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Internet Explorer 8 has released: Download links enclosed

Robert Shelton Jr. — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:34:48 GMT

Microsoft has just released Internet Explorer 8 (final build) today. There’s not much to say, other than it’s the newest browser for Microsoft. If you are running Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000), it looks like you will have to wait until the Release Client (coming VERY soon)! Here are the links to the IE 8 builds: Windows XP 32-bit Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows Server 2008 64-bit Windows Vista 32-bit or Windows Server 2008 32-bit Windows Server 2003 SP2 32-bit Windows Server...

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Video: A Microsoft view of the future of computing (Very Interesting)

Robert Shelton Jr. — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:27:15 GMT

I just saw this video yesterday at work for the first time in an internal meeting and I had two thoughts. First thought was: I’ve seen videos like this before and although they were nice videos, I couldn’t see the way to get there, so I always discounted much of what I saw as just “a vision.” However, as I got home and saw the video again (albeit a shorter version than the one that I saw earlier), and I started to look at what was being shown and matching it with what I have on my desk today...

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Free download: Internet Explorer 8 RC1

Robert Shelton Jr. — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:18:35 GMT

The IE Team has published the Release Candidate for Internet Explorer 8.0. Here’s the overview from the page: Internet Explorer 8 is the latest version of the familiar web browser you are most comfortable using, helping you get everything you want from the web faster, easier, more privately and securely than ever before. Faster Internet Explorer 8 is more responsive with new pages and tabs, opening up fast and reliably. You can now get to the information you care about most, in...

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Free download: Microsoft Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0

Robert Shelton Jr. — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:07:05 GMT

If you or your kids are trying to learn how to program, then you might want to take a look at this free download. Keep in mind that you will need a copy of Visual Studio, but you can download one of the free versions of Visual Studio (Visual Studio Express Editions), found here. Overview of the Learning Pack: The Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0 is a software package created by Microsoft to help students learn about computer programming. It consists of the following five components: ...

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Free download: Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool

Robert Shelton Jr. — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:30:56 GMT

The Visual Studio Team System folks have released SP1 of the Web Access 2008 Power tools, for free download (note you have to have VS Team System). Overview: Team System Web Access is a free download that will be incorporated into a future release of Visual Studio Team System. You may install it with licensed installations of Team Foundation Server. You must be a licensed user of Team Foundation Server to use Team System Web Access. New With Service Pack 1 Work item only...

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Windows 7 Secrets from a Microsoft Insider

Robert Shelton Jr. — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:39:25 GMT

Thanks to Paul Thurrott’s Blog (SuperSite for Windows), I’ve seen what is one of the best list of Windows 7 Secrets, Keyboard tricks, and hidden features on the net! It was written by Tim Sneath of Microsoft. I mean it is EXCELLENT! Check out his list (from his blog) here: Click here ~ Robert Shelton ↑ Grab this Headline Animator Technorati Tags: Windows 7,How to article

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How to make your Windows 7 ISO Bootable by USB Drive

Robert Shelton Jr. — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:50:58 GMT

If you are like me and get OS’s via TechNet and MSDN, you’ll note that Microsoft has been storing them as downloadable ISO images. This means that in order to use them, you have to burn them to DVD or use some of the Software based Virtual DVD solutions. Well, one of my colleagues pointed me to a great article that will show you how to make a USB Drive/Flash Key Bootable. This is wonderful, because it means that I can just put the ISO’s on a USB Key and boot from there instead of having to...

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Free download: Microsoft Small Basic (for beginners)

Robert Shelton Jr. — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:54:51 GMT

Microsoft has just released a project called “Small Basic” which is a simplified development environment and tool for beginners and kids. Here’s the description, from Microsoft: Microsoft Small Basic is a project that is aimed at making computer programming accessible to beginners. The project comprises of a simple programming language that gathers inspiration from the original BASIC programming language; a modern and attractive programming environment; and rich, extensible libraries. ...

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Free download: WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint 2007

Robert Shelton Jr. — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:37:02 GMT

In an effort to ensure that SharePoint better support Open Standards, the SharePoint team has released the "Web Services for Report Portlets Toolkit" aka WSRP. WSRP is the Open Standards approach (OASIS approved) for rendering data (communicating) from other "External" Portal Platforms (e.g. Java-based portals like: IBM Websphere, SAP Netweaver, and BEA Aqualogic) within SharePoint. Here's the full announcement from the SharePoint Team: Click here to read it (announced by Ryan Duguid ,...

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Free download: Thumbtack from Microsoft Research

Robert Shelton Jr. — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:24:54 GMT

I just learned about this little utility, built by the Microsoft Live Labs Team, from a Digg article. Rather than ”Just Digging” the story (which I did as well), I wanted to post the video demonstration of the tool. It’s a nice little utility (note: it requires a Live ID), so check it out. Checkout the video Video: Thumbtack Introduction You can get it here: Click here to access Note: Sometimes things move around on the web, so if you can’t find it at this link, you may have to...

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