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Thursday, January 22, 2015 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com From the mind of me: Major Microsoft-heavy issue today, but I think that's to expect when they have as many announcements as they made today. Even if it is for something as inconsequential as Windows. Stay tuned to this spot - Shane says he's got a good idea coming up. TTFN - Kent Advertisements Complimentary eBook: 50 performance tips for .NET & SQL Server. Want to speed up your .NET app? This eBook has 50 tips from the dev community for avoiding, finding and fixing .NET and SQL Server performance problems. Covers slow code & queries, their interactions, and more. Get your no-cost copy now Code on the Strip @ Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Calling all developers, software architects, engineers, and designers: Visual Studio Live! heads to Las Vegas in March for unbiased and cutting-edge training on the Microsoft platform. Click here for agenda, sessions, speaker line-up and more! Learn to Build Websites Using the Latest Technologies! From ASP.NET and MVC, to advanced skills like data access, Web services and the latest JavaScript frameworks…learn it all and more with LearnNowOnline. Videos, eBooks, labs, code all included. Check out our course list and Subscribe now Industry News Over 90 percent of data breaches in first half of 2014 were preventable "Loose lips sink ships!" Source: ZDNet Google is reportedly set to launch their own wireless service this year Avoid the middleman. Have your phone data searched automatically. Source: Phandroid Microsoft unveils Windows Holographic "This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." Source: The Next Web These are Windows 10's new desktop features A Start Menu? Where'd they get that silly idea? Source: The Verge Microsoft: Windows 10 will be free for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 users for 1 year after launch "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" Source: WinBeta Developer News Study shows brain stores seemingly trivial memories, just in case My brain. Explained. Source: NY Times Disposable employees may be tech industry’s greatest achievement Reduce, reuse, recycle? Source: Venture Beat Java no longer such a big risk, Cisco security report finds Maybe they just don't know which week's version of Java to target? Source: eWeek Microsoft unveils Project Spartan, the browser after Internet Explorer This. Is. The. Web. Source: The Verge It’s time for Microsoft to open source Internet Explorer "Moulded by the dead brain of a hybrid nightmare, would not such a vaporous terror constitute in all loathsome truth the exquisitely, the shriekingly unnamable?" Source: Ars Technica Code Project Discussions - Your say! Would Anybody Be Interested... "Secret Agent Man. They've given you a number and taken away your name" Source: CodeProject Which technologies you really hate? "Hate leads to Suffering." Source: CodeProject