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Last week at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), Microsoft made a number of announcements for Silverlight, its rich Web plug-in technology. Some of Silverlight’s future features include OVP (Open Video Player), Set-top Boxes, 3-D Video and “Enhanced Movies” Open Video Player (OVP) is an initiative encompassing the use of open standards, best practices, and […]

New features introduced to Microsoft’ Cloud data platform make it easier for customers to migrate away from on-premise deployments, according to David Robinson, SQL Azure senior program manager. In this regard, SQL Azure now features Multiple Active Results Sets, ALTER rename and Application and Multi-server management. The evolution of SQL Azure was announced at the […]

Earlier this month Microsoft released Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, the .NET Framework 4.0 (which includes ASP.NET 4.0), and new versions of their core programming languages: C# 4.0 and Visual Basic 10 (also referred to as Visual Basic 2010). Previously, the C# and Visual Basic programming languages were managed by two separate teams within Microsoft, which […]

Microsoft Azure: Microsoft Monday, has released the first details of an upcoming online Microsoft Azure service, targeted to medium-sized businesses, for managing Windows-based computers from a web browser. The service, dubbed Windows “Intune” is being made available to 1,000 of Microsoft’s customers and information technology partners in North America as of Monday morning. Windows Intune […]

Microsoft news: At the Politics Online Conference Monday, Microsoft announced two new offerings, TownHall, a new “online engagement program” that politicians and others can use to “drive rich discussion around top interests and concerns”, and Campaign Ready, “a collection of Microsoft products and services that can be configured to meet many of the day-to-day needs […]

Sybase yesterday announced the availability of Sybase PowerBuilder 12. This latest generation of Sybase’s award-winning rapid application development tool empowers developers with the easiest, fastest and most cost-effective path for .NET developers to create or migrate their business applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework, for thoroughly modern and visually appealing application user experiences. The new […]

Introduction One of the books that was instrumental for me in writing bug free code was Dave Thielen’s No Bugs! Dave Thielen was a key factor in writing the well-received MSDOS 5.0. (It was a long time ago.) After buggy MSDOS 4.0 everyone was ready for a less buggy version of DOS. Dave’s No Bugs! […]

DevExpress is proud to announce the availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010-compatible controls and tools including our award winning integrated development environment (IDE) productivity suite. Fully optimized for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Developer Express technologies help to enhance the developer experience by accelerating developer and team productivity via an integrated suite of developer-centric technologies. […]

Microsoft News: Fix It Center and the accompanying Fix It Online service is a new self-help diagnostic tool from Microsoft Support. The pair are meant to help users running Windows XP (with Service Pack 3 and the SP2 version of 64-bit XP Pro); Windows Vista; Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2008 and […]

Microsoft News: Microsoft was expected to release to manufacturing both Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 some time in April. Business users will be able to get their hands on those products on May 12. Consumers will have to wait until June to buy the product online and at retail, Microsoft officials said a few weeks […]

IDC released a whitepaper (sponsored by Microsoft) today to help IT professionals running mainframe or Unix systems learn about the benefits of moving applications to a Windows Server and SQL Server environment.

It does fall on the Redmond company to increase the performance of Internet Explorer, but, at the end of the development process, customers can’t install too many add-ons…