll be receiving the Marshmallow People upon the highway during events around the US over the entrance months to give developers the possibility to get hands upon with the arcade.

For developers meddlesome in the JavaScript as well as HTML5 at the back of the game, the group combined an in abyss Behind the Tech page that discusses the little of the hurdles the group faced as well as how they overcame them. We additionally only launched BuildNewGames.com that provides the lot of good calm upon how developers can strap HTML5 for web gaming. Check it out as well as let us know what we think!

Jason

#boredtodeathie

Back in Mar during Internet Explorer’s Badger Palooza eventuality during the 2012 SXSW Interactive legal holiday we denounced an colonnade appurtenance using Internet Explorer 9 featuring an HTML5 diversion formed upon the renouned charcterised reduced movie “Marshmallow People” from FilmCow. It was so popular, we’ve done the game, grown by Bradley as well as Montgomery, accessible for everybody – be certain to check out Marshmallow People: Bored to Death

Bored To Death is an colonnade character soldier dictated as the reversion to colonnade games of the past as well as powered by JavaScript as well as HTML5.. The diversion has the wearied Marshmallow people using around the personification sourroundings perplexing to keep themselves from literally being wearied to death. Even cooler, the second player can stick upon the diversion upon the same earthy keyboard. For those meddlesome in the colonnade setup, we’ll be receiving the Marshmallow People upon the highway during events around the US over the entrance months to give developers the possibility to get hands upon with the arcade.

For developers meddlesome in the JavaScript as well as HTML5 at the back of the game, the group combined an in abyss Behind the Tech page that discusses the little of the hurdles the group faced as well as how they overcame them. We additionally only launched BuildNewGames.com that provides the lot of good calm upon how developers can strap HTML5 for web gaming. Check it out as well as let us know what we think!

Jason

#boredtodeathie

Today we listened about a new investigate finished by web opening government organisation New Relic. The investigate reliable which when it comes to genuine universe page bucket times – Internet Explorer 9 is fastest upon Windows. The investigate can be found here: http://blog.newrelic.com/2012/04/05/fastest-browsers/

New Relic found which IE9 installed pages, upon average, half a second faster than both Google Chrome as good as Mozilla Firefox. What is estimable of note per New Relic’s investigate as good as ensuing interpretation is their exam methodology. As they note upon their blog, New Relic is “sitting upon what can plausibly be deliberate a world’s largest database of concentration opening interpretation in existence.” In this study, they prisoner 690,000 page views per minute of real-time opening interpretation which came without delay from a browser opposite an endless network of sites as good as users.

New Relic’s commentary counterpart a formula from web opening experts during Strangeloop, who in Jan found which IE9 as good as Firefox were both about 5% faster than Chrome during loading genuine websites.

There have been a lot of web opening benchmarks out there, mostly built by browser makers in fact. And formed upon their design, they can mostly problematic real-world browser performance. New Relic is good positioned to equates to to criticism credibly upon a state of web opening from a finish user viewpoint due to a strech (monitors 150,000 singular domains upon a internet) as good as a exam methodology. It’s good to see New Relic’s concentration upon a tangible user knowledge when it comes to opening upon a web.

Our Commitment to Real World Performance:

For over a year we have told we which what we caring about upon a IE group is genuine universe performance, as good as a joining is to creation certain which Internet Explorer gives we a really most appropriate opening with a sites we love. Ensuring which turn of opening starts with a testing as good as opening facilities here during Microsoft. Our engineering group not long ago posted a consummate blog post explaining only how we test, measure, as good as operative Internet Explorer so it is quick where it counts – upon a web pages we revisit each day.

We will go on to pull a web brazen with a investments in hardware took off HTML5 – as good as what which equates to for Internet Explorer users is which a web is not starting to only get faster, though richer as good as some-more dynamic than ever before.

If we haven’t since Internet Explorer 9 a try newly we inspire we to test it out as good as see only how distant Internet Explorer has come in a past year.

-Ryan Gavin, General Manager, Internet Explorer

It’s a good year to be a developer. With a recover of Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 5 for Windows 8 Consumer Preview, it’s never been simpler to set up sites which work good in all complicated browsers. The web continues to develop as well as IE10 PP5 supports 33 brand brand brand brand brand new HTML5 & CSS3 site-ready web standards – more than 2.5x some-more than IE9. Most of these technologies have been hardware accelerated, giving developers a in-browser opening to emanate web practice which opposition local applications. Both Cut a Rope or Jasmine V have been good examples of this in action.

Announcing BuildNewGames.com

This week @ JSConf you voiced a brand brand brand brand brand new partnership with Bocoup to have office building web games simpler for developers with a brand brand brand brand brand new site called BuildNewGames.com.

Most developers sense how to emanate games by plug-ins similar to Flash, upon Facebook, or by a set of technologies written usually for a single height similar to iOS. But BuildNewGames.com is dedicated to assisting developers write plug-in free games regulating HTML5, CSS3, as well as JavaScript which yield a fast, secure believe in most browsers.

In owner of Bocoup, Boaz Sender’s own words:

We wish to assistance a throngs of programmers who have done a jump in to Open Web diversion growth to emanate a collection of diversion growth knowledge. The Internet Explorer team’s concentration upon hardware took off web standards done them a right partner for this project.

Over a subsequent couple of months, a site will underline 50 tutorials from a coding basis of games to how to have income opposite a operation of platforms.  Follow @buildnewgames or @IE for a latest.  We launch with 5 brand brand brand brand brand new pieces disdainful to a site:

• Taming a SVG Beast
• Evolving WebSockets: A Guide
• The Mobile Gaming Primer
• Composite Ops – Your Canvas Utility Belt
• The Basics of Sprite Animation

Let’s assistance developers write cross-browser code.

BuildNewGames.com is partial of a joining towards assisting developers write formula which reliably functions in all complicated browsers together with Chrome, Firefox, as well as IE10/9. The web hasn’t been an easy height to formula for in a past couple of years. Developers have to await some-more browsers than ever – together with mobile versions as well as comparison desktop versions of IE. The outcome is a complex exam matrix as well as aloft growth costs. We wish see this complaint get improved – by standards physique leadership as well as practical learning which developers can have certainty in.

As IE10 continues towards a trail to release, you will share a array of brand brand brand brand brand new ways we’re creation a web an simpler place for genuine web developers to set up for. Like web standards, browsers evolve.

What does a destiny reason for strain videos? That’s a subject we sought to answer as we worked with cocktail prodigy Jasmine Villegas upon a brand brand brand brand brand brand new chronicle of her strike song, Just a Friend, right away accessible to a single side during JustAFriend.ie.

Music videos have remained mostly unvaried over a past couple of decades. Yet this is an area developed for evolution. Modern browsers similar to Internet Explorer 9 with hardware increase in speed joined with a proliferation of amicable media equates to artists have brand brand brand brand brand brand new as good as sparkling ways to bond with their fans by a web. It is an wholly brand brand brand brand brand brand new area of possibilities, finish with personalized as good as interactive practice tailored to any as good as any person.

Today, we get to take a cold step brazen in which evolution, as we betray a brand brand brand brand brand brand new strain knowledge which pushes a bounds upon what’s been finished with videos, both in conditions of a interactivity as good as personalization it enables as good as a approach it was developed: pristine HTML5 goodness.

The project, Just a Friend.ie, takes a strike strain from cocktail star Jasmine Villegas as good as brings fans true in to a core of her strain video, with cold facilities similar to Facebook integration, a capability to change a story, fool around games, as good as even get or give a warn “phone call” from Jasmine.

The complicated concentration upon air blower rendezvous has regularly been critical for Jasmine since she built her air blower bottom from a belligerent up regulating amicable media as good as a powerhouse work ethic – in fact, she is now a single of a many absolute lady upon Twitter, according to her Klout score. While a rest of this sold post focuses upon a growth of a site itself, if we wish to review some-more about a partnership with Jasmine, click over to a Microsoft News Center.

JustAFriend.ie: Behind a Scenes
Creating good practice with HTML5 has been a large concentration for a IE group since we introduced IE9 as good as in a past couple of months alone you’ve seen us launch a HTML5 chronicle of Cut a Rope as good as a Inaugural Capitol Tour for a strike film a Hunger Games. With any brand brand brand brand brand brand new experience, we similar to to give a demeanour underneath a growth metal cover so which others can see as good as sense from how a knowledge came to life.

For JustAFriend.ie, we partnered with Digital Kitchen upon a development, focusing upon how to supplement brand brand brand brand brand brand new as good as sparkling levels of interactivity. If you’re a developer, we inspire we to take a demeanour during a full page JustAFriend.ie: Developer Behind a Scenes since it includes a during a behind of a scenes video, a technical teardown starting in to abyss around a technologies which built a experience, as good as a download of a item college of song JavaScript used to hoop a pre-caching of audio, video as good as images by a configurable queued system.

Of course, if we wish only a discerning ambience prior to we dive in to a full dev page, here have been 5 of a coolest tech call-outs from a video:

1. Seamless Facebook integration. When we sign-in to your Facebook comment upon JustAFriend.ie, we might notice your cinema looming upon Jasmine’s wall. If we demeanour closely, you’ll notice they have been placed in such a approach regulating a CSS Visual Effects to have it crop up as if they belonged there to proceed with.

2. HTML5 board elements overlaid upon live movement video. In a bowling scene, for example, we line a line as good as supplement a 3D diversion covering over top. The outcome is an protracted being feel.

