The last stage of the Windows 7 launch, general availability, is now just three days away. Come October 22nd 2009, Microsoft will reboot the Windows client, and for customers who are looking to upgrade the company is offering a tool designed to assess their Windows 7 readiness. Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor is a name that should sound at least remotely familiar, especially to Windows Vista users. The software giant provided a similar utility around Vista’s launch, also designed to allow customers to easily evaluate their computers and determine whether they were ready to upgrade to the latest version of the Windows client. “Window... [read more >>] Microsoft released the successor of Silverlight 2 for Windows and Mac OS X to web one day ahead of the official launch, set for July 10, 2009. Users are already able to download Silverlight 3 RTW, full build string 3.0.40624.0, and take web-based rich application experiences to the next level. In this regard, Silverlight 3 brings a number of enhancements to the table compared to its precursor. The latest iteration of Microsoft's alternative to Adobe Flash delivers support for higher-quality video and audio, improves data support, boosts performance, and even manages to break the barriers associated with the browser plugins and to ancho... [read more >>] With the second service pack for Windows Vista wrapped up and offered for download as standalone releases as well as updates through Windows Update, Microsoft is offering customers worldwide the option to install multiple languages for the platform, and seamlessly switch between them. The end of June brought with it the release of the remaining versions of Windows Vista Service Pack 2. With the latest wave of Vista SP2 RTM downloads Microsoft has managed to deliver the second service pack for the precursor of Windows 7 in the localized versions for all supported languages of the operating system. As of June 30, 2009, Vista SP1 users around ... [read more >>] Microsoft has started offering the first Beta of its next-generation development platform and tools. Visual Studio 2010 Beta and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta are now available for download, with the Redmond company in the first phase of broadening the testing process. For the time being, access to the Beta bits is limited to just MSDN subscribers. However, public downloads of Visual Studio 2010 Beta and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta are not that far behind. In fact, the software giant plans to start serving the Beta for the successors of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 tomorrow, May 20, 2009. “We are releasing Beta 1 of Visual Studio... [read more >>] Silverlight 2, the next step in the evolution of Microsoft's Adobe Flash killer, has been released to web. As Silverlight 2 has reached the RTW milestone, the Redmond giant announced that downloads would only go live on October 14, 2008. At the same time, users who have already deployed Silverlight 2 on their machines as a Beta or a Release Candidate version would be automatically upgraded to the gold version, Microsoft informed. According to the software company, Silverlight is defined as a cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device plug-in. "We launched Silverlight just over a year ago, and already one in four consumers worl... [read more >>] Microsoft has made available for download a Solution Accelerator designed specifically to handle the deployment of the company's desktop and server software products including Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the Office 2007 System, as well as Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 R2. Essentially, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 Update 1 is offered as the next iteration of the original MDT 2008, which, in turn, represented the evolution of the Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 delivered in 2007. "We are pleased to announce the release of our first update to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 (MDT 20... [read more >>] | 
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