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New software to help Microsoft SQL Server customers benefit from a better experience when their infrastructure includes Linux-based computers is now available for download.We’re referring here to the Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux that was just released in a Community Technology Preview. With it, k... |
28 December 2011
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Microsoft made another step forward when it comes to offering comprehensive business intelligence capabilities in the Cloud to customers leveraging Windows Azure.
The Redmond company announced the availability of a new testing milestone of SQL Azure Reporting. Early adopters that tested the previous Community Tec... |
14 October 2011
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The first Community Technology Preview development milestone of Microsoft Drivers 3.0 for SQL Server for PHP is available for download to early adopters.
At the end of August 2011, I was telling you that the software giant was hard at work on new Java and PHP interoperability resources for SQL Server 2012 codena... |
27 September 2011
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Microsoft has added yet another item on the list of resources that it shares through the Windows Workflow Foundation site on CodePlex, namely a taste of the Activity Pack for Windows Azure.
Workflow Foundation Activity Pack for Windows Azure is currently available as a pre-release Build, with the software giant ... |
2 September 2011
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Microsoft is offering a testing release to early adopters that need to bridge the latest version of SQL Server with Apache Hadoop. The Microsoft SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop is available for download free of charge from the software giant, but only as a Community Technology Preview for the time being. Tes... |
25 August 2011
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Customers still running SQL Server 2008 can now download a test release of the third major upgrade for their version of Microsoft’s data platform. A Customer Technology Preview of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available through the Microsoft Download Center to early adopters looking to get a tast... |
23 August 2011
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Microsoft has updated a tool designed to streamline the building, configuration and deployment packages of Java applications on Windows Azure for the developers leveraging Eclipse. Devs can go ahead and download the June 2011 Community Technology Preview of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java, which the R... |
27 June 2011
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Microsoft has made available for download a new development milestone of the Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket Add-in for Excel. Customers that are already leveraging the Redmond company’s Cloud and spreadsheet solution can head over to the Microsoft Download Center and grab the second Community Technology ... |
12 May 2011
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Microsoft is now offering developers the first taste of what the company calls a smaller footprint version of Windows 7, dubbed Windows Thin PC or WinTPC for short. Early adopters interested in testing this new Windows 7 spin-off can head over to Microsoft Connect, sign up and download the Community Technology Previ... |
29 March 2011
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A new testing milestone of the next iteration of Windows CE is now available for download from Microsoft. Dubbed Windows Embedded Compact 7, the successor of Windows CE 6.0 R3 is offered to early adopters through Microsoft Connect. Some testers might already know that the Redmond company released the first Communit... |
28 January 2011
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Microsoft has made available for download resources designed to help customers, developers, partners, etc. get insight into the next major iteration of its data platform. Microsoft Books Online for SQL Server Code-Named "Denali" CTP1 is now available for download from the Redmond company free of charge. As the labe... |
27 January 2011
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Just the past week I was telling you of the imminent testing release of version 4.0 of the JDBC Driver for SQL Server. Developers that need to connect Java applications with Microsoft’s data platform can start testing the next iteration of the Redmond company’s Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) rig... |
24 January 2011
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Early adopters will have a chance to start testing the next major iteration of Microsoft’s Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver soon. The Redmond company has been hard at work on the next release of the JDBC driver for SQL Server, and is extremely close to releasing the first test Build. Amina Saify, Prog... |
19 January 2011
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Microsoft has made available for download a new Windows 7-based operating system tailored to the needs of companies in the retail and hospitality markets. The community technology preview (CTP) for Windows Embedded POSReady 7 has been released, allowing early adopters to take the next generation of POSReady out for ... |
11 January 2011
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A new development milestone of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is now available for download, but not for the client or server flavors of the platform, but for the embedded and componentized variant of the OS. Microsoft has released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the upcoming upgrade to Windows Embedded Standard... |
18 December 2010
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After confirming ‘the Great One’ back in February 2010, even ahead of the finalization of SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft has made available for download the first taste of the next generation of its data platform. The first Community Technology Preview of SQL Server Codenamed "Denali" went live on the Mic... |
12 November 2010
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Microsoft has made available for download the Customer Technical Preview (CTP) release of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 (SP4). Customers still running SQL Server 2005 can now grab the CTP bits from the Microsoft Download Center and start testing the new release. Along with SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 CTP, the R... |
