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New Windows Live Essentials available to beta testers on June 24
Microsoft is making available the beta bits of its next Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 suite as as of Thursday, June 24.
Once the beta is released on June 24, it will be available for download here from the Microsoft Live.com site.
Windows 7 SP1 beta now available for testers
Microsoft released a beta version of Windows 7 SP1 on Tuesday.
In an email to technical beta testers, the Windows Customer Connection Team confirmed the release of the Service Pack in English, German, Japanese, French and Spanish editions. Weighing in at 1.22GB the build was compiled on June 3 with the number 7601.16562.100603-1800.
Link – http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-sp1-beta-now-available-for-testers
Microsoft sends invitations to testers for Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 SP1
Microsoft is assembling the group of testers who will receive the first beta of Service Pack (SP) 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in July.
The company has begun sending invitations to those it plans to include in the testing program. According to the invitations, the beta bits will be in English, German, Japanese, French and Spanish.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications.
- Flexible and reliable – Exchange Server 2010 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your company’s unique needs and a simplified way to keep e-mail continuously available for your users.
- Anywhere access – Exchange Server 2010 helps your users get more done by giving them the freedom to securely access all their communications – e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and more – from virtually any platform, Web browser, or device.
- Protection and compliance – Exchange Server 2010 delivers integrated information loss prevention, and compliance tools aimed at helping you simplify the process of protecting your company’s communications and meeting regulatory requirements.
This pre-release software is intended for evaluation purposes only. You must accept the license terms before you are authorized to use the software. There is no product support for this trial software. You are welcome to participate in the forums to share your trial experiences with others and to ask for advice.
Windows Home Server code name "Vail"
Windows Home Server code name "Vail" is the version 2 release of Windows Home Server, now based on Windows Server ® 2008 R2. There are some exciting new features that you can try out if you choose to join the Windows Home Server Connect program such as:
- Extending media streaming outside the home or office
- Improvements in multi-PC backup and restore
- Simplified setup and user experience
- Significantly expanded development and customization tools for partners
- Much, much more!
Link – https://connect.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver/?wa=wsignin1.0
Windows Home Server code name “Vail”
Windows Home Server code name "Vail" is the version 2 release of Windows Home Server, now based on Windows Server ® 2008 R2. There are some exciting new features that you can try out if you choose to join the Windows Home Server Connect program such as:
- Extending media streaming outside the home or office
- Improvements in multi-PC backup and restore
- Simplified setup and user experience
- Significantly expanded development and customization tools for partners
- Much, much more!
Link – https://connect.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver/?wa=wsignin1.0
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2
Today Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2 is available for download. I’d like to highlight a few new features and some recent developments:
· Scalability and performance. We’ve continued to improve scalability, regularly testing on the 1,000 node cluster in Microsoft Research—we plan to pursue Top500 runs that prove much greater scalability. We also know customers want to make use of spare processing cycles as part of their overall HPC infrastructures. Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2 now integrates with workstations running Windows 7, enabling organizations to use them as cluster compute nodes.
Hands-On Look at What’s New in Office 2010
Now that we’ve had some time to play with the Office 2010 Professional Beta, we thought we’d share what’s new and useful inside Microsoft’s big suite. Take a gander at the pictorial evidence below.
Overall, Office 2010 is not the kind of leap forward that Windows 7 was from Vista (or, for most PC upgraders, from XP). It adds a lot of stuff that’s previously been available only through plug-ins, makes performing the basic tasks of opening, printing, and sharing documents a good deal more convenient, and throws in a few new features that will expand the repertoire of those who really know their Office.
Link – http://lifehacker.com/5411837/hands+on-look-at-whats-new-in-office-2010
Adobe releases new Flash, AIR betas
Adobe Labs on Monday released test versions of two closely related foundations for Net-based applications, Flash Player 10.1 and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) 2.
Flash is widely used to bring streaming video, interactive graphics, and games to browsers; AIR, with Flash built in, is a foundation for other desktop applications. Both are instrumental to Adobe’s effort to stay ahead of the gradually broadening feature set of HTML and related Web standards.
Office 2010 Beta downloadable by MSDN, Technet subscribers today
Search Server 2010 Express Beta (x64) – (English)
SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Office Web Applications Beta (x64) – (English)
Visio Premium 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Visio Premium 2010 Beta (x86) – (English)
FAST Search Server 2010 Beta for SharePoint (x64) – (English)
Project Server 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Project Professional 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Project Professional 2010 Beta (x86) – (English)
Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta (x86) – (English)
SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (x86 and x64) – (English)
SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (x86 and x64) – (English)
SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta (x86) – (English)
Link – http://msdn.microsoft.com.
Visio 2010 Beta coming soon…
It’s been several months since the Technical Preview was released and we started talking about Visio 2010 on this blog. The product team has been hard at work responding to your feedback, fixing bugs and polishing the application. Next month we are scheduled to release the Visio 2010 Beta, which will be open to the public. If you haven’t had the opportunity to try Visio 2010 for yourself, this is your chance.
Sometimes it’s hard to wait patiently for new software releases, so to put your mind at ease we’ve created a special alert system that will notify you when you can download the Beta. Head over to http://visiotoolbox.com/2010/ and click on the big green button. You’ll also find a handy diagram explaining the software delivery process (approximately) and several other pages highlighting some of the new capabilities of Visio 2010 and Visio Services.
Visio 2010 Beta coming soon…
It’s been several months since the Technical Preview was released and we started talking about Visio 2010 on this blog. The product team has been hard at work responding to your feedback, fixing bugs and polishing the application. Next month we are scheduled to release the Visio 2010 Beta, which will be open to the public. If you haven’t had the opportunity to try Visio 2010 for yourself, this is your chance.
Sometimes it’s hard to wait patiently for new software releases, so to put your mind at ease we’ve created a special alert system that will notify you when you can download the Beta. Head over to http://visiotoolbox.com/2010/ and click on the big green button. You’ll also find a handy diagram explaining the software delivery process (approximately) and several other pages highlighting some of the new capabilities of Visio 2010 and Visio Services.
VS 2010 Beta 2 is Now Available for MSDN Subscriber Download
This includes:
- VS 2010
- .NET 4.0
- TFS 2010
The VS Beta also includes the features formerly known as Team System role SKUS. Very shortly I’ll be writing a post on the packaging changes we are making to combine and simplify the VS/VSTS products.
MSDN subscribers can download Beta 2 today (It will be available to the rest of the world on Wednesday).
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx
