Now here is a really lengthy and interesting article from one of Microsoft’s engineers discussing the creating the Windows 8 user experience. In addition, the author describes a bit about the history of Windows UIs and the many reasons behind the many decisions made along the way. “At the D: All Things Digital conference in [...]

If you are logged into your machine with a username that doesn’t have access to a certain SQL Server database you can launch SQL Server Management Studio with different credentials. This allows you to use Windows Authentication with a different username when connecting to the database server. runas /user:DOMAIN\USERNAME “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\Ssms.exe”  

As of yesterday, Microsoft has posted a preview version of the new Windows 8 operating system. Windows 8 will come with the new Metro interface (similar to Windows Phone 7) and many other enhancements which are focused on touch-gesture input. One important thing to know is that I’ve heard that many users have been able [...]

Microsoft has published a scientific research paper ([PDF] Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images (Microsoft Research)) detailing how Microsoft Kinect’s body tracking algorithm works. There is also a video (Kinect Research (youtube.com)) to go along with it. Also, I came across a separate article (Kinect’s AI breakthrough explained (I-Programmer.info)) which summaries [...]