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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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Earlier today I told you that the first Community Technology Preview of SQL Azure went live on August 18th, 2009. Now the obvious question is how you will manage to get yourselves invited to test drive the CTP development milestone. And the answer is rather simple. Effectively, all that you have to do is sign up for ... |
19 August 2009
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While advancing to the next iteration of its data platform, Microsoft is also making sure that customers have the tools necessary to ensure streamline planning and deployment processes. In this regard, the Redmond company is providing Solution Accelerators for SQL Server 2008 R2, just as it is providing similar offer... |
19 August 2009
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Microsoft is making the first development milestone of SQL Azure available to customers. Essentially, the Redmond company announced that the first Community Technology Preview for its relational database management system (RDBMS) for the Cloud went live as of August 18th, 2009. With SQL Azure, the software giant is l... |
19 August 2009
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A new Community Technology Preview for SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 is now available for download straight from Microsoft. SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 CTP August 2009 went live on the Microsoft Download Center on August 17th, 2009, and is provided as an extension for versions 2005 and 2008 of SQL Server. SQL Serve... |
18 August 2009
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Microsoft has made one of the new main additions of the next iteration of its data platform available to customers as a standalone download. In this regard, users are now free to download Report Builder 3.0 straight from the Redmond company. The software giant has very quietly released Report Builder 3.0 as a standal... |
17 August 2009
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Microsoft has opened up access to the first community technology preview of the next generation of its data platform. After shipping SQL Server 2008 R2 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers earlier this week, the Redmond company is now allowing all users to download and start testing the successor of SQL Server 2008. At th... |
13 August 2009
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The first Community Technology Preview of the next iteration of Microsoft's data platform is now available for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP went live on MSDN and TechNet on August 10th, 2009, and will shortly be available to all interested in test driving the successor of SQL ... |
11 August 2009
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Concomitantly with updating the software development kit for its Cloud operating system, Microsoft has also refreshed the resources made available for developers working with Visual Studio. In this regard, the Redmond company has kicked up a notch the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. At the start of t... |
21 July 2009
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Developers building applications designed for Microsoft’s Cloud operating system now have available for download a fresh release of the Windows Azure software development kit. As of July 20, 2009, the Microsoft Download Center is offering an updated Community Technology Preview of the Windows Azure SDK. The res... |
21 July 2009
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On July 13th 2009, Microsoft started sending out invitations to the testers accepted in the Technology Preview program of the next iteration of the Office System. As was the case with Windows 7, Office 2010, formerly codenamed Office 14, also leaked out of Redmond and made it into the wild. In fact, the first leaks o... |
14 July 2009
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The Technical Preview of Office 2010 is live, Microsoft confirmed at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 in New Orleans. With the Community Technology Preview, the next iteration of the Office System hits its first major milestone. But it's not just Office 2010, it's also SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 201... |
13 July 2009
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Microsoft is cooking the next generation of the Office System, planning a general availability deadline in the first half of 2010. In this regard, Office 2010, including Office Web applications, but also SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010, have been baking for the technical preview stage in July 2009... |
9 July 2009
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Developers playing around with Microsoft's Cloud operating system and with the associated services platform are now able to access evolved .NET Services and the .NET Services Portal. Both were taken down and unavailable for a short time on June 7, as Microsoft introduced an update. The .NET Services Scheduled Ma... |
8 July 2009
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Microsoft has updated the resources available to developers and IT professionals for Dynamics NAV 2009 in order to keep up the pace with the evolution of the solution. In this regard, the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Developer and IT Pro Help has been kicked up a notch and adapted to the first Service Pack release fo... |
7 July 2009
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The first official Community Technology Preview of the next iteration of the Office System is scheduled to go live in July 2009. But even on July 1st, potential testers should know that it's by no means too late to still sign up for the Office 2010 Technical Preview. The Office 2010 the Movie website is still up... |
1 July 2009
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Come next week, Microsoft will make available a new release of .NET Services. On July 7, 2009, the delivery of the Community Technology Preview cut off access to resources associated with the .NET Services including the .NET Services portal. According to Philippe Destoop, the enterprise architect for the Belgian and ... |
1 July 2009
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A new release of the Microsoft Code Analysis Tool .NET version 1 is now available for download. The Community Technology Preview for CAT.NET version 1 went live at the end of the past week and is up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center. The tool is a security solution designed for developers to integrate with ... |
29 June 2009
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In May 2009, Microsoft made available for download the first taste of the next generation of its Windows operating system for supercomputers. At that time, the Redmond-based company started offering a preliminary version of the successor of Windows HPC Server 2008.As the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows H... |
24 June 2009
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Following the availability of the first Beta builds of the Microsoft development platform and tools, the company is now offering developers a taste of the ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature. ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 1 is designed to integrate with .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 and Visua... |
23 June 2009
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Service Pack 1 has advanced into the next stage of its development process. In this regard, the Redmond-based company is now offering for download the Community Technology Preview of the first service pack for Dynamics NAV 2009. The download has been packaged as a virtual PC (VPC) image de... |
23 June 2009
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Microsoft is really playing the Office 2010 Movie metaphor until the end. While the wait for the official bits of the next iteration of the Office System is still on, the Redmond company is not letting users go without some alternative Office 2010-related entertainment. In this context, having already provided a trai... |
