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Interoperability with the Windows Azure Platform
Today’s announcement at PDC2008 of Windows Azure and the Windows Azure Platform is, unsurprisingly, all over the news. There are fact sheets galore, whitepapers, transcripts, videos etc available on the PressPass Event page , I thought I’d point to this ...
.NetMap
I’ve been using .NetMap from Marc Smith's team at Microsoft Research recently to help me visualise some relationships inside Excel. Some of my colleagues hadn’t seen the tool and suggested I wrote a quick post about it. The easiest way to use .NetMap...
Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta
“The Web Platform Installer Beta (Web PI) provides a single, free package for installing and configuring Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework...
Microsoft Announces European Search Technology Center
CANNES, France, and REDMOND, Wash. — June 17, 2008 — At the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival , Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to open a Search Technology Center (STC) in Europe in its fiscal year 2009. The new center will be designed...
Microsoft shows Touch interface in Windows 7
Following on from Steven Sinofsky's interview yesterday, Chris Flores has posted a video on the Windows Vista blog showing an abridged version of the demo that Julie Larson-Green showed Walt Mossberg at yesterday's D:All Things Digital conference of how...
PDC2008 website & registration is now live
The PDC2008 website went live and registration opened just under an hour ago. Venue: Los Angeles Convention Center Dates: 27.10.2008 - 30.10.2008 The PDC is targeted toward software developers and strategic architects focused on the future of the Microsoft...
OLPC XO Laptop gets Windows
Yesterday, Microsoft and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) announced an agreement that will make the Microsoft Windows operating system available on OLPC’s low-cost XO laptops . Here Bohdan Raciborski from Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Group demos Windows...
Bill Gates shows Touch Wall at CEO Summit 2008
Bill Gates demonstrated a new hardware technology from Microsoft called Touch Wall yesterday at the CEO Summit 2008 .
FolderShare update
FolderShare is one of those utilities I couldn't live without! The FolderShare team have started blogging and have kicked things off by announcing a new version, Windows Live FolderShare , with "better setup, a better system tray menu, and better performance...
IE8 beta passes ACID2 test "out of the box"
notice also the domain highlighting.
Tafiti = Silverlight + Live Search
I quite like Tafiti . Search results can be presented as a newspaper page which works surprsingly well, and results can be dragged over to the right and labelled. The filter within option is also easy to get to, and the blogs/pictures/documents/news/web...
Windows Live SkyDrive (Beta)
If you have a Live ID check this out .. 500Mb cloud storage Introducing Windows Live SkyDrive! Thanks for your help testing Windows Live Folders. It’s been a month and a half since our first release, and today we’re making three major announcements! First...
Using OpenSearch to add your blog (or other site) to IE's Instant Search box
I use and like IE7's Instant Search box. The IE7 search architecture relies on OpenSearch Description which allows multiple search providers can be installed, which are then easily switched between - so you can check the same terms quickly in multiple...
Popfly ... mashups in 30 seconds
I've been asked lots of questions in the last week about Popfly. I've pointed several people to some of the videos that are available, but also promised to post here with a set of links to some of them too. I've linked below to four videos, 30 seconds...
Windows Mobile oPhone - is this the iPhone killer?
Say oH! Innovation, Originality, Revolution, this phone has some cool features Circular screen oMail Microsoft QuickFetch Plus I'm not sure about the " Be the ballerina " tagline though.
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