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Windows Azure offers an easy and modern way to work with media files. With Azure Media Services you can upload video files, encode them and offer them for streaming clients. A great way to use multimedia content in your webs and apps! For example Azure Media Services have been used in the Olympic Games 2012 in London for delivering more than 2,300 hours of live and HD content to more than 20 countries for multiple Olympics broadcasters, see Windows Azure Media Services Case Study. ...

We´re happy to contribute to the new website of the Office 365 MVP community at https://www.office365mvps.com! This cool website was created by Darrell Webster and combines the blog feeds of the most known Office 365 MVP´s – worldwide! There are also some other MVP´s who share their expertise in the Office 365 products Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Azure Active Directory. More information about the Microsoft MVP award program can be found here. We designed and developed the new website layout. This is how it looks: ...

Recently TheVerge.com posted an article about a study of designer Jay Machalani. The new Windows 8 start screen is cool, but in many aspects inconsistent to the classic desktop. So Jay put together a plan to improve that a little bit… Back to the Start: imagining a better Windows Here are Jay´s results of a new Windows 8 start menu. Interesting. Or maybe so? Pictures taken from TheVerge. Click on a picture to open the source article. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 1.4 December 2013 Some minor fixes have been done in the UI. We extened Delegate365 with a WebAPI called “Delegate365Importer”. This is an interface running as cloud service in Windows Azure which receives users and licenses in JSON format, runs the requested operations in Delegate365 and returns also a JSON result. If you run an own system like a website where users can buy or request an Office 365 account or license then Delegate365Importer is perfect for doing all the necessary actions againt Windows Azure Active Directory or Office 365 in the back. You get back information for the tasks with the result. ...

Since beginning of december Microsoft Office 365 Student Advantage is available for educational facilities like schools and universities. With Student Advantage participating schools get free access to Microsoft Office 365 as long as the schools license Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus for their faculty members. A great deal to get the Office 365 licenses – for free! Student Advantage … makes it easy for students to get access to the latest version of Microsoft Office and better prepare themselves for the tools used in modern day workplaces. Today, Student Advantage is available to more than 35,000 educational institutions worldwide. Software-as-a-Service is the modern way of working with the latest and easy to use software. ...

Software projects often take longer as expected. Why? See this great article by Michael Wolfe here! Why are software development estimates regularly off by a factor of 2-3 times? Map taken from bing.com/maps. Michael explains the occuring (and unexpected) problems with an anology of a planned hike on the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles to visit friends in Newport Beach. The line is about 400 miles long; they can walk 4 miles per hour for 10 hours per day, so they’ll be there in 10 days. Or…? ...

Today, on 30th November 2013 from 9am - 5pm GMT, there was the first Online Office 365 Saturday event in the world – as virtual event via Lync! Experts informed in one-hour sessions about Microsoft Office 365 technologies and how Office 365 can be used to deliver world-class communications, collaboration, and social solutions. There were 4 different tracks to choose from: Exchange Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/71JFFW9P Mix & Match Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/8Q1SB8C7 SharePoint Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/CG999QY5 Office 365 Developer Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/T3935V21 ...

This week, on November 27th to 28th, SPC Adriatics conference took place in Zagreb, Croatia, see spcadriatics.com. It was the second SPC Adriatics conference with the motto “Back to business” and about 200 participants from Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Germany. The SharePoint conference #spcadriatics offered 40 sessions with 30 international speakers, most of them Microsoft MVPs, even from the US. As last year we were also proud to be part of the conference 2013 with two sessions. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 1.3 October 2013 Added some reports for testing (only available in special customer versions). Fixed some small issues with CSS and the “Select all”-funtion in Javascript. November 2013 Switched delegate365.com website to a new CMS in Windows Azure and added a version for german to the existing english version.

Find the Top 50 blogs about Microsoft SharePoint as collaboration and development platform created by dynamics101.com. Here´s the list with many well known SharePoint experts! dynamics101.com: Top 50 SharePoint Sites