Windows 8 Release Preview has been made available last week, representing another important quality milestone in the road to Windows 8 General Availability (GA). In this post we provide you with the must-know information around what and where to download the bits, the tools and information on how you...

We’re very proud to announce that SQL Server 2012 is now generally available for purchase and download.  SQL Server 2012 delivers a powerful new set of capabilities for mission-critical workloads, business intelligence and hybrid IT across traditional datacenters and public and private clouds. To...

  Join us for the 12 hours of SQL Server 2012 , the next release of the Microsoft Cloud-Ready Information Platform that is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2012. During the 12 hours of SQL Server 2012 we'll offer you 12 webcasts over 12 hours starting 12:12 CET on February 24th (too...

Windows Phone 7.5 brings dozens of new platform features to Windows Phone. When you have previously built an application for Windows Phone, you might ask yourself, " How do I take advantage of all these cool new features in my existing Windows Phone application ?" Check out the full post from...

Why should an independent software vendor (ISV) care about cloud computing? The answer is simple: using the cloud has the potential to increase your revenues and/or decrease your costs . Running code and storing data on computers in large Internet-accessible data centers owned and operated by another...

In this 1-day, free of charge (for MSFT partners), classroom training you will learn hands-on (pun not intended ) how you can build touch-optimized applications for touch-enabled devices such as the Slate PC . We will provide you insight in the different capabilities of the platform and show you how...