4 November 2010
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Microsoft has launched a new community technology preview of the plug-in it offers PHP developers using Eclipse to build Cloud applications for Windows Azure.The release is the October 2010 CTP of Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse/PHP, which has been available for a few days now to all PHP devs. Early adopters that h... |
14 October 2010
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A new Community Technology Preview development milestone of Microsoft F# was made available to developers the past week. According to Bruce D. Kyle, ISV Architect Evangelist, Microsoft, the focus with the delivery of the August 2010 CTP for F# was the expansion of support in terms of interoperability. The F# team r... |
23 August 2010
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A new Community Technology Previews of Microsoft F# is now live on the Microsoft Download Center and available for download to developers. The August 2010 CTP of Microsoft F# went live on the Download Center on August 17th, 2010, delivering another step forward in the evolution of the new language Microsoft develope... |
18 August 2010
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Microsoft is preparing to release a new board support package for Windows Embedded Compact 7. Olivier Bloch, Microsoft Embedded technical evangelist announced that early adopters currently testing the next generation of Windows CE will be able to take advantage of the Virtual PC BSP for Windows Embedded Compact 7 soo... |
13 August 2010
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Microsoft had promised to offer customers of its Cloud platform a new tool designed to streamline the building and administration of SQL Azure databases even before Windows Azure was commercially available. The company previewed the project codenamed “Houston” in November 2009, and then offered updates on... |
22 July 2010
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A new offering from Microsoft is designed to simplify the process associated with creating dynamic PivotViewer Collections leveraging Business Intelligence data, on top of SharePoint Server 2010. Customers can now get a taste of PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services by downloading the first Community Technolog... |
19 July 2010
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Microsoft is getting closer to releasing the second major upgrade for SQL Server 2008, the company having promised to launch Service Pack 2 in the third quarter of 2010. But the company is not quite there yet, and the service pack is still in development at this point in time. However, the software giant is sharing S... |
8 July 2010
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A preview release of Microsoft’s next-generation Windows Embedded CE platform is now available for download. Early adopters can grab the public community technology preview (CTP) of Windows Embedded Compact 7 immediately via Microsoft Connect, provided they have a valid Windows Live ID to sign in and participat... |
1 June 2010
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A new solution from Microsoft is designed to streamline the process of issuing information cards from the RTM version of Active Directory Federation Services 2.0. Early adopters can already access and start testing the Community Technical Preview of Information Card Issuance. As many others of the company’s off... |
24 May 2010
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On Thursday, Redmon-based Microsoft announced the launch of Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh (WPDT CTP), an updated version of the WPDT CTP released last month during the MIX2010 conference. The main feature of the new solution is the support for the final release of Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010), which wasn&... |
30 April 2010
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Microsoft isn’t recommending that early adopters that have helped test-drive the latest iteration of its data platform upgrade to the RTM version from CTP, Beta or RC development milestones. SQL Server 2008 R2 was released to manufacturing a little over a week ago, on April 21st, 2010. Ahead of RTM, Microsoft p... |
29 April 2010
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The interoperability bridge Microsoft has been building between PHP and its own technologies, especially its data platform, continues to evolve. The latest efforts from the Redmond company are bound to come in handy to those leveraging the Drupal content-management system, but also to additional customers. DrupalCon ... |
20 April 2010
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A new development milestone of F# was offered to developers just a few days ahead of the official launch of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4. The April 2010 Community Technology Preview of F# is currently available through the Microsoft Download Center. Early adopters that have already test-driven F# know that... |
12 April 2010
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Microsoft has postponed the release of SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse, formerly codenamed “Madison.” The Redmond company was initially planning to have SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse out by mid-2010, but it looks like that will not happen. Up to this point in time, the software gia... |
6 April 2010
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One month after Microsoft showcased the Windows Phone 7 Series for the first time, the company is wooing developers into embracing its next-generation, rebranded version of Windows Mobile. At MIX10, the Redmond company announced the availability of the Windows Phone Developer Tools Community Technology Preview (CTP).... |
16 March 2010
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While customers will have to wait for the Windows Phone 7 Series until the end of this year, the first iteration of the development resources for the mobile platform are already available for download. A Community Technology Preview of Windows Phone Developer Tools is now up for grabs, completely free of charge via t... |
16 March 2010
