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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

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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

News to know: Intel; Oracle; Microhoo; iPhone; Online video

Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs Nate McFeters: Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase Robin Harris: FTP: untrustworthy file transfer Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0? Dana Blankenhorn:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Online Video, Video, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Windows Embedded 'Quebec' due in 2010

Although it hasn't said much about its plans for a Vista-based successor to its Windows XP-based  embedded operating system, Microsoft already is working on one. Microsoft released during the first week of June a new test build of its latest Windows XP-based embedded operating system, known as...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Windows Embedded, Quebec, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-06

More Microsoft 'Oslo' modeling details fall into place

While Microsoft isn't planning to provide testers with "Oslo" code until late October, the company did finally start putting some real meat on its software-modeling bones at the TechEd Developers Conference in Orlando this week. Until this week, Microsoft would say next-to-nothing about Oslo. Until the TechEd...

Tags: Repository, Oslo, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-05

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 delays SQL Server 2008 RTM to third quarter

Visual Studio 2008 went to manufacturing at the end of 2007. Windows Server 2008 is expected to be RTM'd in February. But SQL Server 2008 -- the other of the three products Microsoft is slated to launch together on February 27, 2008, in a big corporate event in Los Angeles...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-25

One more test build to go for SQL Server 2008

Microsoft will roll out on November 12 some time later in November a third Community Technology Preview CTP test build of SQL Server 2008, the next-to-last CTP before finalizing the product in time for shipment in the second calendar quarter of next year. CTP 3 of SQL...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-11-12

A new hint about what's coming (and when) in Microsoft Office 14

Master data management will be part of Office 14, a first Community Technology Preview CTP of which is due in the first quarter of 2008. That's according to a September 19 blog post by Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist "PatricG." Master data management is technology...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Bulldog, Microsoft Office, Data Management, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-09-21

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

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

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

A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Stirling

I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Five new Microsoft downloads available this week

A quick round-up of some of the new test releases and final versions of various Microsoft wares rolled out in the past week:Windows Live ID software development kit. Windows Live ID is Microsoft's single sign-on authentication technology of which Microsoft Passport is a subset. On August 16, Microsoft released version...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-17

Microsoft readies new test builds of Exchange 2007 SP1, PerformancePoint 2007

New test builds of Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack SP 1 and PerformancePoint Server 2007 are both going to be available to testers for download this week.Microsoft posted on August 13 the Exchange 2007 SP1 "Technology Preview" (a k a Beta 2) bits for download. New in this feature-complete build...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-14

Microsoft delivers new test build of SQL Server 2008

On the last day of July, Microsoft made available to testers a new Community Technology Preview CTP build of its SQL Server 2008 database, code-named "Katmai."The July CTP build comes one month after the June CTP. Microsoft is expected to test SQL Server 2008 primarily, if not exclusively, via CTPs,...

Tags: Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), SQL Server, Development tools, Database

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Microsoft makes available a new Windows Server 2008 test build

On June 26, Microsoft pushed out a new Community Technology Preview CTP test build of Windows Server 2008.The build is not for any and all testers; it is for a smaller select set of technical beta participants, according to a post on the Windows Server team blog. The new build...

Tags: Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server

Blog posts 2007-06-27

Microsoft makes it official: SQL Server 'Katmai' due in 2008

Early reports turned out to be true: Microsoft is planning to release the next version of its SQL Server database, which is codenamed "Katmai," in 2008. Microsoft announced officially its target date on May 9, the opening day of its first Business Intelligence conference in Seattle. More than 2,600...

Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Database, SQL Server

Blog posts 2007-05-09

Jasper: Dynamic languages meet dynamic database development

Its code name central at Mix 07 in Las Vegas this week. On May 2 at Microsofts Web 2.0 conference, officials are set to put "Jasper," a k a "Dynamic ADO.Net," through its paces. In a session entitled "Rapidly Building Data Driven Web Pages with Dynamic ADO.Net," Microsoft officials...

Tags: Visual Studio Orcas, SQL Server, MIX07, Development tools, Database, Code names

Blog posts 2007-05-01

Whatever happened to Microsoft LOBi?

Hold onto your geek party hats. This is one of those confusing Microsoft-roadmap posts full of obscure acronyms that hopefully is worth wading through. LOBi Line of Business Interoperability: A toolkit? A service? Both? Neither? Whatever LOBi is/was, it was supposed to be key to Microsofts quest to make...

Tags: Dynamics CRM, Dynamics ERP, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, Office, Development tools

Blog posts 2007-03-02