The Mactopia team at Microsoft that creates Office for Mac and other software's for Macintosh platform has just released a minor update to Messenger for Mac. The latest version of Messenger for Mac is 7.0.2.
Microsoft has changed the way how Windows handles Gadgets on the desktop. In Windows Vista, Sidebar provided a containing environment which hosted mini-apps built using XML, DHTML and JavaScript. Now starting with Windows 7, Windows Sidebar is no longer required to run gadgets as these mini DHTML based apps can now be placed directly on the desktop without having to have Windows Sidebar running.
The Windows 7 Icon Pack contains 214 Hi-Res icons extracted directly from Windows resource files. All the icons are in their original .ico format.
Thanks to some generous folks over at Microsoft who have given me 2 NFR copies of SQL Server 2008 Standard edition. I have kept one for myself and decided to give another away for free here at Redmond Pie.
Windows 7 enables searching for content on remote locations right from the Explorer itself. Integrating federated search into Windows gives users the benefits of using familiar tools and workflows to search remote data.
Ever had a problem finding a SDK of a particular Microsoft product? Well now you don't need to look for it any further as Microsoft over at their MSDN portal has put together a page, which links to SDKs( Software Development Kits) with documentation and sample codes for all the products released from Microsoft.
President-elect of the United States of America - Barack Obama is preparing to make a switch from his beloved BlackBerry RIMs to Sectera Edge. CNET has found out that the former United States Senator from Illinois would have to make a switch once he takes over the office come January 20th.
Microsoft today released a new updated CTP for Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2008. Both the updates are labeled as January 2009 CTP.
Windows Azure SDK provides developers with the APIs, tools, documentation, and samples needed to develop Internet-scale applications that run on Windows Azure .
Windows 7 Beta was announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at this years Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas. Today, Microsoft has released the SDKs for both the Windows 7 Beta and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 which is included in Windows 7 Beta. Both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 were shipped with .NET Framework 3.0.
Due to excessive demand of Windows 7 Beta from Windows enthusiasts around the world, Microsoft servers have crashed under heavy load as also reported on the official Windows Team Blog.
