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IE8: What’s After Beta 2
The announcement of IE8 Beta 2 started an important and public phase of the product development cycle getting broad public feedback. The team is providing detailed information and answering questions about the product in many different places. Now’s a good time to talk about what comes next.
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Latest Microsoft Innovations Help Developers Build Better Applications, Faster
During the keynote address at Microsoft Tech•Ed EMEA 2008 Developers, Jason Zander, general manager of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corp., highlighted how Microsoft is dramatically simplifying everyday development tasks through recently released technologies, such as Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, and the forthcoming Visual Studio 2010 [...]
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Inside Windows’ core: A peek into Microsoft’s COSD
Microsoft’s Core Operating System Division (COSD) is somewhat of a black hole to many outside (and even inside) the Redmond software maker. Charged with the amorphous goal of ensuring Windows “engineering excellence,” the five-year-old COSD group creates the core components at the heart of Windows.
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Jon DeVaan — the “mystery man” behind Windows 7 — is [...] -
Proof by computer
New computer tools have the potential to revolutionize the practice of mathematics by providing far more-reliable proofs of mathematical results than have ever been possible in the history of humankind. These computer tools, based on the notion of “formal proof”, have in recent years been used to provide nearly infallible proofs of a number of [...]
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Windows 7 Preview Part 5: Business and IT Pro Features
As the direct successor to Windows Vista, Windows 7 includes all of the security, reliability, compatibility, and manageability characteristics of its predecessor, a boot to IT pros and system administrators tasked with deploying and managing Windows in businesses of all sizes. But while Windows 7 improves on these features, it also includes major integration pieces [...]
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Windows 7 security: An overall improvement?
Robert Vamosi: Since Monday, I have been running a prebeta copy of Windows 7, the next operating system from Microsoft.
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At first glance, build 6801 of Windows 7 appears very much like Windows Vista; that’s because enhancements to the look and feel part of the operating system typically come late in the development process. Right now, [...] -
Mac OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7
Microsoft Tuesday revealed Windows 7 at its annual Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. Windows 7 is designed to replace Windows Vista as the main operating system for Windows-based PC users.<br><br>
With Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard also under development, we met up with Ian Moulster, Windows Live commercial lead for Microsoft, to talk through [...] -
Microsoft lays out Silverlight ambitions
A Microsoft official cited on Tuesday improvements planned for the company’s Silverlight platform for rich Internet applications, including intentions to run Silverlight applications outside of a browser.
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This intention was among a list of various software development improvements eyed for Microsoft technologies, all mentioned during a presentation at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. [...]