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Yes Office365 is released tomorrow. This cloud based productivity suite has been in beta for a while now and gives you access to email, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at any time, on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. Beta accounts will remain live for 30 days and then...

Web-style programming in the next-gen Windows is a radical break for Microsoft. But there are reasons to expect it'll help draw programmers, not just alienate them. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft wants developers to code in the language of the web -- just like Google. Can anything resist their combined might? The next version of the Windows OS will run on everything from phones and tablets to desktop PCs, and it will feature, front and center, apps built in HTML5, CSS and...

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Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack visited the "Open Source Fest" at Mix 11 in Las Vegas just a few months ago. One of the projects that really stood out - amongst the dozens of great projects shown - was Glimpse. Glimpse is a server-side NuGet package that plugs into ASP.NET (and other technologies...

Wizards are a part of the web. Maybe you haven't thought of them as wizards, but multi-step processes such as checkout or registration are utilized by many websites. In this episode, Muhammad Usman from the Microsoft Product Quality team will show you the new system they are building to create...

The browser has become the single piece of software most widely deployed and used. Apple, Microsoft, Google and Firefox's Mozilla are in a race to develop more functional browsers. The core functionality of these browsers must be the same to comply with W3C standards, but they compete on the...

In this interview, Anders Hauge, a Program Manager on the Azure tools team, shows us how the new Web Deployment feature along with Remote Desktop allows you to incrementally publish your web applications to the Azure cloud. This means that you can make updates to your already deployed web apps...

We know what Steve Ballmer wanted for Valentine’s Day! In this episode, learn about AccessLove, an Access Web Database application built by three Access team members, as well as a few tips and tricks for making beautiful Access web applications. For more information about Access Web Databases...

You've been asking for it and here it is. I've put together some sample code showing how you can use WF4 with ASP.NET and do it the right way... the fast way with async calls. For more info see this Link Removed Ron Jacobs http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs Twitter: @ronljacobs Link Removed...

Last summer, Microsoft researchers were describing their ServiceOS project as a "multi-principal OS-based browser" designed to provide control of web applications and devices. This year, the... Source: Yahoo! News

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show Link Removed. In this episode, Steve and Wade talk through how to use Windows Azure Table Storage from an ASP.NET MVC 3 application. Steve shows us some tricks for using ASP.NET MVC...

Google's decision to transition its applications to Web standards offers telling insight into the HTML5 standardization process Google technologies are known for their extended beta test periods -- so much so that when the search giant actually ships a finished product it's front page news. But...

Summary Most desktop Linuxes are meant to replace Windows lock, stock, and barrel, but Splashtop acts as a “as needed” replacement for Windows. Ever just want to turn on your laptop and get right to work on the Web without any delay? If that’s you, even if you’d never consider...

Glenn Block joins me for a look at how you can use the new WCF Web API libraries to build great browser based apps with jQuery with new support for Form URI encoding and other custom content types. For more info see Link Removed Ron Jacobs http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs Twitter: Link Removed...

Part Two of The Excel 25th Anniversary Video brings us into the present and then takes us into the future of this popular product. We dive into Web Apps, The Cloud, and all things Excel 2010 as we explore the power of software. Be sure to check out Part One where you get a chance to meet some...

Microsoft is in the process of merging all Windows Office Live Workspace accounts to Windows Live SkyDrve. Windows Live SkyDrive is a cloud computing storage center for documents and other files, similar to Windows Office Live Workspace. This migration will apparently take place for most Windows...

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Even for enterprises that are eager to transition to Windows 7, that process could be slowed by compatibility issues with the trove of Web apps firms have built for IE 6. Link Removed

In this “Ask the expert” video, Evan Lew, product manager for Office Web Apps, addresses some of the burning questions from our users. During this short video, Evan talks about Office Web Apps on mobile devices, co-authoring, the benefits and advantages of using Office Web Apps, and a variety of...