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Microsoft Messenger is to be replaced by the recently acquired Skype. Microsoft has announced that they will be retiring their instant message chat tool, Messenger, and replace it with Skype’s messaging tool. Microsoft $8.5 BILLION dollar investments rears its expensive head in the form of a Messenger killer, at least its scheduled to do so […]

Actually the notes were posted by Microsoft and on purpose. They range in discussion from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO keynote address, to the breakout session and side discussions involving other new developing programs for the company’s new operating system Windows 8. Other notes and videos released by Microsoft this week include videos featuring the development […]

With the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in motion with Shanghai and the signed agreement in place to allow 21Vianet to license Microsoft technology, customers in China will soon be able to access Microsoft Office 365 and Windows Azure directly from the Microsoft data centers supplied by 21Vianet and located in Singapore and Hong Kong. Read […]

When Microsoft released VS2012 they promised that the new architecture was designed to support out-of-band releases and to provide the developer with the ability to bring new features to market quicker. Microsoft new compiler does just that with their improved Visual C++’s support for the full C++11 standard. Microsoft also reiterated the fact that Windows […]

Microsoft presents an all new OS, with a very different look and feel and a design that uses the same active tiles found on the new Windows 8 Desktop OS. With tiles that constantly update with fresh information such as weather and the latest forecast, an email app that always displays the latest message while […]

Microsoft has announced that they have completed the acquisition of MarketingPilot, a provider of integrated marketing solutions. MarketingPilot will be incorporated into the Microsoft Dynamics CRM software package that implements customer relationship management programs. MarketingPilot solutions “allow organizations to better understand their customers, manage and streamline marketing operations, and create automated and measurable multi-channel marketing […]

SmartBear has acknowledged that by equipping developers with tools that are easy to try, buy and use such as TestComplete 9.1, SmartBear is removing the barriers related to adoption of new test automation. TestComplete integration with Visual Studio 2012 creates an environment for development and continuous testing of Web and desktop applications such as WPF, […]

Microsoft has announced that Dynamics AX 2012, Microsoft’s ERP solution designed for manufacturing, retail, public sector, distribution and services organizations, will reach the R2 release this December. Aimed at fulfilling Microsoft’s vision “for how organizations can use technology to be more agile and innovative through people who drive impact with the information, connections, and tools […]

Microsoft Windows in one form or another has been used now for a full generation. With the release of Windows 8, the OS that we are all so familiar with is getting a complete makeover with a totally different look that will force users to learn new ways to get things done. Windows 8 was […]

While the details are not yet posted in regards to what changes, if any, have been made in between the public preview in July and today’s final version. Microsoft previously said they have put in features such as touch screen support for devices that supported such hardware, better performance for mobile phone-based web browsers, putting […]

In C# 4.0 or earlier versions, to get the caller information at the called method the caller had to explicitly pass the information as a parameter or by some other means. In order to do that it had to use the Reflection classes that are available under the namespace System.Reflection. Now C# 5.0 exposes a […]

While the list provided by Adobe this morning and detailing the list of operating systems and web browsers covered in the update, the list which was initially published this morning was conspicuously missing any details around the Flash Player for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. Not more than an hour later the reason surrounding […]