4Vote!
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | yesterday
The litigation between Ancora Technologies, Miki Mullor, and Microsoft reached a settlement both in respect of the patent infringement claim and Microsoft's claims against Mullor, Ancora's founder and former Microsoft employee. All claims between the three parties have been resolved; they have agreed to deny any and all liability, and have released each other from all claims of the litigation, but...
4Vote!
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | yesterday
College isn't cheap these days, even if you're attending public university. In that case, pretty much any discount offered to students is welcome. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has just announced that it's offering a special discount on the full Office 2008 Business Edition for US college students, offering them a 70 percent discount off the usual retail price. Even if you're not a college student,...
4Vote!
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | yesterday
This week, Google released an update to Google Chrome Frame . Version 4.0.245.1 is available and all users should be updated automatically, according to Google Chrome Releases . The release fixes issues where the plugin would not follow redirects properly, where network requests would fail randomly, and where it would freeze IE8 intermittently. What really caught our eye though, was the security fix...
4Vote!
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | yesterday
After Internet Explorer 9 was officially announced this week and a few tidbits on the release were shared by Microsoft, we had the opportunity to talk to Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, to prod him for a little more information. The overriding theme for IE9, he told us, is delivering a great browser for everyone, especially for developers. The big areas Microsoft is targeting...
4Vote!
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 ( PDC09 ), the Microsoft Surface team announced the broad availability of the Microsoft Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) Workstation Edition. It has actually been available on the Microsoft Download Center (144.2MB) since earlier this month, but only now has it been made official. Developers interested in the Microsoft Surface can now easily...
4Vote!
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Microsoft today announced that Windows Home Server (WHS) Power Pack 3 (PP3) will be available in all shipping languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish) on November 24, 2009. As always, PP3 will arrive for free via Windows Update for all existing Windows Home Server users. PP3 adds features like backup and restore of computers running Windows 7, Windows 7 Libraries...
4Vote!
MSDN France (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Strength in Windows sales; shareholders support compensation in triennial “say on pay” vote.
5Vote!
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The first information about the next version of Microsoft's web browser was revealed at PDC on Wednesday. The announcement described three main areas of improvement: JavaScript, web standards, and graphics technology. IE9 will contain a new, significantly faster JavaScript engine, it will have richer support for web standards like CSS 3, and it will use the new Direct2D and DirectWrite technology...
4Vote!
MSDN France (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Customers can now combine online services with on-premise ERP or on-demand ERP to quickly increase business capabilities.
4Vote!
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 ( PDC09 , the software giant officially unveiled Silverlight 4 and released the first beta. You can grab the Silverlight 4 beta (build 4.0.41108.0) for Windows (7.63MB) or for Mac (15.4MB). Those with a sharp memory will notice the installer files have ballooned in size, though we can expect them to drop back down at least a little before the...
4Vote!
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
As expected , the public betas for Office 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, and SharePoint Server 2010 have now been posted for download by Microsoft. The beta is available in seven languages (more than any other Office beta program in the past): English, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, French, and German. Office Mobile 2010 (which includes mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint,...
4Vote!
MSDN France (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Company outlines developer scenarios with Windows 7 and Internet Explorer, delivers beta versions of Silverlight 4, Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010.
4Vote!
MSDN France (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
As developers face a rapidly evolving computing environment, Microsoft helps them create applications that can be deployed across a number of platforms.
4Vote!
MSDN France (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Q&A: Kurt DelBene, senior vice president of the Office Business Productivity Group at Microsoft, discusses what is new in the public beta and what developers can expect from the upcoming release of Office 2010 and related products.
4Vote!
MSDN France (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Next step in partnership helps increase flexibility, interoperability between products.
Videos