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Windows 7 Launches tommorowThe wait is over.....come 22nd Oct 2009 - Windows 7 will finaly be launched.
How Windows 7 compares? See it to believe it!
New to Windows 7? Take a Tour Bingo....Microsoft New Search - 'Bing'Today, at Carlsbad, CA, Stev Balmer announced the release of Bing, Microsoft's new search engine! Bing.com is open to internal employees and will be available to public on June 3.
Internally Codenamed 'Kumo' , Bing is launched as a decision engine that goes beyond what people have come to think of as search Personally I believe thats right. Search Engine is outdated concept, we need decision engines and Knowledge engines in todays world..Internet is plethora of information. not only search logic but different algorithms should be applied to take us as nearer as possible to 'answers' what we are looking for, without getting lost in the Web. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0The "next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web" viz. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 are available now as CTP for download. Here are some highlights... Whats new in VS 2010/.NET 4.0?
You can download Visual Studio 2010 NET Framework 4.0 CTP from here Windows AzureAnnounced last month, Windows Azure is Microsoft's upcoming ‘cloud based operating system’
Windows Azure serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage internet or cloud applications.
WIIFM?
1. Computation Services
- Ability to run Microsoft ASP.NET Web applications or .NET code in the cloud - Service hosting environment that includes Internet Information Services 7.0 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 - Security supported by flexible Code Access Security policies - Small runtime API that supports logging and local scratch storage - Web portal that helps you deploy, scale, and upgrade your services quickly and easily 2. Simple data storage services
- Blobs, tables, and queues hosted in the cloud, close to your computation - Authenticated access and triple replication to help keep your data safe - Easy access to data with simple REST interfaces, available remotely and from the data center 3. Development Tools
- Complete offline development environment, including computation and storage services - Complete command-line SDK tools and samples - Visual Studio add-in that enables local debugging Here is a Channel9 video 'Introducing Windows Azure' http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure/
You may download Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio October 2008 CTP and Windows Azure SDK (Oct 2008 CTP)
(...more ) What new in IE8 Beta2As most of you already know last week IE8 Beta2 was launched in English, German, Simplified Chinese and Japanese. This will be released in another 21 languages in mid-September.
To get an overview of IE8 ..see this video
Besides Security enhancements new feature in IE8 includes:
- Out of Box 'Accelerators'(One click - search, map, defination, translation, blog..) - 'WebSlice' (Content of interest from your favorite websites delivered to you) - Intuitive tab grouping and color coding - Automatic tab-level crash recovery for uninterrupted browsing - Suggestive Find/Search Download some cool accelerators from here
Get IE8 Beta2 from here ASP.NET MVC Preview 3ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 was released this month. This release provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime. Highlights: * Facilitate test driven development (TDD). * New Visual Studio 2008 MVC templates You can download it from here Launching Today...Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 & Visual Studio 2008!The awaited 2008 trio viz. Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 & Visual Studio 2008 are officially being launched today with worldwide(reaching 250k people) series of hundreds of events with Steve Ballmer in LA. The theme of the event as most of us know is 'Heroes Happen Here'
checkout http://www.heroeshappenhere.com/ Your free 5 GB online harddisk!Microsoft Windows Live SkyDrive(http://skydrive.live.com/) recently came out of beta with a bang...with 5 Gigs of free online file storage and sharing...one more feather in live offering's cap download ASP.NET 3.5 and VS.NET 2008Whats new?
.NET Framework 3.5
- Language Integrated Query (LINQ) support
- WCF Support for RSS, JSON, REST, POX, ATOM, several WS-* standards and Partial Trust
- New classes in .NET Framework 3.5 BCL
- etc.
ASP.NET 3.5
- Build in AJAX
- New ListView and DataPager Controls - etc.
VS.NET 2008
- New Web Design Interface - Full tooling support in Visual Studio 2008 for WF, WCF, and WPF - JavaScript Debugging and Intellisense - Multi-framework targeting Support - etc. Free MSDN magazine and Dr. Dobb's Journal digital editionIf you have not already registered yet, I'd highly recommend to subscribe to the digital editions of MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobbs Journal for FREE. Its almost like reading a print copy.
- To see samples of the digital magazine browse to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/hi-in/bb736747.aspx
- To subscribe to Free MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobbs Journal Digital editions, please click on https://profile.microsoft.com/RegSysProfileCenter/wizard.aspx?wizid=f4cc7a02-9146-41d9-acf3-d816d4f34f0c
This offer is valid till Dec 15th, 2007 only. Register now and you might also end up winning a XBox 360 or a portable music player!
Best things in life are for free  Start fresh with... @live.com email idWith Microsoft Live initiative not only MSN Search and other services, but Hotmail also went through a complete overhaul: Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 - free downloadMicrosoft announced "Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express" - a free downloadable Enterprise Search product which joins Microsoft's Enterprise Search product lineup, which is built on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform. You need to have Windows 2003 OS to install this RC version (RTM version which will follow this release will also be free).
download it here
MSDN webcasts for aspiring architectStarting from today, Microsoft is doing a series of aspiring architect webcasts at MSDN India Register at: http://www.microsoft.com/india/webcasts/default.aspx?id=d Cool HotmailIf you want email ids like someone @techgeek.co.in, bornleader.co.in, neversaydie.co.in etc.
The Devil does UCWatch "The Devil does UC" - a funny spoof of hollywood blockbuster "The Devil Wears Prada" at If you are in India during october 23-29.. you may register at http://www.microsoft.com/india/images2/mailer2/UCInter3/ocs_byc.html to know more about Microsoft Office Unified communications 2007 Products. 2008 Global Launch waveIf you have not already evaluated Windows Sever 2008 get it today from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb687945.aspx
Windows Server 2008 + Visual Studio 2008 + SQL Server 2008 will be launched on Feb. 27, 2008 in LA. Expect a 'launch wave' of hundreds of worldwide events by Microsoft during this period! Coming soon WPF version Y! messengercoming soon... the WPF version of Yahoo messenger for Vista
See it in action at http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/7/6/a767a374-6357-4331-ab9d-06b60c99892b/CES2007_YahooMessenger_on10.wmv
Register here http://messenger.yahoo.com/windowsvista.php to get an early notification on its availability. Outlook Connector ReleasedAccess and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail account via Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 for free! Just Download Microsoft Office Outlook Connector... which was just release yesterday. Free Windows Server 2008 ebookDownload Free Windows Server 2008 ebook from http://www.microsoft.com/learning/windowsserver2008/default.mspx#EBOOK
Microsoft TVCheckout 'Microsoft Mediaroom' (earlier called IPTV) |
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