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Microsoft is holding its official launch of its cloud-hosted application suite, known as Office 365, on June 28. CEO Steve Ballmer will be on hand at the New York launch event, according to an invitation I received. (click on the image above to enlarge) June 28 also may be the date when the...

A friendly shout out to all members, visitors and staff! It's been some time since I've brought you an update, I've been "out and about" with personal issues for months on end. I'm pleased to announce the following changes made to the site this month: [*=1]A new WYSIWYG editor has been...

Bloomberg is adding fuel to the rumor fires claiming that Microsoft may show off the tablet version of Windows 8 next week at the AllThingsD conference. If and when that happens, here’s what to watch for. Steven Sinofsky, the President of Microsoft’s Windows client division, is slated to take...

System utility Bins lets you add documents to the Windows 7 taskbar and group them as you wish. Link Removed

The successor to Windows 7 may soon greet the masses Link Removed

In this SharePoint Sideshow episode, Link Removed, Office 365 Technical Evangelist, talks with Link Removed about the recent Office 365 Beta release and how to get started developing against SharePoint Online. Chris describes the services offered by Office 365, including Exchange Online, Lync...

OneUp Industries , a company launched by the author of such notable Stardock applications as Fences and ObjectDock , has released a public beta of its first software offering. More...

An early beta release of Windows 8 has been leaked onto the Internet read more Link Removed

An early beta release of Windows 8 has been leaked onto the Internet Link Removed

Shh... let's not leak our hard work. Source: Yahoo! News

You had to know it was a matter of time before Windows 8 showed up on these great internets for all to download -- illegitimately. An early version (6.1.7850) has been making the rounds at manufacturers and it's finally escaped the confines of beta labs. We haven't braved the torrent sites...

You had to know it was a matter of time before Windows 8 showed up on these great internets for all to download -- illegitimately. An early version (6.1.7850) has been making the rounds at manufacturers and it's finally escaped the confines of beta labs. We haven't braved the torrent sites...

Microsoft is holding a big event for developers in September, and will probably use it to show off the first public beta of Windows 8. That means the OS will probably ship a year later, in fall 2012. Source: Yahoo! News

In this video, Link Removed (Sr. Technical Evangelist for Team Foundation Server) demonstrates the beta of the new OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010. The purpose of this project is to help developers work with data from Team Foundation Server on multiple types of devices (such as...

In the past few days, rumors of a possible leak of one of the newer Windows 8 internal builds have been gaining steam. Source: Yahoo! News

In the past few days, rumors of a possible leak of one of the newer Windows 8 internal builds have been gaining steam. Source: Yahoo! News

When Microsoft released Windows 7 it was a worrying time for Microsoft. Windows Vista was terrible, and Windows 7 was an operating system Microsoft had to get right to rebuild confidence with consumers and business users alike. It did that by releasing a preview build anyone could experiment...

Google Chrome look-alike, Firefox 4.0 , is now officially out of beta and available for public consumption. If your PC is running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 and you want to try out the browser, feel free to download it via this link for free. What's cool about Firefox 4.0...

In this video, I interview a couple of LightSwitch team members, Mike Droney (Tester) and Sheel Shaw (PM), as they walk me through a real application that was built for our Admins in order to track hardware assets across the developer division. Mike and Sheel talk about the requirement gathering...

The Windows 8 timeline could look like this: March 2011: Windows 8 Milestone 3 June / July 2011: Windows 8 Beta September / October 2011: Windows 7 Release Candidate Early 2012: Windows 8 final. More Link Removed