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Microsoft launches Windows 7 cloud apps
Photo Gallery and Movie Maker apps, released today as part of the new Windows Live ‘Wave 3’ family, are the first to replace their Vista counterparts in Microsoft’s next-gen OS
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Included in today’s worldwide launch of Windows Live Wave 3, the third generation of Microsoft’s online services, are the cloud-based apps that will take care of [...] -
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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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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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Shows Malware Increases, Windows Vulnerabilities Decrease
Microsoft Corp. today released the fifth volume of its Microsoft Security Intelligence Report at Tech•Ed EMEA IT Professionals 2008, providing an in-depth and unique view of the threat landscape based on data derived from hundreds of millions of computers worldwide. Designed to help enable better protection from cybercriminals, the research from the first half of [...]
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Windows 7 pre-beta hits BitTorrent
The pre-beta version of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system released to developers at the Professional Developers Conference has already made it onto prominent BitTorrent sites, where thousands of enthusiasts around the world are currently downloading it.
Well-known BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay and Mininova were at the time of publication Friday hosting multiple downloads [...] -
File Server Migration Toolkit (FSMT) 1.1 Released
Microsoft is glad to announce the release of Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.1. With this version you will be able to migrate and consolidate shared folders from servers running Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000 family of servers, Windows 2003 family of servers, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Storage Server 2008 to a [...]
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Office 14 Runs in the Browser
In an interview, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop said that the browser-based editing capabilities are being developed in conjunction with the next version of Office, known as Office 14. Microsoft won’t say when that version will arrive, but Elop said that a technology preview of the browser-based products will come later this year and [...]
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MS launches new SQL server website
Dan Jones mentions that MS just released a new SQL server website
Check it out: www.sqlserverenergy.com