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Microsoft is not apposed to Flash and of course they would like to support their Flash killer, Silverlight, but both of these technologies come at a price and that price is the lack of support for the extensibility model inside the current browser model. Microsoft assures us that the future will hold a reasonable trade-off.

HTC now serves two fronts with the Android and now Microsoft Windows Mobile 7. HT7 has reserved their flagship model for the new Windows Mobile 7 calling it a great operating system and taking advantage of all the latest features embedded into the new smarphone OS.

EdgeCast now offers adaptive streaming that allows the video quality of a live feed to be seamlessly switched in real time to match local bandwidth and CPU conditions without requiring to stop and re-buffer. Silverlight developer can now provide the best quality that the bandwidth and CPU of the user will allow at any given […]

Steve Ballmer Microsoft Chief Executive Officer declares that this will be a new era for the software giant stating that the Windows Phone 7 is a big, big launch for the company. Regardless of the future of their second go at dominating the smartphone market, Microsoft, with their clinch on the desktop OS, will do […]

Introduction The literal 0 has a unique position in C++ programming — it automatically converts to almost every fundamental type, depending on the context: int x=0; double d=0; char * pstr=0; //null pointer int (A::*pmf)(int) =0; //null pointer to member bool flag=0; //Boolean false Using 0 as a null pointer might lead to overload resolution […]

Now Corticon Business Rules Engines and Business Rules Management Systems users can enjoy support for the Windows 7 operating system, and for Silverlight and Windows Communication Foundation developers. The new Corticon 4.3 provides numerous performance, usability, and integration enhancements and provides the industry-first cloud deployment option for a business rules engine.

Included in Microsoft’s monster patch on Tuesday is a patch to block the infamous Stuxnet worm and deny one of its propagation routines from executing any potentially malicious code as SYSTEM. Included in the latest patch from Microsoft are fixes for up to 49 vulnerabilities.

Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 smartphone will also include an integrated navigation system which will provide the user with a comprehensive mapping and route planning application. The new software will be powered by Microsoft’s Virtual Earth online mapping application which will load maps live over the network.

Introduction The processors we use today are quite different from those of just a few years ago, as most processors today provide multiple cores and/or multiple threads. With multiple cores and/or threads we need to change how we tackle problems in code. Yes we can still continue to write code to perform an action in […]

Epicor’s new Store 6.3 is now designed to work with the Microsoft .NET Framework to provide easy exchange of business logic and seamless execution of services from Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to streamline communication among services and between physical deployment layers. Epicor’s new offering will support the Windows 2008 operating system, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 […]

Is this really Microsoft’s best attempt a new earth shattering mobile phone OS? While the new release appears to represent a huge advance from Microsoft’s last attempt at a smartphone OS, Windows Phone 7 is certainly not the ground breaking beast they had hoped to release on Monday. Missing basic Windows like features such as […]

As announced around the world, weeks in advance, Microsoft finally launched Windows Phone 7 on Monday, now lets see what the development community is thinking about Microsoft new Mobile Phone 7 and more importantly, what their plans are for the new smart OS.