You probably already know that Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 are all launching in late February in the US. Dublin’s official launch event is happening on March 11 th (and there will be more details on that coming very soon...

PCWorld has Popfly on its list of 25 most innovative products of the year. Yay! :) The article is at http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140663/article.html# and there’s a post from Soma at http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/12/28/a-great-way...

Just got a mail from one of the Product Managers over at Redmond. The VPCs mentioned have got good reviews from the customers we've seen using them - maybe something to download over the weekend??? :) Word from Redmond: I would like to announce...

Codeplex project for Windows Live Platform extensions to Community Server now available at http://codeplex.com/cslive That brings the shared source / open source list of live projects up to: · Quick Apps – Microsoft managed and funded starter...

On December 31st the Windows Live team released the December 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP). Check it out. Here is the link to the download and here are the release notes that I got from the Windows Live Team: Windows Live Tools for Microsoft...

I know a couple of people who were asking me last year about the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). If you're one of them you will be interested to know that Vista's SP1 Release Candidate is currently available for download. Here are the details (taken...

More news from my post-Christmas inbox... the December 07 release of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools for TFS 2008 were released just before Christmas. This new release is primarily intended for use with the VS 2008 client. You can find more details...

Here is a quick list of all the techy events coming up in January and February. They'll be covering Data Mining and BI, deploying Vista and Office 2007 (Dublin and Belfast), Mobility and Mobile Development. There'll be more news on the Visual Studio...

And here are some more details about the free eBook mentioned in the previous post. Covering topics like LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight - it looks like some great content! Download Free e-book offer and Microsoft Press newsletter...

I hope you had a lovely Christmas and that 2008 has started off well for you! If one of your new year resolutions is to start using Visual Studio 2008 as soon as possible, then you should check out the Microsoft Learning Portal to see what the have...