Microsoft Office 2010 beta hits 1M downloads in two weeks

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Microsoft confirmed today that downloads of the Office 2010 beta have hit 1 million in just two weeks. Microsoft introduced the Office 2010 beta during its now annual Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles late last month. Company officials demonstrated various new features during a keynote on November 18 including social ...

Silverlight 4 beta now available

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Microsoft have just announced Silverlight 4 beta today at PDC09, that is available for download today. Silverlight 4 promises to enhance the overall user experience, improving speed, performance and rendering for browsers. Silverlight 4 was demonstrated today with some practical applications that are able to take pictures and modify the image ...

Microsoft demos Internet Explorer 9

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Microsoft today demonstrated an early, three week old, build of Internet Explorer 9 at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009. IE 9 will take advantage of the power of the GPU for all page rendering and developers can exploit this using CSS, DHTML and javascript. In just three weeks Microsoft believes performance ...

Microsoft to open source .NET Micro Framework

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Microsoft announced today at PDC09 here in Los Angeles that they will be opening the .NET Micro Framework source code and also release the next version, 4.0. The release will be available under the Apache 2.0 license, something that is already being used inside the community. Developers will be able to ...