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Microsoft is gearing up to introduce the next-generation subscription download experience for members of its developer and IT professional hubs.
In the image on the left you can see a screenshot of the Beta development milestone of Subscriptions 2.0 on MSDN.
MSDN subscribers already familiar with this area of the... |
11 November 2011
03:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering current users of either Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010 comprehensive discounts to add an MSDN subscription to VS and access all the solutions available via its developer hub.
The software giant set up a website designed to focus on the new promotion, advertising price cuts of up to... |
5 November 2011
05:19 GMT |
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Microsoft is making it easier for developers and IT professionals to leverage the forums of MSDN and TechNet. In accordance to the category they belong to, customers can download either the MSDN Forum Assistant or TechNet Forum Assistant, or both. The downloads, offered free of charge by the software giant, are actua... |
24 October 2011
10:26 GMT |
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The story accompanying the Windows 8 development process has catapulted Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division into the top position among MSDN bloggers. “Building Windows 8” is a MSDN blog, and this is obvious by just looking at the URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/. Sinofsky publis... |
19 September 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Microsoft is working to fix issues that MSDN subscribers came across when downloading software from the company’s dev portal. The software giant confirmed officially that users with MSDN subscriptions were having problems getting the products listed on the site. It appears that poor download performance w... |
8 September 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has overhauled the online hub offered to developers leveraging its various technologies. Devs that head over to the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) will undoubtedly be able to notice that the websites sports a new look and feel, as well as additional examples of its most recent new stage of evolution. ... |
20 July 2011
04:35 GMT |
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Web developers are bound to already be familiar with some of the resources that Microsoft made available especially for them even before the browser hit RTW (release to web). One particular destination came up again and again, with each new Platform Preview of IE9, namely the Internet Explorer 9 Guide for Developers... |
6 May 2011
06:37 GMT |
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Microsoft wrapped up the latest iteration of its home server operating system, and as promised, made the first downloads available. At this point in time, Windows Home Server 2011, formerly codenamed Vail, can only be downloaded by customers with MSDN and TechNet subscriptions. However, this situation is bound to c... |
6 April 2011
10:11 GMT |
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It’s not always easy to get insight into Microsoft licensing options, but for customers looking to buy Visual Studio 2010, the company offers a special resource. The Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN Licensing White Paper can be grabbed from the Microsoft Download Center free of charge, unlike VS 2010. The whitepap... |
17 March 2011
07:45 GMT |
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Microsoft has already shipped the final Build of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to its OEM (original equipment manufacturer) partners as of last week. Next in line to get the Windows 7 SP1 RTM bits are subscribers of the Redmond company’s developer and IT professional communities. As the software giant confirmed la... |
15 February 2011
12:49 GMT |
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With Script Junkie, Microsoft is expanding MSDN with a web-focused developer hub. According to S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President, Developer Division, the new learning hotspot on MSDN is designed to enable developers to access free resources standards based web technologies.“Learning HTML, JavaScript, CS... |
27 August 2010
10:14 GMT |
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Developers visiting the Windows Azure Platform Benefits for MSDN Subscribers page on the Microsoft Developer hub will be greeted by this message: “the 8-month introductory MSDN benefits have been extended to 16 months!” Essentially, the Redmond company has taken the decision to offer free Windows Azure to... |
23 July 2010
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Although Project Hilo has been available for quite some time now, with developers getting a taste of it in May 2010, it was only earlier this week that Microsoft introduced the initiative officially. Hilo is a project designed to streamline the development of top-of-the-line user experiences for applications running ... |
10 June 2010
07:14 GMT |
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Although the Microsoft Download Center has been offering SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM downloads for almost two weeks now, it was only yesterday that the Redmond company started serving the latest iteration of its data platform to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. As of May 3rd, 2010, MSDN and TechNet subscribers can access the... |
4 May 2010
06:58 GMT |
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Just as promised, the final bits of Office 2010 are now available for download. However, April 22nd, 2010, marked just the first wave of availability for Office 2010 RTM, as Microsoft gave downloads the green light for MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers. Members of the Redmond company’s developer and IT professi... |
