Fever Pitched: The Past Weeks Hottest Stories for 23 January 2012

Welcome to this week’s edition of Fever Pitched which highlights the hottest stories from our RSS feed over the course of the last week.

104.9 Degrees – We discussed this one on Episode 38 of the Observed Tech PODCAST. Dave Cutler was known as the guy who led the birth of Windows NT and most recently led the efforts for Azure.  Now that Azure is moving forward and the base work is done Dave has now been moved into the Microsoft Entertainment Division.  The timing is interesting because of the fact that Microsoft is most likely working on the successor to the wildly popular Xbox 360 console.  Dave Cutler’s name alone, according to some analysts, brings credibility to a project.

• Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft GM Kindel to advise FreePriceAlerts; Amazon gets a Yahoo; etc. from GeekWire
• @WinObs Tweeted Links for 18 January 2012 from WindowsObserver.com
• Whoa, that’s a superstar team at IEB (Xbox), what the heck are they building? from LiveSide.net
• Dave Cutler, instrumental to development of Windows NT, now working on Xbox’s future from Microsoft Pri0
• Microsoft confirms Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, now working on Xbox from All about Microsoft Blog RSS | ZDNet

104.2 Degrees – Programmers getting achievements in Visual Studio has generated a lot of buzz around the web – both positive and negative. 

• Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta from Channel 9
• TWC9: Snowpocalypse, VS Achievements, 101 Async samples, & more from Channel 9
• Visual studio achievements from MSDN Blogs
• [Visual Studio Extension Of The Day] Visual Studio Achievements from MSDN Blogs
• Bring Some Game To Your Code! from MSDN Blogs
• The coding game: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard from MSDN Blogs
• The coding game: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard from GeekWire
• The Midweek Download: Jan. 18th Edition–Windows 8’s Next-Gen File System, the New Visual Studio Achievements Program for Devs, plus Windows Phone, Internet Explorer & Windows Azure from Official Microsoft Blog
• Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta from MSDN Blogs
• Microsoft introduces Xbox-like achievements for developers from The Verge Microsoft
• Channel9′s Visual Studio Achievements now available from istartedsomething
• Visual Studio Achievements Program Brings Gamification to Development from Official Microsoft Blog

103.6 Degrees – The Building Windows 8 Blog post about the ReFS file system for Windows 8, as does any blog post about the next version of Windows, gives us a great insight into how and why new technologies are being implemented in Windows 8 to make it a great operating system.

• The Midweek Download: Jan. 18th Edition–Windows 8’s Next-Gen File System, the New Visual Studio Achievements Program for Devs, plus Windows Phone, Internet Explorer & Windows Azure from Official Microsoft Blog
• Microsoft reveals Windows 8 file system from Microsoft Pri0
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 38 from WindowsObserver.com
• Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS from Building Windows 8

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Richard is the Owner of WindowsObserver.com and has been involved in tech for over 25 years. His first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then he used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and what you see here today is the result of the work he has continued on the site since 1995. In January 2010 his community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when he was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for Windows Desktop Experience. In January 2011 he was renewed as a Microsoft MVP but in a new category called Windows Expert - Consumer and in January 2012 he received the award for the third time.