Internet Explorer 9 Beta is out

Yesterday (Sept 15th), the latest version of IE was out on the street. First impressions: Fast and very clean. Your bars are all disabled onfirst load. You will have to enable them IF you really need them. With a little smaller memory print and a rendering engine that really is faster than IE8. This browser …

Bing Maps steps up

While watching a recent Steve Ballmer's presentation regarding "the cloud", the new version of bing maps was shown (+- min 30). Interesting? well, SHURE! At last you can experience a serious integration of a set of tools that are coming together (maps, search, flickr, world wide telescope, photosynth, etc.). Just take a look at it and judge for …

Azure: Commercial availability and business model

Almost 1 month ago, the business model for Azure was revealed. Check it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/07/14/confirming-commercial-availability-and-announcing-business-model.aspx.

Silverlight 2.0 is out

Released early this week in RTW (Release To Web), the second version of The press release can be found here (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-13Silverlight2PR.mspx).   Some related resources: Scott Guthrie's blog on SL2 RC - learn and share how to get ready for Silverlight 2 RTW Silverlight community Internet site - community site for developers and designers where …

Hakia: semantic search engine

Recently came accros a "new" search engine on the web called HAKIA. Presently in Beta version (so has been Google since it came out...) it proposes search based on relevancy and not in popularity. Theoretically it will provide most accurate results. I tried a couple of searches and got interesting results for the string "geotag garmin eTrex" …

WorldWide Telescope: Online

As mentioned in a previous post, the WorldWide Telescope is a new initiative which uses sky mapping with the best images acquired from the best world telescopes. It is really worth taking a look and is finally available to everyone. Check it out at http://www.worldwidetelescope.com.  

Moonlight: Silverlight for linux

Silverlight is growing as Moonlight sees the day light. Check the post. (...)  Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems, is now available in both Silverlight v1.o and 2.0 builds.  Silverlight, while it still has a long way to go to become as widely adapted as Adobe’s Flash, is leading the …

WorldWide Telescope

Being astronomy one of my hobbies, I was very excited to read that Microsoft was launching the Worldwide Telescope project. This will allow to travel the sky based on the images of the best/largest telescopes. I don't know if you ever peeked through a telescope before, but anything beyond our solar system are simple black …

Fancy a reader? Try SCE Kit Beta & Reader Beta SDK!

Microsoft has lounched a new SDK to support sindication of contents based on .net 3.0 and WPF. It is named Syndicated Client Experiences and if in Beta version with 3 implemented readers: MSDN Reader P-I Reader by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Times Reader by The New York Times The SDK is freely available and there is …

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1

Yep its out. Check it here. <snipet> Version 1.1 of the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services contains the following tools to aid developers in building SharePoint applications:New to Version 1.1 Support for "Web Solution Package" editing View and edit all solution content (no more hidden generated content) Create new Features and rename …