A new prerelease version of the Windows SDK has shipped. This SDK coincides with the release of Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 Beta2 and Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5 Beta2 . If you want to be on the cutting edge of .NET Framework 3.5 development, the...

Big news around Developer Division today: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 is available to the public. So what’s in it? Find out directly from S. Somasegar (we all call him Soma), the VP here in Dev Div, and Scott Guthrie, our...

The Malware Removal Starter Kit , a Solution Accelerator from Microsoft, provides tested guidance to help IT Generalists combat malware attacks against small- and medium-sized organizations. Using the Windows Preinstallation Environment in combination...

Do you need triple monitors running off your notebook computer with a resolution of up to 3840x1024 (triple 1280x1024)? Me too. With only one video output I didn’t think I could have the system I needed running off my notebook PC but I was wrong. Matrox...

Love it? Hate it? Keep waiting for that ONE feature in the Windows SDK? We really, really want to know so email your feedback to us . What's the Windows SDK? Remember the PSDK? Remember the "WinFX" SDK? It's those two and a bit more... The Windows SDK...

Twango , a small social media site based in Redmond, founded by ex-Microsofties, has been bought by Nokia (for a reported sum of about $96.8 million, the Wall Street Journal reports .) My all-time favorite social networking site allows folks to share...

If you’re developing apps that target Windows Server 2008 technologies you’ll want to get over to Thom Robbin’s blog and read about the Windows Server 2008 Developer Training Kit, which includes a set of hands-on-labs and presentations for technologies...

DigiPen Institute of Technology has webcast series on creating video games using DirectX 9.0 and .NET Framework 2.0. Their series covers sound effects, sprites, sprite behaviors, basic overview, and collision detection. You don’t need a programming background...

The Mobile Search team has released V2 of the rich client application for Windows Mobile, as well as a major update to the browser based interface. Whether you have a J2ME (Java) phone, Windows Mobile phone, or any other device with a mobile browser,...

I just discovered Tim Sneath’s great compilation of 50 Silverlight -based widgets, samples, demos and applications. What’s really interesting are all the fun games popping up. If you’re interested in developing a few of your own, check out the Silverlight...

The site "How Do I?" Videos for Visual Studio Extensibility hosts videos on how to extend the Visual Studio platform, with the VS Extensibility Team adding new How-To videos regularly. Download the code for each video in various formats (WMV | iPod |...

Will iPhone's touch screen technology show up in a new mouse soon? CraveCNET.com reports that it could, if the mouse described a patent application spotted by Hrmpf.com ever goes into production. Like the new iPhone, the mouse described in the patent...

Microsoft’s prestigious Engineering Excellence Chairman's Award was awarded to Mike Fanning, Krzysztof Cwalina , and Brad Abrams for the design of FxCop , which ships as a standalone tool and in Visual Studio 2005 and later. Pretty exciting stuff for...

Livestation , from Microsoft Research, streams live TV over P2P using Silverlight to play the media on your computer. Check out the demo on Steve Clayton’s blog . Social Networking Blog Mashable reports that once this product moves out of the beta stage...

If you love your Virtual Earth like I do you’ll help make it even better by spending a few minutes filling out a quick survey so the good folks in product and marketing know what you think.

Xbox 360 Elite will sell for 47,800 yen ($390) in Japan reports Bloomberg Technology today . It sells for $479.99 in the U.S. The 120-gigabyte hard drive Elite with HDMI can store six times the amount of data of the current 360, goes on sale Oct. 11 in...

None of us has trouble wasting time on the Web, but the social bookmarking service StumbleUpon makes random surfing a lot more fun. You add a toolbar to your browser then hit the “stumble” button to jump to sites you might like, based on preferences you...

You can win fame and fortune developing a hardware or software add-ins for the new Windows Home Server. To qualify, your custom add-in must use Windows Home Server RC 1, so register to receive it here . Other qualifications and information here . Windows...

Now developers can create Web 2.0 applications using the web development guide for the iPhone just released by Apple. If you’re a do-it-yourself type you can use the guide to integrate your app with the iPhone's phone, mail, and maps, the kinds of media...

All the hoopla over touch screens lately got me thinking about a cool research project Jason Sacks talked about at lunch the other day. In this video, Russ Burtner, a Product Designer at Microsoft's Center for Information Work , demos a concept touch...

The software that connects and synchronizes iPhone to a PC won't run on 64-bit editions of Vista or XP, as reported by Information Week . Looking for these requirements? Good luck. This screen is not easy to find. The information is buried in a technical...

So, half a million iPhones were sold over the weekend to mostly positive reviews. Crave.cnet reports that 95 percent of iPhone buyers in San Francisco, New York and Minneapolis purchased the 8GB model, according to a survey conducted Piper Jaffray . About...

If you’re still using the Beta 1 bits from April, it’s time to update. Lots of changes since then! Be sure you read the small print because you need to uninstall your earlier versions through ARP (Programs and Features) before installing the CTP. Another...

If you’re creating plugins for Windows Media Player 11 you may not need to download the Windows SDK. Steve Perry on the WMP Team tells me that you can use the Windows Media Player 10 SDK to create most types of plug-ins for WMP. However, you cannot use...