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Office 2010 Beta Available for Download via MSDN and TechNet

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

TechNet Magazine Exclusively Web-Based

Microsoft has announced that it is dropping the paper version of the TechNet Magazine come December 2009. According to the Redmond company, the fact that the TechNet Magazine will no longer be available in paper form will not impact in any way the project itself. In this regard, the software giant has underlined that...

23 October 2009
06:49 GMT

TechNet Plus Subscription Discounted, Now Just $261.75

Do you want access to the latest Microsoft technologies well ahead of the products’ general availability deadline? Care to continue having access to Beta software even after the company is no longer offering it to the public? Can’t wait for Windows 7 just another 10 days? Then by all means buy a TechNet P...

12 October 2009
07:44 GMT

Download Windows XP Mode RTM via MSDN and TechNet

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

Download Windows 7 RTM Wave 3 via MSDN and TechNet

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

Introducing the TechNet Script Center Gallery

The TechNet Script Center Gallery was introduced last week by Microsoft, in an attempt to help simplify the work of IT professionals. The Script Center Gallery, which went live on the TechNet portal on August 13th, 2009, offers an extensive collection of scripts for IT pros. The initiative represents TechNet’s ...

17 August 2009
04:36 GMT

Windows 7 RTM Official Developer Release Roadmap

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

Windows 7 Available on September 1, 2009

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

Windows 7 RC and Activation Product Keys Now Live on MSDN and TechNet

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

Access Windows 7 Feature Walkthroughs

Windows 7 brings to the table a variety of new and evolved features, and Microsoft has taken the necessary measures designed to bring them to center stage. The Windows 7 Feature Walkthroughs is a collection of video screencasts set up to provide an insight into Windows 7. Users will be able to access no less than 10 ...

2 April 2009
12:20 GMT

Microsoft: Download Win 7 Beta Without the Product Keys

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

Building the Microsoft Social Platform

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
06:19 GMT

TechNet and MSDN Social Bookmarking Tools Out of Preview Mode

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
06:53 GMT

Microsoft Kicks Its Forums up a Notch

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
07:04 GMT

XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Get New Windows Client Center

Microsoft has introduced a new Windows Client Center focused on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 via its official portal for IT professionals, TechNet. Through the Windows Client TechCenter, Microsoft is delivering a comprehensive collection of resources centered on the latest versions of it...

9 June 2008
05:09 GMT

Microsoft Ready to Take Social Bookmarking Tools out of the Oven

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
08:51 GMT

Microsoft Overhauls MSDN and TechNet

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

Download Links for Windows Vista SP1 RTM - Straight from Microsoft

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
06:35 GMT

Windows Server 2008 RTM on Connect, MSDN and TechNet, but Also Leaked to Torrent Websites

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
09:11 GMT


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