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Channel 9 Learning Centre – Free Training

Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:41 AM by scottwy
Did you know there’s a whole lot of resources available to help you get up to speed on our latest technologies – and it’s all free! It consists of a set of courses with each course including a set of videos, hands-on labs, and source code samples to get Read More...
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Welcoming Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:13 AM by scottwy
We’ve just launched a beta wave – Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2. Darryl has written a great blog post on the new VS 2010 SKUs, but here’s the skinny: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN : the comprehensive suite of Read More...
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First NZ Sharepoint Conference in July

Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 3:08 PM by scottwy
It’s great to see the first ever New Zealand Sharepoint conference being held on July 2/3 in Wellington. Sharepoint has evolved over the years into a comprehensive application platform for all kinds of apps and situations. And the folks behind the NZ Read More...
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Close Up Report on Computer Viruses

Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:41 AM by scottwy
The TVNZ Close Up programme ran a piece last week on computer viruses which probably succeeded in scaring most viewers while not offering any solutions or even places to look for help. Computer virus How safe is your computer? We all know about fire walls, Read More...
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NZ Customers - buy or renew MSDN subscriptions online

Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 7:50 AM by scottwy
Just in from Darryl's blog: While the rest of the world has been able to purchase and renew Visual Studio and MSDN online for some time, we have for some reason lagged behind.  But now that lag is behind us and we can now order a new subscription Read More...
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From the Horse's Mouth

Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:22 AM by scottwy
The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is coming soon. We pretty much only run PDC when we have some big things to talk about...real big things. People talk about the ".NET" PDC and the "Longhorn" PDC and this year Read More...
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Back into the Light

Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:54 AM by scottwy
I've just returned from a week in the US attending our annual global Microsoft briefing. It's always a great event but this year was extra special. This is of course the first year the BillG has not been directly involved. While a little sad, what this Read More...
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One Sync Technology to Rule Them All

Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 2:30 AM by scottwy
Not sure if you've seen our announcements a month or so again around Mesh . Mesh is our new platform for connecting people and devices across the web in a really seamless fashion. Think of Mesh as a development platform for enabling synchronisation of Read More...
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Cool tool from ActionThis

Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 3:52 AM by scottwy
Take a look at the Runtime Page Optimiser from ActionThis . They've created a component that combines requests a runtime. For example, if a page has 10 javascript files, these will be combined into 1 file. Same with CSS and images (these are tiled). They're Read More...
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IE8 Standards Change - Reaction

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:10 AM by scottwy
It will be interesting to see the reaction to our announcement that IE8 will have improved support for web standards, in particular IE8 will render using web standards by default. Many have been clamouring for this change, and now we are delivering - Read More...
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