3. Database Storytelling: Rather than carrying a linear video fool around from commencement to end, during filming we had to fire mixed versions of a same stage formed upon a outcome of a user action. In we do so, we had to fundamentally emanate a database from which to seamlessly call sold scenes to ‘play next’. When finished right, it feels as if a outcome was regularly a intention. When in fact, we can go behind as good as fool around a sold stage otherwise as good as notice a opposite result.

David Mikula, Senior Creative with Digital Kitchen said, "We’ve been tender by Internet Explorer’s performance, generally when it comes to 2D board as good as SVG. Microsoft is seeking to a destiny by ancillary complicated web technologies as good as a communities which move it to life."

4. Mad JavaScript Calculations. Many of a diversion mechanics, quite a stage where viewers can “push” Jasmine’s intrigue beloved in to a pool, compulsory a lot of up-front formulation in sequence to grasp a outcome we see today. To give we a ambience for what went in to formulating this: since we filmed a stage during 96 frames per second (slow-mo), a length of time which it would take for this territory to fool around out during 96 frames would have been distant longer than a allotted time we had in a strain for a diversion automechanic to fool around through. So what we finished up we do was essay a JavaScript calculation which took in to comment a series of times we strike a spacebar in a since volume of time as good as distributed which behind so when a sure starting point was hit, we seamlessly sped a footage up from slow-mo during 96 frames to twenty-six frames a second so a video held up with a strain during a same time, any time. This would have been scarcely unfit to lift off but a make use of of HTML5 as good as a hardware increase in speed in IE9.

5. Jasmine’s Call. At a finish of a strain video, we have a event to dial a phone series in to a Windows Phone, as good as Jasmine herself will give you, or a friend, a call.

This is only a commencement in conditions of a origination of this experience, so I’d inspire we to take an additional demeanour during a video as good as afterwards dive in to a teardown to see how a Digital Kitchen group done it happen. Enjoy!

Ryan Gavin, General Manager, Internet Explorer

Update, Apr 24, 2012:

Please note: Even yet it functions great as well as shows off a developer APIs, SkyCMD was a Apr Fool’s fun for 2012.  However, check out these real improvements to SkyDrive.

The past year has been an extraordinary time here upon a SkyDrive team. We’re all unequivocally fervent to boat a work you announced in a subsequent release, though you can’t usually lay behind as well as relax. Like a shark, you have to keep relocating forward. As you proposed to consider about a subsequent era interface for SkyDrive, you indispensable something fresh. It’s as well easy to get held up in a visible daze of a normal GUI, generally when you unequivocally usually wish to see a office inventory of your files. As you pulled together a vision, a pattern beliefs enclosed removing behind to a monochromatic roots, presenting a user with fewer commands, all whilst upon condition that a most absolute interface possible. So what is a subsequent large thing?

Forget hold as well as even a mouse

The some-more you suspicion about it, a some-more you satisfied that a indication you were seeking for was right in front of us – or during slightest used to be. We harkened behind to a time when computing was simpler. Sure, interface pattern has altered over a years, though do people unequivocally wish to navigate by their files with a crack of a finger or perspective photos with a click of a mouse? Maybe. But you hold a initial as well as most appropriate approach for humans to correlate with computers is by succinct commands entered around a great aged keyboard. That’s when it strike us: what a universe needs is a SkyDrive Command Line Interface!

Introducing SkyCMD

Starting today, you can eventually correlate with SkyDrive a approach you’ve regularly longed for to. You can make use of a classical DOS syntax to simply navigate your record hierarchy—familiar commands similar to “dir” as well as “cd.” Simple. Powerful.

SkyCMD: Command line entrance to your files upon SkyDrive. Go to http://skycmd.com as well as check it out.

Once you bond SkyCMD to your SkyDrive comment you can do most of a absolute things that usually a CLI can offer. As for customization, try a “color” authority to give your SkyCMD window a small flare.

Built from a SkyDrive APIs

One of a extraordinary developers, Luke, came up with a early delivery of SkyCMD as well as showed it around a SkyDrive hallways a integrate months ago. We all desired it as well as knew that if it had a couple of some-more problematic commands as well as a right ASCII art you had a leader upon a hands. The volume of inner underline requests for SkyCMD grew to a indicate that we’ve put a complete SkyDrive engineering classification to work office building it. Our developer APIs, that Dare Obasanjo wrote about in his blog post behind in December, have been so absolute you usually used those. We have even put a source formula out as partial of a sample code.

Of march in a nearby destiny you have been starting to boat what we not long ago announced as well as afterwards some. But starting brazen a destiny of SkyDrive is SkyCMD!

Tony East
Lead Program Manager, SkyDrive.com