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Finally, Open Live Writer is here! Open Live Writer (OLW) is an open source application to manage and publish blog posts. The source code is based on Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer, but Open Live Writer now is an improved MIT-license Open Source project on GitHub. You can download OLW from https://openlivewriter.org. Microsoft stopped the development of WLW (which is still downloadable from Windows Essentials) in 2012. The WLW fans tried to open source WLW for quite a time… ...

If you have a subscription for Microsoft Office 365 Home, you get a lot of additional benefits with that subscription: You get 1 TB of OneDrive storage and 60 minutes of Skype calls per month – more or less for free. The second well known secret is, that you can share these benefits with up to four persons! Office 365 Home costs USD 9.99 per month, so about USD 120 per year. Currently there’s even a price reduction and you get this subscription for only USD 99.99 per year, see Looking to buy Office?. ...

Today Microsoft announced the next BUILD conference which will take place again in San Francsisco in Moscone Center from March 30th to April 1st 2016. And they changed the name (URL) from BuildWindows to Microsoft Build… https://build.microsoft.com/ There’s no more information on the event website except the date and the option to join the mailing list. CU there?

Today Microsoft announced a new tool named “PowerApps” at Convergence 2015 EMEA in Barcelona. PowerApps are a new service for providing a new and shiny app user interface for all kind of devices and works with any data (OData) delivered from cloud services. So, it’s a kind of form and workflow generator for the cloud… See the announcement here: Introducing Microsoft PowerApps. “…PowerApps is an enterprise service for innovators everywhere to connect, create and share business apps with your team on any device in minutes…” ...

Microsoft had a series of announcements at the Connect(); //2015 Developer Virtual Event yesterday. Now there’s a new version of Visual Studio Code available on Github: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode Check it out! See also the webcasts of the event on channel9! 112 sessions are waiting for you!

Check out this great Channel9 interview during Microsoft MVP Summit 2015 at Microsoft in Redmond. Ep08: Interview with Kathleen Dollard, Martina Grom and Lori Lalonde during the #MVPSummit Get to know more about the Microsoft MVP’s Kathleen Dollard, Martina Grom and Lori Lalonde interviewed by Soumow. They talk about their activities for the MVP program, about women in Tech in their countries and they end with advices for success. Enjoy the show!

Telerik provides a new, free whitepaper for ASP.NET Developers. Download it from here: The Anatomy of Responsive ASP.NET Apps whitepaper See the basics of Responsive UI design in the 28 page PDF and enjoy…!

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella is currently on Europe tour and announced a number of investments in the Microsoft Cloud in Europe. Microsoft will extend regional hubs in Ireland and in the Netherlands and announced new datacenters in the UK and in Germany. Find more information about the UK plans here: Microsoft announces plans to offer cloud services from the UK. In Germany, Deutsche Telecom as Data Trustee under German law will be operating the German datacenters. This (data will not be saved and transported outside of Germany) was a request a lot of German customers had in the Microsoft cloud – and Microsoft reacted. The Microsoft Cloud in Germany will be available during the second half of 2016. ...

Delegate365 will be updated to version 4.5.3 this Friday. In this version resource mailboxes receive a new feature for controlling the AllRequestOutOfPolicy property (a feature the Office 365 portal does not provide). The AllRequestOutOfPolicy setting: When using resources like a room, there can be an issue with reservation: “Office 365 users can reserve a meeting room even though it’s already reserved for another meeting”. Microsoft describes this issue in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3066068. This resource mailbox property cannot be set in the Office 365 portal, just with PowerShell – and with Delegate365 for portal admins and scope admins as well. ...

This week, from 2th to 5th November, the Microsoft MVP Summit 2015 took place at the Microsoft headquarter in Redmond, Washington. MVP’s share their passion and technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft. As community leaders MVP’s are chatty – also on Social Media. See some Twitter statistics here… Martina and I had a great time with a lot of fun and we are honored to be part of that great community! ...