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Brief Introduction to Microsoft Products & Technologies
Learn about different yet important Microsoft products and how they can be leveraged to innovate.
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Muhammad Abubakar | @AbubakarIkraam
Software engineering and development is what I live! Exploring different technologies, developing effective algorithms and tools, and employing them to solve real world problems is what I do.
Technical Interests
ASP.NET(Web forms), Windows, Windows Phone, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Contact
[email protected] www.abubakar.cu.cc
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Microsoft Windows
Windows 1.0 was introduced back in 1985
Latest version is Windows 8.1 Update 1
Best development tools mostly require the latest update
Windows 9 codename Threshold is expected in 2015
Available through your COMSATS DreamSpark account
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Microsoft Office
First announced by Bill Gates in 1988
Written in C++
Available in 35 different languages
Also available for Mac, iOS, Android
Office Online is available through OneDrive
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Windows Phone
First released with the name of Pocket PC 2000
Become Windows Mobile in 2003
Now Windows Phone
More than 170,000 apps in Windows Store
No aspect ratio problem for developers as in Android.
Improved app life cycle than Android.
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Windows Phone (cont.)
Music searches Listens for music
Buy/Download from Store
Calendar event notifications Event Invitation
Running late
Event cancelled
Bing Translator Point and Translate
Text Translation
Quiet hours Inner circle
Project my screen app
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ASP.NET
ASP.NET is an open source server side web application framework
C# or VB as a code behind
Originally released back in 2002 (version 1.0)
Latest version is 4.5.1 with Visual Studio 2013
Few main models Web Pages
Web Forms
Model View Controller
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ASP.NET (cont.)
Integrated with .NET Framework
Compiled not interpreted
Object Oriented
Multidevice and Multibrowser
Easy to deploy and configure
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Microsoft Azure
Microsofts cloud computing platform
Formerly known as Windows Azure
Released in October 2008
Deploy and manage all the famous web technologies, databases and smartphone services
Build massively scalable applications with lots and lots of users
App gallery to easily deploy famous frameworks Umbraco
Wordpress
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Microsoft Bing
Search engine by Microsoft
Has had various names before MSN Search (1998)
Windows Live Search (2006)
Live Search (2007)
Unveiled by Steve Ballmer on May 28th, 2009
How many of you know what Cortana is?
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Microsofts vision for what the future holds for us.
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Some interesting facts
Microsoft originally named its operating system as Interface Manager, but marketing team felt Windows worked best.
More than 70.39% of Internet users are currently running Windows, and there are 1,693,244,385 users.
Windows 3.0 had significantly better performance, including advanced graphics with 16 colors (16,777,216 colors in most screens today).
Windows 98 was the first Windows system that supported DVD discs and universal serial bus (USB) devices.
Windows XP was compiled from 45 million lines of code.
Microsoft, in its 38 years of amazing history, has acquired over 150 companies: including Hotmail, Skype, Vision Corporation, Nokia, and Yammer. Six are worth over one billion.