300 Top Software Developers Worldwide in New Microsoft Development Center
Even as early as July 5, 2007, Microsoft announced that it was extending north of Redmond and into Canada.
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11.9.2008 Microsoft to offer code protection, validation to other software developers
Microsoft is planning to deliver on October 1 to third-party software developers a set of technologies that will allow them to add code protection and activation mechanisms to their own software.
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13.7.2007 Top Security Software of 2007
2007 has been a busy year when it comes to computer security, with all kinds of threats aiming to be deployed on people's computers.
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30.12.2007 Top 10 New Features in Windows Server 2008
There are a myriad of both subtle and fundamental differences in the basic architecture of Windows Server 2008, which could dramatically change not only the way it's used in the enterprise, but also the logical and physical structure of networks where it's the dominant OS.
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25.5.2007 Top Overlooked Features of Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 is on its way. With the first release candidate in the pipeline, it shouldn't be long before release to manufacturing and general availability.
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8.10.2007 Why Vista Matters to Developers
To some, Windows Vista is Microsoft's most secure operating system ever. To others, it's the most Mac-like. But from a developer standpoint, it's the first proving ground for Microsoft's new family of managed programming interfaces that have been under development for the past five years.
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13.2.2007 Windows loses ground with developers
Microsoft's Windows platform is losing traction as a target for application developers in North America but still is the dominant platform, according to Evans Data survey results being released on Tuesday.
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3.7.2007 Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 For Developers and Testers
Mozilla developer centre released its Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 today. Codenamed as Shiretoko Alpha 2, developers or testers who would like to give it a try can download it.
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9.9.2008 Analyst: Vista's UAC Will Reform Developers
When it comes to the new security functions in Windows Vista, User Account Control is the one people tend to scratch their heads over, Gartner Analyst Neil MacDonald said during his presentation on implementing Vista security at Gartner's IT Security Summit here on June 4.
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8.6.2007 Microsoft Developers Conference Slated For October
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) plans to hold its next Professional Developers Conference (PDC) from October 27 to 30, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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7.12.2007 Microsoft Gives Developers 60-Day Deadline IE Extension
Microsoft is moving toward permanently modifying the way Internet Explorer renders multimedia content on Web pages, as part of the terms of its patent settlement with Eolas.
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29.3.2006 TechEd 2007 Preview: Now It's Developers' Turn to Make Changes
With Windows Vista already a firmly entrenched product in many homes and some businesses, and with Windows Server 2008 cruising toward a final release in the second half of this year, Microsoft may feel it's time for its many partners and developers with an interest in Windows' success to stand and deliver.
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4.6.2007 Google to Give Developers Access to Trends API
Google will eventually give programmers access to an API for its Trends analysis tool.
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5.12.2007 Vistas big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd...
Not anymore. A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year. Eight percent.
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17.6.2008 Microsoft postpones Winhec 2008 to Fall 2008
Microsoft announced that WinHEC 208 will not be held in the spring as previous years, but in the fall (October probably) of 2008.
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17.11.2007 Top Vista Features
thepodest prepare great review of Best Windows Vista features on
his blog. thepodest wrote: I have picked what I think are the best features introduced in Windows Vista.
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1.6.2007 The Best of the Best: Microsoft Recognizes Top Vendors
Five of Microsofts vendors receive annual Excellence Awards.
Microsoft Corp. today announced the winners of the 2006 Microsoft Vendor Program (MSVP) Excellence Awards. This years five winners Trammell Crow Co., GE Plastics, Taylor Nelson Sofres plc (TNS), MRM Partners Worldwide and Milligan Events were selected from among more than 20,000 Microsoft vendors in the U.S.
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Top 10 Vista Hacks
You've run Windows Vista, you've played around with the Aero interface, and maybe you've even mucked around a little bit in Vista's innards to see what makes it tick.
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17.4.2007 Internet Explorer comes out on top against Phishing
NSS Labs, an independent security research group, found that Internet Explorer 8 was the best browser tested at thwarting phishing attempts.
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14.8.2009 Your top Windows 7 questions, answered
Since Windows 7 launched on October 22, my e-mail inbox has been deluged with questions, comments, and pleas for help.
