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Microsoft’s multipronged strategy for bringing speech to IoT devices

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Microsoft has been stepping up its game around connecting its Azure cloud services to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. But few may realize the company also is simultaneously working to bring its various speech capabilities to IoT devices, too. Microsoft provides IoT developers with various tools for integrating speech with their devices. There are built-in Windows 10 speech application programming interfaces (APIs) for tasks like dictating a simple message and Web search. There are natural-language services — known as Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) — that are part of Microsoft…

Microsoft adds ‘non-security updates’ to security patches

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MS16-023, billed as a “Security update for Internet Explorer” and issued on March 8, includes six “General distribution release (GDR) fixes”. Five are innocuous as they address glitches like “Empty textarea loses its closing tag in Internet Explorer 11 after conversion from XML to HTML.” But the last item on the list item 3146449, has the rather more interesting title “Updated Internet Explorer 11 capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and Windows 7.” A great many users just accept all Windows updates, so will never see item 3146449. Even if you…

Creating a URL shortener using ASP.NET WepAPI and MVC

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In this tutorial, I use several techniques and tools. I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and the latest version of all components. ASP.NET MVC: Microsoft’s modern web application framework. As the name says, it pushes you to use the MVC (model view controller) software design principle. ASP.NET Web API: Web API and MVC are used together in many applications. With MVC, the HTML of the web pages are rendered on the server, and with Web API you can, like the name says, create an API. Web API also uses the…

Enable your device for development

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Important  Currently you cannot enable devices installed with Windows 10 Insider Preview with the System Setting Developer Mode controls as outlined in this article. This feature is not currently supported, but will be enabled in a future release of Windows 10. So you don’t need to follow the steps in the future approach in this article. But you must follow the links directly below to enable your specific Windows 10 device. Windows 10 Phone: Register your phone to enable developer mode using the existing Windows Phone 8.1 tools Windows 10…

Microsoft announces Microsoft Edge

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Today at Build 2015 in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its new Web browser called Microsoft Edge. This is the browser formerly known as Project Spartan. Microsoft Edge, the new default browser will ship on all Windows 10 devices including PCs, tablets, smartphones, and Microsoft’s own tablet, Surface. Microsoft Edge is the all-new Windows 10 browser built to give you a better web experience. Write directly on webpages and share your mark-ups with others. Read online articles free of distraction or use the offline reading feature for greater convenience. Microsoft Edge…

IDC: Android and iOS accounted for 96.3% of global smartphone shipments in Q4 2014 and the whole year

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Android and iOS accounted for 96.3 percent of all smartphone shipments in Q4 2014, and coincidentally, 96.3 percent for all of last year as well. That means the duopoly grew 0.6 percentage points compared to the same period last year (95.7 percent in Q4 2013) and 2.5 percentage points on an annual basis (93.8 percent in 2013). iCharts The latest figures come from IDC, which puts together these estimates every quarter. Here is the breakdown for the full year:   Above: Volume units are in millions. Google’s mobile operating system…