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The next-generation wireless 802.11n standard could be made official earlier than expected, according to a recent email from Bob Heile, the chairman of the IEEE 802.15 working group on Personal Area Networks. The mail states that the IEEE 802.11n draft standard has been set for approval at the Standards Review Committee, or RevCom. If 802.11n becomes official, this could set the start to an upcoming wave of new routers and

chips supporting the wireless connectivity standard. There will also be questions regarding the backwards compatibility of the official 802.11n with the previously released draft version of the 802.11n.

Full Article – http://news.softpedia.com/news/802-11n-Standard-Could-Be-Finally-Approved-by-September-11-117278.shtml

I recognize this is an important question to have answered. Many of you have said you want to know exactly when you will be able to get your hands on RTM. Last Monday, I gave an update on RTM to close out some myths. In that update, I also gave a broad timeline on when different groups of people – or “audiences” – would get the final RTM code.

While I have nothing new to add regarding RTM today, I do however have more precise information to give on when you will be able to get RTM. Again, when you can get RTM depends on who you are.

Full Article – http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/21/when-will-you-get-windows-7-rtm.aspx

Kingston Technology, one of the world’s leading vendors of NAND Flash-based memory products, has just announced another addition to its line of DataTraveler USB flash-drives, expanding the storage capacity to a world’s first 256GB. The new DataTraveler 300 comes just weeks after the company’s previously announced DataTraveler 200, which was launched as the world’s first 128GB USB drive. With the

launch of its new DataTraveler 300, Kingston doubles the storage capacity of the world’s highest-capacity USB flash drive, providing high-end users with even more storage in the same convenient form factor.

Full Article – http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kingston-Technology-Intros-World-039-s-First-256GB-USB-Flash-Drive-117111.shtml

Kingston Technology, one of the world’s leading vendors of NAND Flash-based memory products, has just announced another addition to its line of DataTraveler USB flash-drives, expanding the storage capacity to a world’s first 256GB. The new DataTraveler 300 comes just weeks after the company’s previously announced DataTraveler 200, which was launched as the world’s first 128GB USB drive. With the

launch of its new DataTraveler 300, Kingston doubles the storage capacity of the world’s highest-capacity USB flash drive, providing high-end users with even more storage in the same convenient form factor.

Full Article – http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kingston-Technology-Intros-World-039-s-First-256GB-USB-Flash-Drive-117111.shtml

Microsoft Corp.’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) released Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 (SP2) today — a midcycle free update that is designed to improve the Office 2008 experience where it matters most to customers: speed, stability and compatibility. SP2 delivers highly requested features throughout the suite as well as a new tool, Document Connection for Mac, that helps improve access and browsing to documents on SharePoint Products and Technologies and Microsoft Office Live Workspace. These new improvements and features are part of Microsoft’s long-standing investment in delivering excellent cross-platform collaboration and compatibility for Mac users, and the commitment has paid off. According to a recent study, customers indicate that the ability to share files while ensuring document fidelity between colleagues and friends on Macs and PCs is a top advantage of Office for Mac.1 This customer confidence in Microsoft Office compatibility is the biggest reason why nine out of 10 Office for Mac users would recommend the software to others.

Full Article –

Download Mac Office 2008 Services Pack 2 :
http://www.microsoft…/downloads.mspx, and it also will be available from Microsoft AutoUpdate.
Mac users also can access a full trial version of Office 2008 for free at
http://www.microsoft…l-download.mspx

We’re introducing some new features starting with .NET 4.0 Beta 2 that you may find useful. Additional information will be available on MSDN and in subsequent articles. If you have any questions or comments, let us know!

Sockets – DnsEndPoint – This feature was first introduced in Silverlight 2 and it allows you to connect to a listening socket by DNS name, simplifying the connect experience. Now you can take advantage of this in .NET as well.

