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- Microsoft Office Web Apps go to testers: Ten things to know
- Microsoft is making available to thousands of pre-selected testers on September 17 the first Community Technology Preview CTP test build of its Web-ified version of Office. Here are ten things about the CTP of Office Web Apps that I found interesting. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Web Application, Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Broader Microsoft Office 2010 test program to kick off in July
- Office 2010 will begin rolling out to a wider cross-section of testers starting this July, according to Microsoft officials. Company execs are telling attendees of this week's Microsoft TechEd 2009 conference to expect the first Community Technology Preview CTP test build of Office 2010 in July, as...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, RTM, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Gates to look back, ahead on tools in his last Microsoft keynote
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will continue his long goodbye on June 3 with his last public tradeshow keynote at the company's TechEd Developers Conference in Orlando. (Gates will no longer be engaged in day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft as of July 1, so that he can work more...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, TechEd, Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, Tool, Modeling, Parallel Extensions, Research & Development, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Microsoft Codename Astoria - May 2007 Community Technology Preview add on July (Windows)
- The first CTP of Microsoft Codename Astoria shipped in May of 2007 and included a client library to facilitate access to Astoria services from applications built using the .NET Framework. This add-on extends the CTP by introducing a version of the client library that can run inside the Microsoft Silverlight...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-09-07
- Microsoft Codename Astoria - May 2007 Community Technology Preview 1 (Windows)
- The Microsoft Codename Astoria project is an incubation effort at Microsoft focused on exploring how various emerging World-Wide-Web technologies and concepts can be combined with the Microsoft Data Platform to provide a first-class infrastructure for building the next wave of Internet applications. The goal of Microsoft Codename Astoria is to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-09-04
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name Orcas SDK - June 2007 Community Technology Preview 1 (Windows)
- The Visual Studio Code Name Orcas SDK June 2007 CTP targets Visual Studio Code Name Orcas. The Visual Studio Code Name Orcas SDK June 2007 CTP is intended to let customers work with Orcas extensibility features. This CTP adds and updates the following features: Run As Normal User RANU -...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, SDK, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, Microsoft Development Tools, DSL, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-08-30
- Sandcastle - June 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2.2.64000.04 (Windows)
- "Documentation compilers for managed class libraries. Enabling managed class library developers throughout the world to easily create accurate, informative documentation with a common look and feel." This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, Microsoft Windows, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-08-28
- ASP.NET Atlas June 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2.0.50727 (Windows)
- ASP.NET codename "Atlas" is a set of technologies to add Ajax Asynchronous JavaScript And XML support to ASP.NET. It consists of a client-side script framework, and server controls. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Windows, Atlas, Community Technology Preview, .Net, Middleware, AJAX, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Web Development, Web 2.0
- Software downloads 2007-08-28
- Microsoft Secure Content Downloader July 2007 Community Technology Preview 1 (Windows)
- The Microsoft Secure Content Downloader MSCD is a peer-assisted download manager capable of securely downloading specific files. MSCD is intended for consumers who are downloading from a home PC, or business users whose computers are not behind a corporate firewall. If you use MSCD from behind a corporate firewall, you...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, Microsoft Secure Content Downloader, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-08-25
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Language-Integrated Query, May 2006 Community Technology Preview 38838 (Windows)
- LINQ is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated data query, set, and transform operations. It includes extensions to the C# and Visual Basic languages with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities. This...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, LINQ, C#, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-08-25
- Microsoft XNA Build March 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 1 (Windows)
- Microsoft XNA Build is a tool which will help game studios manage the growing complexities of their game content builds. We invite you to install this pre-release into a non-production environment to learn more about how XNA Build will reduce development complexities. We have also re-released Microsoft MechCommander 2...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, Microsoft XNA Build, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-08-25
- ASP.NET Atlas July 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2.0.50727 (Windows)
- This new Web development technology from Microsoft integrates client script libraries with the ASP.NET 2.0 server-based development framework. In addition, "Atlas" offers you the same type of development platform for client-based Web pages that ASP.NET offers for server-based pages. And because "Atlas" is an extension of ASP.NET, it is fully...
- Tags: Microsoft ASP.NET, Server, Microsoft Windows, Atlas, Community Technology Preview, .Net, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2007-08-23
- Microsoft starts rolling out several tool test releases
- Microsoft tool testers will have lots of new builds to play with this week.Microsoft is expecting to deliver a public Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas") Beta 2 for download on Friday, July 27, company officials said. It will roll out simultaneously Beta 2 of the .Net Framework 3.5. Microsoft is expecting...
- Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), Expression Studio, .Net Framework, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), Development tools
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Unexpected Longhorn Server test build ready for download
- Last I heard, Microsofts next expected release of Longhorn Server was supposed to be Beta 3, expected by testers some time in April. On April 4, Microsoft did deliver a new Longhorn Server release to testers. But it was yet another Community Technology Preview CTP interim test build, not...
- Tags: Windows server, Windows Server Longhorn
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- 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 to raise prices, add more high-end editions with SQL Server 2008 R2
- With the new version of its database due out by mid-2010, Microsoft is increasing its retail prices. It also is adding two new high-end editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 to its line-up. Other news from the opening day of Microsoft's SQL PASS conference: Microsoft is planning to make the...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage for the final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today - an afternoon session that followed lunch and got off to a rough start when Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan who was scheduled to speak after Ellison came on stage first and spent 45 minutes...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Ellison, Fusion, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Office Web Apps: New screenshots
- Microsoft is releasing to a private group of testers a Community Technology Preview CTP test build of its Office Web Apps on September 17. Here are some screen shots of what testers will see now and later this fall when a public beta hits of Microsoft's Web-ified versions of Word,...
- Tags: Public Beta, Web Application, Microsoft Office, Cloud Computing, Office Suites, Software, Office Web Apps, Office 2010, Office for Mobile, Office for Mac, SharePoint, Mary Jo Foley
- Image galleries 2009-09-17
- News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., RightNow Technologies, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Office 2010: What Microsoft will and won't say
- A new build of Office 2010 -- more recent than the Community Technology Preview CTP Microsoft delivered in June to a select group of testers -- allegedly has leaked. (But as of this posting, not yet leaked to the Web.) by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
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