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17.11.2009 A Top-to-Bottom Review of Office 12
Releases of Microsoft Office over the past 6 years have been considered evolutionary upgrades, delivering new features with each new version making life a bit easier for authors of Office documents. The release of Office 2000 in 1999 introduced tighter integration with the Web, giving users the ability to flawlessly save documents in HTML format and distribute over the Internet or Intranet, adding stronger ways of accessing information.
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14.1.2006 Review: Top 5 Improvements In Vista RC1
When the CRN Test Center last looked at Microsoft Windows Vista, it was obvious the operating system was far from complete, which wasn't a surprise because it was still a beta version.
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8.9.2006 Top court rules for Microsoft on patent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday overturned a ruling that Microsoft Corp. should be held liable for patent infringement on copies of the Windows operating system sold overseas.
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1.5.2007 Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks
Today Microsoft is announcing some significant developments to the Windows Live platform that demonstrate Microsofts commitment to data portability and giving users a choice of how to use and control their information.
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25.3.2008 Top 6 Vista Application Incompatibility Reasons
Application incompatibility is one of the aspects that have managed to deliver extensive damage to the adoption rate of Windows Vista.
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24.5.2008 10 top Vista tweaks part 2
As I noted in the first installment of this series, some of my favorite productivity-enhancing techniques dont involve custom code or registry edits.
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18.6.2008 Top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows 7
With the Windows 7 Release Candidate already leaked to the public, and the the official bits coming May 5, there's been a lot of hype surrounding Windows 7, with generally positive reviews from the community. Windows 7 is everything Vista wasn't... and some of what it should of been.
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28.4.2009 Top 10 Windows Freeware tools for 2005
As we head into 2005’s home stretch, I thought I’d do a round-up of my top 10 pieces of Windows Freeware for 2005. Some of these aren’t new, but certainly what I’d consider essential. Some on the other hand, are new. I’ve tried to avoid the instantly popular ones like Firefox and Opera, although I did give way to Winamp and Konfabulator in the end. But hey, it’s my top 10. If you don’t like it, post your own.
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Office 2007 Downloads Top 200,000
In the first 24 hours since going live, Microsoft counted 200,000 downloads of Office 2007 Beta 2. While the company provided no estimates of how many users it expected to try the new release, Microsoft officials said they were excited by the numbers. BetaNews alone pushed over 5,500 downloads of Office 2007.
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26.5.2006 Ballmer: Windows Live Is Top Microsoft Priority
Windows Live is the most important initiative at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, told the audience at the annual Gartner Symposium and IT Expo here on Oct. 10.
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11.10.2006Top Things to Break Applications on Windows Server 2008
Neil Hutson: We are getting pretty close to shipping Windows Server 2008. If you have not done already, please download the latest build of Windows
Server 2008 (see recent
post of
download instructions ) and test the applications which you have developed.
If your application does not work, there are lots of
great resources that we have built to help you understand what's wrong and what you can do to fix the problems.
Below is a list
of the top resources which I point developers to. At the bottom of the list, there is an offer of Lab space with our experts on the subject at no
charge too.
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09.01.2008Mozilla Asks Add-On Developers to Prepare For Firefox 3.1
Mozilla has cultivated one of the most interesting and healthiest
ecosystems for extension developers around its popular Firefox browser. The problems with this, of course, is
that whenever Mozilla releases a new version of Firefox, developers have to make sure that their software is compatible. For the next release of its
browser, Mozilla aims to make sure that 90% of those add-ons that make up the top 95% of add-on usage will be compatible with the latest version of
Firefox. The release of Firefox 3.1 is still a while off, but currently only 28% of the top extensions are ready for the transition...
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14.11.2008Top 100 Products of 2008
ReadWriteWeb: Over December we've published ten top 10 lists of the
top products of
2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent masses that read our site. But for
now, you'll have to make do with the choices of us here at ReadWriteWeb. In this post we've done a megalist, the top 100 products of 2008...