18 June 2009
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Microsoft confirmed that it planned to release a new development milestone of .NET RIA Services come next month. According to Dinesh Kulkarni, a program manager in the Application Frameworks Product Unit in the Developer Division, the first version of .NET RIA Services will be available as a Community Technology Prev... |
12 June 2009
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Customers running Microsoft's distributed in-memory application cache platform will be able to start playing around with the next version of the release in just three months. The Redmond company confirmed that the fourth Community Technology Preview of Velocity would be made available for download in mid-Septemb... |
11 June 2009
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Microsoft has taken the development tools associated with its Cloud operating system to the next level. In this regard, developers are able to download new Community Technology Preview releases of the Windows Azure software development kit and the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. The two CTP builds we... |
29 May 2009
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There are more ways than one to sign up for the Office 2010 Technical Preview program coming up in just one month. First off, there's the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview registration page that can be accessed through the Office 2010 TheMovie website. But at the same time, there are other options. Illustr... |
29 May 2009
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A new release of Microsoft's next generation modeling platform is now available for download. Codenamed Oslo, the latest Community Technology Preview for the platform went live on May 26, 2009 on the Microsoft Download Center and is now available for download. With the latest development milestone, the Redmond c... |
27 May 2009
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The official availability deadline for the Office 2010 Community Technology Preview is July 1st, 2009. With the Technology Preview development milestone Microsoft marks the first step toward the RTM of the next iteration of the Office System, which is planned for the first half of 2010, along with GA (general availab... |
23 May 2009
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Microsoft has warned testers that have or are looking to jump the gun and grab the bits for Office 2010 Technology Preview before they are released through the company's official channels that the leaked CTP builds come with an inherent threat of getting infected with malicious code. There are similarities betwe... |
19 May 2009
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It was bound that Microsoft's main cash cows would suffer the same fate when it comes down to development milestones slipping into the wild from third-party testers. Well over a month ahead of Office 2010 Technical Preview's availability deadline, the bits have leaked and are now available for download from... |
18 May 2009
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Office 2010 is not the only Microsoft software getting a Technical Preview in the second half of 2009. The Redmond company announced at Microsoft Tech•Ed North America 2009 that customers would also be able to get the first taste of the next iteration of SQL Server 2008. Formerly codenamed SQL Server Kilimanjaro... |
13 May 2009
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The Technical Preview of Office 2010, formerly codenamed Office 14, is scheduled to go live in just 49 days, at the start of July 2009, but fact is that Microsoft is already accepting registrations to the Community technology Preview build of Office 2010. What will testers get to play with? Well, the Office 2010 Syst... |
12 May 2009
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Microsoft's Cloud operating system now sports geo-location capabilities. As promised in March 2009 at MIX09, the Redmond company has launched the additional geo-location functionality for Windows Azure. The feature is designed to allow Azure customers to effectively choose the location for their Cloud applicatio... |
7 May 2009
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Microsoft has made available for download the Community technology preview of the Open XML Format Software Development Kit 2.0. The Open XML Format SDK 2.0 went live on April 7, 2009, and is now up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center. With the SDK, and the underlying System.IO.Packaging API, the Redmond compa... |
9 April 2009
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On the first day of MIX09, Microsoft announced the evolution of its Cloud operating system. Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, .NET Developer Platform, pointed out that Windows Azure developers testing the OS would be able to take advantage of new features including FastCGI, NET Full Trust and Geo-location, all... |
20 March 2009
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Microsoft has introduced an update to Live Framework, delivering support for the next iteration of the Windows client, Windows 7, as well as for the successor of IE7, namely Internet Explorer 8. According to Microsoft, the various components of the Live Framework have all evolved to new version numbers, with Live Fra... |
13 March 2009
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On the heels of the ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 Community Technology Preview 1 launch at the start of March 2009, Microsoft has made available for download codename “Astoria Offline.” The project is available as an early Alpha preview, and is designed to offer what Microsoft referred to as a sync-enabled v... |
9 March 2009
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SQL Server 2008 is evolving toward the Service Pack 1 milestone. At the start of this week, Microsoft made available for download the Community Technology Preview of SQL server 2008 SP1, indicating that the first service pack for its data platform is designed to resolve the issues that have survived past the RTM stag... |
24 February 2009
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At the end of October 2008, Microsoft served the first taste of the next generation of its developer tools. Moving onward from Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, the Redmond company made available for download the pre-release versions of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. Complement... |
28 December 2008
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With Christmas just around the corner, Microsoft is offering an early gift to PowerShell users. On December 22, 2008, the Community Technology Preview 3 bits for Windows PowerShell 2 went live on the Microsoft Download Center and are now available for download. According to the software giant, Windows PowerShell 2 CT... |
23 December 2008
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At the end of October 2008, Microsoft made available for download a Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. The CTP, released as a virtual hard disk image designed to integrate with Virtual PC 2007 SP1, is set to expire at the start of 2009. However, testers have the possibility to ... |
22 December 2008
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Microsoft's codename Mojave is available for download as a Community Technology Preview. However, the users will not get their hands on Windows Mojave, an initiative that put the codename on the map, but on Commerce Server 2009 instead. The Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 - December 2008 Community Technology Prev... |
19 December 2008
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The latest Community Technology Preview of Web Sandbox is designed to take its approach to securing Web 2.0 content to Microsoft Cloud operating system, Azure, via the Azure Services Platform. Introduced in October 2008, Web Sandbox, a project developed by the Microsoft Live Labs, is designed to deliver an extra secu... |
10 December 2008
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