RDN Express by Kathleen Richards
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Azure Billing To Start in February
10/29/2009 - VS2010 Advancing WPF 4? 10/28/2009
- Developers Balk at VS2010 Price Points 10/27/2009
- Microsoft Goofs on Code7 Tie-ins 10/23/2009
Redmond Review by Andrew Brust
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PowerPivot Gets Multi-Vendor Support
10/30/2009 - Win7 vs. Vista: It's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate 10/27/2009
- Windows 7 Launch: A Winner Hits the Channel 10/23/2009
- SharePoint Conference 2009: Of Data and BI 10/21/2009
Featured Articles
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Windows 7 Launches With a Touch of Kindle
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer formally unveiled Windows 7 at a ceremony in New York City, and announced a deal with Amazon to put its Kindle e-book reader software on touch-enabled Windows 7 tablet PCs. read more
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VS2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2 Go Live Today
Microsoft integrates SharePoint tooling into Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and introduces a simplified packaging and pricing scheme for the upcoming IDE. read more
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Oracle Uses OpenWorld to Reassure Skeptics but Concerns Remain
Oracle used this week's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco to roll out new tools aimed at providing better integration of its disparate wares, but much of the focus at this year's annual event was on the company's pending $7.4 billion agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems. read more
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Architects Look Ahead In Face of Weak Economy
Several hundred software and enterprise architects this week gathered from around the world to ponder and debate how to affect improvements in how systems and applications can be better engineered and made more adaptive. read more
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More Enterprises Lean Toward Hybrid Agile Development
Proponents of Agile and lean software development methodologies say they are becoming more popular than traditional sequential methods in corporate app-dev groups. But implementation of a pure Agile method is still a rarity in the enterprise as hybrid approaches are starting to take hold. read more
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Exit Interview: Sam Ramji Assesses Microsoft's Open Source Ascent
Microsoft's open source leader looks back on his tenure in Redmond. read more
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Turbo Charge Visual Studio with DevExpress CodeRush
REVIEW: DevExpress CodeRush 9.2 is a powerful productivity booster for .NET developers that includes the Refactor! Pro tools from Developer Express. read more
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All I Really Need to Know
Since announcing the Microsoft Interoperability Initiative early last year, we've seen the company move in a consistent and tangible direction toward greater openness, cooperation and interoperability. read more
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Windows 7 Surfaces
IN-DEPTH: Microsoft's new client OS is flying high, but does it really make sense to migrate your apps to Windows 7? read more
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A Winning Campaign: Remain in Office
REDMOND REVIEW: Since Bill Gates proclaimed Microsoft's Internet strategy in his Internet Tidal Wave memo of 1995, people have been cynical of Microsoft's embrace of the public network. read more
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OldMail Method
DEVDISASTERS: After three long interviews for a .NET developer position, Maxim received a fairly generous offer and accepted it on the spot. read more
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Palm Deals Latest Setback to WinMo as Google Updates Android
Palm is the latest to cut support for Windows Mobile, as Google releases new Android SDK. read more
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Microsoft Funds Open Source Foundation but Loses Top OSS Leader
Microsoft's new CodePlex Foundation aims to encourage commercial software companies to collaborate and contribute to open source communities. read more
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Inquiry Focuses On Future of MySQL
The European Commission's decision to investigate Oracle's plan to acquire Sun Microsystems is focused largely on the future of the open source MySQL database. read more
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The Value of Known Entities
Since the birth of Visual Basic and Access, Microsoft has burned through a series of data-access APIs. read more
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Windows 7: A Fresh Start
Windows 7 has gone RTM and seems poised undo much of the damage Windows Vista has wrought. Is it time to start developing for Windows 7? read more
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Cell Phone Buzz
When all you have is a hammer, should everything look like SMS? read more
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Can Dev Camps Give Windows Mobile A Boost?
Inaugural event in Redmond hopes to engage developers of mobile applications. read more
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