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Windows Live – New beta version

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A new beta version of the next Windows Live Essentials has been delivered. Some of the more visible changes you’ll see in today’s update: Performance and quality of service improvements Facebook chat in Messenger Quick previews and improved tree view in Photo Gallery Flickr video publishing and Snapshot in Movie Maker More info at http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/08/17/windows-live-essentials-2011-beta-refresh.aspx […]

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Windows Small Business – Next version in beta

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Microsoft has announced the beta program for the next version of Windows Small Business Server (SBS), codename Aurora. Windows Small Business Server Codename “Aurora” is part of the greatly anticipated next generation of awarded winning Windows Small Business Server, and represents a significant departure from our traditional on premise version because Aurora will be Microsoft’s

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Windows Mobile 7 – First full free ebook from Microsoft Press

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While Windows Mobile 7 is still under development and planned for October, Microsoft is doing the job with a developer contest to provide application on his market and… provide a free ebook to develop on this new platform. You can download this first free ebook here in PDF or XPS format; source code link is

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Internet Explorer – a new preview release of Internet Explorer 9 available

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Microsoft has released a new preview release of the next Internet Explorer version. IE9 started from the premise that the modern web will deliver HTML5 experiences that feel more like native applications than sites. Building on hardware-accelerated SVG, canvas, video, audio, and text, developers will use the power of the whole PC to achieve great

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Visual Studio – A new family member called LightSwitch

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Microsoft has announced at the VSLive! event the birth of a new member in the Visual Studio family, called Visual Studio LightSwitch. LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications for the desktop and cloud. At their core, most end user business applications combine two things:  data + screens.  LightSwitch is optimized around making

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SharePoint 2010 – First cumulative update available…

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Few months after releasing the RTM of SharePoint 2010, Microsoft provides the first cumulative update. As updates are available individually, we can ask ‘is it really a cumulative update?’; moreover, these first updates have been delayed as they should be delivered in June and no KB are available yet; please, Microsoft, you were in a

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