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24.12.2008Microsoft to hand out early
code
Looking to drive
demand for a wave of
forthcoming products,
Microsoft will fill the
pockets of developers this
week with early versions of
several programs, including
the latest "build" of
Windows
Vista.
At
the software giant's
Professional Developers
Conference in Los Angeles,
Microsoft is planning to
provide programmers with the
code for an early version of
Vista, as well as Visual
Studio 2005 and SQL Server
2005, both of which will be
released in November. Vista,
the client version of the next
release of Windows developed
under the code name Longhorn,
is expected to be released
next year.
The
company will distribute the
software on Tuesday following
morning keynotes by Bill
Gates, Microsoft's chief
software architect, and Jim
Allchin, the group vice
president in charge of
Windows.
In
addition, company executives
are hosting several sessions
at which they plan to lift the
hood on the inner workings of
Microsoft's Office 12 suite
and encourage developers to
build applications on top of
Office. ..
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12.09.2005Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure at Professional Developers Conference
Today, during a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 (PDC2008), Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp.s chief software
architect, announced Windows Azure, the cloud-based service foundation underlying its Azure Services Platform, and highlighted this platforms role in
delivering a software plus services approach to computing. The Azure Services Platform is an industry-leading move by Microsoft to help developers
build the next generation of applications that will span from the cloud to the enterprise datacenter and deliver compelling new experiences across the
PC, Web and phone.
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27.10.2008Top 10 Web Platforms of 2008
2008 has seen a proliferation of new Web platforms, including a few major ones built using open standards. In this final instalment of our series of
top products of 2008, we choose the top 10 Web platforms of the year...
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22.12.2008Office Accounting 2008 Software Development Kit
The Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 Software Development Kit shows developers how to use the Office Accounting platform to create custom solutions
and to integrate their products with Office Accounting.
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14.11.2007Developers want Ballmer to show money
Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered
financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers.
In the lead-up to Ballmer's visit to
Sydney this Thursday, the
software giant has asked developers to submit questions on its
forum which it plans to relay to Ballmer on the day.
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05.11.2008Microsoft Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux
Microsoft will not allow
Windows Vista or Windows XP to
be virtualized on top of
Linux, Sam Ramji, the director
of Microsoft's open-source
software lab, said at the
annual LinuxWorld Conference
and Expo here Aug. 7.
"What we have
heard predominantly from
customers is that they want to
be able to mix and match their
data center applications, but
we haven't seen significant
demand for Linux applications
on the desktop or for desktop
virtualization on top of
Linux," Ramji said in an
address titled "Linux and
Windows Interoperability: On
the Metal and on the
Wire."
But, he said that while he
does hear a lot of requests
for this from developers in
the Linux community, the
feedback Microsoft is getting
from customers and its
Interoperability Executive
Customer Council with regard
to the desktop is that they
want .Net and Java
interoperability...
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08.08.2007Top 100 social brands of 2008
According to The Vitrue, the top 100 social brands, iPhone has taken the top spot in a list of 100 brands available to consumers. The list ranks a
variety of social brands including online markets to hardware to shoes. Apple has taken 2 of the top 3 spots in a list generated by Vitrue using a
unit-less number algorithm, out of 2000 popular brands, by tracking the movement of a brand either of the course of a day, week or months. The Vitrue
SMI can tracks and compares the brand with competitors , using a complex methodology that also incorporates social networking, blogging,
microblogging, photos and video sharing sites.
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01.02.2009Microsoft ranks as the Leading Top 500 Provider again
For the 2nd year in a row, Microsoft Corporation have been named most often in the 2008 edition of Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. Out of the more
than 500 services and solution providers mentioned in the Guide, Microsoft was listed as the provider of choice for 48 of the Top 500 e-Retail
clients.
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14.08.2008Empowering Developers with Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5
Q&A: S. Soma Somasegar, corporate vice president, of the Developer Division at Microsoft, discusses how the company is delivering the tools
developers of all skill levels need to create great applications on the latest platforms...
