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Microsoft unveils new effort to make its developer, IT documentation great again

Above: the new docs.microsoft.com appearance. Below: the same article in old TechNet. (credit: Microsoft)

Microsoft's developer documentation used to be the model that all others should follow. The documentation itself was thorough, combining reference material with usage guides and sample code. Its use of, at the time, novel JavaScript and XML techniques (known in those days...

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NASA has begun working on its next great space observatory

An illustration of what WFIRST will look like once launched. (credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

Thanks to an infusion of Congressional funding, NASA has accelerated development of a telescope that could answer some of the most fundamental questions about both the universe and nearby exoplanets. At the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Monday,...

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Washington state schools connectivity good, but still not great: 88 percent meeting FCC’s speed goal
Photo via EducationSuperHighway/Map of U.S. school connectivity
To compete in our digital world, students needs access to high-speed Internet, but as this latest report from Education SuperHighway shows, how state governments are progressing with the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to get every school district to speeds of at least 100 kbps per student goes from excellent, to good, to not...
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