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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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Popfly Explorer Debuts Into Beta

More from TechEd... Popfly Explorer has debuted into beta on the heels of Microsoft announcing the release to manufacturing dates for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. At Microsoft TechEd Developers 2007 in Barcelona, Spain, the Redmond company
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'Orcas' for Christmas

At Teched 2007 in Barcelona, Spain S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division, announced that Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 will be released at the end of November. It's the first major update to Visual Studio,
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Oslo - what will it mean to me?

As a long time BizTalk Architect/consultant and having been involved in a number of advisory  discussions and technology sessions  with the Connected Systems Division of Microsoft I've had a fair amount of time to decide what it all means....

Here we go again....'Oslo' the next SOA platform from Microsoft

Today at the UK Microsoft's Architects Council we had the news on the announcement of Oslo the next generation of Microsoft's SOA platform. This of course was not news as the Council is acting as Technical advisors to the Connected System division but

Microsoft Messaging Roadmap (Oslo)

Read it here: http://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/samples/Olso1107.pdf  

Arguments hot up as we close on Vista Launch

From yesterday's Betanews:   A statement released to the press very early this morning from Ben Fathi, Microsoft's corporate vice president for security technology, gives some subtle but clear indications that, if McAfee wants to take its claims
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Vista RC1

RC1 is now available for download from all the usual places! Thats the good news... Bad news is that MS hints that Vista may be delayed in Europe because of all the issues with the EU :-)
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Windows Roadmap

Found this at http://msblogs.org A bigger version can be found at : MSBlogs Big thanks to msblogs for allowing us to print this.
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Microsoft Virtual PC now free!!!

Microsoft have announced that: Virtual PC 2004 SP1 will be available free - now! Virtual PC 2007 will be available for free in 2007, with support for Microsoft Windows Vista Windows Vista Enterprise customers will have the right to install four
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