Today at Internet Week New York 2010, Microsoft Corp. announced the immediate availability of Microsoft Expression Studio 4. The newest version of Microsoft’s professional suite of design tools, Expression 4 distinguishes itself by enabling designers and developers to collaborate and create dynamic applications using their existing skills and current toolset.
Link – http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/jun10/06-07Expression4PR.mspx
Building on our commitment to provide customers with the right technologies to virtualize their IT environments, today we’re announcing that the public beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 will be released by the end of July. We’ve posted on the contents of SP1 before, but the beta release will be the first time you’ll be able to actually get your mitts on the new code.
Released to manufacturing today, Windows Server AppFabric simplifies the development and management of composite applications by providing improved speed, elastic scale and high availability through distributed caching capabilities and new tools. Customers with licenses for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (Standard and Enterprise editions) can download Windows Server AppFabric at no additional cost.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications.
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.
Microsoft surprised many with yesterday’s tablet OS announcement at Computex. As previously noted, the new platform, Windows Embedded Compact 7, will provide a "compartmentalized version of Windows 7 that can be embedded at the hardware level." It will provide multitouch capabilities, as well as a full desktop browser experience. The new OS will also have full support for Silverlight and Flash 10.1.
Link – http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft039s-tablet-os-shown-off-on-video
Looks like we’re one step closer to getting our hands on Windows Live Wave 4. Tonight (9pm pdt) Microsoft is taking the wraps off their preview of Windows Live Essentials, which you can check out at www.windowslivepreview.com. Sometime soon (think end of the month), you’ll be able to download the public beta of Essentials.
Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/06/02/windows-live-essentials-announced.aspx
The App-V Dashboard’s built-in charts, gauges, and tables let you track any App-V dataset in near-real time, so you can easily stay on top of the usage, health, and compliance of all your virtualized applications.
Benefits of the dashboard include:
Google announced today that Google Chrome OS will debut for free in autumn, and compete directly with Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
Google originally announced the operating system back in July, eventually making a beta available for testing, and will release it free for all users.
Link- http://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-os-to-launch-in-autumn
We were excited to share with you last week a preview of the brand new Hotmail, available starting later this summer. To follow up, we wanted to share a little more detail around some of the security investments we’ve made in the new Hotmail.
Security remains the number one concern of people who use email and a top priority for all Microsoft development efforts, products, and services – Hotmail included.
Microsoft has launched a new version of its popular news and entertainment portal – MSN UK.
Following in the footsteps of the U.S. and Brazil, the new site features a simple design that integrates content from Facebook, Twitter and MSN’s Video Player service. MSN UK also includes the new butterfly logo to keep it more up to date with its American counterpart.
Link – www.msn.co.uk
Dell’s Streak has a UK release date of 4 June – that’s this Thursday. So we popped along to see Dell and have a good play with the new device, which sits somewhere between a smartphone and a tablet.
Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/portable-computing/hands-on-dell-streak-review-693445
A few weeks ago we showed you what’s coming in the new Windows Live Office. Today thanks to a recent blog post by Technogran, we’re able to give you a glimpse of its sister-service, Windows Live Photos, which is also based on SkyDrive. Here’s a screenshot of the Windows Live Photos Wave 4 home page, taken directly from the http://hotmailpreview.com website:
Last week we were fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of the Windows Live Essentials Preview website (http://windowslivepreview.com/essentials) as it briefly went online before it got locked out to the public again. We showed you the two Photo Gallery videos that we found, and today we’ll show give you a first look at the new Windows Live Sync.
Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/05/29/wave-4-windows-live-sync-a-first-look.aspx
Last week we were fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of the Windows Live Essentials Preview website (http://windowslivepreview.com/essentials) as it briefly went online before it got locked out to the public again. We showed you the two Photo Gallery videos that we found, and today we’ll show give you a first look at the new Windows Live Sync.
Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/05/29/wave-4-windows-live-sync-a-first-look.aspx
