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VSTO 'Cypress' Hits Beta
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-15
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition – or, as we prefer to call it, Microsoft "Cypress" – has hit beta. The new VSTO, which will allow developers to build applications using features that are part of Office 2007, originally was slated to go to beta this
Will Microsoft Bring Its Works Suite Online?
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-14
Microsoft is planning to Web-ify the core of its "Microsoft Works" consumer productivity suite, according to BusinessWeek. (Aha! Maybe that's what Office Online chief Rajesh Jha meant when he said
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Zune: It's a Black and White (and Brown) World
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-14
We now have a few more details on Microsoft's Zune portable-media players than we did yesterday. The first Zune model, a 30GB player with a three-inch screen due out some time this holiday season, will
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Windows Vista RC1 Now Downloadable By Anyone
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-14
First, it went to a select group of technical beta testers. Then to those who had tested Beta 2. As of September 14, however, Windows Vista Release Candidate (RC) 1 is now available to anyone interested in testing the product. The bits can be downloaded from the Vista Get
Can PR Get Any Better (or Worse) Than This?
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-14
The European Commission is not too keen on Microsoft's decision to bundle its firewall and Security Center into Windows Vista. Guess that explains why Microsoft officials are on a press tour this week, making sure journalists know that Microsoft has decided (as of Vista Release Candidate 1) to make
Zune Unveiling Expected on September 14
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-13
We're not on the briefing list (sniff, sniff). But it sounds like Microsoft is planning to give its Zune iPod competitor its official debut on September 14. Invites to select press and analysts -- and hopefully a few key bloggers -- supposedly are out. Is there any Zune stone
Volume License Activation 2.0: The Technology No One Talks About
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-13
Volume License Activation 2.0: The Technology No One Talks About: Even though Microsoft has been allowing certain testers to dabble with its next-generation security platform that will control
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Office 2007 Beta 2 TR: Start Revving Those Download Engines
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-13
From Microsoft Watch: We asked and we received. Just yesterday, we wondered aloud when that elusive Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (TR) build would appear. Now we know: Thursday September 14 at 9 a.m. PST. That's when Microsoft is set to post the last public test build of
Final Public Office 2007 Test Build Due Thursday
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-13
Microsoft plans to make the final public test build of Office 2007 available on September 14 to the more than 3.5 million testers who were part of the company's Beta 2 test program.
Microsoft will allow Office Beta 2 testers to download for free the Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh
Building the Vista Dream Machine
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-13
ExtremeTech builds a PC optimized for Windows Vista, component-by-component. Their total price: A steep $2,525 (in hardware only – not including the cost of the operating system and/or apps) for the
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Microsoft's Home of the Future Goes to Disneyland
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-13
Microsoft has signed a deal with Disney to install a replica of the Microsoft Home of the Future at Disneyland, LonghornBlogs discovered. The installation will cost Microsoft an estimated $10 million. It's a two-year deal. Got to wonder if the Softies will start selling Zunes and Xboxes in a
Microsoft: Promises, Promises
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-13
Microsoft has issued what it's calling "The Open Specification Promise" in order to insure customers and developers interested in implementing 35 Web services specs (in which Microsoft has played a role in creating) that they won't be sued for doing so. On the list is everything from SOAP, to
Re-Release of IE Mega-Patch Caps Patch Tuesday
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-13
Microsoft issued three security bulletins covering three flaws on September 12, this month's Patch Tuesday. Notable among them is a re-release of an Internet Explorer (IE) mega-patch. The re-release adds a
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Microsoft Refreshes BI Server Test Build
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-12
Microsoft is refreshing the test code for its PerformancePoint Server 2007 product that it currently is testing in a limited, closed beta with 20 to 25 partners. Microsoft is planning to make the updated bits available "sometime later this week, but not today" according to a Microsoft spokeswoman on
Where is That Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh?
By Mary Jo | Posted: 2006-09-12
A few readers have been asking for an update on the whereabouts of the refreshed Office 2007 test code, known as the Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (TR). Microsoft tells us it is due out some time this week. In other words, real soon now. The TR refresh,