23 April 2010
02:58 GMT |
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A new, free application from Microsoft is designed to streamline access to the resources that the company is offering to IT professionals and developers. The Microsoft Desktop Player is available in two flavors, namely a Cloud application built in Silverlight, or a desktop client that can be downloaded and installed ... |
6 April 2010
04:23 GMT |
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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... |
9 February 2010
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On January 4th, Microsoft’s Cloud platform graduated from Community Technology Preview phase to a subscription based offering. Although Microsoft continued not to charge customers for Windows Azure for the month of January 2010, as of today, February 1st, users leveraging the Cloud OS will have to pay for all W... |
1 February 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Microsoft is asking C# or Visual Basic developers which are also subscribers to MSDN to contribute with their input to the future development of the company’s developer portal. According to the software giant, devs will be offered the opportunity to influence with their feedback the future designs and functiona... |
5 January 2010
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Redmond-based software giant is already known to be working on a new version of Windows Mobile, other than Windows Mobile 7, which is expected to land on the market in the second half of the next year, and now that flavor, Windows Mobile 6.5.3, has been spotted on official documentation on MSDN (Microsoft Developer ... |
30 December 2009
02:39 GMT |
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The first fully-fledged Beta Build of Office 2010 is now available for download to subscribers of Microsoft’s developer and IT professional portals. The Redmond company managed to live up to its promise to offer Office 2010 Beta by the end of November 2009, with public availability of the bits expected any day... |
17 November 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Concomitantly with the major overhaul of the portal for its developer community, Microsoft has also revamped the corner reserved for the underlining graphical technology in Windows. In this regard, the Redmond company has announced that a redesigned version of the DirectX Developer Center is now live. Hosted on the M... |
20 October 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Microsoft has overhauled the portal designed for its developer community introducing a new look and feel to MSDN. The Microsoft Developer Network redesign is currently live, as all visitors to the website will be able to notice, be they actual MSDN subscribers, developers or just plain vanilla end users. In case you ... |
19 October 2009
05:25 GMT |
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Having released Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC to manufacturing at the start of this month, Microsoft is currently offering the two Windows 7 features for download. However, neither Windows XP Mode nor Windows Virtual PC is currently delivered to the general public. The Redmond company has made sure that its ... |
8 October 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Get ready to access the third wave of Windows 7 RTM downloads from Microsoft. Today, August 21, 2009, the Redmond company will make available for download Windows 7 RTM wave 3 for its developer and IT professional audiences, through their respective portals. MSDN and TechNet subscribers will be able to download all ... |
21 August 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Following the official release to manufacturing deadline of Windows 7 on July 22nd, 2009, Microsoft has started offering the gold bits to OEMs. Once it will be done supplying Windows 7 RTM Build 6.1.7600.16385 to original equipment manufacturers, Microsoft plans to offer the operating system to IT Professionals via T... |
31 July 2009
09:28 GMT |
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As Microsoft is making its way to the release to manufacturing milestone of Windows 7, the company confirmed that the gold build of the operating system would be made available to customers months ahead of October 22, 2009, the official launch deadline.In this regard, on September 1, 2009, business customers will alr... |
14 July 2009
11:51 GMT |
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Windows 7 Release Candidate is now live and available for download for the subscribers of Microsoft's portal for developers and IT professionals. Microsoft did reveal that it would start serving Windows 7 RC bits via MSDN and TechNet subscribers on April 30, 2009, and the Redmond company managed to live up to it... |
30 April 2009
09:56 GMT |
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Are the MSDN webpage load times killing precious time that you could be using to write code instead? Well, Microsoft has the answer to speed up MSDN as much as possible, so much so in fact that page load times will no longer be an issue. In fact, with the MSDN Low Bandwidth (loband) version 1.0, Microsoft is promisin... |
24 April 2009
08:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has started offering Windows Home Server for download via its online hotspot dedicated to developers. As of March 23, 2009, members of the MSDN community will be able to grab the Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1 installation disk, this even though the software giant has already launched Power Pack 2. T... |
