Out Of The Box
The blog of Jon Box, an Architect Evangelist in Developer & Platform Evangelism, based in Tennessee
Where can you find this symbol?
The Windows 8 ecosystem provides several ways to discover app’s. First, every Windows 8 machine has...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/30/2012
40 Million Licenses sold of Windows 8
Yesterday, Tami Reller brought some enlightenment about Windows 8 at a technology conference in...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/28/2012
What a Windows 8 developer does with Store quality reports?
At some point, your submitted Windows Store application may be crashing. And the store Quality...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/15/2012
If you have a Windows Surface RT, then you’ll love this utility
While we wait for the Surface Pro to arrive, I just had to have a Surface RT device. And I really...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/15/2012
Windows 8 Videos for Developers – from Ch9
Introducing Windows 8: Snack-sized introductory videos – 30 videos and 2 hours of content Build your...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 10/28/2012
Windows 8 Launch in NYC
So, my blog has been fairly quiet as we’ve been doing the early evangelism of Windows 8, but now I...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 10/27/2012
Windows 8 Training in Nashville
Coming this week, July 19-20 (THUR/FRI). Register here for Day 1 Developer Camp, and here for the...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 07/17/2012
Lots Happening lately with Windows 8, E3, and Computex
Wow! There’s a lot going on Microsoft, and it’s tough for me to keep up. Thought that I...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/10/2012
Need to upgrade your Samsung Tablet to the next version of Windows 8?
See my DPE colleague Doug Holland’s post, Upgrading the BUILD PC to Windows 8 Release Preview.
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/05/2012
Preparing for the Windows 8 Opportunity
Yes, there’s a new O/S coming from Microsoft. It’s more different than any Windows before. Windows...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/26/2012
Memphis Lunch on Windows Server 8 and SCCM
Ascendum invites you to hear the latest from Microsoft about next generation server operating...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 11/03/2011
Memphis SharePoint Meeting, OCT 27, RSVP
Memphis SharePoint Users Group Meeting on Thursday, October 27th from 3:30 – 6:30pm at the Crescent...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 10/06/2011
IE9 Site Pinning enabled on my blog
Check out site pinning on my blog. You’ll obviously need Windows 7 and IE9. To get started, follow...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 10/04/2011
A Look at Asynchronous Script Downloads
You hear more and more about slow loading pages, and one of the big factors for this is downloading...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 08/18/2011
Kinect and Windows Phone (Mango) Experiment
Here’s the video and source code to a project that connects Kinect and WP7 Mango device, via NodeJS....
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 08/05/2011
VS 2010 Adds Support for HTML5 and CSS3
Check out the Visual Studio Web Standards Update which brings a ton of HTML5 & CSS3...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/16/2011
Microsoft’s internal IT Department Shares Lessons of IE9 Rollout to More Than 100,000 Computers
Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) worked closely with the Internet Explorer product...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/15/2011
Windows 8, What We Know Today
Well, it’s an exciting time to work at Microsoft, with so many cool things unfolding before us. As...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/07/2011
Microsoft and Disney show Tron:Legacy leveraging HTML5
Wow! Another cool web experience, that runs better with IE9. Check this out: Disney TRON: Legacy...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 06/03/2011
Window Phone Gaming Bootcamp Online–Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Jared Bienz is giving a FREE online event. You can register here:...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/31/2011
DEV332: Enhancing Pinned Sites with Windows Internet Explorer 9
This was my second session at TechEd. (I described my first here.) This session is obviously focused...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/27/2011
DEV348 - Debugging Pesky HTML5 Websites with F12 in Windows Internet Explorer 9
This is a short recap of my presentation at TechEd, on . Video is here. This talk was practical...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/26/2011
Experiencing Flash issues with IE9 today?
I’ve had a few customers ask me about an IE9 situation where Flash app’s are appearing in the top...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/24/2011
WP7 Beta Mango Tools Available Today
More good news for Windows Phone 7 today. You can download later today. Other news coming out during...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/24/2011
Windows Phone Accelerator Labs Coming to Chicago and Dallas in May
Working on a WP7 application and want some help? Check out Dave Bost and his teammates, who...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 05/02/2011
3 Weeks Left to Get Into {Dev:unplugged}
We believe that HTML5 and related technologies, in conjunction with faster and faster...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/21/2011
HTML Goodies: Lots of Education Waiting For You
Anyone noticed the HTML5 articles appearing at the HTML5 Development Center at HTML...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/20/2011
You Sniffers: Watchout for the new IE10 User-Agent
As announced at MIX last week, we’ve started shipping previews of IE10 (download) – just like we did...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/20/2011
What is Office 365 ?
I’ve seen a little buzz on Office 365, but hadn’t really looked into it yet. Then, someone on...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/20/2011
MIX11: MED02–Introduction to Microsoft Media Platform (MMP)
Recording, April 12, 2011, 3:30PM PST, Session: MED02, Speakers: Alex Zambelli What Changed?...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/19/2011
HTML5 Community Night: streamed from Silicon Valley
Organized by Microsoft’s Doris Chen, Microsoft is hosting a joint HTML5 event with Silicon...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/18/2011
Some Notes After Watching the IE9 Launch Event Video
Yes, we were just outside the IE9 Launch Press Conference. But, I was with customers. I could see...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 04/09/2011
Removing the IE9 Compatibility Button, and HTML1115 warning
In IE9, the presence of the compatibility button means that a site is defaulting to IE9...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 03/27/2011
IE9 Launch Coverage
IE9 PressPass, including Launch recording IE9 Launch Transcript March 14, 2011. Remarks by...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 03/17/2011
IE9 Site Pinning at your favorite sites
Lots of good stuff going on with Site Pinning. And our DPE team has been working to promote this set...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 03/16/2011
Why should Internet Explorer 9 be of interest to you?
Saw this in a internal email and had to share. Some of this information may surprise you! 1....
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 03/15/2011
IE9: Changes to Jump Lists, some good and some great
I like IE9 site pinning! I really think that if a site takes advantage of this, IE9 users will be...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 03/05/2011
Site Pinning Discoverability and IE9 RC
In my last post on site pinning where I wanted to make sure folks were aware of a “gotcha”, I closed...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 02/19/2011
A Simple IE9 Site Pinning Pattern, and One Gotcha
IE9 is running hot these days, with a hot start with the beta and now the recently released RC....
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 02/17/2011
What IE9 Changes Could Impact Your Site
With every Internet Explorer release, we’ll get asked about what does IE do this time to break your...
Author: Jon Box, MSFT Date: 02/17/2011