Cloud based services have been in focus for a few years now. From FREE online email services (e.g. hotmail, gmail) to paid online services (e.g. Google Apps, Office Online, Yahoo Premium emails), the adoption of these services has been steadily rising. The safety of these applications have been questioned (as exposed by recent Twitter docs [...]
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Ramp Up (www.MyRampUp.com) is a free online learning program for developers. Just launched three ASP.NET tracks: “Web Development with ASP.NET”, “Move from ASP to ASP.NET”, and “Move from PHP to ASP.NET”. These tracks, along with the other currently offered ones (e.g., Windows Mobile 6, SharePoint for Developers, Visual Studio 2008), teaches the important skills in [...]
New Apps and Demos
PHP SDK for Windows Azure As part of Microsoft’s commitment to Interoperability, this open source project is an effort bridge PHP developers to Windows Azure. PHPAzure is an open source project to provide software development kit for Windows Azure and Windows Azure Storage – Blobs, Tables [...]
Another pain killer from Microsoft:
http://edge.technet.com/Media/User-State-Migration-with-Windows-7/
The same repeated story – Be ready for Vista to get to Windows 7
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Be-ready-for-Windows-7-Application-Compatibility/
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx
Subject says it all. Microsoft starting today has made SharePoint Designer a free download. If a client had purchased SharePoint Designer under SA they will get Expression Web (for what its worth).