24 March 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Just one day after Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer officially announced the availability of Windows 7 Beta at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2009) in Las Vegas, the company has hit the first issues related to the distribution of the bits. While Windows 7 Beta 1 was indeed availa... |
9 January 2009
10:45 GMT |
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Back in May 2008, Microsoft made the first step towards opening up its online reference libraries, namely the TechNet, MSDN and Expression portals, providing the “fertile soil” necessary for communities of IT professionals and developers to form around the websites. The social bookmarking tools for MSDN, ... |
4 October 2008
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Back at the end of May 2008, Microsoft gave the audiences of TechNet and MSDN (also of the Expression website) a taste of new social bookmarking tools, tailored for the two portals. At that time, the offerings were made available as previews with no details available as to when the final implementation would be deliv... |
22 August 2008
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Visitors to Microsoft's Forums starting at the end of the past week could notice various subtle changes impacting the user experience from new features to the disappearance of functionality issues. The Redmond giant effectively kicked its forums up a notch by introducing release 3.4, designed not only to resolve... |
16 July 2008
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Microsoft is getting ready to take new social bookmarking tools out of the oven, and serve them via its Microsoft Developer Network and TechNet portals. John Martin, the Lead Evangelist for Server & Tools Online (STO) at Microsoft revealed that the Redmond company is getting ready to unwrap the tools this week, as a ... |
27 May 2008
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Microsoft has overhauled the Microsoft Developers Network and TechNet, its online hotspots tailored to IT professionals. The update, introduced on May 22, 2008, brings new content and a redesign which adds a dose of dynamism to the resources offered by the two websites. Senior vice president of the Developer Division... |
23 May 2008
07:47 GMT |
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Microsoft is slowly opening up the availability of the final bits of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. As it released Vista SP1 to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, together with Windows Server 2008, Microsoft informed that the service pack would be initially delivered only to its original equipment manufacturing partne... |
15 February 2008
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Make no mistake about it. The final bits of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are available for download, but this does not mean that end users can get their grabby hands all over the service pack. Released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, alongside Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1's general availability was pushe... |
14 February 2008
06:47 GMT |
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In 2007, Microsoft made available two operating systems, Windows Vista on the client side and Windows Home Server, on the server side, but still, as an offer addressed at home users. With the RTM of Windows Server 2008 on February 4, 2008, and the imminent Heroes Happen Here launch on February 27, in Los Angeles, Win... |
13 February 2008
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Windows Server 2008 was released to manufacturing alongside Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on February 4, 2008. It took a team of over 5,000 people more than three years to put together the successor of Windows Server 2003. In excess of two million copies of the server operating system have shipped to partners and test... |
6 February 2008
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Although Windows Server 2008 (RTM expected in February) and SQL Server 2008 (RTM expected in Q3 2008) are yet to be released to manufacturing in light of the fast approaching Heroes Happen Here launch in Los Angeles on February 27, 2008, Visual Studio 2008 is ready and set to go. The 2008 edition of Microsoft's ... |
29 January 2008
03:19 GMT |
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The wait for the final version of Visual Studio 2008 is over. Microsoft has released the product to manufacturing and has also made it available for download via MSDN. The Redmond company indicated earlier in November that Visual Studio 2008's code would go gold by the end of the month and lived up to its promis... |
19 November 2007
07:06 GMT |
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Forget about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta, the first Release Candidate of the operating system is just around the corner. And to accompany the next stage in the evolution, Microsoft is cooking the broadening of access to the next testing milestone of Vista SP1. The Redmond company has in fact given indication th... |
5 November 2007
04:47 GMT |
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The Microsoft Developer Network has gone through a slow overhauling since late 2006, and the results have begun to surface. Gradually, the changes introduced to MSDN have affected all areas of the website from the content to the style and to the domain name. This is nothing more than the natural evolution of MSDN, as... |
1 June 2007
03:14 GMT |
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Microsoft will make public its plans for the Expression products at MIX07 on April 30, 2007. Seth Adams, Program Manager, MSDN Subscriptions announced this back in February. But in the meantime, Microsoft has reconsidered its position in relation to the availability of Expression within MSDN Subscriptions. In fact, b... |
4 April 2007
04:17 GMT |
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