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Microsoft announces Silverlight 4 RC download, final version next month

Posted Mar.15, 2010 under Announcement, Microsoft

Microsoft said on Monday that it is making a Release Candidate (RC) version of Silverlight 4 for download.

At a keynote for Microsoft’s MIX 2010 keynote, Scott Guthrie, Vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, outlined Silverlight 4. Silverlight 4 includes webcam and microphone support, multicast streaming, output protection and offline DRM. Guthrie announced that the final version of Silverlight 4 will allow you to watch streams on multimonitors and carry on working on other monitors.

During the MIX 2010 keynote, Microsoft welcomed Raji Arasu on stage, eBay’s Vice President of Technology. eBay demonstrated a new eBay application based on Silverlight 4. Built in functionality includes webcam support and image cropping allowing users to easily and quickly list an eBay item.

The eBay Silverlight application will be available next month when Silverlight 4 launches. Silverlight 4 RC also includes support for Google Chrome browser, hardware accelaration for Deep Zoom, graphics and printing enhancements and networking enhancements.

Microsoft says the final version of Silverlight 4 will be available “next month”.

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Reminder: Windows 7 RC shut downs begin today

Posted Mar.01, 2010 under Microsoft, Windows 7

Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) copies will begin restarting every two hours today.

Microsoft officials warned of the prompts and bi-hourly shut downs in early February. A brief summary of the events can be found below:

Effective March 1, 2010, Windows 7 RC enters the next phase of expiration:

  • Windows 7 RC users receive an expiration notification in the task bar one time per day.
  • Windows 7 RC users are presented with the Notification Wizard one time every four hours and then one time every hour.
  • Computers that are running Windows 7 RC restart every two hours.

Effective June 1, 2010, Windows 7 RC expires:

  • Windows starts to a black desktop.
  • Windows 7 RC users are presented with a Windows Activation screen. The screen states that the Windows that you are running is not genuine.
  • Computers that are running Windows 7 RC restart every two hours.

Microsoft has sold more than 60 million Windows 7 licenses to date making it the fastest selling operating system in history. Microsoft released Windows 7 on October 22, 2009. The operating system has received praise from consumers, businesses and the media. In November 2009, Windows 7 managed to surpass Apple’s Snow Leopard market share in just two weeks. In early February it was revealed that Windows 7 had reached 10% market share in just three months.

Screenshots of a Windows 7 post RTM build showed up on the web in February, fueling speculation that Microsoft is compiling early Windows 8 builds. The successor to Windows 7 will likely be available in 2011 as an ex-Microsoft worker penned July 2011 as the RTM date for Windows 8.

Microsoft is currently readying its first Service Pack for Windows 7. A beta version is expected in June with a public release in September this year.

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Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET Framework 4.0 RC released publicly

Posted Feb.10, 2010 under Other Technology

On Tuesday Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET Framework 4.0 RC to MSDN subscribers. Today, the company has made these releases available to the public.

Visual Studio is a development environment that allows developers to create GUI applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.

There are no new features in the RC release from beta 2 and Microsoft has focussed on speed improvements. A Microsoft spokesperson stated: “We heard from customers that performance in Beta 2 wasn’t everything they had hoped it would be. The RC released today delivers enhanced performance and is an added milestone to garner even more customer feedback before the final build is released. Specifically, customers will see performance improvements in loading solutions, typing, building and debugging.”

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will launch in cities all over the world on April 12. Major events will be taking place in the UK, China, Malaysia, India, and in the US.

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC released to MSDN subscribers

Posted Feb.08, 2010 under Microsoft, Windows

Microsoft said on Monday that it had shipped a Release Candidate (RC) copy of its development software Visual Studio 2010.

Visual Studio is a development environment that allows developers to create GUI applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.

There are no new features in the RC release from beta 2 and Microsoft has focussed on speed improvements. A Microsoft spokesperson stated: “We heard from customers that performance in Beta 2 wasn’t everything they had hoped it would be. The RC released today delivers enhanced performance and is an added milestone to garner even more customer feedback before the final build is released. Specifically, customers will see performance improvements in loading solutions, typing, building and debugging.”

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will launch in cities all over the world on April 12. Major events will be taking place in the UK, China, Malaysia, India, and in the US.

The RC is available to MSDN subscribers today and will be available to the public on February 10.

View: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

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