If you're been curious about how the Surface Dial works, the Microsoft Mechanics have published a nice video explaining how the Dial works.  Cool little puck! [youtube:JzqLCIwIJYQ]

it's been a long time coming but the Microsoft Regional Directors Program new Web site is finally online.  As a bonus, the URL is super cool! rd.microsoft.com

Build is coming to Toronto on June 10th.  Not in Toronto?  No worries since you'll be able to watch the event by registering for the free live stream.

  Mercredi 24 février 2016, je présenterais une introduction à Windows Core IoT au Club Framboise de Montréal, le groupe des utilisateurs du Raspberry Pi.  L'inscription est gratuite!

Funny, since Microsoft combined a bunch of it's tech conferences into Ignite, it created a bunch of new ones.  The latest one is called Microsoft Envision and is targeted at business leaders or decision makers.  It will take place on April 4-6, 2016 in New Orleans.

After updating my Dellasaurus to Windows 10 1511, I couldn't connect to my Wi-Fi network.  This box is a dev machine with some funky network switches and bridges that are beyond my basic networking skills.  The error message was that some network protocols were not installed on my machine.

Windows build 10565 contains an interested feature: nested virtualization.  This allow you to run Hyper-V in a VM, paving the way containers.  

Last week, I presented "Windows IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2 Makers" at MSDEVMTL. Here are the slides and the demo code on GitHub.

If you want to burn Windows IoT Core on a microSD card to using with a Raspberry Pi 2, Microsoft states that you must do it using the WindowsIoImageHelper utility from a physical machine running Windows 10.  But what if you haven't installed Windows 10 on a physical PC yet?  Here's the tri

  Microsoft will announce on October 6, 2015 a series of new Windows 10 devices.  In the meantime, Windows Central's Daniel Rubino writes about the rumours and the expected devices like: Surface Pro 4 12-inch and 14-inch Lunia 950 and 950 XL Continuum dock Band 2 ProClear speaker Windows