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Microsoft made available for download the latest installment of Small Basic in early February 2010, and version 0.8 of the programming language continues to be available at this point in time. The eighth Community Technology Preview of Small Basic enables beginner developers to build simple applications not only for ... |
9 March 2010
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In Microsoft’s perspective, an increased level of security when it comes down to private access to both on-site and Cloud-based applications is a critical factor in building safer and more trusted enterprise environments. Microsoft U-Prove is designed as a catalyst of safer enterprise environments by keeping in... |
4 March 2010
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Microsoft has released an updated version of a collection of solutions designed to allow developers to bridge applications built with the next iteration of .NET libraries with the company’s data platform. A new Community Technology Preview of SQL Server Modeling is currently available via the Microsoft Download... |
4 March 2010
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Along with the Release Candidate builds of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 that Microsoft made available to the public on February 10, 2010, the company also released a new development milestone for Microsoft F#. The February 2010 Community Technology Preview of Microsoft F# went live on the Microsoft Downloa... |
11 February 2010
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A new development milestone of Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 codename R2 is now available for download from Microsoft. Earlier this month, the Redmond company released the January 2010 Community Technology Preview of Commerce Server 2009 R2 on the Microsoft Download Center. The software giant emphasizes that the new... |
27 January 2010
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Microsoft has provided a free tool for download designed to simplify leveraging Sync Framework and SQL Azure together. Available via the Microsoft Download Center, the Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP (32-bit) is essentially a plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Professional SP1 and the tool ... |
8 January 2010
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The December 2009 Community Technical Preview (CTP) of the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office has been up for grabs from the Microsoft Download Center, since the past week, and continues to be available even at this point in time. When it first released the latest CTP build of its software development kit for Off... |
15 December 2009
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Customers already embracing Microsoft’s Cloud platform need to be aware of a range of modifications that the company is planning to introduce with the evolution of Windows Azure platform AppFabric. The software giant underlines that the latest Community Technology Preview of Windows Azure platform AppFabric wil... |
15 December 2009
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A new release of Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 code name "R2" is currently available for testing via the Microsoft Download Center. Microsoft has released the November 2009 Community Technology Preview of Commerce Server 2009 R2 to early adopters. Companies already testing older releases of the next iteration ... |
26 November 2009
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Microsoft has wrapped up its next iteration of data platform when it comes down to the features that will define the release. According to the Redmond-based company, the November Community Technology Preview of SQL Server 2008 R2 is “feature complete.” As of November 11, 2009, early adopters have been abl... |
12 November 2009
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In less than a week, Microsoft plans to make public the latest chapter in the evolution of codename Olso, a project that was originally unveiled approximately two years ago and that has suffered numerous and consistent changes since then. Because of the modifications introduced to Oslo during the development process,... |
12 November 2009
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The first Community Technical Preview of Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit version 5.0 is now live on Microsoft Connect. With the MAP 5.0 CTP, customers will be able to get a taste of what is to come in the next iteration of the solution accelerator from Microsoft. The most notable aspect of the evolution to ... |
10 November 2009
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Microsoft plans to release a testing development milestone of its next generation data platform by the end of this month. The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit acted as the stage for Microsoft’s Ted Kummert, senior vice president of the Business Platform Division, to reveal that a ... |
4 November 2009
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In the second half of August 2009, Microsoft announced an important update to Live Services. At that time, the Redmond-based company noted that the refreshes to the developer services were necessary in order to get ready for the release of Windows Live Wave 4. The update implies changes to the services and controls d... |
8 September 2009
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The Bing ASP.NET Map Control CTP (formerly Virtual Earth ASP.NET Map Control CTP) is a victim of the Live Services update that also killed the Live Framework CTP as a part of the preparations Microsoft is making for Windows Live Wave 4. Chris Pendleton, the Virtual Earth technical evangelist for Microsoft, confirmed ... |
24 August 2009
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Microsoft is gearing up for the evolution of Windows Live with the advent of Wave 4, and in this regard the company announced imminent updates to Live Services. Specifically, the software giant is getting ready to kill off a range of services that it offered developers and which were leveraging Windows Live as a plat... |
24 August 2009
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Microsoft has opened up access to SQL Server StreamInsight, offering a new release for customers interested to test drive the technology. Essentially, SQL Server StreamInsight is now free for all, having been made available for download to the public. Designed as the Redmond company’s new Complex Event Processi... |
20 August 2009
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