NewsGator's Social Sites 3.0 was released on September 29 th , this release includes: From their Press Release : Microblogging Microblogging expands social computing's role as the new operating system for business – a system that supplants email, folders...

Seven Web Application Toolkits are available for download at the MSDN Code Gallery . These toolkits are aim to provide web developers with resources (such as project templates, controls, code samples, and documentation) in a consistent packaged format...

Application Lifecycle Management Roundtable at Reston MTC 10/28/2009 – Dr. Z's Blog " … Microsoft and CEI are pleased to invite you to join us for a lunch event where we will discuss how you can gain cost savings and efficiency with Microsoft's ALM (application...

Ed Hild - Reston Resolved error setting up IRM for SharePoint 2007 " Was working on a proof of concept today and ran across an interesting error when trying to get the MOSS server to talk to RMS. Since this is just in a lab, the MOSS central administration...

Hi, I was experiencing a couple issues in our OCS R2 environment. These issues were: When one OCS Enterprise Eoice (EV) user called another OCS user and that user re-directed the call to Voice Mail, the call got re-directed back to the caller...

Jason Beres has posted his slides from a talk he gave at the NY MYC: http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/jason_beres/archive/2009/09/16/silverlight-slides-and-code.aspx Cross Posted from the NY MTC Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcny

Microsoft's new Thrive Community offers a place to learn new skills, look for new job opportunities, and connect with your peers. The web development track of the site has comprehensive list of resources in some of the newest and hottest Microsoft technologies...

From the site : In March 2009, Microsoft added a new option for developing web applications on the .NET platform: the ASP.NET MVC Framework 1.0. You've probably heard quite a bit of buzz in the Microsoft web development community about it. But perhaps...

Doloto is a Microsoft Research project that has the goal of making Web 2.0 apps faster. "The goal of the project is to make Web 2.0 applications run faster," Livshits says. "This is a whole new area, as far as software development and how to optimize...

Sanjay Jain is back and working on another incubation week to help ISV's tool up on the latest Microsoft technology. This time the focus is on Windows 7 . Do you have an application that could benefit from the cool new features in Windows 7, such as...

NetApp 's press release, titled: ' NetApp Expands Offering for Midsize Enterprise Customers with New Entry-Level Storage System and Aggressive New Entry Price Points ', talks about the release of the FAS2000 series storage systems that are targeted at...

Our partners at Dell and HP have published 2 new TPC-H results with SQL Server 2008 using Fusion-io’s ioDrive solid-state technology.  These are the first TPC results using solid-state technology and they illustrate the high performance along with...

A few interesting posts caught my attention at InfoQ today: .NETZ – Compression and Packing for .NET Libraries " From the beginning, the .NET runtime had a decent packaging system based on a collection of assemblies. While far better than loose script...

' Upcoming SharePoint Events ' post on the Vorsite blog mentions the following: "Check out details here: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/ny/default.aspx "   What is SharePoint Saturday? "Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals...

Following on yesterday's post about AMD's VISION , I came across Nigel's post called ' A new Way to Buy PCs ': " Someone on this blog once commented that AMD is "out-marketed" by our competitor. I believe they meant to write that we are "out-spent...

In a press release today, AMD announced their consumer strategy called VISION . " Today's consumer cares about what they can do with their PC, not what's inside," said Nigel Dessau, CMO of AMD. "They want a rich HD and entertainment experience on their...

The Great SharePoint Adventure – September 21-25, 2009 CriticalPath Training This 5-day course with extended hours explores the development opportunities with Microsoft's most recent release of SharePoint 2007. The first half of the course focuses on...

CILN 's 3rd Annual Innovative Leadership Network Conference , featuring Gia Interlandi, President of The Leadership Conservatory will take place at the Chicago Microsoft Technology Center on Thursday, October 29, 2009 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm. " Leadership...

The article talks about the Math Worksheet Generator that's built on top of Microsoft's Math Engine. This tool help teachers devise new match problems for their students: " Microsoft's Education Labs launched a new project this afternoon and it's better...

News about the latest WW Telescope release : "Examine astronomical data in unprecedented detail. Take a Web tour of the universe. Explore the heavens in 3-D. WorldWide Telescope keeps expanding its horizons. On Aug. 17, the External Research division...

Interesting article by Microsoft Research's Mary Czerwinski on the new ways that we might interface with computers in the future: Muscle Interfaces, Tongue-based interaction, Bionic Contact Lenses, etc. " The idea is that by freeing people from keyboard...

A very interesting article at the New York Times by Miguel Helft about Qi Lu , the President of Microsoft's Online Services Division [ Wikipedia ]: "Qi Lu knows as well as anyone just how difficult it is to take on Google. For nearly a decade, Mr. Lu...

From marketwire : " APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, today announced it has joined the Microsoft System Center Alliance to enhance and provide support for critical physical infrastructure...