One of the technology which did not make it to Windows Vista Final was released separately on first day of IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain. Bob Muglia in his keynote address announced the release of Windows PowerShell 1.0 (known previously as project Monad) today as a free download. Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell … Read more
Office 2007 Professional has just been made available for MSDN Subscribers. Office Professional 2007 includes the following Microsoft Office system programs: Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 and Microsoft Office Word 2007. Additionally the following applications have … Read more
Some musicians spend 18 months working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that’s how long it took to perfect just four seconds of sound. Of course, this isn’t just any four-second clip. It’s the sound — a soft da-dum, da-dumm, with a lush fade-out — that millions of computer users will hear every day, … Read more
After 5 years of development, Vista is finally RTM’ed. Jim Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division has put together a video about the announcement where he announces the General Availability (GA) date of 30 January 2007 for Vista. On a conference call with Jim Allchin, Microsoft announced that they will have 18 … Read more
The Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) provides the documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools you need to develop applications that run on Windows. The Windows SDK includes content for application development with the APIs in Windows Vista, including the .NET Framework 3.0 technologies: .NET Framework 2.0, Windows® Presentation Foundation, Windows® Communication Foundation, Windows® … Read more
Today Microsoft has announced that the 2007 Microsoft Office system products have been released to manufacturing (RTM). This gold code milestone concludes the largest Office beta program to date, with more than 3.5 million people downloading Beta 2. RTM also marks a critical step toward worldwide business availability of the 2007 Office system, Windows Vista … Read more