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19 January 2008 22:26

Office 2007 - Default to 97/2003 format

Although the new open format Microsoft have introduced for Office 2007 will soon be the defacto standard in the interim most businesses need to exchange documents in the good old Office 97/2003 format. Remembering to save things correctly can become a
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15 January 2008 08:21

Interested in XAML?

Have a look at this site: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/thepanel/en/default.aspx With the advent of the Windows Vista Presentation Foundation and the new Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) stunning 3D visualizations of your applications
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15 January 2008 08:17

Bill Gates - The last day Video from CES2008

Full version of this great Bill 'fun' video - watch here
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15 January 2008 08:12

Roadmap to using SharePoint Server 2007

Microsoft's resource site has a great wealth of info on SharePoint 2007 product set: have a look here
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15 January 2008 08:09

Software Development - The Pyramid Approach

What ever the latest software development methodology we investigate or decide is the new defacto approach when the big project kicks in and the chips are down because of the two mistresses of cost and time we always revert to the pyramid approach: A
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15 January 2008 07:46

SharePoint 2007 Product training on your desktop

Explore Office SharePoint Server 2007 with training from Microsoft experts, right from your desktop. Download a simple file to get the grand tour of the latest features and changes, including automated workflows to track approval cycles, business dashboards
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15 January 2008 07:42

SharePoint and Visio

SharePoint 2007 product set has added many new features and services not least mega-support for Excel. What may have gone un-noticed is it also added great Visio support as well. Learn about enhanced features for integrating Microsoft Office Visio 2007
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15 January 2008 07:28

Legion: Build your own virtual super computer with Silverlight

Legion is a grid computing framework that uses the Silverlight CLR to execute user definable tasks. It provides grid-wide thread-safe operations for web clients. Client performance metrics, such as bandwidth and processor speed, may be used to tailor
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11 January 2008 07:52

Gartner's Top 10 tips for 2008

Gartner has identified the “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008”, and is urging IT executives to think about the risk of not implementing each one. If your competitor masters one of these technologies and you don't, will you be at a strategic disadvantage?
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06 January 2008 01:11

Microsoft Business Process Alliance Grows

Just before Christmas it was annouced that both ILog and SOA Software had joined the Microsoft BPM Alliance. SOA software will provide SOA and BPM governance software and ILog adds Business rules management. Excerpt from SOA Software's press release:
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04 January 2008 15:56

BizTalk HotRod Mag Issue 3

BizTalk Issue 3 is now ready! This  issue  is big!! One of the reasons it’s so large is they have addressed some of the readability concerns in the older format. We can now read the sample code in this issue! I Get it here!!
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04 January 2008 15:50

Spell Check add-on for Visual Studio 2005/2008

Nice add-on for Visual Studio 2005/2008 by Mikhail Arkhipov of MS.  A 'smart' spell checker for ASP.NET and HTML pages Smart in the fact it can  ignore the script and only focus on the text for spell checking.  For Visual
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04 January 2008 15:46

How to: Adding Custom Workflow Activities to SharePoint Designer 2007

Nice article at Microsoft MVP Carlos Sequra Sanz around adding custom workflows using SharePoint Designer 2007. Although the blog is in Spanish the relevant article is in english.... To access Part 1: Click here To access Part 2: Click here
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04 January 2008 11:49

XBOX360 sales on the up!

Microsoft Corp sold 4.3 million Xbox 360 video game consoles in the last three months of 2007, helped by hit titles such as "Halo 3" and "Mass Effect," according to company data released on Thursday.
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04 January 2008 11:48

Microsoft Drops Licensing Restrictions from Web Server 2008

According to a report from CRN, Microsoft plans to allow users of the Web Server SKU in Windows Server 2008 to 'run any type of database software with no limit on the number of users, provided they deploy it as an Internet-facing front-end server.' The
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04 January 2008 11:46

New Microsoft Extranet Collaboration Toolkit Beta

To quote Joel Oleson: The Security & Compliance Solution Accelerator team has put together some guidance and a solution to quickly deploy an extranet solution based on WSS or SharePoint Server 2007. The Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint
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03 January 2008 18:02

A little late but...

Office 2007 + MOSS + WSS 3.0 SP1 is out!!  2007 Office System SP 1 is out: SharePoint + Office clients You must install WSS SP1 before MOSS SP1.  Windows SharePoint Services v3 SP1 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 Service
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03 January 2008 17:55

AJAX in Sharepoint: New Articles

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Software Development Kit provides overview information, installation instructions, and programming examples to introduce you to the way that Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX interacts with Web Parts. In This Section Overview: ASP.NET
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03 January 2008 17:53

Forms Authentication in Sharepoint

Explore several new features for authentication and authorization in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that make it easier to develop and deploy solutions in Internet-facing and extranet environments.
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03 January 2008 17:49

Workflows for MOSS using Visual Studio 2008

It all gets easier with 2008! Check out these links: Robert Shelton's screencast on his blog... Andrew Connell's blog
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03 January 2008 12:07

Architect Journal Reader

Microsoft is proud to announce a new offline experience for the Journal, called the "Architecture Journal Reader." Demonstrating many of the UX principles highlighted in recent issues, this new reader is a locally installed application that enables
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03 January 2008 11:42

BizTalk MQSC Adapter

Previously, server based BizTalk adapter was used to access MQ Series and that requires MQ series server on Windows as intermediate server between BizTalk Server and non-Windows Queue Managers. In some situation, when installing the MQAgent to Windows
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