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NetApp’s new architecture reference guide will assist enterprise development teams to virtualize their NetApp block-based storage systems using Microsoft System Center for management. Part of Microsoft’s new Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program aimed at saving architects months on configuration solutions, the architecture will include crucial information such as design guides, a bill of required material, […]

Microsoft today revealed their plan for the next release of their Visual Studio suite entitled “vNext”. With a very interesting combination of the latest technologies and reinforcing the idea that Microsoft’s Visual Studio suite is an interlaced technology aimed at providing development teams with a logical migration path not available with any other development solutions […]

One of the early programming concepts taught in most every computer science program is flow control. Making decisions in your program based on some condition is essential to doing useful work and producing an application with that ability. Visual Basic 2010 contains all of the standard programming constructs for flow control you would expect to […]

Microsoft has geared Windows Phone 7 for the Enterprise business since day one and this update is no different. Business Friendly features are abound for the Mango release. Just take a look at some of these features that will astound your IT team with this new update: Windows Phone 7 will now support complex (alpha-numeric) […]

As part of its batch of developer-related announcements at the TechEd 2011 conference here, Microsoft announced a new Java software development kit for its Team Foundation Server product. The new Team Foundation Server SDK for Java will include all the required documentation, many sample tidbits of code and redistributable components aimed at helping developers to […]

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 will include several improvements to both stability and performance. Security is also the focus of the Service Pack including updates for SharePoint and all geared towards improving the Internet Explorer 9 browsing experience and improving functionality for web based Office Apps. The latest SP is expected to deploy this […]

Introduction Mobile devices have a big constraint compared to desktops – their screen size. Also, they can be handled in a variety of orientations. On the other hand, they are always available, in your pocket or purse, at any time you want to use them. The mobility of the Windows Phone 7 device ensures that […]

Microsoft Purchased the online chat service known as Skype in order to assert their dominance in the VOIP market, said a source involved in the actual deal between the two industry giants. Skype has an enormous peer-to-peer video chat following and offers Microsoft a huge thrust into the communications space. The questions looms after several […]

In making parallel computing more accessible, Microsoft has also made asynchronous execution more accessible. Nowhere is this fact more apparent than in technologies built from the ground up on these new asynchronous capabilities. Take, for example, Reactive Extensions (Rx); a set of libraries built on LINQ and the Task Parallel Library (TPL). Rx’s LINQ compositional […]

Without the need for a voice-mail system with its cumbersome requirement to enter passwords and dial keypad codes to remove messages, fast-forward, and other basic VM messaging systems, and emulating Apple’s already available and very similar voice-mail system, Microsoft Windows Phone 7’s next release will also have this functionality.

With Standing room only at this weeks US Senate hearing on the privacy being afforded to those who choose to live with a smartphone at their side 24/7, Microsoft made a commitment to stop IDing mobile devices running the Windows Phone 7 Operating System. Obviously this will mean another WP7 update in the near future […]

What it could mean for Microsoft, if history holds true, is another bombed acquisition for the Software giant. While the investment demonstrate Microsoft commitment to competing in the mobile market, Microsoft has a track record of not taking full advantage of their multi-billion dollar purchases and with any luck, Skype will prove to be the […]