IE8 Release Candidate is available for public download today in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server customers. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8   Please download it and try it out . We welcome your feedback...

Microsoft Patterns & Practices have several nice application architecture pocket-guides about RIA & Silverlight and Web applications. RIA-Silverlight pocket guide: http://www.codeplex.com/AppArch/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=19799...

[Update 15 August 2009 - Tested with Windows 7 RTM final version] The most important thing to keep in mind is that we currently (prior to Windows 7) cannot natively boot from any kind of .VHD. Actually, I have just managed to boot from a Windows...

Windows 7 has a great and new capability which consists on the ability to attach a VHD (Virtual PC Hard Disk image) as a native drive. This way you could see a VHD from Windows 7 like if it were a regular hard drive. It is very useful, many times I...