2. Developer News Live Mesh & Live Framework clients now work together! Silverlight 3 is coming at MIX 09!! Scott Guthrie gives us a glimpse of Silverlight 3 Code Camp OZ registrations now open VS2010 & .NET 4 convoy!
3. IT Professional news Installing virtualized EBS at home Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Outlook Live & Exchange 14 details emerge Time to Thrive – new website for IT Pros Free Microsoft Press Books (via @Vasudev) Windows Vista Resource Kit (SP1) Visual C# 2008 Express Edition Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP1 CTP Updated RSAT for Vista x64
4. Windows Mobile News Windows Mobile 6.5 New partnership with LG Microsoft MyPhone – available Great advertisement for Windows Mobile Mobile Express for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
5. Microsoft News Podcasting Kit for SharePoint Great podcast explaining how it was developed Integrated External Document Repositories with MOSS 07 SharePoint 14 – Search to get FAST Add Windows Live calendar event to your website Microsoft Research Project – Gazelle (via @frankarr) Microsoft Research Project – Social Desktop EU Commission wanting to force Microsoft to install bloatware with Windows......
7. It’s not cheating!!! Microsoft It’s not cheating product updates: Office 2007 Ultimate for $75AUD Office 2007 Language packs for $15AUD Visio Professional 2007 for $70AUD Windows Vista Ultimate (with SP1) Upgrade for $80AUD Via Paul Jenkins (aka @aeoth)
8. Other news Integrating Google Docs with MindManager Bill Gates & Zune comes to Family Guy Lenovo & Blackberries work better together Citrix to make XenServer free Apple Safari 4 Beta Gmail & Google Apps goes down Via launches How to be Mobile site
9. Downloads Word > XAML converter LiveUpload to Facebook 2.0 Blu – WPF Twitter client Ultimate Windows Tweaker UniveRSS – a 3D Vista RSS Reader
10. Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Released this month! OCS 2007 R2 Eval OC 2007 R2 Eval Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Attendant Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Client Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Group Chat Server Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Administration Tool Office Communicator Phone Edition CoMo - MSI - Pocket PC CoMo - MSI - Smartphone UCMA 2.0 SDK - 32 bit UCMA 2.0 SDK - 64 bitSpeech Language Packs (12 languages)
Long process that is documented on the LiveSide blogMIX 09 promises heaps of sessions on Silveright 3, Live Mesh, Live Framework and Rich Internet ApplicationsScott Guthrie gives an update on Silverlight 2 and a glimpse at what’s to come in Silverlight 3Code Camp OZ registrations open this month – the dates for 2009 are the 4th and 5th April. It’s a .NET developer community-driven event which allows people to come together in one location and see some great speakers presenting on a vast array of topics.Andrew Coates blogged on some great vodcasts that are available on the Channel 9 site – the cover a range of topics including enhancements to Parallel Development and new features in ASP.NET Webforms 4
Great 3 part series on what you need to get Essential Business Server installed in a Virtual Environment for the Home or Office.Jeff Alexander pointed out last week a new website for IT Pros, Microsoft Thrive. The site has some great content on their and i highly recommend taking to time to explore the site. – Issues with accessing on Mac OSX due to Silverlight (need to check if it’s fixed)The Exchange team have announced that Outlook Live will be a key feature of Exchange 14 and will be the first version to provide multi-browser support for the premium version of Outlook Web AccessSQL 2008 SP1 CTP released overnight
Windows Mobile 6.5 is the next version of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform and is sporting a new User Interface both with the Homescreen and the start menu. The Homescreen now features sliding panels which you would have seen on Windows Mobile 6.1 standard, non touchscreen, devices and a honeycomb interface in place of the tradition grid seen in the All Programs menu.The biggest announcement, in my opinion, was the partnership announcement between Microsoft and LG resulting in LG producing 50 Windows Mobile devices by the end of 2009 – a major victory for Microsoft to bring Windows Mobile into the consumer market.Other features include a Windows Mobile Marketplace allowing users to purchase applications from one central repository via their Windows Phone or Windows PC. No word if this will be supported on MAC OSX as well.Mobile Express for Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides users with a Web based CRM client that works on any HTML rendering device, small or large. The user interface can be customized to show only the types of objects that an organization wants to expose to mobile users
Another article from Jeff Alexander’s blog – TechNet live events, last week the Windows 7 session has held and coming up on the 6th March the Windows Server 2008 R2 session is runningMSDN Unleashed - February 28, Microsoft organizes an indepth Windows 7 event in Irvine California and available via Live Meeting.Craig sent me a link yesterday for the JAOO conference series which is held around the globe include Australia!
A Word 2007 Add-in that converts the Office Open XML (WordprocessingML) to XAMLFor WPF, the document is converted into a FlowDocument element.For Silverlight 2 the document is converted into a StackPanel element containing TextBlock elements.LiveUpload 2.0 is an add-on for Windows Live Photo Gallery that allows you to 1) upload photos to facebook and 2) take advantage of Windows Live Photo Gallery’s facial recognition software to tag your facebook friendsUltimate Windows Tweaker allows you to tweak and optimize Windows Vista both 32 and 64 bit editions
Following in the tradition from last month finding a cool workstation, here comes a great workstation for gamers