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19.11.2007Latest Microsoft Innovations Help Developers Build Better Applications, Faster
During the keynote address at Microsoft TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers, Jason Zander, general manager of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corp.,
highlighted how Microsoft is dramatically simplifying everyday development tasks through recently released technologies, such as Visual Studio 2008
Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, and the forthcoming Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 releases. In addition to
disclosing more information about Visual Studio 2010, Zander announced new programs and tools modeled after the companys internal Security Development
Lifecycle (SDL) that enable software developers to create more secure and privacy-enhanced applications.
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10.11.2008Microsoft Plans Big Announcements In GDC Keynote
Chris Kohler: Stevenotes? Meh. The suit-and-tie speech that's getting gamers riled up this morning is Microsoft's GDC keynote, which promises big
news about the Xbox 360's upcoming year in software.
Corporate vice president of Live, software and services John Schappert, who
joined the company in August coming from Electronic Arts,
will deliver an address on Wednesday, February 20 called "A Future Wide Open: Unleashing the Creative Community." In an email announcing the
keynote, the GDC described it thusly:
Schappert's keynote explores the Xbox 360 platform's next step in democratizing game
development, vastly opening up the industry for developers of all sizes. The session will set the strategy for Xbox 360 this upcoming year, revealing
top developers' plans for the platform in 2008. Schappert will discuss how the increasing role of online gaming will continue to shape gameplay and
game distribution this year. (emphasis ours)
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17.01.2008Developers Gather to Showcase Power of Office Business Applications
At the 2008 Microsoft Office System Developer Conference, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates announced new software, services and tools that will
further enable developers to build the next wave of business applications using the familiar Microsoft Office system.
Gates
stressed that there is a great opportunity for developers to take advantage of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, one of the fastest-growing
server businesses in Microsoft history, and its capabilities to directly connect users with the business processes and data they rely on to do their
jobs.
Almost half of ISVs and IT developers worldwide are using the Microsoft Office system to build business applications
because Microsoft Office is such an effective way to unlock business data stored in back-end systems, Gates said. With applications and services
built on the Microsoft Office system, developers can make it easier for employees to connect to information and business processes.
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11.02.2008Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1
The Visual Studio 2008 Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.1 includes tools, documentation, and samples for developers to design, build, test and deploy
extensions for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. You can also use the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 to create custom tools environments based on the
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Shell.
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21.08.2008Top 5 security-menace predictions for 2008
If this year will be remembered for high-profile data breaches, with the TJX break-in topping a long list, then what troubles are in store for
2008?
Predictions include more powerful hacker botnets that elude shutdown and growth in numbers of compromised Web sites that
attack trusting, unsuspecting visitors. Those are some of the picks from Symantecs director of emerging technologies, Oliver Friedrichs. A rundown of
his top five...
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14.11.2007Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, 'D'
A handful of Microsofts top developers are working to create a new programming language, code-named "D," which will be at the heart of the
Microsofts push toward more intuitive software modeling.
D is a key component of Microsofts Oslo software-oriented architecture
(SOA) technology and strategy. Microsoft outlined in vague terms its plans and goals for Oslo in late fall 2007, hinting that the company had a new
modeling language in the works, but offering no details on what it was or when the final version would be delivered.
D will be a
declarative language aimed at non-developers, and will be based on eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML), sources, who asked not to be named,
said.
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05.02.2008Developers praise Android at Google I/O
Developers praised the programming experience and the potential of Google's Android mobile platform at the Google I/O conference as the company
emphasized its flexibility and showed cool new features.
There was a lot of buzz around Android at the conference, which covers
all areas of Google development, and an "Introduction to Android" session was full. Google wants the technology to open up the mobile industry,
where developers have faced hurdles getting applications ported to many different operating systems and approved by carriers. But Android will enter
the fray as just one mobile platform among many, including the Apple iPhone SDK (software development kit).
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30.05.2008IE8 and JScript
Kristen Kibble: As Dean mentioned yesterday in his post announcing the
availability of the Internet
Explorer 8 Beta 1 for developers , better script performance is of particular interest to the developer community. In conjunction with
Deans announcement, the JScript Team posted additional information around scripting improvements in IE8 Beta 1 over on their
team blog. I
encourage you to check it out and follow their blog to learn more about the cool things they are doing for IE8!
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