Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Microsoft has introduced new features in .NET with their Service Pack 1 (SP1) release of .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.
Most of the stuff included in the service pack releases is new features and functionality rather than bug fixes and updates to existing feature-set. For example, .NET Framework 3.5 ...
Tags: .NET, Microsoft, Service Pack, Visual Studio
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
With Google Gears, Adobe Air, and Microsoft WPF there's definitely lots of exciting changes in the desktop application area. Using the openness of the web to crack open the 'closed' nature of regular documents that we use today. At the recent Avenue A | Razorfish Enterprise Solutions summit, Andrew McAfee ...
Tags: adobe, air, Andrew McAfee, google, Microsoft, WPF
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
When doing WPF development, a good source of information is http://windowsclient.net. One interesting download on that site is the Syndicated Client Starter Kit . It is a Starter Kit designed to make it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and content client applications. It has built-in ad-serving capabilities, and includes ...
Tags: Microsoft, SQL Server CE, WPF
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
As mentioned in an earlier post, we worked with AT &T and the Microsoft Surface team to build a Surface application for AT &T retail stores. It was demo'ed 2 weeks ago in Vegas, and will be going live April 17 in stores in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and ...
Tags: Microsoft, Surface, WPF
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Yahoo Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations. But Microsoft is recrafting its assault plan by talking with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, about mounting a joint bid for Yahoo, people familiar with the matter ...
Tags: AOL, Microsoft, MySpace, News Corp, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation.
Dear Steve:
Our Board has reviewed your most recent letter with regard to the unsolicited proposal you made to acquire Yahoo! on January 31, 2008.
Our ...
Tags: acquisition, Microsoft, Yahoo
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) sent the following letter to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) Board of Directors:
Dear Members of the Board:
It has now been more than two months since we made our proposal to acquire Yahoo! at a 62% premium to its closing price on January 31, 2008, the day ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Microsoft has partnered with some of the world’s top social networks on contact data portability. Starting today, Microsoft will be working with Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged and LinkedIn to exchange functionally-similar Contacts APIs, allowing them to create a safe, secure two-way street for users to move their relationships between their ...
Tags: Bebo, contacts, Facebook, Hi5, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Tagged
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