Full Article – http://blogs.msdn.com/ncl/archive/2009/07/20/new-ncl-features-in-net-4-0-beta-2.aspx

This week kicked off the “virtual” Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 launches.  For weeks the SeeTheLight website had a placeholder countdown timer.  As UX Geek and Twitter user it was pretty exciting as we all watch the countdown slowly go down from days to minutes.  “

Full Article – http://blogs.msdn.com/davedev/archive/2009/07/17/microsoft-silverlight-3-and-expression-studio-3-have-launched-and-there-has-never-been-a-better-time-to-jump-into-the-ria-space-so-how-do-you-get-started-get-all-the-juicy-details-here.aspx

In another move which may or may not be part of its ongoing attempts to appease European antitrust authorities, Microsoft is changing the way Internet Explorer (IE) 8 will prompt users about making IE their default browser.

According to a July 16 post to the Internet Explorer blog, Microsoft is changing the way IE 8 prompts users during browser installation. The change will take effect in mid-August and will only be pertinent to users for whom IE is not set as their default browser. From that post:

Full Article – http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3396

We are pleased to announce the Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta which improves the Windows Home Server experience with Windows 7 and Windows Media Center by providing the following new features: Backup and restore of computers running Windows 7, Windows 7 Libraries integration, enhancements for Windows Media Center, and better support for netbook computers.

If you are running Windows 7 on your home computer and are a current Windows Home Server user, we need your help!

Full Article – http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/archive/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-includes-enhancements-for-windows-7-based-computers.aspx

We are pleased to announce the Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta which improves the Windows Home Server experience with Windows 7 and Windows Media Center by providing the following new features: Backup and restore of computers running Windows 7, Windows 7 Libraries integration, enhancements for Windows Media Center, and better support for netbook computers.

If you are running Windows 7 on your home computer and are a current Windows Home Server user, we need your help!

Full Article – http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/archive/2009/07/17/windows-home-server-power-pack-3-beta-includes-enhancements-for-windows-7-based-computers.aspx

We have released Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB 970162) to the download center. The release of the rollup via Microsoft Update will happen on July 28.

The majority of changes in this rollup are bug fixes. Here are a few that I would like to call out:

1. KB 969911 – This is bug likely to affect customers who have deployed the Messaging Records Management feature and have specified a storage limit for a managed folder. After a move mailbox, the property which marks the folders as managed is not preserved.

Full article – http://bink.nu/news/update-rollup-9-for-exchange-server-2007-service-pack-1-has-been-released.aspx

Just ahead of Windows 7, Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA is now available

I now have a new project for the weekend: dogfooding the latest bits just released for the Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA, complete with new enhancements for Windows 7 PCs.

New from the Windows Home Server team is their announcement of the new Power Pack 3 Beta.   Just ahead of our Windows 7 release, the team provides a “better together” combination across your Windows 7 PCs and Windows Home Server (we have an HP Windows Home Server at home).   

Full Article – http://blogs.msdn.com/mthree/archive/2009/07/17/whs-beta.aspx

NEW ORLEANS — July 13, 2009 — Today, at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, Microsoft Corp. announced that Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 have reached the technical preview engineering milestone. Starting today, tens of thousands of people will be invited to test Office and Visio as part of the Technical Preview program.

“Office 2010 is the premier productivity solution across PCs, mobile phones* and browsers,” said Chris Capossela, senior vice president of the Microsoft Business Division at Microsoft. “From broadcast and video editing in PowerPoint, new data visualization capabilities in Excel, and co-authoring in Word, we are delivering technology to help people work smarter and faster from virtually any location using any device.”

Full Article – http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-13Office2010WPCPR.mspx

Last week, to coincide with the release of Expression Blend + SketchFlow RC and Silverlight 3, we updated Deep Zoom Composer as well. You can download it from the link below:

As always, please uninstall all existing versions of Deep Zoom Composer before installing the new version.

This release contains improvements to a handful of the existing features based on feedback many of you have provided us.

Full Article – http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/07/13/deep-zoom-composer-updated-july-2009-release-candidate.aspx

Last week, to coincide with the release of Expression Blend + SketchFlow RC and Silverlight 3, we updated Deep Zoom Composer as well. You can download it from the link below:

As always, please uninstall all existing versions of Deep Zoom Composer before installing the new version.

This release contains improvements to a handful of the existing features based on feedback many of you have provided us.

Full Article – http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/07/13/deep-zoom-composer-updated-july-2009-release-candidate.aspx