Microsoft has just released version 8 of Internet Explorer. IE8 is definitely a better browser than IE7. Firstly, IE8 is significantly faster than IE7 and new functions make browsing the web easier and more secure.
Here are some of the most interesting new additions to IE8:

Accelerators (think addons that make things like mapping addresses or initiating a blog post [...]

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Check out Microsoft’s preview Webcast of the latest features and updates for Visual Studio 2010 on its Channel 9 show on MSDN.

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/10-4/

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Microsoft unveiled a Microsoft Office Labs production codenamed ‘2019′ at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, giving out the idea on how Microsoft itself envisions the future. The devices shown do not exist yet but they are likely to be built in the next 10 years.
The video production can be viewed below.

Video: Future Vision Montage

Source: Sizlopedia.com

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Microsoft Research has released a paper that introduces Gazelle, a secure web browser constructed as a multi-principal OS.
Gazelle’s Browser Kernel is an operating system that exclusively manages resource protection and sharing across web site principals. This construction exposes intricate design issues that no previous work has identified, such as legacy protection of cross-origin script source, [...]

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Yahoo! and Microsoft announced that they will support Google’s technology for detecting duplicate pages on Web sites.
Web publishers will be able to use Google’s new Web standard, dubbed the Canonical Link Tag, to find the principal URL that search engines should be indexing. Companies doing business online sometimes have large sites with multiple URLs that [...]

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In an effort to stop the spread of the Conficker/Downadup worm, which is believed to have infected at least 10 million PCs around the world since November, Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for anyone who has information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for spreading the malicious code.
In addition to [...]

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Microsoft Office Live Small Business is a web hosting service that gives you a domain name (any available .com, .net, .org, or .info), email, business management tools, collaboration tools, and more, for FREE.

The service is free for one year, after which the price is still reasonable at $14.95/year.
The freebie account includes also site-building tools, reporting tools, [...]

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Windows Azure promises to be an extremely interesting environment for developers, service providers and companies trying to develop robust, highly available service environments.
More information about Azure and a video from Manuvir Das’ Channel 9 Program,you can find here: http://go.techtarget.com/r/5787559/6278333
This introduction to Azure will explain what Microsoft’s cloud OS really is, how it’s put together and [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 RC1 has been officially released by Microsoft and it is now available for download for 25 languages for 32-bit and 64-bit (x86 and x64) Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 or 2008 as version 8.0.6001.18372.

According to IEBlog, IE 8 RC1 enhances Beta 2 by.

Platform complete, where the final IE8 release [...]

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Microsoft’s current flagship IDE is focused on enabling developers to create applications with rich user experiences that are prevalent on the Web.
There is so much for developers and architect to learn, that SearchWinDevelopment.com has assembled a comprehensive introduction to the language, performance, testing and data management improvements in VS 2008.

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