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Windows Phone 8 SDK available – get coding with perks!

The Windows Phone 8 SDK went live to developers today. Learn more: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35471 (Note it requires Windows 8) PLUS 92% off Dev Center Account: “Windows Phone 8 is out, the tools are available, and devices are about to be released—it’s time to get coding. As an added incentive, for the next 8 days individual developers …

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How to give your Windows 8 groupings of tiles descriptive names

While there are lots of resources out there for getting started on Windows 8 (and goodness knows, there needs to be more – the product has great potential but so far the usability needs to be ‘explained’ for users to get started – thus, er, usability may not be the right word for it…). Anyways, …

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itgroove 2012

Don’t mind me. Just beaming with a little pride. We have a great team and you should know about them. itgroove has grown to 9 staff over the last year or so and many customers have not met the whole team. The guys have a really broad range of skills that might surprise you so, …

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Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 RTM’d today

Holy cow that came out of (just about) nowhere 😉 Yep, you heard it right. SharePoint 2013, Office 2013, Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 went Gold today and will start entering channels over the next quarter. References: http://blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2012/10/11/office-reaches-rtm.aspx http://www.winsupersite.com/article/office-2013-beta2/office-2013-rtm-144488 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_business_intelligence1/archive/2012/10/11/time-to-celebrate-office-2013-amp-sharepoint-2013-released-to-manufacturing.aspx

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What are your “Pain Points”? We’d like to help.

itgroove is a business technology solutions provider. We have lots of tools and technology available that can be used to solve any number of business issues. And we have the knowledge and experience to map the solutions out for you, as well as the skills to implement the needed hardware, software and procedures. You have …

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Come on down Developers. The Windows Store is open for business!

Hey folks, As of September 11, 2012, the Windows Store is officially open for Business.  And this means developers are now able to submit Windows Store Apps to the store. How to get started Get all the details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/09/11/windows-store-now-open-to-all-developers.aspx How to sign up If you have an MSDN Subscription, Dreamspark account (for students in …

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SharePoint 2010 is not supported on Windows Server 2012

This is subject to change as this likely won’t stay this way forever as newer cumulative updates come out, but at this writing, this is still the case… Folks, One might assume that the latest version of Windows Server (2012, due shortly) would work with the latest version of SharePoint Server (2010) … but one …

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Siri in iOS 6 – what devices support it?

While iOS 6 was announced 3 or so months back, its official launch is on the 19th of September (though I’ve got it on my devices now, there is a way…). On their website, Siri is prominent in all the materials but what isn’t clear is what devices it works on.  As I have the …

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