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Beta 2 of Vista SP2 now available to anyone

Beta 2 of Vista SP2 now available to anyoneas usual, no beefSeriously mary joe, if it was released today, you think you could provide some details, or is that not your roll? just report something happened, don't tell anyone anything they can use...sounds easy.RE: Beta 2 of Vista SP2 now...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Service Pack 2, Vista SP2, Beta 2, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2

Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2Microsoft Press ReleaseOnly the other week Ed ran a story about how shoddy some people are running stories based on software companies press releases/marketing documents. Oh and that companies selling security software try and scare the market about the need for...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8 security, beta, Microsoft Corp., Beta 2, notch, security, Web

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Microsoft shares more IE8 security details

When Microsoft officials released a first test build of Internet Explorer IE 8 back in March, they said they were intentionally refraining from talking specifics about new security features and functionality that would be part of the next browser release. In the past few weeks, however, Microsoft...

Tags: Security, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Beta 2, Web Browsers, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-08

First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 2

I'm keeping a close eye on the latest Firefox betas to be released by Mozilla.  The reason is that if past performance issues have been fixed, it's quite likely that I might consider making a switch to it as my main browser.  While I find Internet Explorer 7 to be...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Beta 2, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-12-19

Visual Studio 2008 to go gold as soon as Monday

Visual Studio 2008 to go gold as soon as MondayLet seeThere are great features coming with VS2008. Let's just hope it will be stable enough. Hard to make a decision. How many of us can actually continue their work aacording to their current plans for the next 6 month (or...

Tags: Microsoft development tools, development tool, server, RTM bit, Beta 2, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-18

February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch

February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launchYour source is wrong. VS 2008 beta 2 isalready available. http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/a/f2ac411f-acf9-42a7-a84f-3efc409bcd6b/VSTS_SelfExtractingJuneCTP.mhtIs this a good idea?Looking at what happened when they did this last time with .NET 2.0, SQL 2005, and VS 2005 - they ended up with huge delays, tons of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, CTP, June CTP, Beta 2, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-10

Vista, Office 2007 beta updates

The week, Microsoft made new versions of Windows Vista and Office 2007 widely available.If you didn't sign up for the Windows Vista Beta 2 Customer Preview Program, you have another chance. Microsoft has now reopened registration for Vista Release Candidate 1. Details are here. The short version:It's available in English,...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2006-09-15

Triple beta 2 day for Microsoft at WinHEC

Triple beta 2 day for Microsoft at WinHECReal Power of VirtualizationSomething that really caught my eye was the ability to add system resources to an OS on the fly. That would be impressive when considering some of the more intensive apps. A Database could quickly asborb that extra...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, job, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Beta 2, Microsoft Office 2007

Discussion threads 2006-05-24

Windows Vista Beta 2? Pass the Maalox, please

In about two weeks, Beta 2 of Windows Vista will be officially released to the public. And when it does, Microsoft will officially enter uncharted territory.The last time the hoi polloi were allowed to tinker with an unfinished version of Windows was March of 2001. That, as it turned out,...

Tags: Dwight Silverman, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2006-05-10

Back to the virtual driver future (aka: What's with all the reboots?)

There are probably a lot of you youngsters out there that don't remember one small important step for mankind that Windows took around the time that Intel's 80386 started to dominate the market. Compared to it's 16-bit predecessor (the 80286), the 32-bit "386" enabled a breakthrough known as virtual...

Tags: Beta 2

Blog posts 2006-04-11

Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 - first thoughts

Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 - first thoughtsGeneral StabilityI dunno about the last couple comments. Beta 2 seems to be quite a bit more stable then it's predecessor. In fact I've had not one issue with it since installation yesterday which I also had no problem. Now if they...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, beta, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Beta 2

Discussion threads 2006-03-21

Office 2007 in October?

I’m a little surprised at the lack of reaction to this BusinessWeek Online report from last Thursday, which claims that Office 2007 is going to arrive later than expected: Internal plans had called for Microsoft to finish development on the software by August. … Yet company sources say development delays...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Beta 2

Blog posts 2006-02-21

Full-text of Microsoft's Sept CTP (PDC Build 5219) Fact Sheet

I asked Microsoft if I could republish the fact sheet that it provided in conjunction with the Community Technology Preview release (Vista build 5219) that was handed out at the Professional Developers Conference PDC in LA. They agreed. The Word-compatible DOC file can be downloaded from Microsoft's...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2005-09-15

Additional Resources

Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome Frame

HAHA! Way to go Microsoft! They basically just told Google to suck it! The best part is they were right the whole time. Yet people blindly defended Google. It would seem Google has more software issues than anyone else.RE: Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome FrameI'm not...

Tags: Web browsers, security, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., attack surface, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Hulu Desktop 0.9.8.2 (Mac)

Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that's optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu's entire library with just six buttons. For users without remotes, the application is...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Remote Control, PC, Hulu, Hulu Desktop, Media Center PCs, Desktops, Keyboards, Mice, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Microsoft shares a few tidbits on IE9 and (lots) more on Silverlight 4

Safari? What Safari ? :-)http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/39495-safari-4-beta-first-browser-to-hit-100-score-in-acid3-testI know, Steve doesn't like Apple but you're supposed to be a journalist? ;-)Google chrome?IE like Microsoft is stumbling around in a new ecosystem in which spending thousands of dollars is not an option.Plus, it locks you into a insecure OS platform with...

Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Spell Check, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer, HTML5, JavaScript, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Microsoft PDC Live Blog Day Two: IE, Silverlight 4.0 and more

The second day of keynotes at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is about to begin, and expectations are running high that MIcrosoft might share some details on what's coming with Internet Explorer 9, Silverlight 4 and Office 2010 Beta 2 today. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Office 2010 Beta 2: More than just a bunch of pretty icons

Of course its better, they stole ideas fromOf course 2010 is better, they stole (oops, innovated) most of the new ideas from Office MVPs that built add ins to previous versions. (There is a very silent revolt going on in the MVP ranks over it and many long term...

Tags: Numbering, Microsoft Office, Office MVP, ribbon, Microsoft Word

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Office 2010 Beta 2: More than just a bunch of pretty icons

Office 2010 Beta 2 is available to TechNet/MSDN subscribers, and as usual I got my mitts on it too. What's new? What's good? What's the killer application? by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Beta, Office 2010 Beta 2, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta 3 (Windows)

Firefox 3.6 beta 2 Namoroka is the first developer milestone of the next release of Firefox. Namoroka is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only....

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Beta, Mozilla Corp., Namoroka, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-18