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Experience The New Efficiency Microsoft launch event live from San Diego October 26 virtually. This online event is good way for IT Pros and developers to attend a launch event “virtually” if they could not get to one of the live events. You’ll learn
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As ISVs, you may want to extend your application into your customer SharePoint sites. The patterns & practices team has put together guidance to assist you building collaborative applications that extend your line-of-business (LOB) systems.
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The cost of individual developer certification exams have been discounted up to 25% through the end of the year or while supplies last. The offer is being made on Career Campaign: Certification Exam Offer and includes a discount code that you can obtain
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The video content has been updated for Essential SQL Server 2008: Database Infrastructure and Scalability workshop on SQL Server 2008 Jumpstart . While the released version of this content has been available for quite some time, updated versions
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You can now download a 90-day trial version Windows 7 Enterprise from Microsoft TechNet . If you have not had access to Windows 7 release, this is a good way to see it now. It is designed specifically for IT Professionals and ISVs to test your software
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Your customers will be getting Internet Explorer 8 through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) this week. IE8 upgrades Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The update is available in the “Update rollup” category, and will
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The first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is now available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. A public version of the CTP should be available August 17 from TechNet Eval Center . Versions are available for 32-bit and
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ISVs and customers who have MSDN or TechNet subscriptions are now able to download and use English-language version of Windows 7 today. You can get the release through MSDN and TechNet for 32-bit and 64-bit. For more information on Windows 7 availability
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Bob Familiar has put together a series of videos about what Microsoft is with The Cloud on ARCast. A group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. ARCasts are weekly interviews with influential architects providing
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There are four big areas we think about building in a browser for a billion customers around the world. And these four areas have been put into Internet Explorer 8 . For ISVs, there are compelling reasons for your customers to use IE8 and for you to add
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Want to get started with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and want to learn the tricks of the trade? Here’s a list of presentations, demos, and training videos. The videos are aimed at ITPros so do not expect to see code. Many of these videos also
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Service Pack 2 for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are now available on Microsoft Download. You can download the service pack at for x86 , ISO and 64-bit flavors . The updates will pushed through Windows Update at the end of June. Service
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If your application works with Windows Vista, odds are very good that it will work with Windows 7 . And you would be testing it for Windows 7 compatibility using the Windows 7 Software Logo Kit. The beta is due out real soon, and you’ll be able use it
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The release of Windows 7 is anticipated to be available to customers in time for the holiday shopping season. In addition, Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate (RC) is now available with the final product releasing to market in the same timeframe
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One of the biggest challenges facing ISVs how to deal with the identity of the users and what information they are allowed to have access to. When you add the idea of securing access between organizations, it gets more complex. But users want single sign
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