Windows 8 introduces the new App model to develop WindowsStore Apps. SharePoint 2013 introduces a new set of APIs, as well as an OData service to consume its data. The conjunction of these technologies enables easily creating Windows 8 Apps to consume SharePoint 2013 and interact with data and features hosted inside SharePoint 2013. In… READ MORE
This webinar is a sneak preview of the new Web API offered by SharePoint 2013 for consuming data from any remote device. In particular, you will learn how to leverage this new feature from a Windows Store App for Windows 8. Thus, you will also have a very quick introduction to developing Windows Store Apps.… READ MORE
Today, our friend and MVP Alberto Diaz Marti released the first version of the application to read the electronic magazine of SharePoint CompartiMOSS in Windows 8. For us that we have made the magazine since 2008 is a pleasure to have this application and I want to say thank you Alberto for this amazing job, it’s great. To download the application following this link.
With the release of Windows 8 and last months preview release of Office 2013 paired with SharePoint 2013 many consultants and companies are scrambling to find features, benefits or return on investment to justify budget plans to migrate to the new platforms. I’m not one of these folks. I believe the technical fellows at Microsoft have a solid long term vision which will allow them to sway consumers and businesses to give device computing using Microsoft software another chance. It seems clear the new releases of Windows 8, Office, Skype, SkyDrive and SharePoint are an attempted to aggressively pursue the growing device market.
