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Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon Ships to Retail Outlets Nationwide

AGOURA HILLS, Calif.-- --THQ Inc. today announced Destroy All Humans! Path of the FuronTM, the latest chapter in the multimillion-unit-selling Destroy All Humans! franchise*, has shipped to retailers ... (original story)

Microsoft Hosts Global Education Leaders at School of the Future World Summit

Elites will discuss what's possible for 21st century learning and education investments in a time of global economic slowdown. (original story)

Zune artist to display work in Seattle

Barcelona-based artist Catalina Estrada, who designed a set of Zodiac-style engravings that Zune buyers can choose to put on the back of their music players, is displaying her Zune art in Seattle starting Thursday. (original story)

London Blogger Gathering: Live Mesh, Cloud Computing

A quick shout out to anyone interested in joining us for a beer or two in London next Thursday night to meet and talk about Live Mesh and cloud computing. As Steve Lamb says we have Jeff Hansen and Angus Logan in town so it should be a fun chat. Jeff reports to Ray Ozzie so can tell you even more... (original story)

Microsoft: Making Data Centers Like Lego

Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision   Lovin that video – I want to see those Windows Azure trucks rolling down my street! Fun aside, the Generation 4 data centers that are depicted here and talked about at length on Mike Manos’s blog are a big deal. They take many of the conventional concepts regarding data centers and throw them out of the window. Raised floors are a thing of the past and even the new Microsoft data centers in Chicago is Generation 3 – being partly containerised. “Gen 4” data centers from Microsoft take modularisation to a new level and thou... (original story)

2 nouveaux articles sur l'ALM et VSTS 2010

La période est riche en article sur Visual Studio Team System 2010 et l'ALM. Philippe Puschmann et Laurent Hazet d'Avanade présentent de manière détaillée le suivi de projet par la méthode "Earned Value Analysis"  en utilisant VSTS 2010. Une mine d'information pour le suivi de projet. Le lien vers leur article : http://www.it-expertise.com/Rubriques/Default.aspx?cat=2 En parallèle, Loïc Baumann de Winwise et moi-même venons de publier un article dans IT-Expert sur l'ALM (Application Lifecycle Management ou gestion du cycle de vie des applications). Cet article est une introductio... (original story)

Windows Server 2008 - The only web server you'll ever need.

I just learned about a new site that we have put together, Microsoft.com/web.  This is a very cool site that lists a bunch of great information about why to use Windows Server as your web server.  It's a great collection of resources that point to events, downloads, and further information on components of the Microsoft Web Platform.  For instance, on that site, I just found out about the Microsoft Web Platform Installer.  This is a really cool installer that installs and configures core components such as .NET 3.5, IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, and SQL 2... (original story)

Use Legos at WomenBuild Workshop at MSDN Developer Conferences

WomenBuild is designed to address how do we attract and grow Women in Technology through creative out-of-the-box thinking. Events are being held at the MSDN Developer Conferences November 2008 through February 2009. WomenBuild event combines personal interaction and networking with the use of LEGO® Bricks as a conceptual modeling tool, part of the LEGO® Serious Play Program (LSP).     City Date Houston December 9 Orlando December 11 Atlanta December 16 Chicago January 13 Minneapolis January 13 Washington DC January 16 New York January 20 Bosto... (original story)

Twin Cities SharePoint Camp – January 24, 2009

The Twin Cities SharePoint Camp has been announced for January 24, 2009.  Here are the details of the event: Course Overview Join New Horizons of Minnesota for the 2nd Bi-Annual Twin Cities SharePoint Camp Event. Spend a day with other SharePoint Administrators, Developers and End Users and learn from each other on a variety of topics that impact your world. The event lasts the entire day and is FREE!    Specific session details will be posted after January 1, 2009.  More information...(read more) (original story)

Relatório de Serviços de Scale-Out Deployment Best Practices

Leia a nota técnica pertencente à Building and Deploying Large Scale SQL Server Reporting Services Environments Technical Note Series. Esta nota técnica providencia orientação tanto para SQL Server 2005 como para 2008 Reporting Services. O ponto principal consiste em Scale-Out Deployment Best Practices – servidores Reporting Services Windows®/Web Services que fornecem relatórios. Obrigada (original story)

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow Update

We are having a great time on our Roadshow in the Carolinas.  Yesterday we were in Charleston and today we are in Wilmington. The plan is to be in Raleigh on Thursday and Charlotte on Friday.  Those events are currently sold out at around 150-200 attendees a piece.  We are looking for... (original story)

Top 10 Microsoft Research Projects

Network World highlights a sneak peek at 10 technologies developed in Microsoft Research. Check out Ten Microsoft Research Projects. The projects include: Surface. The multi-touch table computer. Pictionaire. For business collaboration. Social Streams. Real-time trend aggregator. Blue Track. Mouse for all surfaces. Robotic Receptionist and several more that are coming soon such as Visual Studio 2010 and Oslo. For a look at each of the advances, see Microsoft Research Slide Show. (original story)

How would you like a copy of Windows 7 Beta 1?

All you have to do is come to the Atlanta MDC!  While the DVD’s will not be immediately availible, we will ship a copy to you as soon as they are available.  Out best guess at the moment is January 13th.  Register today and you’ll get the best of the PDC in your own backyard and h... (original story)

I already have a full plate

Photo by Яick Harris. Oh, and in case you were wondering, I didn’t die. I’ve just been on vacation. Become a fan on Facebook | Follow me on Twitter | Create your own comic (original story)

Creating Tables

A coworker of mine, Steve Marx, recently posted about creating tables only once due to the performance hit you take when you go to create tables that already exist. This is a good thing to know and I decided to update my Simple Table Storage sample to follow the pattern that our Personal Web SIte SDK sample uses where on the first request, I create the tables. (same solution as Steve described). I actually went back and forth a bit because the goal of the Simple Table Storage sample is to introduce folks to using the Windows Azure Table Storage service and thus I wanted to keep it as simple as... (original story)



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