Get ready to download and test-drive Opera 10.50 Beta. Of course, the first fully-fledged Beta development milestone of Opera 10.50 is not available for download at this point in time. However, the release is literally just around the corner, with all indications pointing to the fact that Opera Software might release the Beta build by the end of this week, or next week at the latest, even though the browser maker has yet to make public a specific delivery deadline.
Opera Software is simply on a roll since the end of the past week when it delivered two pre-Beta development snapshots of Opera 10.50 at a distance of just two days. Well, th... [read more >>] The first Release Candidate Builds of Microsoft’s next generation development platform and tools are currently available for download. At the start of this week, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate and .Net Framework 4 Release Candidate, but opened access only to subscribers of the Microsoft Developer Community. At the time of this article, both Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET Framework 4 are up for grabs for MSDN subscribers. Starting tomorrow, February 10, 2010, Microsoft will offer the RC development milestones of VS 2010 and .NET 4 to the general public.
“The primary motivation behind releasing a publi... [read more >>] Microsoft has made available for download new resources associated with the underlining graphics technology in its Windows operating system, including the latest version of the operating system. Windows 7 brought to the table DirectX 11, a technology which was also backported to Windows Vista SP2 via the Platform Update for Windows Vista. No less than three downloads were made available at the end of the past week by the Redmond company: the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer, the DirectX End-User Runtimes (February 2010), and DirectX Software Development Kit.
All three DirectX resources have been updated for the first time in 2010... [read more >>] The first Beta development milestone of the next iteration of Opera is just around the corner. At the end of the past week, Opera 10.50 Build 3228 became available for download. According to Opera Software, Build 3228 is extremely close to the Official beta build of Opera 10.50, albeit not the fully-fledged Beta just yet. However, early adopters should not be fooled by the pre-Alpha label delivered by the installer of the latest release. Fact is that the Norway-browser maker simply did not modify the label, as Build 3228 is pre-Beta for opera 10.50. Opera Software is currently making headway toward delivering the first Beta milestone for Op... [read more >>] One of the aspects of Microsoft that should come as no surprise is that the company plans ahead not just next year’s product launches, but decades in advance, in terms of the evolution of its technology. Not limited to its own software, this strategy is an integral part of how the company is tackling problems faced by education systems worldwide. The Redmond giant is currently involved in an initiative designed to orchestrate and catalyze a deep transformation of teaching, learning and assessment of skills. I covered the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills in the past, but only recently got the chance to provide Softpedia r... [read more >>] Customers looking to buy a new license of Office might want to wait a tad, as Microsoft “guarantees” that they won’t be sorry. Offering customers free copies of Windows and Office is already an established marketing strategy for Microsoft. Windows Vista and Windows 7 were both made available free of charge via what the Redmond company referred to as Technology Guarantee programs. In this context, it’s of little surprise the fact that the software giant is planning similar offerings around the next iteration of the Office System. Specifically, via the Microsoft Office 2010 Technology Guarantee Program, customers that ... [read more >>] While customers are waiting for the first service pack release for Microsoft’s fastest selling operating system in history, the company is already hard at work pushing the platform forward. Customers no longer have to wait for the first major upgrade for Windows 7 in order to boost the OS on the next stage in its evolution. Microsoft is instead providing updates designed to resolve problems identified in RTM Build 7600 ahead of the delivery of Windows 7 Service Pack 1. Case in point: two updates are currently up for grabs from Microsoft, both designed to improve the stability and reliability of Windows 7 and of Windows Server 2008 R2,... [read more >>] As of the start of this year, Internet Explorer 8 is on top of the world, well, at least the browser world. At the end of January 2010, IE8 became the world’s most-used browser, according to statistics released by Internet metrics company Net Applications. However, Internet Explorer 8 is far from dominating the worldwide market as it is followed “uncomfortably” close by version 3.5 of Mozilla Firefox. Still, usage statistics from Net Application indicate that IE8 has managed, for the first time ever to gain a larger audience than either of its two predecessors, IE7 and IE6. The fact that users seem to be moving away from ... [read more >>] Microsoft is extremely close to wrapping up the successor of Office 2007. The Redmond company has confirmed officially that the next iteration of its productivity suite has reached the final stage before being released to manufacturing. In this regard, Office 2010 graduated from Beta to Release Candidate, which, according to the software giant, will be the first and only RC Build offered ahead of RTM. Members of a select pool of testers have already received the Office 2010 RC bits and have started test driving the release.
There is a reason why Microsoft is not announcing the Release Candidate development milestone of Office 2010 with... [read more >>] Microsoft was quick, albeit more than entitled to applaud Windows 7 for being the fastest selling operating system in history, but fact is that the latest Windows client is enjoying nothing short of stellar adoption. At least in some markets; case in point: Redmond, the software giant’s home. Redmondians must really love their Microsoft since almost half of them have already upgraded to Windows Vista’s successor, according to Internet metrics company Net Application. Statistics made public by Net Applications indicate that no less than 42% of the Internet users in Microsoft’s back yard are already running Windows 7, namel... [read more >>] | 
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