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It may not be officially released until a launch event later on today but Microsoft's Silverlight 3 technology, which adds offline capabilities to the company's rich Internet application platform, is already available for download on the Web.
Microsoft has revealed how much it will charge for its next operating system, Windows 7. Windows 7 Home Premium Edition will cost around £130 plus VAT, while the Professional version will be around £190 plus VAT and the Ultimate Edition £199 plus VAT.
Microsoft's upcoming Zune HD media player is powered by Nvidia's Tegra computing platform, a source familiar with the device's specifications confirmed on Friday.
Microsoft will no longer ship its Expression digital asset management software as part of the Expression Studio suite effective with the upcoming Expression Studio 3 release, a company representative said in an email on Wednesday morning.
Microsoft Silverlight may be seen as a lesser rival to Adobe's AIR as a platform for developing RIAs, but with the new Silverlight 3, that may be about to change.
Dell is now offering Microsoft Office products for download, making it the first vendor other than Microsoft to do so.
While Microsoft's Internet Explorer faces healthy competition with other browsers among consumers, in the enterprise it has long remained the de facto standard. But that could soon change as rivals -- particularly Mozilla and Google -- add features to their browsers that make them better suited for use across corporate desktops.
Visual Studio is a programmer's tool, not a designer's. However if you're a designer-led interactive agency who's thinking of checking out Microsoft Expression applications for creating Web sites in Silverlight or desktop applications in WPF, your coders will need to use Visual Studio to create the back-end functionality. So we've asked Martin Heller, a contributing editor at our sister title InfoWorld and writer of the Strategic Developer blog to take a look at the beta of the latest version. As I said in my review of Visual Studio 2008 in January 2008 and repeated in my SP1 review in August 2008, Visual Studio is the premier IDE for developing applications with the Microsoft .Net Framework and at least a contender for the best Windows-hosted C/C++ IDE. At the same time, despite my glowing endorsement, I quibbled about a few deficiencies in the product; in my later Silverlight 2.0 review in November, I went on to complain that the XAML designer added to Visual Studio by the Silverlight toolkit only had a preview pane rather than a full-blown designer.
Microsoft will put Windows 7 on store shelves and computer makers will have systems ready to sell with Vista's successor on October 22, the company confirmed today.
A patent-holding company has sued Microsoft for patent infringement for technology used in dynamic Web pages.
A month after many details of Microsoft's new Zune HD player were leaked by blogs, the company finally made it official on Wednesday. The Zune HD will arrive in the US sometime this autumn and comes with an OLED touchscreen and HD radio among its main features.
Although Microsoft quietly delivered Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) to TechNet and MSDN subscribers last week, the company has still has not made the upgrade available to other users.
Microsoft will release the first beta of its Visual Studio 2010 development environment, according to an employee in Australia.
Microsoft has released the beta version of its Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, a free utility that tells you if your PC is ready to run Windows 7. It scans your computer, checking internal components, external peripherals, and programs, and alerts you to potential compatibility issues. It also offers upgrade suggestions, such as which drivers to replace, should you make the move to Windows 7.
Just days after it launched Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), Microsoft has released a fix for a major flaw that slipped through testing.
Microsoft said it plans to acquire gaming company BigPark for an undisclosed amount.
Microsoft has integrated its Photosynth and Virtual Earth technologies and showcased them through new features added to the tourism site VisitBrighton.
As promised, Microsoft has launched the beta of ‘XP Mode’, the Windows 7 compatibility add-on that runs Windows XP applications in a virtual machine.
Microsoft will deliver a release candidate of Windows 7 in little more than two weeks, the company's Web site revealed Saturday.
The handbags-at-dawn spat between Adobe and Microsoft over the competition between their Flash and Silverlight interactive Web technologies has entered a new round. Major League Baseball's decision to stream the 2009 season via Flash instead of Microsoft's competing Silverlight technology has drawn a backlash from a Microsoft group product manager who lists several major events that were or will be shown only on Silverlight.
