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LiveSino.net earlier this week, captured an info panel purportedly from the Windows Live Wave 4 Essentials Beta download page, revealing that the latest version of Windows Live Essentials will indeed require at least Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 (read: it won’t work on XP): “Windows Live Essentials 2010 beta includes free programs from Microsoft […]

MCFE could reduce the time for it to customize business applications from 35 to 10 days, saving development costs by 60 percent and improving order processing from five minutes to 90 seconds.

The Silverlight 4 Training Kit can be grabbed free of charge from the Microsoft Download Center, and is, as you’d expect, focused on the RC milestone of the technology.

Introduction to Silverlight 3.0 Microsoft’s Silverlight has already replaced Adobe’s Flash and become the technology of choice for designing and implementing the next generation of cross-browser, cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere (WPF/E), the Silverlight SDK provides a framework that you can use to develop rich media content […]

This package for Windows Phone 7 Series contains a set of 64 app bar icons that you can use when developing applications for Windows Phone. In addition to the 64 icons in PNG format (32 dark and 32 light), this package also contains vector versions that can be easily imported into Microsoft Expression Blend 4 […]

“There’s a lot of “surface area” to the Windows Phone 7 Series platform, so I thought I’d make sure everyone knew where the developer documentation for Windows Phone 7 Series was, and give you highlights of what’s available. Keep in mind that the Windows Phone developer documentation was written for the CTP (Community Technology Preview) […]

Ever wonder what all these new-fangled data-based technologies coming from Microsoft can do for you? Who can keep track of everything? There’s ADO.NET, LINQ to SQL, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework and OData, to name a few. Not to mention the code names and name changes: Oslo is now SQL Server Modeling; Gemini is now PowerPivot; […]

Microsoft update: David Webster, Microsoft’s marketing strategist since 2001, had quite a busy year in 2009, trying to convince the world that Windows 7 was Microsoft’s idea and finding the perfect name for their latest search engine, Bing. Microsoft’s chief marketing strategist doesn’t foresee much time to rest this year – all Webster has to […]

As Silverlight 4 was pushed from Beta to Release Candidate stage earlier this month, Microsoft also made available adjacent developer resources, including a new version of WCF RIA Services. And because it is accompanying the RC of Silverlight 4, Windows Communication Foundation is also available as an RC build, Nicholas Allen, a program manager at […]

Introduction Welcome to the Renaissance, version 2.0. There are many new possibilities open to developers today. The breadth of technologies and platforms that have become available in only the past few years have created an environment of unprecedented innovation and creativity. Today, we are able to build applications that we could not have dreamed of […]

Microsoft news: The Silverlight browser plug-in started out back in 2006 as a project called WPF/e – Windows Presentation Foundation Embedded – or as the team also called it, WPF Everywhere. The idea was that it would ship for the browser in 2007 and then on Windows Mobile 7 by the end of the year. […]

Microsoft News: A quick review In a nutshell, ReadyBoost allows Windows 7’s SuperFetch cache management technology to use flash-based devices to maintain a copy of the disk cache. Once ReadyBoost is enabled, it essentially keeps tabs on hard disk operations and will only go into action reading and delivering files from its copy of the […]