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The July 2009 Community Technology Previews (CTPs) of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio and the included Windows Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) are now available on the Microsoft Download Center. Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft
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Windows Server 2008 R2 has been released to manufacturing and has the same release dates to customers as Windows 7. Partners & OEMs will be able to download from Microsoft Connect or MSDN on August 6th. Action Pack Subscribers will be about to download
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Windows 7 offers a real opportunity for ISVs to add value for your users. Windows 7 will be generally available (GA) on October 22. The version that goes public in October will be available in late July. So you have time to be ready before Windows 7 goes
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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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Server Core is ideal for hosting your Web application on Windows Server 2008 R2. You manage IIS and your application through a command line interface. The biggest advantage is a reduced attack surface, but your customers are able to deploy applications
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The product roadmaps for the coming year were announced at TechEd this past week. The products include lots of important technology for ISVs. Date not announced: Silverlight 3 . introducing more than 50 new features, including support for running Silverlight
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A service pack for Surface developers has been released. Service Pack 1 to allow for faster and easier development of innovative, natural experiences on the Microsoft Surface platform. The SDK supports development on any .NET framework and is optimized
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With all the talk about Windows 7 on the client, we haven’t talked much about the server platform that will shortly follow Windows 7. The release candidate updates for Windows Server 2008 R2 gives you some way to stand out from your competition and provide
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Updates to the Azure Services Platform Training Kit and Azure Services Management Tools have been released. Azure Services Platform Training Kit Update Today we released an updated version of the Azure Services Training Kit. The first Azure Services Training
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ISVs often want to be able to take data and generate documents. It's a common batch processing scenario. The hard part has been figuring out how to generate the documents without putting 2007 Office System on the server. After all, it wasn't meant for
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Been trying out Windows 7? Try out the Windows PowerShell 2.0 graphical scripting editor. PowerShell is used by ISV developers and testers to build out, install applications, and run tests against your own code. You have access to .NET Framework from
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Windows Server 2008 R2 , the next version of Windows Server that is current in beta, is running one of the world's busiest Web sites, www.microsoft.com . If you look closely at the headers, you'll see that www.microsoft.com is being handled by a server
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With Windows Server 2008 R2 announcement, ISVs are looking for the features that will add to their customer experience. Some of the improved areas in R2 are virtualization, management, Web, and enterprise workloads. So here's a quick list of the features
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Microsoft has published a set of documents that affirm our Interoperability Principles that increases openness, drive greater interoperability, and provide more choice for developers, customers, and competitors. Highlights of the announcement include:
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You can script documents and spreasheets creation and proecessing on the server. A new open source project, PowerTools for Open XML , is now up on Codeplex. Processing Open XML documents server-side using PowerShell is a powerful approach for creating,
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